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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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.
Leonard returns from his vacation! On today’s show, he speaks with guitarist and songwriter Lindsey Buckingham about his time in Fleetwood Mac and his new solo album. Then Salman Rushdie joins us to discuss his novel Midnight’s Children, the Leonard Lopate Show Book Club’s September pick. Novelist Jonathan Franzen tells us about his latest novel, Freedom. And New York magazine contributing editor Lisa Miller looks at the rise in women having children in their late 40s and even into their 50s.
In the 1980s, R.E.M. defined college rock, and influenced legions of bands to come. But some think that the alt rock superstars -- who announced their breakup last week -- overstayed their welcome. On today's Smackdown, critics debate the later years of R.E.M. Plus, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks join us in studio for a live performance.
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.
In the 1980s, R.E.M. defined college rock, and influenced legions of bands to come. But some think that the alt rock superstars -- who announced their breakup last week -- overstayed their welcome. On today's Smackdown, critics debate the later years of R.E.M. Plus, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks join us in studio for a live performance.
Listen to music built around the sound of delay, both digital and tape looping on this New Sounds program. We’ll hear from the most recent offering by Phillip Schroeder, “A Passage Through A Dream.” It’s a record featuring the layered sounds of piano and clarinet, processed through digital delay, resulting in "lush kaleidoscopic textures." (The composer's own words.) Also, the otherworldly waves of drone created by Terry Riley’s use of loops and delay on "Poppy Nogood And The Phantom Band All Night Flight, Vol. 1."
