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  • 12:00 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.

  • 05:00 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 42 other language services, on radio, TV and digital.

  • 10:00 AM
  • De Blasio's First Days; The Latest in ACA; Taxi Medallions; The Wolf of Wall Street

    Decide NYC editor Ben Max gives a roundup of local politics, including the latest in the de Blasio transition and the New York City Council speaker's race. Washington Post reporter Sarah Kliff describes the latest in Obamacare news. Plus: how some taxi drivers finance their medallion licenses, and the legal lessons to be learned from "Wolf of Wall Street."

  • 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
  • The 8-Hour Workday: Past, Present & Future | Senate to Vote to Extend Unemployment Benefits | Drones: The Defining Airspace Technology of 2014

    The Costs of Climate Change | Senate to Vote to Extend Unemployment Benefits | Drones: The Defining Airspace Technology of 2014 | Al-Qaeda Aims to Inflame Sectarian Tensions | The 8-Hour Workday: Past, Present and Future | The Top Risks Facing the U.S. & the World in 2014

  • 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
  • Nirvana’s Nevermind & Kerry Washington

    This week in our American Icons series, we take a look at Nirvana’s Nevermind — was it rock and roll’s last hurrah? Golden Globe nominee Kerry Washington shows her mean streak as the star of Scandal. And Jesmyn Ward relives the trauma of Hurricane Katrina in her novel Salvage the ...

  • 09:00 PM
  • Don Was On Blue Note At 75; Bobby Bare Jr. Plays Live

    In this episode: Today marks the 75th anniversary of the legendary Blue Note Records label. Label president Don Was reflects on Blue Note’s storied history, recording the likes of Joe Henderson, Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk, and also about his own experience as a musician and Grammy-winning producer for artists like Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones.

    Plus: Bobby Bare Jr. is a singer, songwriter, guitarist, and the son of Country Music Hall of Famer Bobby Bare Sr. He was also the godson of poet and singer-songwriter Shel Silverstein. He plays some of his alt country, rock and psychedelia-tinged music in the Soundcheck studio.

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

  • 11:00 PM
  • #3383: New Sounds of Bluegrass & Americana

    Hear banjos, dulcimers, and other instruments used in traditional Americana music, New Sounds-style on this show.  There’s music from Norwegian banjo player Stian Carstensen, hammered dulcimer player Dan Joseph, and the mandolin-guitar duo known as Prester John.  Plus, from the back wall of the New Sounds library, listen to the trio, Ellipsis (from the early 1980’s, on Flying Fish Records), who combine bluegrassy and folk instrumentation with minimalism and Indonesian elements.