Jonathan Bloom talks about America’s propensity to waste food. Then, pianist Leon Fleisher talks about his career and passion for music. Also, journalist Rula Jebreal talks about her novel Miral. Plus, Jonathan Schneer discusses the 1917 Balfour Declaration, which laid the groundwork for the modern state of Israel.
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Your morning companion from NPR and the WNYC Newsroom, with world news, local features, and weather updates.
BBC World Service delivers breaking news and information programming around the world, in English and 28 other language services, on radio, TV and digital.
Greg Farrell gives a “fly-on-the-wall” account of the fall and sale of Merrill Lynch. Then Ivana Lowell talks about growing up in an eccentric family—Caroline Blackwood was her mother and Robert Lowell was her stepfather. Also, Mary Owen, Donna Reed’s daughter, talks about the enduring appeal of Frank Capra’s “It’s a Wonderful Life.” Plus, we’ll learn about the men behind McKim, Mead & White—one of the most influential architectural firms of the early 20th century!
Critics Week at Soundcheck continues with a rundown of the year's best books about music. Also: over 40 years into his career, British folk legend Bert Jansch is still going strong. He performs live in the studio. Later: we break down 2010's best in hip-hop.
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.
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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 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.
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.
Critics Week at Soundcheck continues with a rundown of the year's best books about music. Also: over 40 years into his career, British folk legend Bert Jansch is still going strong. He performs live in the studio. Later: we break down 2010's best in hip-hop.
A Bulgarian, a Greek and a Turk walk into a bar… Not the opening of a joke, rather it’s the vocal group Trio Tzane, who make music together under the motto “Balkan polyphonies and other vocal stories.” We’ll hear from them, along with a few selections from Huun Huur Tu, the throat singers of Tuva. Also, listen to some Norwegian sami singing, or joiking, from Jienat, with a whole lot of Brazilian, and West African percussion that renders the music utterly danceable. Plus, there's the choral singing and marimbas of the South African band Amabutho, music made by the Inuit "throat-singing" - singing into one another's mouths, using the other's throat as a resonating chamber- from Canadian Tanya Tagaq, and a whole lot more.
