Daily Schedule

Guest host Elliott Forrest fills in for Leonard Lopate. Jonathan Mintz of the Department of Consumer Affairs about pricing violations at city grocery stores and bodegas. Then, our 2010 election series, The Big Picture 2010, focuses on immigration with the New York Times’ Julia Preston and Politico’s Scott Wong. Also, Lawrence Wright talks about “My Trip to Al Qaeda.” And Gail Collins returns to talk about the ridiculous things politicians say. Plus, soldier Patrick Hennessey tells about the reading club he ran while is unit was fighting against Mullah Omar in Afghanistan.

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

All five candidates for the NY Democratic nomination for Attorney General debate, live from the Greene Space; plus meet more participants in the Map Your Moves data viz challenge.

A new book about Bob Dylan tells the songwriter's story through the Beat Generation and the Popular Front political movement -- as well as the author's own life. Princeton University history professor Sean Wilentz joins us to talk about Bob Dylan in America. Later: the Mirror Visions Ensemble preview a new cantata inspired by a local restaurant's "farm-to-table" philosophy.

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.

For this New Sounds, London-based death-jazz band The Neil Cowley Trio stopped by the studio on their first US tour.  Listen to their incredibly tight and thoughtful originals like "His Nibs" and "She Eats Flies" performed live on this program.  It's some groove-based post-jazz with an Eastern edge that demands your attention.  RIYL: the Bad Plus, Shostakovich, Madness, thrash-punk, Thelonious Monk, The Sex Pistols, Philip Glass.