BBC World Service delivers breaking news and information programming around the world, in English and 42 other language services, on radio, TV and digital.
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05:00 AM
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Your morning companion from NPR and the WNYC Newsroom, with world news, local features, and weather updates.
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09:00 AM
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BBC World Service delivers breaking news and information programming around the world, in English and 42 other language services, on radio, TV and digital.
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10:00 AM
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Dollars and SenseMayor Bloomberg has had to respond to Occupy Wall Street protests by defending both freedom of speech and the banking industry. Plus: New Jersey’s statewide elections; Dominicans w...Go to program: The Brian Lehrer Show -
12:00 PM
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Unbalanced ScalesGlenn 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.
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02:00 PM
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Jonathan Lethem: Under the InfluencePop music often plays an important role in the novels of Jonathan Lethem. But for his new essay collection, “The Ecstasy of Influence,” real-life musicians steal the show. Today: The author joins us to explain what it was like to interview James Brown and Bob Dylan - and he'll help us kick off our week-long series called “Musical Chain Letter.” Plus: Jazz keyboardist Chick Corea stops by our studio to play live.
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03:00 PMSpecial Programming
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04:00 PM
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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.
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06:30 PM
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Marketplace is not only about money and business, but about people, local economies and the world — and what it all means to us.
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07:00 PM
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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.
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08:00 PM
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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.
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09:00 PM
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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.
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10:00 PM
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Jonathan Lethem: Under the Influence
Pop music often plays an important role in the novels of Jonathan Lethem. But for his new essay collection, “The Ecstasy of Influence,” real-life musicians steal the show. Today: The author joins us to explain what it was like to interview James Brown and Bob Dylan - and he'll help us kick off our week-long series called “Musical Chain Letter.” Plus: Jazz keyboardist Chick Corea stops by our studio to play live.
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11:00 PM
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#3267: Istanbul, not ConstantinopleListen to a tour of the eastern part of the Mediterranean on this New Sounds. We'll journey through a thousand years of the music that resounded along the mighty Bosphorus in Istanbul, Turkey (not Constantinople) from the 14th/15th Century Greek chant to Crusader songs, Sufi Ceremonial music, Turkish folk music, Sephardic Jwish songs, and more.
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