Daily Schedule

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.

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

Today The Brian Lehrer Show is live from Montclair State University in New Jersey. Former New Jersey Governor Tom Kean talks about his work as head of the 9/11 Commission. Plus: de...

Steve Jobs isn’t a musician. But over the last 25 years the Apple founder has shaped - and reshaped - the way we buy, produce and listen to music. Today, in a Soundcheck Smackdown, critics debate the influence and legacy of the man who brought us iTunes and the iPod.

Listeners: Weigh in! Who is the most influential person in music in the past 25 years? Leave a comment here.

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.

For this New Sounds, we’ll listen to some of Charming Hostess/Jewlia Eisenberg’s strange & brilliant “The Bowls Project,” based on inscriptions from earthernware bowls buried under Jewish houses in ancient Babylonia, also called “demon bowls.”  According to Jewlia Eisenberg’s writings on the project, “Demon bowls, or incantation bowls, were inscribed with a householder’s secrets and desires and then buried under the doorway to protect her home.  The requests found in the bowls are particular, yet timeless--calling for protection for children, health after miscarriage, release from gossipy neighbors, a loyal husband, a passionate lover.”