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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
  • Failure to Launch
    Economist Joseph Stiglitz weighs in on the debt reduction commission’s plan. Plus: ABC’s Amy Walter on national politics; changes coming to Medicare; and figuring out what’s import...
  • 12:00 PM
  • Full of Potential

    We’ll look at the European Union’s decision to bail out Ireland—and what it means for the future of the Euro. Then, Bill Shore tells the story of attempts to develop a Malaria vaccine. Also, National Book Award-winning author Carlos Eire discusses his new memoir about leaving Havana for life in America. Plus, Ina Garten...the Barefoot Contessa herself!

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  • 02:00 PM
  • Holiday Wish List: Better Music

    Holiday music should mean more than the cheesy tunes playing over and over at Macy's. Today on Soundcheck: Fred Schneider of The B-52s explains how to revamp the genre. Plus: The New Pornographers live in our studio.

  • 03:00 PM
    Special Programming
     
     
  • 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
  • A hybrid of a talk program and a newsmagazine, On Point puts each day's news into context and provides a lively forum for discussion and debate.

  • 09:00 PM
  • 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.

  • 10:00 PM
  • Holiday Wish List: Better Music

    Holiday music should mean more than the cheesy tunes playing over and over at Macy's. Today on Soundcheck: Fred Schneider of The B-52s explains how to revamp the genre. Plus: The New Pornographers live in our studio.

  • 11:00 PM
  • #2867: Cross-Cultural Music

    Recent recordings of cross-cultural music, including the Bombay Dub Orchestra, Natacha Atlas, Sussan Deyhim, Issa Bagayogo, and more.  Listen to selections from "3 Cities," the latest from the Bombay Dub Orchestra, along with something by Issa Bagayogo, from his "Mali Koura" release, which draws from the dance clubs of Bamako and London.  Also, hear from Natacha Atlas, and her CD "Ana Hina," acoustic versions of songs originally performed by Arabic singers Fairuz and Abdel Halim Hafez, along with some settings of poetry by poem Frida Kahlo and the traditional Scottish folk song, "Black is the Colour." Plus, music from Sussan Deyhim's "Soliloquy," for a Shirin Neshat video installation.