Daily Schedule

On today’s show we’ll examine the social and political collapse of Congo and its 15 years of unending war and violence. Then, we'll take a look at how making mistakes in life and being wrong can sometimes be a good thing. Plus, short story author Karen Russell talks about her debut novel Swamplandia! New York Times Beirut bureau chief Anthony Shadid shares what happened when he and three colleagues were captured and held by the Libyan government for six days.

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.

With a government shutdown looming, New York Congressman Anthony Weiner talks about the 11th hour budget negotiations. Plus, Former Libyan Ambassador to the U.S., Ali Suleiman Aujali,...

150 years ago this month, soldiers from the north and south took up arms – and poets and composers took up the pen. Today: The origins and legacy of songs from the Civil War. Plus: Singer-songwriter Steve Salett and pianist Thomas Bartlett perform songs as The Poison Tree.

 

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.

You probably don’t speak Udmurtian. Or Vepsian. Or Ivorian, Karelian Finnish, or Livonian. They are all Finno-Ugric languages – relatives of Finnish and Hungarian – that are spoken in what was the former Soviet Union.  Overwhelmed by Russian, they have not survived as well as Finnish, Hungarian, or even Estonian. Some only have a few dozen speakers. That’s why musicians like Veljo Tormis, the group Hedningarna, and Markku Ounaskari & Samuli Mikkonen have become so interested in the folk songs of these people. We’ll hear these songs in arrangements for chorus, rock band, and jazz ensemble.