On today’s show: Senior New York Times financial writer Diana Henriques talks about Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme and its lasting impact on our trust in the financial industry. Then we’ll take a look at the world of women’s boxing! Scandanavian writer Carsten Jensen discusses his latest novel We, the Drowned. And Andrew Kessler tells us what he learned in his three months working on the Phoenix Mars Mission.
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Your morning companion from NPR and the WNYC Newsroom, with world news, local features, and weather updates.
BBC World Service delivers breaking news and information programming around the world, in English and 28 other language services, on radio, TV and digital.
The New York Times says that the Broadway hit “The Book of Mormon” has a “heart as pure as a Rodgers and Hammerstein show.” On today’s show we’re joined by its two stars: Josh Gad and Andrew Rannells. We’ll look into the complex world of FBI confidential informants. Daniel Orozco talks about Orientation, his collection of short fiction. On our latest Backstory segment, we’ll discuss the Wikileaks Guantanamo documents with Carol Rosenberg of the Miami Herald. Plus, we’ll look at how evangelical Christians are trying to increase international adoptions.
Finding the right hairdo can be just as hard as finding the right notes. Today: We take a look at iconic coifs in music from the mullet to the mohawk. Plus: power pop from The Lonely Forest, 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.
Marketplace is not only about money and business, but about people, local economies and the world — and what it all means to us.
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 hybrid of a talk program and a newsmagazine, On Point puts each day's news into context and provides a lively forum for discussion and debate.
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.
Finding the right hairdo can be just as hard as finding the right notes. Today: We take a look at iconic coifs in music from the mullet to the mohawk. Plus: power pop from The Lonely Forest, live in the studio.
From the New Sounds Live Concert Series, we'll hear part of Bobby Previte's "Terminals," a set of five pocket concertos for five different soloists and orchestra, which had its premiere exactly one month ago tonight at Merkin Hall as part of the closing concert of the Ecstatic Music Festival. So Percussion is the "orchestra" for these works, which left space for the soloists to bring their own improvising voices to the work — voices that Previte knows well from years of collaboration with each.
