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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.

  • 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
  • Historical Record
    Conservative columnist Matt Towery and Eleanor Clift, contributing editor for Newsweek Magazine, give their perspective from the left and the right on Newt Gingrich. Plus: the environ...
  • 12:00 PM
  • Bite Your Tongue

    Reason magazine editor-in-chief Matt Welch describes what he sees as the major problems with most of today’s pundits. Ruth Reichl joins us for the latest installment of the Leonard Lopate Show Book Club! Chocolatier Jacques Torres talks about holiday recipes for chocolate! Plus, a public health scholar argues that our level of mass incarceration in the United States is actually an epidemic—like AIDS or the plague.

  • 02:00 PM
  • Guitars and Goosebumps

    The temperature may be dropping...but the goosebumps you get from listening to music have nothing to do with the weather. Today: the science behind chills and thrills from music. And, we ask you to share songs that give you shivers. Plus, a live performance from singer and songwriter Jessie Baylin, and her band.

  • 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
  • Guitars and Goosebumps

    The temperature may be dropping...but the goosebumps you get from listening to music have nothing to do with the weather. Today: the science behind chills and thrills from music. And, we ask you to share songs that give you shivers. Plus, a live performance from singer and songwriter Jessie Baylin, and her band.

  • 11:00 PM
  • #3145: Osvaldo Golijov's Birthday Tribute

    For this New Sounds, we mark the birthday of the Argentinian-born American-based composer Osvaldo Golijov, who has -not once but twice- made John Schaefer's complete biased look at the top ten records of the past decades or so.  Golijov is an artist who is not afraid of unusual sound sources, both new and old, borrowing freely, incorporating electronics, hyperinstruments and/or processing, and he also plays well with others.