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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.

  • 06:00 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.

  • 07:00 AM
    Special Programming
     
     
  • 08:00 AM
  • Interviews with top newsmakers in politics, science, and the arts, and Will Shortz brings you the beloved Weekend Puzzle.

  • 10:00 AM
    Special Programming
     
     
  • 11:00 AM
  • Ken Kesey’s Magic Trip and Extreme Tango

    This week Kurt Andersen talks with Alex Gibney, whose new documentary follows Ken Kesey and The Merry Pranksters on the road trip that launched the psychedelic 1960s. Then we ride the economic roller coaster with novelist Gary Shteyngart. His novel Super Sad True Love Story imagined a debt crisis that ...

  • 12:00 PM
    Special Programming
     
     
  • 04:00 PM
  • 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.

  • 05:00 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.

  • 06:00 PM
    Special Programming
     
     
  • 07:00 PM
  • 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. 

  • 08:00 PM
  • Animal Collective: the 2004 Interview, part 1
    First broadcast July 30, 2004, this show features the band Animal Collective speaking in depth about their background and ideas, such as their shared childhood in Maryland, their earl...
  • 09:00 PM
  • Investigating a strange world.

  • 10:00 PM
    Special Programming
     
     
  • 11:00 PM
  • #2949: Death Jazz Piano Trio

    For this New Sounds, London-based death-jazz band The Neil Cowley Trio stopped by the studio on their first US tour.  Listen to their incredibly tight and thoughtful originals like "His Nibs" and "She Eats Flies" performed live on this program.  It's some groove-based post-jazz with an Eastern edge that demands your attention.  RIYL: the Bad Plus, Shostakovich, Madness, thrash-punk, Thelonious Monk, The Sex Pistols, Philip Glass.