Daily Schedule

On today’s show: Adam Davidson of the New York Times Magazine and NPR’s Planet Money team explains why the Bronx can’t be more like Brooklyn. Then Jeffrey Eugenides joins us for the Leonard Lopate Show Book Club to talk about his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Middlesex! A master glass blower and a designer tell us all about the Mobile Glass Lab on Governor’s Island. Plus, the editor and two contributors of Central Park: An Anthology on what the Park means in their lives and to the lives of New Yorkers in general.

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

Richard Florida wrote his influential book The Rise of the Creative Class ten years ago. He discusses how American cities have changed in the past decade. Plus: NPR host R. Jay Magill...

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.

Listen to the insistent rhythms and repetitions of acoustic instruments on this New Sounds, with. Hear solo music from Kris Davis- her “Saturn Return.” Its organized lines of prepared piano evoke John Cage at first, and build into a refined assembly line. Then, listen to music by the American composer based in Berlin, Arnold Dreyblatt, and his intentionally mechanistic, “Resonant Relations,” which has clouds of overtones.  Also, there’s music with a hint of jazz from both Switzerland’s Nik Bartsch, and a New York outfit, Bizingas, led by trombonist/pianist Bryan Drye. Plus, music for player pianos by Colin Nancarrow, arranged for the six musicians of the Bang on a Can All-Stars by Evan Ziporyn.