Daily Schedule

Americans suffer from around a billion colds a year, and Jennifer Ackerman explains what a cold is and what new research about colds shows. Then, a three-time oyster-shucking champion from Prince Edward Island demonstrates on-air how to do it right! And This American Life contributor David Rakoff explains the benefits of seeing the glass half empty. Also, Darin Strauss tells how a tragic event long ago has haunted him. Plus, director Olivier Assayas and actor Edgar Ramírez discuss their new film about the infamous terrorist known as Carlos the Jackal.

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

True or False: the deficit is the ultimate issue in the election; using food stamps for soda; and James Wolfensohn on the World Bank.

Nellie McKay has done Brecht on Broadway, duetted with Eartha Kitt and played Hilary Swank’s sister on film. Mark Ronson is a musician and  Grammy-winning producer who crafted hits for Amy Winehouse and Lily Allen. Join us today as McKay and Ronson each perform for a live audience in The Greene Space. Plus: New Yorker editor Ben Greenman tests our audience's musical knowledge. And: he talks about his high-low culture mashup, Celebrity Chekhov.

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.

A surprising number of works have been inspired by psychiatry – or more specifically, by the plight of those in need of psychiatric treatment.  We’ll hear some of them.  From Elodie Lauten, listen to selections from her "Two Cents Opera."  There's also music from Peter Broderick's "Falling From Trees" and William Susman's "When Medicine Got It Wrong."  Plus music by Peter Gabriel for the film "Birdy," along with music by Michael Nyman, and more.