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Actress Cherry Jones and director Doug Hughes discuss the Roundabout Theatre Company’s production of George Bernard Shaw’s “Mrs. Warren’s Profession.” Then we’ll talk with Charles Busch, writer, director, and star of an outrageous comedy called “The Divine Sister,” along with one of the show’s other stars, Julie Halston. And three members of the Quarrymen, that’s the band John Lennon was in before the Beatles, share stories about growing up with John and the film “Nowhere Boy.” Plus, our latest Underreported segment looks at the political turmoil in Pakistan. And Backstory looks at the best way to clean up the toxic sludge spill in Hungary.

Your morning companion from NPR and the WNYC Newsroom, with world news, local features, and weather updates.

Bob Woodward weighs in on Obama’s war in Afghanistan. Plus, Connecticut Senate debates; essential life skills for kids; and New York City museums for sale?

At live concerts today, many fans are more focused on recording the show than actually enjoying it. Today on Soundcheck: we discuss whether the show should be on stage...or your smartphone screen. And: We ask you for more of your John Lennon in NYC stories.

Plus: Travis frontman Fran Healy just made his solo debut with an album called Wreckorder. He'll play live in our studio.

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 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.

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.

On this New Sounds, hear some unconventional piano works, including some amplified piano in a work by Charles Ives, “Serenity” as played by Jenny Q Chai from a collection of works, “New York Love Songs.”  Also from that same record, a work by Taiwanese composer Ashley Wang, involving digital piano.  Plus, from a new recording, listen to Lou Harrison’s Concerto for Piano and Javanese Gamelan.  The piano has been retuned to “play nicely” with the gamelan tunings in this world premiere recording featuring Gamelan Pacifica and pianist Adrienne Varner.  That and more.