Daily Schedule

Kati Marton, Richard Holbrooke’s widow, joins David Rohde and James Traub to talk about the legacy of the renowned American diplomat. Aleksandr Solzhenitzyn’s son Ignat Solzhenitzyn discusses the recent translation of Apricot Jam, a collection of his father’s stories. We’ll look at the life and times of Lillian Lorraine, a Ziegfeld Follies girl who became an actress. And we’ll examine the case of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a Russian oligarch who turned against Putin’s regime and wound up in prison.

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

Occupy Wall Street has renewed the discussion around student debt. Anya Kamenetz talks about the default movement and other issues in higher education finance. Drawing on his new bo...

Chris Cornell helped create the sound of Seattle grunge in bands like Soundgarden and Temple of the Dog. Now, he’s released a career-spanning live acoustic record, called "Songbook." He tells us how it came together.

Plus, we check out Fugazi's newly released live archive with musician Ted Leo. And, a live performance from soul singer Charles Bradley.

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.

Host John Schaefer celebrates his 30th Anniversary here at WNYC by way of an interview with Brian Eno on New Sounds.  In collaborating with a young British poet Rick Holland, for both “Drums Between the Bells,” and now most recently, “Panic of Looking” (Nov. 2011), Brian Eno has made the jump into spoken word, or more accurately, a collision between words and music.