Harper’s columnist Thomas Frank makes the case for more government. Michael Shara talks about the future of space exploration and a new exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History. Darin Gibby attempts to explain why Americans have stopped inventing. And we’ll learn about an investigation into a U.S.-backed raid to capture drug lord Christopher Coke in Tivoli Gardens, Jamaica, in 2010, which killed 73 civilians.
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.
Ahmad Chalabi was one of the key promoters of the Iraq War. On today’s show: 60 Minutes producer Richard Bonin tells the story of Mr. Chalabi, and how he tried to convince the Bush Administration to install him as the leader of Iraq after the invasion. Kim Cattrall and Paul Gross discuss starring in Noel Coward’s “Private Lives,” on Broadway. We’ll take a look at a new exhibit of Diego Rivera’s murals at MoMA. On Backstory: what Argentina’s handling of its economic crisis a decade ago can tell us about how to deal with our own problems today. Plus, we’ll look at the latest efforts to stabilize the Eurozone.
For an aging artist, induction into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is more than a place on the museum’s wall. Today: the big rewards for newly announced hall of famers... from record sales to reunion tours. Plus, alt folk group The Barr Brothers performs live.
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.
For an aging artist, induction into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is more than a place on the museum’s wall. Today: the big rewards for newly announced hall of famers... from record sales to reunion tours. Plus, alt folk group The Barr Brothers performs live.
On this date, the anniversary of John Lennon’s death, New Sounds celebrates the influence that Lennon had outside his sphere. We’ll hear music by Vijay Iyer, his "re-imagining" of "Imagine,” and Canadian electric guitarist/composer Tim Brady’s “Strumming: homage à John Lennon.” Of the many homages, we’ll also hear a lovely meditation for piano and cello built around the chord sequence from John Lennon’s “Imagine,” from Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Aaron Jay Kernis.
