Daily Schedule

On today’s show: We’ll speak to the two investigative reporters who broke the corruption story in New Jersey in 2009 that involved crooked rabbis, a ponzi scheme, and black-market kidneys. Harvard English Professor Marjorie Garber discusses how the digital world is changing the definition of literature. It’s opening day, and baseball historian John Thorn tells us about the early days of baseball. Plus, Backstory is all about the legal and personal troubles of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.

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

Congresswoman Nan Hayworth (R-NY19) on the budget standoff in Congress. Plus: the U.S.’s history of arming insurgencies; the state of Egypt’s new government; and American democracy ...

Every week, four million people tune in to hear Garrison Keillor deliver the news from Lake Wobegon. Today: Keillor talks about a new book of poems – and the future of his public radio program, “A Prairie Home Companion.” Plus: Montreal-based bass sax player Colin Stetson uses circular breathing to create a complex, layered sound. He plays live in our 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.

German percussionist and producer Sven Kacirek collected field recordings from his travels along the Kenyan coast and in the hinterland near Lake Victoria.  Then, with a bit of studio wizardry, he layered marimba, piano, and various other percussion atop the Kenyan musicians.  We’ll listen to this musical journey through Kenya for this New Sounds program.