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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
  • What We Know Now
    New York Magazine’s national affairs editor John Heilemann discusses politics heading into 2012. Plus: the evolutionary biologist and author, Richard Dawkins, talks about his new grap...
  • 12:00 PM
  • From Physics to Finance

    Lisa Randall explains how scientific thought has influenced our popular thinking on everything from creativity to risk to beauty. Ceramicist Edmund de Waal talks about his work and his efforts to trace the origins and history of a collection of 264 tiny Japanese carvings. Michael Ondaatje on his new novel, called The Cat’s Table. And Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi on bankers, politicians, and the Wall Street protests!

  • 02:00 PM
  • Soundcheck Smackdown: Gotham vs. Motown

    The ballfield isn’t the only place where New York and Detroit are facing off. Today: The music of the two metropolises go head to head in a city versus city Soundcheck Smackdown. Plus: Singer-songwriter and composer Tori Amos explores traditional melodies and untraditional themes in her classical album debut, a song cycle called Night of Hunters. She performs live in the studio.

  • 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
  • Soundcheck Smackdown: Gotham vs. Motown

    The ballfield isn’t the only place where New York and Detroit are facing off. Today: The music of the two metropolises go head to head in a city versus city Soundcheck Smackdown. Plus: Singer-songwriter and composer Tori Amos explores traditional melodies and untraditional themes in her classical album debut, a song cycle called Night of Hunters. She performs live in the studio.

  • 11:00 PM
  • #3253: Steve Reich at 75

    Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Steve Reich, one of the founding fathers of minimalism, and one whose influence is vast and wide over rockers, electronic musicians, choreographers and visual artists, also dubbed "the hippest composer alive," (Schaefer, 2006) celebrates his 75th birthday today.  In honor of this milestone, we'll hear an hour devoted to Steve Reich & his music - the less well-known pieces.