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  • 12:00 AM
  • 3-Ingredient Challenge Winners; Food Greats in the South of France; The French Kitchen Cookbook; Please Explain

    We got some great submissions to our 3-ingredient challenge, and Rozanne Gold reveals and talks to the winners! Luke Barr describes the winter of 1970, when his great aunt M.F.K. Fisher found herself in the South of France with Julia Child, James Beard and Judith Jones. Patricia Wells shares her latest recipes making classic French cooking accessible to American cooks. And this week’s Please Explain is all about coffee-how it’s grown, roasted, ground, and brewed best for your morning cup of joe!

  • 02:00 AM
  • BBC World Service delivers breaking news and information programming around the world, in English and 42 other language services, on radio, TV and digital.

  • 05:30 AM
    Special Programming
     
     
  • 06:00 AM
    Specials
  • Mandela: An Audio History

    Mandela: An Audio History is from the award-winning radio series documenting the struggle against apartheid through intimate first-person accounts of Nelson Mandela himself, as well as those who fought with him, and against him.

    Recognized as one of the most comprehensive oral histories of apartheid ever broadcast, the series weaves ...

  • 07:00 AM
  • WNYC’s weekly investigation into how the media shapes our worldview. 

  • 08:00 AM
  • NPR’s Scott Simon reports on the world’s top news, features and entertainment to your Saturday morning. 

  • 10:00 AM
  • For years, America’s funniest auto mechanics, Click and Clack, have offered insights on that weird sound your Volkswagen makes.

  • 11:00 AM
  • The NPR news quiz where the panelists are funny, the limericks are lyrical and you get to shout answers at your radio. Hosted by Peter Sagal.

  • 12:00 PM
  • Investigating a strange world.

  • 01:00 PM
  • ThisAmericanLife: Themed, offbeat, (mostly) true stories that shed new light on the extraordinary side of everyday life. Host Ira Glass and a regular cast of personalities, including David Sedaris, Sarah Vowell and Mike Birbiglia, bring the best of nonfiction storytelling to the radio. 

  • 02:00 PM
  • Humorous, heartbreaking and true stories told live on stage. No script. No props. Just a microphone, a spotlight and room full of strangers.

  • 03:00 PM
    Special Programming
     
     
  • 04:00 PM
  • Payne’s Nebraska & Ornette Coleman

    The filmmaker Alexander Payne returns to his home state for Nebraska, starring Bruce Dern and Will Forte as a father and son on a fateful road trip. Kurt Andersen talks with them and scene-stealing co-star June Squibb. We’ll explore the newest-oldest trend in movies: black-and-white. And Ornette Coleman breaks the ...

  • 05:00 PM
  • 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.

  • 06:00 PM
  • 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.

  • 08:00 PM
    Special Programming
     
     
  • 11:00 PM
  • #3233: Classical Meets Electronica

    For this New Sounds, there’s music at the juncture of composed music, ambient and modern electronica, including a work by Annie Gosfield, for bits and pieces of metal.  From her “Flying Sparks And Heavy Machinery” release, we’ll hear driving machine samples, layers of ambient noise, crashing metal and electronic blips assembled into a nearly pulsing dance-y musical journey through a working factory.