Daily Schedule

On today’s show: The New Yorker’s John Cassidy talks about how the recent economic news is likely to shape the presidential campaign. We’ll talk to the founder of a nonprofit organization that inspires disaffected and underperforming students by getting them involved in sprucing up their schools. Novelist Peter Carey, playwright John Guare, and poet and playwright Jessica Hagedorn explain why they oppose NYU’s proposed expansion and discuss its possible effect on Greenwich Village. Plus, Vanity Fair's Kurt Eichenwald explains how Microsoft went from leading the computer industry to watching as Apple created best-selling devices like the iPod and iPhone.

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

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has initiatives to curb prescription drug and synthetic drug use. Plus: Matthew Goldstein of Reuters explains possible arrests in the LIBOR...

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.

“Chamber Music,” the quietly elegant record from Ballaké Sissoko, who plays the traditional kora, a lute-harp from Mali, and Vincent Ségal, the French cellist who plays for the trip-hop band Bumcello, came about because Sissoko approached Segal after a Chocolate Genius show.  Following improvisatory leads, they wrote intimate and warm global chamber music, which sounds like it came about in the still of the night.