Daily Schedule

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.

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

Dean Baker and E.J. McMahon debate whether public worker unions are at the root of the states’ fiscal problems. Plus: why are prices higher at the gas pump?; environmentalist Lester B...

Thomas Dolby launched his career in the 1980s with the new-wave hit “She Blinded Me With Science.” Later, he created technology for musicians, mobile phones and iPads. Today: Dolby unveils new sonic creations -- with a live performance of songs in the The Greene Space. Plus: the Jamaican mento band The Jolly Boys are reinterpreting hits by Amy Winehouse, The Clash and others on a new album. They play for our live audience.

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.

Listen to works for violin and cello, with electronics and without, or with piano or voice on this New Sounds.  There's music from Princeton-based composer Frances White, "The Old Rose Reader" for violin, voice, video animation, and electronics.  It's a romantic work containing stories about all varieties of roses, some famous for having been grown in Empress Josephine's garden at Malmaison.