Ira Glass talks about adapting "This American Life" for television! Also, Carlos Fuentes discusses his new novel, Destiny and Desire. Then, Stephen Ives, producer and director of the new documentary “Panama Canal,” describes the mammoth engineering project and its shocking human toll. Plus, Carl Safina looks into the connection between environmental degradation and human rights issues.
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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.
Physicist Brian Greene discusses the possibility of multiple universes! Then, Victor Garber and conductor James Bagwell talk about a revival of Kurt Weill’s "Knickerbocker Holiday." Also, New Yorker editor-in-chief David Remnick puts President Obama’s State of the Union Address into perspective. Plus, New York Times journalist Dave Itzkoff tells how his father’s problems with drugs shaped his life. And we’ll learn how bail bonds work—and some of the social justice issues that result from the current bail system.
You can tell a lot about people by what’s on their ears. Today, Soundcheck's Ear Wars series continues with the history of earbuds and headphones--and a Soundcheck Smackdown on the pros and cons of the gear for our ears. Plus: the classical pianist Simone Dinnerstein plays live from her new album.
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.
Michele Norris hosts NPR's coverage of President Barack Obama's State of the Union address. Watch a live video webcast of the speech from It's a Free Country or follow all the action with WNYC's Brian Lehrer and Brooke Gladstone via Twitter with the tag #iafcsotu.
Hear works for acoustic instruments and electronics, with the combinations of piano and electronics, violin and electronics, or a small ensemble using no electronics at all on this New Sounds program. We'll listen to Open Graves with Stuart Dempster recorded way down in a water cistern, which sounds very processed, although it was all acoustic.
