Daily Schedule

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.  

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

Kurt Andersen of Studio 360 discusses his piece in the current issue of Vanity Fair about why culture is on a loop even though our technology continues to evolve. Plus: Anna Sale of I...

Musicians from Irish singer Enya to the Icelandic band Sigur Ros have passed over the world's more than 6000 languages in favor of one of their own making. Today: The origins and meanings of constructed languages in song. Plus: A live performance from the bedroom recording project that became a big band - Beirut.

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.

For this New Sounds, listen to music by the sons and daughters of really fine musicians.  We’ll hear Shona music from the country of Zimbabwe by Baba Maraire (formerly Tendai.) His father, Dumisani (Dumi), an ethnomusicologist, was one of the first African musicians to build a grass roots movement of marimba, and came to be informally dubbed, “Godfather of Shona Music.”