Daily Schedule

The giant garbage patch in the Pacific ocean grows larger each year, and Captain Charles Moore, who discovered the floating mass of trash, tells how all that plastic got there and what we can do about it. Fanae Aaron and chef Marc Murphy of Landmarc explain how to get your kids to eat their vegetables. Illustrator Peter Sis talks about his adaptation of a classic 12th-century Sufi epic poem. Plus on Underreported, we look at the government’s underestimation of radiation exposure in the screening process at airports.

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

A new report from the Citizens Crime Commission shows that NYPD’s Internal Affairs Bureau cannot live up to its responsibility to police the police department. Hear why. Plus: WNYC’s ...

Violin legend Jascha Heifetz's musical skills were often regarded as heaven-sent. But few people know much about the performer’s demons off-stage. Today: A look at the lesser-known side of the master with the creator of a new documentary called “God’s Fiddler.” Plus: We kick off our new series, “Genre Patrol,” with a look into the melodramatic, mustachioed world of "chap hop." And: A live performance from west coast natives Blind Pilot.

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 is full of music inspired by particular cathedrals, like English composer Joby Talbot's work, "Leon," from "Path of Miracles," written for the choir Tenebrae.  Its namesake is the León Cathedral, a French-style Gothic cathedral built in the 13th century in northwest Spain along the pilgrim route Camino de Santiago.