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  • 12:00 AM
  • 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 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
  • Calming Presence?
    Chris Matthews on the President’s oil spill remarks; trimming the NYS budget week-by-week; women’s rights around the world; and a celebration of French and Mexican New York in the ...
  • 12:00 PM
  • Poverty, Panthers, and Patricia

    We’ll talk to Gary Rivlin about what’s been called the “poverty industry”— pawnbrokers, check chasers and pay day lenders—and how it’s expanding during this latest economic downturn. Then, Academy Award-winner Tilda Swinton and Luca Guadagnino discuss the film “I Am Love.” Also, director Vadim Jean on his film “In the Land of the Free,” about three probably innocent men who have spent a half-century in solitary confinement at the Angola State Prison. Plus, word maven Patricia T. O’Conner takes your calls on our confounding language.

    We’ll talk to Gary Rivlin about what’s been called the “poverty industry”— pawnbrokers, check chasers and pay day lenders—and how it’s expanding during this latest economic downturn. Then, Academy Ward-winner Tilda Swinton and Luca Guadagnino discuss the film “I Am Love.” Also, director Vadim George on his film “In the Land of the Free,” about three probably innocent men who have spent a half-century in solitary confinement at the Angola State Prison. Plus, word maven Patricia T. O’Conner takes your calls on our confounding language.

  • 02:00 PM
  • What Is a Recording, Anyway?

    Last week’s segment on Robert Johnson’s recordings generated plenty of chatter on the Soundcheck website. Today, we’ll hear a different side of the Johnson story. Plus: we explore what constitutes a “good” or “faithful” recording in the age of auto-tune, mashups, and long-distance recording projects. Plus: local musician Sean Bones and Grammy winner Norah Jones discuss acting together in a new movie, and play live.

  • 03:00 PM
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  • 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
  • Host Isaiah Sheffer and a cast of more than 50 readers will present excepts from James Joyce's Ulysses, set in Dublin on June 16th, 1904, as well as parallel selections from Robert Fagles’ translation of Homer’s Odyssey.