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.
BBC World Service delivers breaking news and information programming around the world, in English and 42 other language services, on radio, TV and digital.
Your morning companion from NPR and the WNYC Newsroom, with world news, local features, and weather updates.
BBC World Service delivers breaking news and information programming around the world, in English and 42 other language services, on radio, TV and digital.
On today’s show: We’ll learn how our EPA protected a company involved in deadly mining practices in South Africa. We’ll talk to the whistleblower who was attacked by the company. Renowned choreographer Martha Clarke and award-winning writer Alfred Uhry talk about “Angel Reapers,” their latest theatrical collaboration. Jean Strouse tells us about the life and times of Alice James, the sister of William and Henry. Plus, Stephen Sondheim talks about his career, what makes a good lyric great, and his latest book: Look, I Made A Hat!
They used to be a dependable moneymaker for rock stars and record labels alike – but the live album seems to have gone the way of the 8-track. Today: the past, present and future of the live concert album. Plus: An update about the New York City Opera’s labor dispute. And: a visit from mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe, who’s currently singing in the Metropolitan Opera’s production of Rodelinda.
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.
Marketplace is not only about money and business, but about people, local economies and the world — and what it all means to us.
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 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.
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.
They used to be a dependable moneymaker for rock stars and record labels alike – but the live album seems to have gone the way of the 8-track. Today: the past, present and future of the live concert album. Plus: An update about the New York City Opera’s labor dispute. And: a visit from mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe, who’s currently singing in the Metropolitan Opera’s production of Rodelinda.
Listen to some updated folksong arrangements, arrangements of medieval songs, and music that looks to other world traditions, all from Norway. The updated folk comes to us from a collection of ballads, hymns, lullabies, sung by Trio Medieval, and we'll also hear Norwegian medieval song by Jan Garbarek & Agnes Buen Garnas.
