The Atlantic's Don Peck tells how the Great Recession has transformed American society, from where we live to the size of our middle class. Jane Smiley joins us for our latest Underappreciated segment to discuss the Icelandic epic Egil’s Saga. Rebecca Kilgore talks about reinterpreting the Marilyn Monroe songbook. Plus, the Gurus of How-To, Alvin and Lawrence Ubell, take your calls on home repair questions.
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BBC World Service delivers breaking news and information programming around the world, in English and 42 other language services, on radio, TV and digital.
Vanity Fair contributing editor Michael Joseph Gross talks about the raging cyber-war. Tyne Daly discusses playing Maria Callas in “Master Class.” Our latest Summer Stuff installment looks at how to make the most out of summer in the city. Plus, we’ll have our latest Underreported and Backstory segments.
Music has long been used in medicine, though usually for the patients' benefit. Today: we'll talk about findings from earlier this year that detail how music can affect doctors in the ER. We'll even look at one New Jersey hospital that has harpists playing in the recovery room. Plus: a performance from the hot swing trio of Mark O'Connor, John Patitucci and Julian Lage.
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.
Music has long been used in medicine, though usually for the patients' benefit. Today: we'll talk about findings from earlier this year that detail how music can affect doctors in the ER. We'll even look at one New Jersey hospital that has harpists playing in the recovery room. Plus: a performance from the hot swing trio of Mark O'Connor, John Patitucci and Julian Lage.
Listen to some finely-textured musical landscapes from film, the concert stage, and the studio on this edition of New Sounds. Kronos Quartet & Mogwai play the Clint Mansell score to the movie “Fountain,” Robert Fripp plays an electric guitar Soundscape from a New Sounds Live concert, and there's "glitch” electronica from Ryuichi Sakamoto & Alva Noto. And lots more.
