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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
  • The Exceptionals
    Temple Grandin, animal scientist and subject of the recent HBO biopic, talks about children who are exceptional, both in their disabilities and their intelligence.  Plus: A roundup of...
  • 12:00 PM
  • Scaling the Mountain

    Neville Isdell, former CEO of Coca-Cola, talks about running the world’s leading soft-drink company. We’ll find out about the mountaineers who were the first to attempt to scale Mount Everest in the early 1920s. Man Booker Prize–winning author Alan Hollinghurst describes his new novel, The Stranger’s Child. New Yorker writer John Cassidy looks at John Maynard Keynes’s economic philosophy and whether it can work to pull us out of the recession.

  • 02:00 PM
  • End of an Era

    Fans of the band Sonic Youth were recently shocked to learn that members Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore are separating after 27 years of marriage. Today: a closer look at artistic couples -- and what happens to the personal/professional partnership after a breakup. Plus, we hear a live performance from the vocal group Anonymous 4.

  • 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
  • End of an Era

    Fans of the band Sonic Youth were recently shocked to learn that members Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore are separating after 27 years of marriage. Today: a closer look at artistic couples -- and what happens to the personal/professional partnership after a breakup. Plus, we hear a live performance from the vocal group Anonymous 4.

  • 11:00 PM
  • #3093: Music From the North

    Hear some Icelandic electronic chamber music with a delicate undercurrent of minimalism from the young Olafur Arnalds on this New Sounds.  The rest of this Northern edition of the show includes music from Norway and Sweden, and more from Iceland.