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  • 12:00 AM
  • BBC World Service delivers breaking news and information programming around the world, in English and 42 other language services, on radio, TV and digital.

  • 05:00 AM
  • Your morning companion from NPR and the WNYC Newsroom, with world news, local features, and weather updates.

  • 09:00 AM
  • BBC World Service delivers breaking news and information programming around the world, in English and 42 other language services, on radio, TV and digital.

  • 10:00 AM
  • Delusions of Power
    Paul Krugman of The New York Times discusses the next steps for Washington lawmakers now that the super committee has failed. Plus: the competing human propensities for self-delus...
  • 12:00 PM
  • Breaking Point

    Mike Mayo has worked as an analyst at several of Wall Street’s big banks. On today’s show, he explains how they work, and why so much hasn’t changed since the financial meltdown. Then, Judy Greer and Shailene Woodley talk about starring with George Clooney in the new film “The Descendants.” Kevin Brownlow describes the painstaking restoration of the complete version of Abel Gance’s legendary 1927 film “Napoleon” only now getting its official U.S. premiere. Plus, a look at the escalating violence surrounding drug trafficking in Mexico, and whether anything can be done about it.

  • 02:00 PM
  • Hip Hop's DIY Moment

    Up-and-coming artists like Big K.R.I.T. and the rap collective Odd Future are using DIY ethos and internet savvy to bring hip hop’s underground to the mainstream. Today: A discussion about the changing face of hip hop. Plus: Our Pick Three series continues with one critic's three recent favorite releases. And: A live performance from The Ensemble Hilka, a chorus that joins us to sing the lost songs of the so-called Chernobyl Zone.

  • 03:00 PM
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  • 04:00 PM
  • 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.

  • 06:30 PM
  • Marketplace is not only about money and business, but about people, local economies and the world — and what it all means to us.

  • 07:00 PM
  • 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.

  • 08:00 PM
  • 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.

  • 09:00 PM
  • 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.

  • 10:00 PM
  • Hip Hop's DIY Moment

    Up-and-coming artists like Big K.R.I.T. and the rap collective Odd Future are using DIY ethos and internet savvy to bring hip hop’s underground to the mainstream. Today: A discussion about the changing face of hip hop. Plus: Our Pick Three series continues with one critic's three recent favorite releases. And: A live performance from The Ensemble Hilka, a chorus that joins us to sing the lost songs of the so-called Chernobyl Zone.

  • 11:00 PM
  • #3105: Music from Eastern Europe

    We’ll listen to Estonian composer Arvo Part’s Te Deum, a beautiful work with a tinge of Eastern mysticism on this New Sounds.  There’s also music from Ukranian composer Vladimir Marynov, featuring the Russian group, Opus Posthumous.  Plus, music from Anton Batagov, based on the music of Buddhist chants, specifically the thirty-seven precepts of The Tibetan monk, yogi and philosopher Gyalsey Thogmey Zangpo (1285-1369.)