Daily Schedule

On today’s show: We’ll go deep inside the secretive Church of Scientology. Then, Sapphire, author of the novel Push, which was adapted into the movie "Precious," discusses her latest book, The Kid. Georgette Jones, daughter of country music super stars George Jones and Tammy Wynette, talks about living with her famous but troubled parents. Plus, we’ll take a look at the new documentary “Farmageddon,” that accuses the U.S. government of actively colluding with mass agro-businesses to keep our food unsafe.

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

Tea Party champion Senator Jim DeMint on what the movement means for politics and the debt ceiling. Plus: new research on autism; the 14th amendment and debt; and how African-Ameri...

Loudon Wainwright III has spent four decades making music…and fathering kids who grew up to make even more music. Today: The singer-songwriter stops by the studio to perform live. Plus: two streaming-music tools that are turning heads. We hear about the avatar-DJ site Turntable.fm and a long-awaited service, Spotify.

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.

From the New Sounds Live concerts at Merkin Hall, the string quartet Ethel plays music by Dutch composer Jacob TV (Jacob ter Veldhuis), including the controversial “Take A Wild Guess,” based on sound clips of prison inmates, and the lighthearted “Body of Your Dreams,” built around samples of TV infomercials.