Daily Schedule

BBC World Service delivers breaking news and information programming around the world, in English and 42 other language services, on radio, TV and digital.

Reactions to the president's speech at the University of Jakarta, Indonesia; listener responses to possible alternatives to the gold standard; the impact banking reform could have on our national debt; another sex scandal for Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi; John Legend's latest collaboration with The Roots; the different Muslim worlds Obama addressed last night; Dave "Pops" Masch on ocean life; Defense Secretary Robert Gates makes remarks seeming to leave the door open for a longer stay in Iraq by the U.S. military; Simon Winchester on his "biography" of the Atlantic ocean.

Quincy Jones talks about his celebrated career and about his first album in five years. Also, two segments on the famously eccentric Mitford family—we’ll speak to the last surviving sister, Deborah, her Grace, the Duchess of Devonshire, about her life and memoirs. And novelist Zoe Heller talks about Nancy Mitford’s enduring literary legacy. Plus, the Gurus of How-To, Al and Larry Ubell, answer questions about home repair.

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

Marketplace is not only about money and business, but about people, local economies and the world — and what it all means to us.

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

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.