Daily Schedule

On today’s show: Find out how corporations often mislead, hide the truth, and even lie in the fine print in nearly every contract…and what you can do to protect yourself. Celebrated Norwegian novelist Karl Ove Knausgaard discusses his prize-winning book My Struggle. Director Volker Schlöndorff on his 1979 film “The Tin Drum,” now released in a new director’s cut, and his documentary of conversations he had with director Billy Wilder called “Billy, How Did You Do It?” And this week’s Please Explain segment is all about sports related concussions.

WNYC’s weekly investigation into how the media shapes our worldview. 

For years, America’s funniest auto mechanics, Click and Clack, have offered insights on that weird sound your Volkswagen makes.

Investigating a strange world.

Humorous, heartbreaking and true stories told live on stage. No script. No props. Just a microphone, a spotlight and room full of strangers.

Kurt Andersen talks with Salman Rushdie. His new memoir chronicles the stranger-than-fiction decade he spent under threat of the Ayatollah Khomeni’s fatwa. We revisit the golden age of MTV. And Andy Warhol turns a can of Campbell’s soup into an American icon.
(Segments in this week's show aired previously.)

Acclaimed musician and songwriter Chris Thile welcomes a wide range of well-known and up-and-coming talent to share the stage and create a beautiful listening experience on his variety show, Live from Here.

Imagine the solitude of mowing lawns while listening to music.  Now take two electric guitars, reverb, and paint a dreamy unfolding cinematic drifting record, by a group calling itself Lawnmower.