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  • 12:00 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...
  • 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
    Special Programming
     
     
  • 06:00 AM
  • Protests Ignite Across Middle East

    Libyans join the fray of protests sweeping across the Middle East; Police clash with demonstrators in Bahrain; the West Bank volunteers significant changes despite relative calm; demonstrations pop up across Yemen; Iran authorities crack down on opposition leaders; former U.S. Comptroller Gen. David Walker and Todd Zwillich rate your budget cuts; three families' journey from black to white; Florida rejects federal funding for high speed rail; understanding how creativity works; and Wisconsin mulls over an aggressive anti-union law. 

  • 10:00 AM
  • Learning Curve
    WNYC’s education reporter Beth Fertig discusses the latest on PCB’s in the New York City schools. Plus: Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission chairman, Phil Angelides, explains how exac...
  • 12:00 PM
  • Shifting Sands

    Veteran Middle East correspondent Charles Sennott, who has just returned from Egypt, discusses the Muslim Brotherhood, which he covered for an upcoming Frontline documentary. Then, Ben Anderson talks about his documentary, "The Battle for Marjah," which chronicles one of the most decisive operations of the Afghan War. Also, Ari Brand and Carolyn McCormick talk about starring in the new A. R. Gurney comedy “Black Tie.” Plus, we’ll look at the Obama Administration’s enormous 2012 defense budget on Backstory!

  • 02:00 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.

  • 03:00 PM
  • Marco Werman hosts an engaging daily portrait of what’s happening around the world, from PRX, the BBC and WGBH in Boston.

  • 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
    State Of Siege: Mississippi Whites And The Civil Rights Movement
  • State Of Siege: Mississippi Whites And The Civil Rights Movement

    This new American RadioWorksprogram shines a light on the stories and strategies of the white opponents in Mississippi during the '60s, including their extraordinary tactics used to battle integration—and the legacy they left.

  • 09:00 PM
  • Veteran host Diane Rehm guides powerful conversations on an array of topics with distinguished thinkers of our times.

  • 10:00 PM
  • 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.

  • 11:00 PM
  • The PBS NewsHour  provides in-depth analysis of current events with a news summary, live studio interviews, discussions and documentary reports.