Daily Schedule

New York Times media reporter Bill Carter gives a behind-the-scenes account of the 2009/2010 late-night season, when NBC decided to move Jay Leno into prime time to make room for Conan O'Brien to host the Tonight show. Then, we’ll find out about folklorist and archivist Alan Lomax, who played a pioneering role in introducing folk music to the American public. Also, we’ll hear from a New Yorker who’s attempting to live in 52 neighborhoods in 52 weeks. Plus, Roseanne Barr offers her observations on hypocrisy, hubris, and modern life, and her new memoir Roseannearchy: Dispatches from the Nut Farm.

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

Connecticut and New York have new governors. Hear previews of today’s inauguration in Hartford and the state of the state in Albany. Plus: what is human dignity and why does it matter...

Today, we reveal the “mystery band” we’ve been teasing all week as … the indie-folk act Iron & Wine, led by singer-songwriter Samuel Beam. And: we announce an exclusive concert with Iron & Wine tonight at 8 p.m. in The Greene Space. Later: As Iron & Wine gets ready to play a “full album concert” later tonight, we discuss the art of creating set lists with Chicago Tribune writer Christopher Borrelli and musician Ira Kaplan of the band Yo La Tengo.

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 program, John Schaefer throws his annual, highly subjective, completely opinionated list of the ten best new-music releases of 2010 into the ring. Listen to the contenders for this year: a chamber ensemble (ahem, feat. members of the National)  in collaboration with an indie vocalist, a Genius-award-winning jazz pianist and his trio, a classical ensemble with a rock rhythm section made of members from an influential post-rock band, a singer-speaker-storyteller with an alter-ego, an indie-classical song cycle for the same vocalist as mentioned above, and an unexpectedly beautiful combination of poetry, singer-songwriter and avant-jazz ensemble.  Plus some of the usual suspects...