Daily Schedule

Also, we’ll look at how opioid-based painkillers like Oxycontin accounted for a small number of prescriptions decades ago, but now are frequently prescribed and frequently abused. Mario Batali shares his favorite seasonal recipes and talks about cooking for family and friends. Plus, Jeff Sharlet discusses his profiles of religious radicals, realists and atheists across the country. Nancy Ellen Abrams and Joel Primack talk about their attempt to reconcile science and religion.

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

The latest on the Occupy Wall Street removal from Zuccotti Park. Plus, Kate Ascher, Columbia University urban development professor and author of the new book The Heights: Anatomy of ...

Beethoven, Liszt and Jerry Lee Lewis have more in common than you might imagine. Today on the show: a history of the piano -- through some of its most fiery composers and players.

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.

For this New Sounds, we’ll hear composed works for duos and small ensembles that veer toward the ambient.  We’ll hear from the amplified, processed and looped duo itsnotyouitsme, who are violinist Caleb Burhans and guitarist Grey McMurray, and a piece called “The Ghosts Among Us.”  There’s also trio music (keyboards, accordion, sometimes vibes, and a clarinet) by keyboardist and composer Phillip Schroeder whose music might be best described as ambient.