On today’s show: We’ll look at the not-so-friendly skies—rising fares, airplanes that are losing their roofs and air traffic controllers snoozing on the job. We’ll learn about life at one of the country’s last fire lookouts. We’ll hear about the Belarus Free Theater’s production of “Being Harold Pinter.” And we'll talk about a new documentary about when and how we should forgive.
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Your morning companion from NPR and the WNYC Newsroom, with world news, local features, and weather updates.
BBC World Service delivers breaking news and information programming around the world, in English and 28 other language services, on radio, TV and digital.
On today’s show: We’ll find out how New York University’s plans to add 6 million square feet of new construction to its Greenwich Village campus will affect the neighborhood. Pablo Picasso’s granddaughter and biographer John Richardson discuss a new exhibit of the artist’s work inspired by Marie-Therese. Erin Brockovich discusses her first novel, Rock Bottom. And: New Yorker contributor James Stewart talks about the impact of what he calls “the perjury epidemic” that is sweeping through the country’s courts.
It reached a new level of smooth—but is it one of our nation’s most significant recordings? Today: a Smackdown debate about Steely Dan’s 1977 album, Aja. Plus: a preview of the one-act opera, Danse Russes, which depicts the creation of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring.
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.
Marketplace is not only about money and business, but about people, local economies and the world — and what it all means to us.
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 hybrid of a talk program and a newsmagazine, On Point puts each day's news into context and provides a lively forum for discussion and debate.
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.
It reached a new level of smooth—but is it one of our nation’s most significant recordings? Today: a Smackdown debate about Steely Dan’s 1977 album, Aja. Plus: a preview of the one-act opera, Danse Russes, which depicts the creation of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring.
Gyan Riley, composer, guitarist, and son of new music legend Terry Riley, visits the studio for a live performance, and to present a work inspired by Bach, and commissioned by the New York Guitar Festival. Also, there's recently recorded trio music from Gyan, including experiments with improvisation, and roots in chamber music. Plus, the Irish-African titled, yet also Indian- and Spanish-sounding stand-alone little ditty of a new work for guitar, "Irican."
