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  • 12:00 AM
  • Making the Cut
    The editors of the new edition of The Encyclopedia of New York City, Kenneth Jackson and Lisa Keller, talk about how they decided what made the cut. Plus, online censorship and WikiLe...
  • 02:00 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
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  • 06:00 AM
  • Nobel Winner Liu Receives Prize In Absentia

    In Oslo, the Nobel committee awards Liu Xiaobo the Peace Prize, while in China, he's still in prison. Also on the show: imagining a different result, ten years after the U.S. Supreme Court resolves Bush v. Gore; dispatches from the loose planning meetings for "Anonymous" and Operation: Payback; continued revelations from the WikiLeaks cable releases; a group of tribesmen from South Waziristan in Pakistan want to sue the CIA for civilian deaths from drone strikes; basketball legend Meadowlark Lemon; how repeal of "don't ask, don't tell" failed in the Senate last night ... and the dwindling chances for repeal this year; weekend movie preview.

  • 10:00 AM
  • The New Ellsberg?

    Daniel Ellsberg weighs in on the Wikileaks cable dumps. Plus, a new documentary about the Taliban; a closer look at the scientific method; and tech gifts for the holidays.

  • 12:00 PM
  • Feeding the Soul

    City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and Chef Dan Barber discuss a new comprehensive plan to make New York’s food system more sustainable. Then, we’ll look at what happened in the lands between Germany and the Soviet Union during World War II. And Claude Lanzmann, director of “Shoah” a landmark documentary about the Holocaust, discusses the film’s 25th anniversary. Plus, our latest Please Explain is all about seafood!

  • 02:00 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.

  • 03:00 PM
  • Marco Werman hosts an engaging daily portrait of what’s happening around the world, from PRX, the BBC and WGBH in Boston.

  • 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
  • The Peabody Award-winning program features Terry Gross’ fearless and insightful interviews with big names in pop culture, politics and the arts.

  • 09:00 PM
  • Veteran host Diane Rehm guides powerful conversations on an array of topics with distinguished thinkers of our times.

  • 10:00 PM
  • Hosted by Warren Olney, To the Point is a fast-paced, news based one-hour daily national program that focuses on the hot-button issues of the day, co-produced by KCRW and Public Radio International.

  • 11:00 PM
  • Splitting Sudan

    Sudan has been independent for 54 years, and has spent 38 of those years fighting a civil war that's left more than 2 million dead. A peace deal in 2005 stopped the fighting, and guaranteed south Sudan a vote for self-determination in January 2011. But as that vote nears, the potential for renewed fighting looms. Is a weak and fractured south Sudan ready to stand on its own?