BBC World Service delivers breaking news and information programming around the world, in English and 42 other language services, on radio, TV and digital.
Daily Schedule
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12:00 AM
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05:00 AM
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Your morning companion from NPR and the WNYC Newsroom, with world news, local features, and weather updates.
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09:00 AM
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BBC World Service delivers breaking news and information programming around the world, in English and 42 other language services, on radio, TV and digital.
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10:00 AM
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For Everything There Is A SeasonNew York Times U.N. bureau chief Neil MacFarquhar explains how the Arab Spring has been discusses at the U.N. this week. Plus: Melissa Harris-Perry on black women and politics; sma...Go to program: The Brian Lehrer Show
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12:00 PM
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The Rising Tide
Guest host Jonathan Capehart fills in for Leonard. He’ll speak with Sylvia Nasar about the birth of modern economics, and how economists from Marx to Keynes to Friedman changed the world! Then journalist and commentator Touré talks about his new book Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness. Tony D’Souza tells us about his new novel, Mule. Plus, we’ll examine the strategic importance of Burma, and how its giant neighbors China and India are influencing it.
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02:00 PM
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Punk Rock and Race
35 years ago, punk rock exploded with The Clash, a band forever linked with politics, protest - and rock against racism. They inspired kids the world over to build movements of their own. Today, we look at four decades of punk rock and radical politics. Plus: Songwriter Dan Zanes and his band will play music for the whole family when they join us in the studio.
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03:00 PMSpecial Programming
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04:00 PM
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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.
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06:30 PM
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Marketplace is not only about money and business, but about people, local economies and the world — and what it all means to us.
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07:00 PM
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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.
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08:00 PM
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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.
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09:00 PM
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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.
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10:00 PM
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Punk Rock and Race
35 years ago, punk rock exploded with The Clash, a band forever linked with politics, protest - and rock against racism. They inspired kids the world over to build movements of their own. Today, we look at four decades of punk rock and radical politics. Plus: Songwriter Dan Zanes and his band will play music for the whole family when they join us in the studio.
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11:00 PM
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#3084: New Music from Montreal
Montreal guitarist/composer Tim Brady makes dark sounds with bowed electric guitar, guitar with loops, with tapes, and with computers. The overall effect -ambient and abstract- is intended to evoke the depths of the ocean in a work by Jean-Francois Laporte, “The Song of the Whale.” Also, hear atmospheric electronic music from Mains de Givre(“Hands of Frost”) an enhanced duo of violin, guitar and lots of effects.
Go to program: New Sounds