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William Hartung looks at the role Lockheed Martin has played in building and maintaining America’s military-industrial complex. Also, Karen Abbott discusses her biography of performer Gypsy Rose Lee. Then we’ll take a tour of a part of NYC that’s never seen...it's underground! Plus our latest Underreported and Backstory segments.
BBC World Service delivers breaking news and information programming around the world, in English and 28 other language services, on radio, TV and digital.
Your morning companion from NPR and the WNYC Newsroom, with world news, local features, and weather updates.
BBC World Service delivers breaking news and information programming around the world, in English and 28 other language services, on radio, TV and digital.
Have you ever wondered why the same product can be sold at so many different prices? To start off today’s show, we’ll examine the science of price points. Then, we’ll look at the controversial practice of cloning pet dogs. Also, bestselling fiction writer Annie Proulx tells about her new memoir, Bird Cloud. Plus, put your pencils down, this week’s Please Explain is all about testing.
Soundcheck continues its Vanished Venues series about influential nightclubs and concert halls in New York City. Today: the history of The Palladium, the East Village venue that once hosted acts diverse as The Clash, Muddy Waters and Patti Smith.
Listeners: Did you rock out at The Palladium? Share your stories of the East Village venue here!
The source for entertaining stories about science, technology, and other cool stuff.
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.
Marketplace is not only about money and business, but about people, local economies and the world — and what it all means to us.
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 hybrid of a talk program and a newsmagazine, On Point puts each day's news into context and provides a lively forum for discussion and debate.
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.
Soundcheck continues its Vanished Venues series about influential nightclubs and concert halls in New York City. Today: the history of The Palladium, the East Village venue that once hosted acts diverse as The Clash, Muddy Waters and Patti Smith.
Listeners: Did you rock out at The Palladium? Share your stories of the East Village venue here!
Listen to this New Sounds for some cross-cultural music, including a brand-new collaboration between violinist Joshua Bell and Anoushka Shankar called "Variant Moods." We'll also dig into the WNYC Archives for a work from 1967 concert at the U.N., featuring Anoushka's father, Ravi Shankar, performing a sitar and violin duet with the late classical violinist Yehudi Menuhin, accompanied by the late tabla master Ustad Alla Rakha.
