Director Charles Evans, Jr., and scientist Victor DeNoble talk about "Addiction Incorporated," a new documentary about the tobacco industry. Then, we’ll look at how grass roots community organizing has spurred school reform in low income communities like the Northwest Bronx. Timothy Pachirat tells us what he learned going undercover for 5 months in one of the country’s largest slaughter houses. Plus, the gurus of how-to, Al and Larry Ubell, stop by to answer your home repair questions.
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02:00 AM
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BBC World Service delivers breaking news and information programming around the world, in English and 42 other language services, on radio, TV and digital.
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05:00 AM
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Your morning companion from NPR and the WNYC Newsroom, with world news, local features, and weather updates.
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09:00 AM
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BBC World Service delivers breaking news and information programming around the world, in English and 42 other language services, on radio, TV and digital.
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10:00 AM
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Coming HomeAll troops are returning from Iraq by the end of the month. Tom Tarantino, Iraq war veteran and senior legislative associate for Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA), discu...Go to program: The Brian Lehrer Show
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12:00 PM
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Drama and Design
The critically acclaimed PBS show "Downton Abbey" examines issues of class, money, and romance through the lens of English aristocracy. On today’s show: three of the show’s stars—Hugh Bonneville, Elizabeth McGovern, and Joanne Froggatt—talk about the second season of the Emmy-winning series. Playwright-performer Gerard Mannix Flynn talks about “James X.” Navina Haidar, curator in the Metropolitan Museum’s department of Islamic art, discusses the museum’s newly renovated Galleries for the Art of Arab Lands. And we’ll have our latest Backstory segments.
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Thirty Years of John
Hear highlights from "JS:30," a Greene Space concert celebrating John Schaefer's 30 years on the air at WNYC. Guests include singer Angelique Kidjo, musician Laurie Anderson, composer Steve Reich and others. Plus: a roast in John's honor.
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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.
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Marketplace is not only about money and business, but about people, local economies and the world — and what it all means to us.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Thirty Years of John
Hear highlights from "JS:30," a Greene Space concert celebrating John Schaefer's 30 years on the air at WNYC. Guests include singer Angelique Kidjo, musician Laurie Anderson, composer Steve Reich and others. Plus: a roast in John's honor.
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#3281: New Sounds Live at WFC, Mostly
Sample some of the new works premiered at our New Sounds Live concert series featuring the Brooklyn Phil and their new music director, Alan Pierson, along with the final concert of the American Composers Orchestra’s SONiC Festival for this program. We’ll hear the premiere of Bryce Dessner’s "St. Carolyn by the Sea," written for the American Composers Orchestra and two electric guitar soloists (Bryce & his brother, Aaron), from the World Financial Center in October 2011.
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