Daily Schedule

Wendy Kopp, the founder and President of Teach for America, talks about her organization’s efforts to end educational inequity. Then, eight-time Grammy nominee Joan Osborne performs live in our studios. Plus, Rana Dasgupta describes his novel, Solo, about a 100 year old blind Bulgarian man. Also, WNYC reporter Kathleen Horan fills us in on “Out from Behind the Apron,” her event in the Greene Space that allows waiters and bartenders to dish. And, Maxine Hong Kingston discusses her unusual memoir in verse about life and aging.

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

As protests continue in Egypt, voices from the Egyptian Diaspora in New York react to the ongoing events. Plus: NPR’s Rachel Martin on Washington's response to Egypt, and the dismis...

Egypt, instability .. and antiquities. Today on Soundcheck: archeologists around the world are concerned about the safety of Egypt’s collection of historical treasures. We’ll find out how the country’s museums have fared amid widespread protests. Plus: singer-songwriter Sara Watkins tells us about guest-hosting "A Prairie Home Companion." And: a live performance from guitar toting troubadour Todd Snider.

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.

Philip Glass’s opera “Kepler,” about the German astronomer and mathematician who identified the elliptical orbits of our solar system, was written expressly for Landestheater Linz and Linz09. Glass based his compelling and complex score on the astronomer’s conviction that “without genuine knowledge life is dead.”   On this New Sounds, we’ll hear selections from “Kepler” along with music from the Alloy Orchestra.