Daily Schedule

David Hyde Pierce, Joanna Lumley, and Mark Rylance discuss their starring roles in the hit Broadway revival of “La Bête.” Then, Kristin Kimball tells us about why she left a career as a freelance writer in New York City to become a farmer near Lake Champlain. And fourth-generation farmer Eric Herm examines the strains commercial agriculture puts on our natural resources, ecosystems, and farmers. Plus, Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne talks about Moguls and Movie Stars," a 7-part original documentary series about the history of Hollywood from 1890 to 1970!

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

Outgoing New York schools chancellor Joel Klein sits down for an exit interview. Plus: cooking through the generations; the possible extinction of tigers; Black Friday business; and more body scans.

On the newly-released Kanye West album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy the rapper-producer states, "No one man should have all that power." Yet many critics are calling the album the best of the year. Today on Soundcheck: Guest host Sophie Harris of Time Out New York weighs whether Kanye can do no wrong, or is simply overblown. Also: Twin Shadow is the work of one George Lewis, Jr. He brings his synthesizers and pop sensibilities to perform 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.

For this New Sounds, listen to some traditional medieval music of Armenia, along with contemporary Armenian music by Tigran Mansurian and Israeli composer Betty Olivero, as played by violist Kim Kashkashian.  Also, Greek singer Savina Yannatou performs contemporary Lebanese music and Lebanese singer Sister Marie Keyrouz performs ancient Syriac Christian music, and more.