Daily Schedule

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!

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

Brooklyn City Councilman Brad Lander reacts to the Mayor’s proposed 2012 city budget.  Plus: WNYC reporter Bob Hennelly on NY and NJ budgets; a Stanford psychiatrist on the dangerou...

Jimmy Buffett was recently hospitalized after tumbling off a concert stage - alarming many of the "Margaritaville" singer's most devoted listeners: Parrot Heads. Our occasional series on Superfans continues with a look inside their colorfully tropical world. And: singer-songwriter Alexi Murdoch performs live. Plus: we announce the jam packed line-up of our Greene Space show for Friday, February 25th.

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.

For this New Sounds, hear a string quartet that is an arrangement of a Jimi Hendrix song, along with an arrangement of the Gnarls Barkley song "Crazy," by Canadian fingerstyle guitarist Don Ross.  We'll also hear a jazz-ish band, Blue Cranes, taking on the Red House Painters, a sonata for violin and piano that is actually a Brian Wilson song, and music from the Jolly Boys.  Plus, there'll be more Jimi Hendrix covers, perhaps by Ben Verdery & Turtle Island Quartet.