Daily Schedule

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

The House of Representatives has passed the budget with big domestic spending cuts, and now they have to bring those cuts home to constituents; your take on the first real American word; the youngest woman in Afghanistan's parliament; Gulf fishing communities a year after the big spill; NATO tries to find better definition in its Libya mission; this weekend's movie releases; the toxicity of sugar; and remembering the Bay of Pigs 50 years later.  

On today’s show: Joel Brinkley, who won the Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the fall of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia in 1978, tells us what he found when he returned to the country three decades later. Philip Kerr discusses his noir thriller about an anti-Nazi P.I. hiding in Cuba, Field Gray. We’ll speak with two winners of this year’s “Women of Discovery” awards. Plus, Please Explain is all about hormone replacement therapy.

Marco Werman hosts an engaging daily portrait of what’s happening around the world, from PRX, the BBC and WGBH in Boston.

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

The Peabody Award-winning program features Terry Gross’ fearless and insightful interviews with big names in pop culture, politics and the arts.

Hosted by Warren Olney, To the Point is a fast-paced, news based one-hour daily national program that focuses on the hot-button issues of the day, co-produced by KCRW and Public Radio International.