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  • 12:00 AM
  • Coaching and Creativity

    Legendary coaches Digger Phelps and Bobby Knight and sports analyst Billy Packer discuss college basketball. Then, a favorite Lopate Show guest host, Julie Burstein, visits to discuss how creativity works and what inspires artists. Plus, Tariq Tapa discusses his new film, “Zero Bridge,” about a troubled young man in troubled Kashmir. And Patricia T. O'Conner discusses the complexities of the English language and takes your calls!

  • 02:00 AM
  • BBC World Service delivers breaking news and information programming around the world, in English and 28 other language services, on radio, TV and digital.

  • 05:00 AM
  • Your morning companion from NPR and the WNYC Newsroom, with world news, local features, and weather updates.

  • 09:00 AM
  • BBC World Service delivers breaking news and information programming around the world, in English and 28 other language services, on radio, TV and digital.

  • 10:00 AM
  • Empty Stomachs
    Author Raj Patel traces the link between the global food crisis and the unrest in the Middle East.  Plus: City Council speaker Christine Quinn talks about her state of the city addr...
  • 12:00 PM
  • What's Cooking?

    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?

  • 02:00 PM
  • Justin Bieber's Growing Pains

    Teen idol Justin Bieber isn't a baby anymore. Today: a mature discussion about what's in store when the voice behind Biebermania starts to grow up. And later: the Australian rock band The Church performs live.

  • 03:00 PM
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  • 04:00 PM
  • 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.

  • 06:30 PM
  • Marketplace is not only about money and business, but about people, local economies and the world — and what it all means to us.

  • 07:00 PM
  • 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.

  • 08:00 PM
    Transportation Nation - Back of The Bus: Mass Transit, Race and Inequality
  • Transportation Nation - Back of The Bus: Mass Transit, Race and Inequality

    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 ...

  • 09:00 PM
  • 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.

  • 10:00 PM
  • Justin Bieber's Growing Pains

    Teen idol Justin Bieber isn't a baby anymore. Today: a mature discussion about what's in store when the voice behind Biebermania starts to grow up. And later: the Australian rock band The Church performs live.

  • 11:00 PM
  • #3006: Recent Soundtracks

    For this New Sounds, listen to some recent film scores, new music-style.  We'll hear from a collection of soundtrack work that Nick Cave has done with Warren Ellis, called "White Lunar."  It's a 2-disc set including music from the forthcoming film "The Road," along with music from two documentary films; one about young girls caught up in Cambodia's sex trade and the other, "The English Surgeon," follows a doctor's attempt to bring neurosurgery to post-Soviet Ukraine.