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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
  • Return on Investment
    Hear about Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 tax plan. Plus: insurance companies in New York are trying to raise premiums on individual plans. Hear why advocates a...
  • 12:00 PM
  • The Chase

    The Tea Party takes its name from an act of rebellion during the American Revolution, and  economists Simon Johnson and James Kwak explain why they think the Tea Party platform is actually closer in spirit to the Whiskey Rebellion. Nathaniel Philbrick explains why you should read Moby-Dick. Lee Child discusses his latest crime thriller, The Affair. Plus, composer, arranger, guitarist, and producer Nile Rodgers on his role in shaping pop music.

  • 02:00 PM
  • Ready, Steady, Go!

    If anyone could lay claim to the title “Father of the Music Video,” it might well be Michael Lindsay-Hogg. That’s because he was there at its birth. Today, we visit with the director of The Beatles’ Let it Be, Simon and Garfunkel's Concert in Central Park, the British music show, Ready, Steady Go, and more. Plus, The Bo-Keys bring their Memphis soul sound live to our studio.

  • 03:00 PM
    Special Programming
     
     
  • 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
  • Ready, Steady, Go!

    If anyone could lay claim to the title “Father of the Music Video,” it might well be Michael Lindsay-Hogg. That’s because he was there at its birth. Today, we visit with the director of The Beatles’ Let it Be, Simon and Garfunkel's Concert in Central Park, the British music show, Ready, Steady Go, and more. Plus, The Bo-Keys bring their Memphis soul sound live to our studio.

  • 11:00 PM
  • #3258: "Indie Classical"

    For this New Sounds, take a listen to some new music from the chamber group yMusic, playing Son Lux and a work by Judd Greenstein.  Also, music from Clogs, featuring Bryce Dessner and more in the vein of "indie classical."