Daily Schedule

We’ll look at the situation along the U.S. border with Mexico, where huge numbers of people, drugs, and weapons are smuggled daily. Then, have you been to any of the new green spaces in places like Times Square recently? Witold Rybczinski will talk about where our ideas about what cities should be come from. Also, Tales of the City author Armistead Maupin discusses the latest installment in his series. Plus, our Underreported is all about the UN climate conference in Cancun, and our Backstory segment looks at the EU bailout of Ireland!

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

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.

This week, Wall Street Journal reporter John Jurgensen joined us to ask a provocative question from his recent story: Should Bob Dylan retire? Today: Jurgensen returns to revisit your comments about Bob Dylan and retirement. And: we pose the question to cultural critic and Dylan expert Greil Marcus. Plus: For three decades, Paul Winter has made his Winter Solstice concerts an annual tradition. He joins us with a preview of this year's event, live in the studio.

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.

The Orchestra of Tetouan, Morocco, performs classical Arab-Andalusian music live in our studio.  The north Moroccan port city of Tetouan, just a few dozen miles by sea from the southern tip of Spain, became a refuge for Sephardic Jews and Muslims escaping the demise of the culturally rich Al-Andalus and the fall of Granada (the last Muslim city in Spain), in 1492.  The music comes from centuries before that – as far back as the 9th Century - and can be traced to an Afro-Arab musician and poet, Ziryâb, a descendant of Persian slaves of African heritage.