During the first hour of today’s show, we pay our annual musical tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr., with classic gospel! Then, we’ll look at a program that promotes teaching chess as a way to boost academic performance in New York City schools. Also, Doug Merlino discusses a social experiment in the 1980s that put inner-city black children and privileged white kids on the same basketball team. Plus, “Toy Story 3” director Lee Unkrich!
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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.
Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter Dana Priest talks about a Frontline investigation of the effectiveness of the many security procedures that were put in place after 9/11. Then Joan and Melissa Rivers discuss their sometimes testy relationship and their new television show. Also, Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein talk about being the creators, writers and stars of the new IFC comedy “Portlandia.” Plus, Ron Reagan talks about the life and legacy of his father, who would have turned 100 this year.
Last week, country-pop singer Taylor Swift received a dubious honor – the lowest-ever sales week for a number-one album. We’ll get the latest stats on the music industry's ongoing slump. Later: a Soundcheck Smackdown on Swift, who still remains one of music’s most bankable stars. Plus: veteran sax man Charles Lloyd joins forces with newly minted "genius" pianist Jason Moran for a live performance.
What do you think of Taylor Swift’s chart dominance? Leave a comment.
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.
Last week, country-pop singer Taylor Swift received a dubious honor – the lowest-ever sales week for a number-one album. We’ll get the latest stats on the music industry's ongoing slump. Later: a Soundcheck Smackdown on Swift, who still remains one of music’s most bankable stars. Plus: veteran sax man Charles Lloyd joins forces with newly minted "genius" pianist Jason Moran for a live performance.
What do you think of Taylor Swift’s chart dominance? Leave a comment.
For this New Sounds, listen to indie artists straddle the divide between world music, ambient and electronica as they incorporate or approximate traditional instruments, traditional sounds, and take the results well out of indie rock-land. We'll hear from the Tradi-Mods Vs Rockers record, the latest in the Congotronics series, where carefully chosen artists have recorded homages to the original source material - landing someplace between reinventions and cover versions, and often go as far as being worthy of the dancefloor.
