Melanie Thernstrom traces conceptions of pain throughout the ages—from ancient Babylon to modern times.Then, Nora Ephron talks about her new collection of essays: I Remember Nothing. Sean Hepburn Ferrer talks about growing up as the son of the iconic actress, Audrey Hepburn. And we’ll find out about terroir—the "taste of place."
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Your morning companion from NPR and the WNYC Newsroom, with world news, local features, and weather updates.
BBC World Service delivers breaking news and information programming around the world, in English and 28 other language services, on radio, TV and digital.
Quincy Jones talks about his celebrated career and about his first album in five years. Also, two segments on the famously eccentric Mitford family—we’ll speak to the last surviving sister, Deborah, her Grace, the Duchess of Devonshire, about her life and memoirs. And novelist Zoe Heller talks about Nancy Mitford’s enduring literary legacy. Plus, the Gurus of How-To, Al and Larry Ubell, answer questions about home repair.
Composer Gustav Mahler’s music was dismissed during his lifetime, but revived in the 1960s by Leonard Bernstein’s cycle of recordings. We talk about the composer’s impact on modern life with classical music critic Norman Lebrecht, author of Why Mahler? Plus: Sound artists Bruce Odland and Sam Auinger present Requiem for Fossil Fuels - a composition that utilizes more than twenty years of on-location recording and found sounds.
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.
Marketplace is not only about money and business, but about people, local economies and the world — and what it all means to us.
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.
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.
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.
Composer Gustav Mahler’s music was dismissed during his lifetime, but revived in the 1960s by Leonard Bernstein’s cycle of recordings. We talk about the composer’s impact on modern life with classical music critic Norman Lebrecht, author of Why Mahler? Plus: Sound artists Bruce Odland and Sam Auinger present Requiem for Fossil Fuels - a composition that utilizes more than twenty years of on-location recording and found sounds.
Listen to some electroacoustic soundscapes for this New Sounds program. Hear Ana Milosavljevic's "Reflections," and more from Odland + Auinger site-specific work, "Requiem For Fossil Fuels." Plus, music by Steven Mackey, his "Measures of Turbulence." And more.
