Daily Schedule

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

A new anthology of modern Islamic literature seeks to open minds to the Middle East using writing and art; Reza Aslan talks about the collection. Plus: more on the deficit commission;...

Nowadays, major labels are increasingly sidelined, but there was a time when record execs held the power to deeply influence the world’s musical culture. Today, we speak with Jac Holzman, founder of both Elektra and Nonesuch records, and the man who signed The Doors, Queen, and Carly Simon. Also: Elektra's parent company, Warner Music Group, is mining a treasure trove of photographs, memorabilia and documents in a vast archives. We hear about the project. Plus: A live performance by sweet-voiced indie-pop duo Azure Ray.

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.

Music that mixes instrumentals with both sung and spoken text is what we'll hear on this New Sounds program.  Listen to the latest from saxophonist and rabbi Greg Wall’s Later Prophets, "Ha’Orot." It combines the spiritual writings of Hebrew poet Rabbi Avraham Itzchak HaCohen Kook with Wall's blend of traditional Jewish folk and jazz.  All that and more.