Daily Schedule

We’ll speak to the producer of a new Frontline documentary about the 4,500 or so Haitian prisoners who escaped during last year’s earthquake. Then, Mira Bartók tells the dramatic story of her troubled relationship with her mentally ill mother. Also, director Richard J. Lewis and actress Rosamund Pike discuss their new film,"Barney’s Version," which is based on a Mordecai Richler novel. Plus, we’ll get the inside story on the relationship between Wikileaks and the British newspaper The Guardian.

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Gov. Chris Christie addressed New Jersey’s future in the State of the State speech yesterday. Plus: Haiti one year later; an in-depth history of the War on Terror; and what the Cave...

So-called "Spaghetti Westerns" set the standard for cowboy soundtracks in the 1960s. But the new film True Grit is something of a lone ranger. Today on Soundcheck: composer Carter Burwell talks about his score for the Coen Brothers’ box office hit. Later: the Balkan brass band Zlatne Uste plays live in our studio.

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.

Why the quotation marks?  For this New Sounds we’ll hear tunes that might sound like folk songs, but are actually new songs in the folk tradition. Some actually are traditional tunes, as in those from the Carter Family repertoire – in the case of a Bill Frisell offering, and some are extensions of the tradition, which draw from rural Appalachian and early Americana.