Daily Schedule

General Hugh Shelton, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during 9/11, talks about how decisions are made in the Pentagon. Then, our election series, The Big Picture, takes a look at the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan and whether they're having much of an impact on the midterm elections. Also, Nicole Krauss discusses her latest novel, Great House. And, New York Times columnist Gail Collins helps us answer the question, How Did Politics in America Get So Weird? Plus, Elmore Leonard (who turned 85 yesterday) on his latest novel.

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

Connecticut Senator Christopher Dodd; Margarethe Von Trotta’s take on Hildegard von Bingen; Foreign Affairs’ Gideon Rose; 30 Issues in 30 Days looks at New York State’s budget proc...

Musician Ben Folds and best-selling author Nick Hornby (High Fidelity, About a Boy, Juliet Naked) talk about their songwriting collaboration, Lonely Avenue. And, Ben Folds performs live. Plus: we hear about how Converse sneakers are getting into a new business...the music business.

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.

Listen to excerpts from the new opera by Evan Ziporyn, “A House in Bali” on this New Sounds.  The work is based on the memoirs of Canadian-American composer Colin McPhee who first brought the sounds of gamelan-influenced music to the west.