Daily Schedule

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.

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

Pete Donahue, transportation reporter from the Daily News, discusses new cell service for subway riders on a few underground subway platforms in Manhattan. Plus: the trial of John Hag...

You don’t need to go to the Met to see soprano Anna Netrebko. Her picture is everywhere, from newspapers and magazines to the tops of taxis. Today: A conversation with the face, and the voice, of the Metropolitan Opera’s new season. And: we kick off a three day series we’re calling Beatles 2K11, with a look at Paul McCartney’s first ballet score. Plus: a live performance from California band Foster the People.

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.

For this New Sounds, we’ll experience some sonic and at times, spiritual atmospheres, including ambient music, and other works that might invoke the “m” word – “minimalism.” From Estonian composer Arvo Pärt, we’ll hear some spiritually cast works, sometimes labeled (much to Pärt’s dislike of the term) “holy minimalism.” Listen to his atmospheric and soaring “Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten, from a new recording by Canadian violinist Angèle Dubeau& the 12-woman (11 strings, 1 piano) ensemble La Pietà.