Daily Schedule

Filmmaker Kristian Fraga and Marine First Lieutenant Mike Scotti talk about “Severe Clear,” the first-person account of what life was like on the front lines in Iraq. Then, Danielle Offri, an attending physician at New York’s Bellevue Hospital, tells us about some of the unique patients she has known over ...

The NPR news quiz where the panelists are funny, the limericks are lyrical and you get to shout answers at your radio. Hosted by Peter Sagal.

Kurt Andersen talks with the Chieftains' Paddy Moloney about the band's new record, San Patricio. It pays tribute to the real-life battalion of Irish-American soldiers who deserted the U.S. Army to fight for the Mexicans. An artist in her eighties rediscovers drawings she did forty years ago. In the Utah desert, a scrappy team of scientists attempts to simulate life on Mars. And The New Yorker's architecture critic Paul Goldberger gets us to look at the city in a whole new way.

Acclaimed musician and songwriter Chris Thile welcomes a wide range of well-known and up-and-coming talent to share the stage and create a beautiful listening experience on his variety show, Live from Here.

ThisAmericanLife: Themed, offbeat, (mostly) true stories that shed new light on the extraordinary side of everyday life. Host Ira Glass and a regular cast of personalities, including David Sedaris, Sarah Vowell and Mike Birbiglia, bring the best of nonfiction storytelling to the radio. 

Frank London's A Night in the Old Marketplace is a "folk opera," a 90-minute musical re-imagining of I.L. Peretz's sprawling 1907 supernatural drama. The score mixes folk, jazz, classical, rock and world beats with a dose of Kurt Weill cabaret. Beware, the players are some of the most versatile musicians, ...