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  • 12:00 AM
  • Behind the Scenes
    On today’s show: We find out who's involved in the fight over how to stop global warming. Director of the film "Iran: Voices of the Unheard" talks about Iranian secularists fighting p...
  • 02:00 AM
  • BBC World Service delivers breaking news and information programming around the world, in English and 42 other language services, on radio, TV and digital.

  • 05:00 AM
  • Your morning companion from NPR and the WNYC Newsroom, with world news, local features, and weather updates.

  • 09:00 AM
  • BBC World Service delivers breaking news and information programming around the world, in English and 42 other language services, on radio, TV and digital.

  • 10:00 AM
  • Queen's Gambit

    Anecdotal Census takes on changes in Queens over the last decade; Brian, Bob and Andrea digest the latest political news; minerals and Afghanistan; and being anti-web in the digital age.

  • 12:00 PM
  • Between a Rock and a Hard Place
    On today's show: Reporter Joshua Phillips talks about the effect torture has had on the U.S. soldiers who were ordered to carry out the torture. James M. Tabor discusses two great sci...
  • 02:00 PM
  • Rise of the Machines

    Technology has made plenty of jobs obsolete – could composers be next? Today, we’ll meet the creator of a computer program that analyzes existing classical works, then uses the data to create its own original pieces. Later, in our weekly Soundcheck Smackdown, critics debate the place of artificial intelligence in music. Plus, live music from singer and percussionist Pedrito Martínez.

  • 03:00 PM
    Special Programming
     
     
  • 04:00 PM
  • 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.

  • 06:30 PM
  • Marketplace is not only about money and business, but about people, local economies and the world — and what it all means to us.

  • 07:00 PM
  • 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.

  • 08:00 PM
  • 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.

  • 09:00 PM
  • 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.

  • 10:00 PM
  • Rise of the Machines

    Technology has made plenty of jobs obsolete – could composers be next? Today, we’ll meet the creator of a computer program that analyzes existing classical works, then uses the data to create its own original pieces. Later, in our weekly Soundcheck Smackdown, critics debate the place of artificial intelligence in music. Plus, live music from singer and percussionist Pedrito Martínez.

  • 11:00 PM
  • #3088: Electric Guitar-Informed Music

    For this New Sounds, hear some music by electric guitarists (and multi-instrumentalist MacArthur Genius John Zorn ) for other instruments…like saxophone quartet!  The Swiss sax ensemble ARTE Quartett plays music by John Zorn from their brilliant record, Different Worlds, which also includes music by Terry Riley, Lebanese composer Rabih Abou-Khalil, and arrangements of Swiss folk songs.