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This week, 30 Issues in 30 Days looks at inequality starting with the victims of 2008’s foreclosure crisis. Robert Shiller and then Roben Farzad give two takes on how we got here -- 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.

Tonight on Soundcheck, a look at the new Broadway musical, Chaplin. Lead actor Rob McClure talks about the man behind the silent character "The Little Tramp" -- from Charlie Chaplin's talent as a composer to his then-radical political beliefs.

KCRW's Anne Litt on the record-by-record musical evolution of Spoon frontman Britt Daniel, who has returned with a new band Divine Fits. And Brooklyn band White Rabbits stop by the Soundcheck studio to perform songs from its latest album Milk Famous.

Also on the show: Brooke Gladstone of On the Media and Brian Lehrer of The Brian Lehrer Show, rarely get to talk about Jack White much on the air. But after White's off-hand remark at a recent show at New York's Radio City Music Hall, the longtime hosts weigh in on what public radio conventions are really like. Hear more below:

 

For this New Sounds, listen to Tristan Perich's 1-bit electronics together with Mariel Roberts' cello for a driving, hypnotic, and exhilarating work, “Formations.” Roberts, although still in her 20s, tests the limits of contemporary cello technique (cello as percussion instrument, working with looping) in the repertoire she chooses, from works by Kaija Saariaho to the works commissioned for her release, “Nonextraneous Sounds.”