Daily Schedule

Steve Inskeep, co-host of NPR’s Morning Edition, talks about the rapidly growing city of Karachi, Pakistan. Gavin Andersen, lead developer of Bitcoin, and a small business owner who accepts the experimental digital currency, explain how it’s used and whether it’s catching on. Michael Grynbaum, New York Times Metro desk transportation reporter, and Scott Curtis, a former Wall Street trader who lost his job during the recession, discuss the appeal of driving a cab.

Your morning companion from NPR and the WNYC Newsroom, with world news, local features, and weather updates.

Lower Manhattan’s Community Board 1 chairwoman Julie Menin discusses the tension downtown between the Occupy Wall Street protestors in Zucotti Park and the surrounding community. Plus...

For years, the genre known as "black metal" has lived on the outskirts of music’s underground. But that might not be the case for much longer. Today: How new bands on the scene have left the genre's notorious violence behind – and won over many mainstream listeners. Plus: Irish rock band Bell X1 takes its name from the world's first supersonic aircraft. They'll generate their own sonic waves in the studio when they perform live. And, we hear about Coldplay's new concept album.

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 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.

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.

Composer/guitarist John Schneider brings his microtonal guitars into the studio, to play his “Tombeau for Lou Harrison,” on this New Sounds.  Also, there's music by Lou Harrison for just intonation guitar, inspired by the Baroque era.