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.

Reports of fighting on the outskirts of Libya's capital of Tripoli are trickling in; discussing the books of your earlier life that still hold up; President Obama withdraws support for the Defense Of Marriage Act in the courts; a look at walkouts happening in Wisconsin, Ohio, and Indiana; assesing Al-Qaida's silence; an update from Bahrain; questions about a new dot com bubble; Discovery's final voyage; and talking to the grandson of the real therapist who helped "The King's Speech."

We’ll speak with Mark Logue, grandson of Lionel Logue, the unorthodox speech therapist who’s featured in The King’s Speech. Then, Jed Rothstein talks about his Oscar-nominated short documentary, “Killing in the Name,” about a campaign by a Muslim victim of suicide bombers to change the minds of jihadis. Joseph O’Connor discusses his novel Ghost Light, about the imagined life of the great Irish playwright, John Synge. Also, we’ll take a look at a new exhibition of Picasso’s guitar-themed works at MoMA. We’ll find out about efforts to protect the planet from asteroids. And Backstory looks at the 40-year rule of Gadhafi in Libya.

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.

The Peabody Award-winning program features Terry Gross’ fearless and insightful interviews with big names in pop culture, politics and the arts.

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.