Daily Schedule

We’ll look back at the Senate's 1933 Pecora hearings, which investigated Wall Street malfeasance in the Great Crash of 1929, and how it might apply today. Then, country music singer Dierks Bentley performs live in our studio! Also, Alexander McCall Smith discuses his novel The Charming Quirks of Others. And New York Times columnist Gail Collins joins us again for the latest installment in our weekly series that asks “How did Politics in America Get So Weird?” Plus, historian Eric Foner traces the transformation of Abraham Lincoln and America through the ending of slavery.

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

Republican candidate for NYS Attorney General Dan Donovan on whether or not political leanings affect the office; why the Indian Ocean is important to the US; and how science can inform morality.

Gerde's Folk City may have closed decades ago, but the legend of this club looms large in folk circles. Today we continue our week-long series Vanished Venues with a look at this West Village club. Also: Lucy Wainwright Roche continues the singer-songwriter legacy of her father Loudon Wainwright III and her mother Suzzy Roche. She plays live in the 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.

Our look at the Four Seasons continues on this New Sounds, with the companion program to last night, geared towards the non-violin centered works that have used the Four Seasons as their launch pad.  Again, these are works inspired by the Vivaldi work, including music from an electronic version by Wendy Carlos, a piece by Danish-born, Brooklyn-based saxophonist Rene Mogensen, plus Japanese flute improvisations, and many more.