BBC World Service delivers breaking news and information programming around the world, in English and 28 other language services, on radio, TV and digital.
Daily Schedule
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12:00 AM
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05:00 AM
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Your morning companion from NPR and the WNYC Newsroom, with world news, local features, and weather updates.
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09:00 AM
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BBC World Service delivers breaking news and information programming around the world, in English and 28 other language services, on radio, TV and digital.
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10:00 AM
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Iowa, One Year OutWith the Iowa Caucus vote one year away, It's A Free Country is launching a new collaboration with Iowa Public Radio to track voters and issues in that state. Plus: AOL buys Huffing...Go to program: The Brian Lehrer Show
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12:00 PM
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Issues, Young and Old
Judith Warner questions whether we are over-diagnosing, and more important, over-medicating our children. Then, filmmaker Eugene Jarecki talks about his new documentary about the life and political rise of Ronald Reagan. Also, Aminatta Forna discusses her second novel, The Memory of Love. We’ll get a profile of prominent Egyptian opposition figures, including Mohamed ElBaradei. Plus, Susan Jacoby looks at how aging is perceived in America today.
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02:00 PM
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Henry Rollins Turns 50
Henry Rollins, the frontman of seminal hardcore band Black Flag, turns 50. He joins us to discuss music, age, and more. Plus: we look at the music of the Superbowl.
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03:00 PMSpecial Programming
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04:00 PM
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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.
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06:30 PM
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Marketplace is not only about money and business, but about people, local economies and the world — and what it all means to us.
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07:00 PM
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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.
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08:00 PM
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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.
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09:00 PM
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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.
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10:00 PM
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Henry Rollins Turns 50
Henry Rollins, the frontman of seminal hardcore band Black Flag, turns 50. He joins us to discuss music, age, and more. Plus: we look at the music of the Superbowl.
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11:00 PM
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#3004: Music for Angels
For this New Sounds program, listen to some celestial music, but also works that are much darker. We'll hear a bit of the flowing, dreamlike and epic "Angel of Light" by Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara along with an excerpt from Jürgen Knieper's original score for the film "Wings of Desire."
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