Anita Hill discusses how the current housing crisis is jeopardizing the American Dream and setting many families across the country adrift. Lawrence Bergreen looks at the three voyages that Christopher Columbus made after his first encounter with the New World in 1492. Russell Banks discusses his latest novel, Lost Memory of Skin. And, we'll take a look at the growing dangers of the digital age: cybercrime, cyberwarfare, and cyberindustrial espionage.
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.
On today's show: We'll find out how to make beer at home! Plus, Rozanne Gold shares some recipes and tips for celebrating New Year's Eve at home, on any budget!
Soundcheck continues to highlight some of this year's most memorable live in-studio performances. Today, music from sets by Randy Newman, Antarctica enthusiast DJ Spooky, indie rock band The Mountain Goats, and more.
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.
Soundcheck continues to highlight some of this year's most memorable live in-studio performances. Today, music from sets by Randy Newman, Antarctica enthusiast DJ Spooky, indie rock band The Mountain Goats, and more.
Listen to some American tales on this New Sounds program. We’ll hear the mesmerizing 11-minute reflection, “Another Day In America” as delivered through Fenway Bergamot, Laurie Anderson's wise and witty “Voice of Authority” alter-ego and more of her musical and lyrical medititations on America in the 21st century, from her recent "Homeland."
