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  • 12:00 AM
  • Express Yourself

    Christopher Walken talks about his life, career, and returning to Broadway as the star of “A Behanding in Spokane.” And we’ll speak with museum guards about their own artwork. Then, we’ll take a look at the hundreds of thousands of condolence letters Jackie Kennedy received after her husband’s assassination. Plus, ...

  • 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
  • The Student Loan Makeover
    Big changes are coming to the student loan system. Jason Delisle, of the New America Foundation takes a close look at the legislation before congress – and parses what the impact will be for students and families. Plus, forty years after a landmark sex discrimination suit against Newsweek magazine, a ...
  • 12:00 PM
  • Academia and Animation
    Guest host Julie Burstein fills in for Leonard Lopate. She’ll talk with former Columbia University provost Jonathan Cole about the evolution of America’s higher learning institutions. Then, playwright Conor McPherson and actor Ciaran Hinds discuss their new film “The Eclipse.” And we’ll learn how animation changed between 1984 and 1994. ...
  • 02:00 PM
  • Dangerous Glitter
    In the early 1970, three frustrated musicians formed an alliance that changed how we thought about rock, fashion and sexuality. Today: the humble beginnings of rock's unholy trinity: David Bowie, Lou Reed and Iggy Pop. Later, we're visited by a dangerous duo: Dame Edna and American songbook maven Michael Feinstein.
  • 03:00 PM
  • The source for entertaining stories about science, technology, and other cool stuff.

  • 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
  • Dangerous Glitter
    In the early 1970, three frustrated musicians formed an alliance that changed how we thought about rock, fashion and sexuality. Today: the humble beginnings of rock's unholy trinity: David Bowie, Lou Reed and Iggy Pop. Later, we're visited by a dangerous duo: Dame Edna and American songbook maven Michael Feinstein.
  • 11:00 PM
  • #2896: Cross-Cultural Music

    Listen to a veritable melting pot of music for this New Sounds. Quebec meets the Middle East in the music of the McDades, folk-jazz with a dash of tabla or santoor. Then Norwegian and bluegrass fiddles mix in the odd chamber group called QQQ. We'll hear from their debut release, ...