On today’s show: On the Media’s Brooke Gladstone gives us a rundown of the News International phone hacking scandal. Then, our Underappreciated summer reading segment looks at Theodor Fontane, considered by many to be Germany’s greatest novelist before Thomas Mann. Also, we’ll mark the New York Public Library’s centennial! Plus, we’ll find out why the arts flourished in 1960s Los Angeles.
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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.
New Yorker staff writer Philip Gourevitch tells us about Rwanda’s cycling team. Erin Barnett and Adam Harrison Levy discuss “Hiroshima: Ground Zero 1945,” an exhibition at ICP. Ben Mezrich talks about his new book, Sex on the Moon, a true madcap story of genius, love, and duplicity. Plus: Our latest Backstory segment is all about human body part trafficking.
Leon Botstein is known for shining a spotlight on neglected composers, overlooked masterworks, and unexpected musical connections. Today: the conductor and Bard College president explains why Finnish composer Jean Sibelius deserves a new look. Plus: A look inside the world's oldest Koran-reciting contest. And: a chance to hear a bit of Danish composer Poul Ruders' new opera.
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.
Leon Botstein is known for shining a spotlight on neglected composers, overlooked masterworks, and unexpected musical connections. Today: the conductor and Bard College president explains why Finnish composer Jean Sibelius deserves a new look. Plus: A look inside the world's oldest Koran-reciting contest. And: a chance to hear a bit of Danish composer Poul Ruders' new opera.
Something old, something borrowed – finally with permission – and something new, all in response to James Joyce’s writings. For this literary edition of New Sounds, we’ll hear the long-awaited, originally intended setting of James Joyce’s text from Molly Bloom’s soliloquy at the end of Ulysses. Kate Bush's “The Sensual World” re-emerges as "Flower of the Mountain."
