We’ll discuss the overuse of antibiotics in animal feed, and the Food and Drug Administration’s recent calls for limiting the practice. Then, this year’s first installment of our Underappreciated summer reading series looks at the one-time bestselling German writer Hans Fallada. Also, filmmaker Tamra Davis tells us about her documentary “Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child,” about the late artist’s meteoric rise and fall. Plus, our resident word maven, Patricia T. O’Conner, reveals the winners of our Bad Sign Language contest and takes your calls on the vagaries of the confusing English language.
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BBC World Service delivers breaking news and information programming around the world, in English and 42 other language services, on radio, TV and digital.
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05:00 AM
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Your morning companion from NPR and the WNYC Newsroom, with world news, local features, and weather updates.
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09:00 AM
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BBC World Service delivers breaking news and information programming around the world, in English and 42 other language services, on radio, TV and digital.
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10:00 AM
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Reports from RocklandNYS Education Commissioner David Steiner discusses how students are passing state tests -- but falling short in college. Plus: Your Anecdotal Census series continues with a closer l...Go to program: The Brian Lehrer Show
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12:00 PM
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Radical Reinvention
We’ll look at Edgar Bronfman, Jr.'s, takeover of the Warner Music Group, and how he's remaking the music business. Then, two curators talk about the exhibit “Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913-1917,” at the Museum of Modern Art. And Anthony Doerr discusses his second collection of short stories, Memory Wall. Plus, our latest Underreported.
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Live from the Greene Space
The Broadway musical FELA! chronicles the life of Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti. Today on Soundcheck, the cast and band of FELA! perform live in the Greene Space. Indie-rock duo Dean & Britta open the show.
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A wrap-up of the day’s news, with features and interviews about the latest developments in New York City and around the world, from NPR and the WNYC newsroom.
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06:30 PM
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Marketplace is not only about money and business, but about people, local economies and the world — and what it all means to us.
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A wrap-up of the day’s news, with features and interviews about the latest developments in New York City and around the world, from NPR and the WNYC newsroom.
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A hybrid of a talk program and a newsmagazine, On Point puts each day's news into context and provides a lively forum for discussion and debate.
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Tell Me More focuses on the way we live, intersect and collide in a culturally diverse world. Capturing the headlines, issues and pleasures relevant to multicultural life in America, the daily one-hour series is hosted by award-winning journalist Michel Martin. Tell Me More marks Martin's first role in hosting a daily program. She views it as an opportunity to focus on the stories, experiences, ideas and people important in contemporary life but often not heard.
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10:00 PM
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Live from the Greene Space
The Broadway musical FELA! chronicles the life of Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti. Today on Soundcheck, the cast and band of FELA! perform live in the Greene Space. Indie-rock duo Dean & Britta open the show.
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#3099: "Full Fathom Five": The Tempest in MusicIt’s the latest literary edition of New Sounds, featuring music inspired by Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” and just one hour to fit in as much as we can.Go to program: New Sounds