Daily Schedule

On today’s show: Philip Galanes, the New York Times “Social Q’s” advice columnist, returns to field your questions about awkward workplace situations. Anna Deavere Smith talks about her one-woman “Let Me Down Easy.” The BBC’s series A History of the World in 100 Objects continues with a look at an Olduvai Hand Axe! Plus our latest Backstory segments look at the hacker collective Anonymous and at the tenth anniversary of the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay.

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

Mayor Bloomberg’s State of the City address laid out plans for the future of the five boroughs. WNYC reporters discuss the progress he described and what’s next for his administration...

Neil MacGregor tells the story of two million years of our development through a hundred objects in the British Museum. We begin with the first that make us human.

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Today on the show: Grammy winner Lenny Kravitz discusses racism in the Obama era, addressed in the title track of his latest album, “Black and White America." And: a baroque opera collective brings us their take on the most popular opera of the 17th century.

This is an encore edition of Soundcheck.

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.

This New Sounds brings musical accompaniment for drama in the form of the Portico Quartet, a young instrumental band, who play mostly acoustic music using wind instruments, bass and percussion, including a 21^st century instrument called the hang.  (The hang is a dimpled dome-shaped, tuned metal percussion instrument that sounds like a cross between the steel drum and the mbira (thumb piano) and looks like two woks welded together.)