Daily Schedule

On today’s show: J. T. Rogers on Lincoln Center’s critically acclaimed production of his play “Blood and Gifts”—he’s here with two of the show’s stars: Jefferson Mays and Jeremy Davidson. Tony Award winners Jim Dale and Rosemary Harris discuss the Roundabout Theater Company’s production of Athol Fugard’s play “The Road to Mecca.” The son of celebrated but now somewhat unfashionable architect Edward Durell Stone, talks about his father’s contribution to 20th-century design. Plus, our latest Backstory segments look at the Bradley Manning trial and at the growing size of the Federal government’s various departmental police forces.

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

Bank of America has agreed to pay over $300 million dollars to settle allegations that its mortgage lending unit Countrywide Financial discriminated against black and Hispanic borrowe...

Today: Our look back at the best of 2011 concludes with pop music critic Jon Pareles of The New York Times. Plus: Soundcheck's staff chooses their favorite albums of the year. And: We head into the holidays on a Scrooge-like note with this question: What was the WORST music of the year? We take your calls.

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.

This New Sounds program gets all close and personal with the cold and the white, with the "Icy Sleeves of Green" by Todd Reynolds, and some songs from Kate Bush's most recent record, "50 Words for Snow."  We'll hear songs about melting snowflakes and icicles, soundscapes evoking the blindingly white and bleak, and other works to paint wintry portraits of powdery drifts or stark frozen mountains.