Daily Schedule

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

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

Anita Hill discusses how the current housing crisis is jeopardizing the American Dream, and setting many families across the country adrift. Lawrence Bergreen looks at the three voyages that Christopher Columbus made after his first encounter with the New World in 1492. Russell Banks discusses his latest novel, Lost Memory of Skin. And, we’ll take a look at the growing dangers of the digital age: cybercrime, cyberwarfare, and cyberindustrial espionage.

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

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.

Good things come in twos. Today: Soundcheck airs an encore edition of a live performance from The Greene Space. Two collaborative pairs take the stage: the Del McCoury Band and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, and mandolin player Chris Thile and guitarist Michael Daves.