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.
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Your morning companion from NPR and the WNYC Newsroom, with world news, local features, and weather updates.
BBC World Service delivers breaking news and information programming around the world, in English and 42 other language services, on radio, TV and digital.
On today’s show, we’ll find out how digital technology has transformed three once-profitable industries—newspapers, music, and film—and whether they’ll be able to recover. Then, Caldecott Medal-winning Chris Van Allsburg discusses his career as an author and illustrator. Plus, singer-songwriter-producer Butch Walker discusses the good and the bad of the music industry.
New releases from Bjork, The Roots and Coldplay are the latest in a time-honored format: the concept album. Today: in fight card of grand ambitions, we present three mini-matchups: Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon vs. The Who’s Quadrophenia; Johnny Cash’s At Folsom Prison vs. Marvin Gaye’s What's Going On and David Bowie’s The Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars vs. Janelle Monae’s The ArchAndroid.
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.
Marketplace is not only about money and business, but about people, local economies and the world — and what it all means to us.
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.
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.
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.
New releases from Bjork, The Roots and Coldplay are the latest in a time-honored format: the concept album. Today: in fight card of grand ambitions, we present three mini-matchups: Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon vs. The Who’s Quadrophenia; Johnny Cash’s At Folsom Prison vs. Marvin Gaye’s What's Going On and David Bowie’s The Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars vs. Janelle Monae’s The ArchAndroid.
Hear music by Afro-Cuban composer/conductor Tania León from a recently composed dance score, "Inura," on this New Sounds program. León was born and raised in Cuba but her ancestry spans Europe, Africa, and Asia as well as the Americas. Her score, “Inura,” is a vibrant and colorful work for voices, strings and percussion created for DanceBrazil, inspired by Candomblé.
