Daily Schedule

CBS News correspondent Dan Raviv gives a history of Israel's spies and a super-secret unit inside the Mossad. Mary R. Morgan, daughter of former governor of New York Nelson A. Rockefeller, talks about coming to terms with the mysterious disappearance of her twin brother in the 1961. Anthony Heilbut discusses some of the figures who transformed the American cultural landscape—from gospel to Aretha Franklin to soap opera creators. Michael Findlay explains the art market and examines the value of art for all of us.

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

Nicholas Shaxson, the journalist who investigated Mitt Romney’s offshore accounts for Vanity Fair, discusses what he found out and why we should care. Plus: WNYC’s Ailsa Chang looks a...

The Peabody Award-winning program features Terry Gross’ fearless and insightful interviews with big names in pop culture, politics and the arts.

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.

Cellist Yo-Yo Ma has fingered Irish music and its Celtic fiddling of being the connection between American folk music and classical music. In the North Sea region, the influence of the Scandinavian tradition with its Norwegian farmers and Vikings permeated the Celtic culture, more in Scotland than in Ireland.  The roots-web is even more tangled than that once the Italian contribution to the development of the violin is considered  (Antonio Stradivari in Cremona.) For this New Sounds program, listen to the shared musical territory between Celtic, Scandinavian, “early music,” & Appalachian fiddle music.