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.

Robert Gates and Donald Rumsfeld are named in a case in which 17 former and current military members allege the military turned a blind eye to sexual harrassment; Bernie Madoff gives his first interview from jail; the "smoking gun" evidence for war in Iraq goes up in smoke; telling the story of war with food; Egypt ponders a new constitution; the benefits of rural living; protests in Bahrain; and "How The West Was Lost."

Award-winning food writer Rozanne Gold and Alice Walton, of Katchie Farm, tell how to cook weird winter vegetables, like kohlrabi and rutabaga! Then, biographer Donald Bogle discusses the life and career of actress and singer Ethel Waters. Also, curators of an exhibition at the Museum of Biblical Art discuss the theme of Christ as a “Man of Sorrows” in art. And The Daily Show’s Samantha Bee talks about her quirky collection of personal essays, I Know I Am, But What Are You?

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.

A new documentary about the fight for equal rights on America's roads and transit lines. Many African American communities were bulldozed in the 1960s to make way for highways. Today, bus service to poor neighborhoods is cut in favor of more expensive rail. This collaborative reporting project from Transportation Nation ...

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.