Daily Schedule

On today’s show: Grammy winning Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Booker T not only discusses his new album, but he’ll also be performing live in our studio! We’ll speak with actress Vera Farmiga and director Malcolm Venville about the new movie “Henry’s Crime.” Annia Ceizadlo spent her honeymoon in Baghdad in 2003, and she tells us about life love, and food in a war zone. We’ll also look at how a growing movement of young farmers is trying to change our eating habits.

The Leonard Lopate Show is live in the Greene Space April 13 at 7 pm! Find out more and get tickets here!

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

The GOP budget proposal is seen as the first major shot across the bow in the 2012 elections. John Heilemann and Paul Starr break down the plan’s politics and policies. Plus, how Saud...

Haiti's presidency goes pop. We look at what's in store for musician-turned-politician Michel "Sweet Micky" Martelly. Plus: A new work for dance, set to the songs of Nick Cave. And: a live performance from the moody minimalist Minnesota band, Low.

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.

Composer Darcy James Argue thinks big.  His band, The Secret Society, is a 17- or 18-piece ensemble (there were 18 this time) brass-heavy big band, with electric guitar, bass, keys and drums.  The band was formed to play Argue’s music, but in our New Sounds Live concert at Merkin Hall, on February 24, that changed.  In an appropriately big way.  The band presented world premieres by three different composers – none of them named Darcy James Argue.  Tonight, we’ll hear the first performances of “Three Fragments” by award-winning, big-brained jazz pianist and composer Vijay Iyer, and “Lock The Door, Swallow The Key,” a stomping work from the gifted young Canadian composer Nicole Lizee.