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  • 12:00 AM
    Special Coverage: Hurricane Irene
  • 12:00 AM
    Special Coverage: Hurricane Irene
  • 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
  • The Day After
    Julie Menin, the chairperson of Community Board 1 in lower Manhattan, and Daisy Khan, co-founder of the American Society for Muslim Advancement (ASMA), discuss how their communities...
  • 12:00 PM
  • Food for Thought

    The FBI has made counterrorism a top priority since 9/11, and we’ll look at the agency’s controversial use of informants...and whether some have been steering people to plan terror attacks. Then, Anthony Bourdain joins us for the latest installment of our Book Club! We’ll be discussing his book Medium Raw, and we’ll be taking your calls and comments. Also, Alex Shakar talks about his new novel, Luminarium. Plus, psychologist and science historian Michael Shermer on how our beliefs are born, formed, reinforced, challenged, changed, and extinguished.

  • 02:00 PM
  • Summer Stage Collapses

    In the world of concert promoters, summer 2011 can be summed up in two words: stage collapses. Today: A discussion about outdoor stage safety and regulation following the deadly accidents at this summer's music festivals. Plus, a live performance from folk troubadour Ana Egge. And, we ask what role music played for you as you weathered Hurricane Irene.

  • 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
  • Summer Stage Collapses

    In the world of concert promoters, summer 2011 can be summed up in two words: stage collapses. Today: A discussion about outdoor stage safety and regulation following the deadly accidents at this summer's music festivals. Plus, a live performance from folk troubadour Ana Egge. And, we ask what role music played for you as you weathered Hurricane Irene.

  • 11:00 PM
  • #3130: With Ben Neill and Mimi Goese

    For this New Sounds, mutant trumpter/composer Ben Neill joins John Schaefer in the studio.  Lately, he’s been working together with filmmaker Bill Morrison and singer Mimi Goese on a staging of the Persephone myth – Demeter’s daughter taken by Hades to the underworld against her will.