Daily Schedule

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.

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

Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Kuwait have all recalled their ambassadors from Syria, but the Assad government continues its brutal crackdown on protestors. Hear an analysis of the lat...

Steely Dan’s album “Aja” was added to the Library of Congress earlier this year. Today: We revisit the topic of whether this album is an example of smooth sailing - or "Dan overboard" - as we rebroadcast one of our recent favorite Soundcheck Smackdowns. Plus: Guitar-toting troubadour Todd Snider stopped by to play live in the Soundcheck studio earlier this year - we'll give it another listen. And: a web exclusive from desert-blues collective Tinariwen makes it on the air.

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.

This New Sounds highlights evocative but enigmatic songs for that apparently simplest of combinations – piano and voice. From the most recent record by Susanne Abbuehl, hear “In the Dark Pine-Wood” with poetry by James Joyce, and something new from songwriter Lee Feldman. Also, there’s a beautiful tune - “Strange Lures” by the reclusive Ed Pastorini. Hear more music for piano and voice by Robin Holcomb with a breathtaking track, “Deliver Me.” Plus, Peter Gabriel’s “Here Comes The Flood.”