On today’s show: We’ll look into the recent decision by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to assess potential safety and environmental threats before approving new licenses for the Indian Point nuclear reactor. Sam Weller and Joe Hill discuss the ways Ray Bradbury has influence other writers. Luis Rodriguez tells us how he escaped from gang life. And William Bryant Logan talks about air—life would not exist without it, yet we take it for granted.
BBC World Service delivers breaking news and information programming around the world, in English and 42 other language services, on radio, TV and digital.
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.
The Peabody Award-winning program features Terry Gross’ fearless and insightful interviews with big names in pop culture, politics and the arts.
Tracing the history of the female vote | It's a Free Country maps the political affiliations of professional sports teams | Comparing the message of the 2012 Obama campaign to 2008 | The 'tyrannical mosaic' of the American voting system | A teenager designs new pancreatic cancer test with help from a Google search | Why Ohio Congressmen are pushing defense projects that the Pentagon doesn't want | A new study suggests that a father's age is linked to autism and schizophrenia risk in children | Getting into the minds of con-artists | Eliot Spitzer on state attorney general Libor investigations | Weighing the odds of Hurricane Isaac playing party pooper to the Republican National Convention.
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.
Q is an energetic daily arts and culture program from the CBC hosted by Tom Power.
Songs and the singers who sing them from around the world is the focus of this New Sounds. Sample the record by Neneh Cherry and Scandinavian jazz trio, the Thing who named themselves after a Don Cherry composition. That powerful Nordic three-oh is saxophonist Mats Gustafsson, bassist Ingebrigt Håker Flaten and drummer Paal Nilssen-Love.
