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  • 12:00 AM
  • BBC World Service delivers breaking news and information programming around the world, in English and 42 other language services, on radio, TV and digital.

  • 05:00 AM
  • Your morning companion from NPR and the WNYC Newsroom, with world news, local features, and weather updates.

  • 09:00 AM
  • BBC World Service delivers breaking news and information programming around the world, in English and 42 other language services, on radio, TV and digital.

  • 10:00 AM
  • Dollars and Sense
    The US economy added 117,000 jobs in July, but fears of a double-dip recession persist. Diane Brady of Bloomberg BusinessWeek breaks down the latest economic and political news. Plus:...
  • 12:00 PM
  • A Great Journey

    Leonard Lopate is back! He’ll look at how a U.S. Attorney was able to unravel a major Colombian cocaine trafficking cartel. Travel writer Colin Thubron tells about his journey to a holy mountain in Tibet. Nayana Currimbhoy talks about her new novel Miss Timmins’ School for Girls, about life at British boarding school in the hills of western India. Plus, Amy Cortese explains why she thinks investors should put their money behind the corner store instead of investing in Wall Street financial institutions.

  • 02:00 PM
    NPR News Special: The Credit Downgrade
  • Host Neal Conan will capture the news of the day and the impact the downgrade is having on foreign markets as well as early market reaction here in the U.S.

  • 03:00 PM
    Special Programming
     
     
  • 04:00 PM
  • 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.

  • 06:30 PM
  • Marketplace is not only about money and business, but about people, local economies and the world — and what it all means to us.

  • 07:00 PM
  • 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.

  • 08:00 PM
  • 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.

  • 09:00 PM
  • 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.

  • 10:00 PM
  • Best of Soundcheck: Adele + PJ Harvey

    The Mercury Prize is awarded every September to the best album by an artist from the United Kingdom and Ireland. The nominees are usually new to American ears - but this year’s short list includes a couple of familiar names. Today: a "best of Soundcheck" episode, when we rebroadcast live in-studio conversations and performances from Mercury Prize nominees Adele and PJ Harvey.

  • 11:00 PM
  • #2635: All Over the Musical Map (Encore Edition)

    For this New Sounds, hear music from the soundtrack to the Anthony Minghella film, "Breaking and Entering," by composer Gabriel Yared in collaboration with Underworld. Also, there's something from the South African guitarist Guy Buttery along with music from reed players Ned Rothenberg and Ken Field, and more.