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  • 12:00 AM
  • Things Are Not What They Seem
    Harper's magazine Senior Editor Luke Mitchell looks at last night's passage of the health care bill. Then, Tim O'Brien talks about the 20th anniversary of his classic The Things They Carried. And Michael Countryman and David Furr discuss their roles in Bill Cain's new play "Equivocation." Plus, we'll look at ...
  • 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
  • Law of the Land
    President Obama is expected to sign historic Healthcare legislation into law later today. While some of the provisions in the bill won’t take effect for years, others will start almost immediately. How will those changes affect young Americans and women? Plus: Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy is running for Governor; ...
  • 12:00 PM
  • Drilling, Dancing, and FDR
    On today’s show, we’ll hear from people upstate about what’s happening with drilling for natural gas in their area. Anne Bass director of the documentary film “Dancing Across Borders,” and Cambodian-born dancer Sokvannara Sar discuss his unlikely journey from Angkor Wat to the School of the American Ballet. Plus, we’ll ...
  • 02:00 PM
  • Hear the Song, Buy the Product
    Lady Gaga takes product placement to a new, outrageous level in her latest music video. It features no fewer than ten brands, from Chevrolet to Diet Coke. Meanwhile, rockers OK Go have appeared in print ads and billboards for Banana Republic. Today: a Soundcheck Smackdown debate on product placement in ...
  • 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
  • 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
  • Hear the Song, Buy the Product
    Lady Gaga takes product placement to a new, outrageous level in her latest music video. It features no fewer than ten brands, from Chevrolet to Diet Coke. Meanwhile, rockers OK Go have appeared in print ads and billboards for Banana Republic. Today: a Soundcheck Smackdown debate on product placement in ...
  • 11:00 PM
  • #2895: Full Circle and Lukas Foss

    For this New Sounds, hear three compositions written specifically for Canadian jazz-pop artist Holly Cole by Gavin Bryars, as played by the CBC Radio Orchestra. Also, experience Gavin Bryars' "Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet,” the late minimalist piece for orchestra and tape that opens with a homeless man singing ...