Guest host Miles O’Brien fills in for Leonard Lopate. On today’s show: Vanity Fair writer Michael Joseph Gross takes us inside Sarah Palin’s increasingly secretive world. Then, filmmaker Ole Schell and model Sara Ziff, talk about their raw and personal video diary, “Picture Me.” Lionel Rogosin and Rob Hollander, co-founder of the Lower East Side History Project, talk about their documentary, “On the Bowery.” Plus, Please Explain is all about soda!
BBC World Service delivers breaking news and information programming around the world, in English and 42 other language services, on radio, TV and digital.
For years, America’s funniest auto mechanics, Click and Clack, have offered insights on that weird sound your Volkswagen makes.
The NPR news quiz where the panelists are funny, the limericks are lyrical and you get to shout answers at your radio. Hosted by Peter Sagal.
Kurt talks with the writer Jennifer Egan about A Visit from the Goon Squad, a novel about the music industry that jumps back and forth in time. The duo that make up Nortec Collective describes how their unique playful sound can only come from Tijuana. And a neuroscientist writes a book of short stories about the afterlife that becomes a surprise hit — even music legend Brian Eno is a fan.
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.
Acclaimed musician and songwriter Chris Thile welcomes a wide range of well-known and up-and-coming talent to share the stage and create a beautiful listening experience on his variety show, Live from Here.
ThisAmericanLife: Themed, offbeat, (mostly) true stories that shed new light on the extraordinary side of everyday life. Host Ira Glass and a regular cast of personalities, including David Sedaris, Sarah Vowell and Mike Birbiglia, bring the best of nonfiction storytelling to the radio.
Classic and contemporary short fiction read by some of the most iconic voices in today’s world of film, theater and comedy. Recorded live at Symphony Space in New York City.
Sample some Islamic, Christian, and Jewish music from the Middle East on this New Sounds program. Listen to a performance by Sheik Ahmed Al-Tuni from Upper Egypt, recorded live at the Fez Festival of World Sacred Music. Also, hear Moroccan cantor Emil Zrihan, presently the cantor of the main synagogue in Ashkelon, Israel, music by Sister Marie Keyrouz from Lebanon, and much more.
