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  • 12:00 AM
  • Show and Tell

    Pulitzer Prize-winning author Philip Roth discusses his latest novel, Nemesis. Then, we'll hear about the life and career of maverick television producer and talk show host David Susskind. We’ll get a preview of works on display at the New York branch of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. Amy Sedaris checks in on our Cheap Craft Contest! Plus, director Doug Liman describes filming the story of what happened when Valerie Plame Wilson was outed as a covert CIA operative, in the movie “Fair Game.”

  • 02:00 AM
  • BBC World Service delivers breaking news and information programming around the world, in English and 28 other language services, on radio, TV and digital.

  • 05:00 AM
  • Your morning companion from NPR and the WNYC Newsroom, with world news, local features, and weather updates.

  • 09:00 AM
  • BBC World Service delivers breaking news and information programming around the world, in English and 28 other language services, on radio, TV and digital.

  • 10:00 AM
  • Thanksgiving 2010
    Restaurant tips for how to organize your Thanksgiving kitchen, plus: President Jimmy Carter on his time in the White House, Author Margret Atwood imagines a dystopian future; Direct...
  • 12:00 PM
  • The Long View and a Long Walk

    Former vice-president to Jimmy Carter, Walter Mondale, shares insights from his five decades in public life. Melissa Clark presents delicious and simply sophisticated recipes from her new cookbook.  Also, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael Cunningham discusses his latest, By Nightfall.  Plus, Martin Fletcher, longtime chief of NBC’s Tel Aviv bureau, tells of his experience walking along the entire coast of Israel, from Lebanon to Gaza.

  • 02:00 PM
  • The Great Ukulele Revival

    Long ridiculed and associated with "Tiptoe through the Tulips," the ukulele is now enjoying a worldwide revival with its fans ranging from indie-rock bands to David Bowie. On today's show, we explore the history of an instrument that once shaped 20th-century popular music and culture.

    And we hear about its modern-day revival, which includes the angular, uke-driven rock of Buke & Gass, who join us to perform live in the studio.

  • 03:00 PM
    Special Programming
     
     
  • 04:00 PM
  • 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.

  • 06:30 PM
  • Marketplace is not only about money and business, but about people, local economies and the world — and what it all means to us.

  • 07:00 PM
  • 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.

  • 08:00 PM
    Third Coast International Audio Festival
  • Third Coast International Audio Festival

    The Third Coast International Audio Festival brings the best new documentaries produced worldwide to the national airwaves in a special two-hour program, Best of the Best: The 2010 Third Coast Festival Broadcast.The featured documentaries, all winners of the 10th annual TC / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition, demonstrate just how powerful ...

  • 10:00 PM
  • The Great Ukulele Revival

    Long ridiculed and associated with "Tiptoe through the Tulips," the ukulele is now enjoying a worldwide revival with its fans ranging from indie-rock bands to David Bowie. On today's show, we explore the history of an instrument that once shaped 20th-century popular music and culture.

    And we hear about its modern-day revival, which includes the angular, uke-driven rock of Buke & Gass, who join us to perform live in the studio.

  • 11:00 PM
  • #2978: New Music from the Berbers

    There's music from North and West Africa on this New Sounds program.  We'll hear a trancey and exuberant series of recordings of master musicians of Gnawa from Ouled Bambara.  Also, we'll listen to the latest from the nomadic band Tinariwen from northern Mali -  Saharan seven-piece Malian desert blues with twanging guitar-led fuzz and funk.   Plus music by fellow Malian Issa Bayagogo on the banjo-like instrument called the ngoni, something from guitarist Justin Adams, and more.