Daily Schedule

We’ll discuss why 20-somethings and recent college graduates seem to be slower at reaching adulthood. Then Jessie Sholl talks about her mother’s compulsive hoarding habit and how she was forced to confront it. Lauren Redniss talks about the scientific breakthroughs—and love life—of Marie and Pierre Curie. Also Colin Goddard gives an account of his experience as a victim of the shooting at Virginia Tech and talks about his work supporting gun control legislation.

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

The 2010 News Quiz covers the year’s biggest stories, and a WNYC tote bag is on the line for the winner! Susan Orlean of the New Yorker and Ana Marie Cox of GQ are the quiz masters. L...

In the third episode of a five-part series, Soundcheck highlights some of this year's most memorable live performances in our studio. We revisit sets by Mavis Staples, Regina Spektor, The National, Jason Moran and others.

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.

For this New Sounds, we'll hear the early music vocal group Anonymous 4 performing works commissioned by WNYC by both Richard Einhorn and Steve Reich.  Richard Einhorn’s “A Carnival of Miracles,” an exploration of different kinds of freedoms - religious, scientific, artistic, cultural, sexual, and political - was composed for A4 and 2 cellos.  The title refers to the medieval idea of Carnival, a time when the social order is ritually upended and all is allowed.