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  • 12:00 AM
  • Arthur Schwartz on Jewish Food; Remembering Marcella Hazan and Charlie Trotter; Argentine Wines

    Today is special edition of our Food Fridays series! We’ll be playing some great archival interviews about food. First, Arthur Schwartz talks about Yiddish food, and where to find the best Jewish food in New York. Then, a conversation with the beloved Italian cookbook writer Marcella and Victor Hazan from 2008—she died earlier this year. Laura Catena introduces us to some of Argentina’s wonderful wines. We’re replaying a 2004 conversation I had with chef Charlie Trotter, who passed away earlier this month.

  • 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
  • Hanukkah Lights 2013

    A perennial NPR favorite, Hanukkah Lights features Hanukkah stories and memoirs written by acclaimed authors expressly for the show, as read by NPR's Susan Stamberg and Murray Horwitz.

  • 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
  • American Icons: The Wizard of Oz
    It's been over seventy years since movie audiences first watched The Wizard of Oz. Meet the original man behind the curtain, L. Frank Baum, who had all the vision of Walt Disney, bu...
  • 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
  • #3230: World Music

    For this New Sounds program, there’s an hour of world music.  Listen to tricky rhythms but a great groove in music by the global outfit Adam Rudolph’s Moving Pictures, which is made up of jazzers and North African musicians alike, exploring all the world’s instruments.  Also, hear world trance dance-fusion music by Christopher Stowens, built around Indian and Pakistani sources.  Plus, “Village Voices” from “Pulse: a Stomp Odyssey,” and more.