Daily Schedule

Josh Meyer and Terry McDermott give the definitive account of the pursuit and capture of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Renée Fleming discusses her new album, “Poemes.” Today’s installment of A History of the World in 100 Objects looks at a carved stone statue of Shiva and his wife Parvati. Daniel Mendelsohn looks at why we're still so interested in the Titanic. Plus, our latest Undereported segment looks at the disturbing practice of milking bears for their bile in China.

Josh Meyer and Terry McDermott give the definitive account of the pursuit and capture of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Renée Fleming discusses her new album, “Poemes.” Today’s installment of A History of the World in 100 Objects looks at a carved stone statue of Shiva and his wife Parvati. Daniel Mendelsohn looks at why we're still so interested in the Titanic. Plus, our latest Undereported segment looks at the disturbing practice of milking bears for their bile in China.

Your morning companion from NPR and the WNYC Newsroom, with world news, local features, and weather updates.

Former chancellor of the DC school system, Michelle Rhee, talks about her campaign for education reform that she’s now bringing to New York. Plus: Advocates talk about service worker ...

From Mexico to Easter Island, the followers of many world religions used objects to become closer to their gods. Neil MacGregor finds five such devotional items.

Read more about the Sculpture of Huastec Goddess.

The shuffle setting on iPods and digital music players has changed how we experience recorded music. Today, drummer Questlove of The Roots joins us to talk 'shuffle culture' – and take your calls. Plus: Malian guitarist Vieux Farka Toure and Israeli pianist/composer Idan Raichel perform live in our studio. And: ways that you can mark the Titanic centennial here in New York City.

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.

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.

Tell Me More focuses on the way we live, intersect and collide in a culturally diverse world. Capturing the headlines, issues and pleasures relevant to multicultural life in America, the daily one-hour series is hosted by award-winning journalist Michel Martin. Tell Me More marks Martin's first role in hosting a daily program. She views it as an opportunity to focus on the stories, experiences, ideas and people important in contemporary life but often not heard.

We’ll spend an hour listening to music from lost cities and civilizations on this New Sounds program.  Hear music by Turkmenistan-born Iraida Yusupova, with the title “Kitezh” – the invisible city of legend that appears in a Rimsky-Korsakov opera and a kind of Russian Atlantis.  It is said to have disappeared under water when Mongols were about to attack, and Yusupova suggests as much with theremin and tape.