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  • 12:00 AM
  • BBC World Service delivers breaking news and information programming around the world, in English and 28 other language services, on radio, TV and digital.

  • 05:00 AM
  • Your morning companion from NPR and the WNYC Newsroom, with world news, local features, and weather updates.

  • 09:00 AM
  • BBC World Service delivers breaking news and information programming around the world, in English and 28 other language services, on radio, TV and digital.

  • 10:00 AM
  • Syria Intervention; John Liu; Sheila Oliver; Vietnam Veteran Stories
    New York Times chief Washington correspondent David Sanger analyzes the next steps in the Syrian war, the Iranian elections and the ongoing strife in Turkey. Plus: City Comptroller Jo...
  • 12:00 PM
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  • 02:00 PM
  • The Peabody Award-winning program features Terry Gross’ fearless and insightful interviews with big names in pop culture, politics and the arts.

  • 03:00 PM
  • Arming the Syrian Rebels, Voices Against the War on Drugs, The Eiffel Tower as a Musical Instrument

    How Should the U.S. Help Syrian Rebels? | Voices Against the War on Drugs | The Eiffel Tower as a Musical Instrument | Freedom: A Prison Librarian's Perspective | Election Results Hint at New World For Iran | New Leak: U.S. and Britain Eavesdropped on World Leaders in 2009 | In Immigration Debate, Focus Turns to Texas Border

  • 04:00 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.

  • 06:30 PM
  • Marketplace is not only about money and business, but about people, local economies and the world — and what it all means to us.

  • 07:00 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.

  • 08:00 PM
  • Bad Girls on Film & Joss Whedon

    It’s summer movies in Studio 360 this week — big directors going small, small actors going big, and girls committing felonies. Vampire auteur Joss Whedon explains the appeal of a micro-budget Shakespeare film. Michael Shannon attempts to thwart the man of steel. Nancy Jo Sales, author of The Bling Ring, ...

  • 09:00 PM
  • MTV’s First VJs Tell All; Pandora Goes Terrestrial; Cristina Pato’s Pipes

    In this episode: Sex, drugs and rock and roll – that pretty well sums up the early years at MTV, at least according to some of the station’s earliest on-air personalities. We talk with two of the station’s original VJs – Mark Goodman and Nina Blackwood – about their new oral history called VJ: The Unplugged Adventures of MTV’s First Wave.

    Plus: Last week, the online music streaming service Pandora purchased KXMZ 102.7 (“Today’s Best Hits Without the Rap!”), an FM station in Rapid City, South Dakota. Why? We find out from Paul Resnikoff, publisher of the website Digital Music News.

    And: Bagpiper Cristina Pato hails from the Celtic nation of Spain. Yes, Spain. The province of Galicia was originally inhabited by Celts, and echoes of Celtic music can still be heard there. Cristina Pato joins us to play live with her band The Migrations.

    Plus: an excerpt from Efterklang's Tiny Desk Concert at the NPR Music offices in Washington, D.C.

     

  • 10:00 PM
  • Q is an energetic daily arts and culture program from the CBC hosted by Tom Power.

  • 11:00 PM
  • #3310: West Looks East: Japan

    For this New Sounds program some Western musicians look to Japan for inspiration both melodic and instrumental. Hear selections from a recent release by cellist/composer Jordi Savall called "Hispania & Japan - Dialogues," created following the catastrophes in Japan in 2011.  It's actually based on a previous project from 2006, "The Route of the Orient," revolving around the Spanish Jesuit missionary St. Francis Xavier (Francisco Javier).