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  • 12:00 AM
  • BBC World Service delivers breaking news and information programming around the world, in English and 42 other language services, on radio, TV and digital.

  • 05:00 AM
  • Your morning companion from NPR and the WNYC Newsroom, with world news, local features, and weather updates.

  • 09:00 AM
  • BBC World Service delivers breaking news and information programming around the world, in English and 42 other language services, on radio, TV and digital.

  • 10:00 AM
  • Interviews with the Interviewers
    Christiane Amanpour of ABC and CNN reflects on 2011 and democracy, from the Arab Spring to Occupy Wall Street and beyond. Then, NBC's Tom Brokaw on civic responsibility and broadcast ...
  • 12:00 PM
  • Game Changers

    Glenn Greenwald argues that America has developed a two-tiered justice system—one where the political and financial elite are immune from prosecution while the powerless are imprisoned with greater ease than anywhere else in the world. Tony Horwitz looks at the life of John Brown, the man whose raid on Harpers Ferry played a key role in sparking the Civil War. Aatish Taseer tells us about his latest novel, Noon. Plus, historian Niall Ferguson discusses the rise (and maybe the decline) of Western civilization.

  • 02:00 PM
  • Best Live Performances of 2011

    With more than 200 live performances in 2011, Soundcheck captured a lot of great music in our studio this year. All this week, we highlight some of the year's most memorable sets. Today, Soundcheck kicks off its annual review with songs from indie pop artist St. Vincent, jazz collaboration James Farm, California trio Foster the People, and more.

  • 03:00 PM
    Special Programming
     
     
  • 04:00 PM
  • 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.

  • 06:30 PM
  • Marketplace is not only about money and business, but about people, local economies and the world — and what it all means to us.

  • 07:00 PM
  • 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.

  • 08:00 PM
  • 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.

  • 09:00 PM
  • 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.

  • 10:00 PM
  • Best Live Performances of 2011

    With more than 200 live performances in 2011, Soundcheck captured a lot of great music in our studio this year. All this week, we highlight some of the year's most memorable sets. Today, Soundcheck kicks off its annual review with songs from indie pop artist St. Vincent, jazz collaboration James Farm, California trio Foster the People, and more.

  • 11:00 PM
  • #3112: Bang on a Can Marathon 2010 - Part II

    For this edition of New Sounds, listen to some of the 2010 highlights from the annual new music extravaganza, recorded live at the World Financial Center.  We'll hear a work for percussion and 1-bit electronics from New York-based Tristan Perich, who combines math and physics with acoustic and electronic music for elegant and austere results.  That, and more.