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  • 12:00 AM
  • Mystery and History

    We’ll look into the still unsolved 1981 disappearance of Adam Walsh, and how his abduction and murder changed how law enforcement responds to missing child cases. Then, Eric Bogosian and Deb Singer discuss the tumultuous history of the experimental Soho performance space, The Kitchen. Ina Caro tells how you can travel through French history by train. Our Backstory segment looks at the future of the space program. And on Underreported, find out about the prospects of deep sea mining for rare earth minerals in the Pacific Ocean.

  • 02:00 AM
  • BBC World Service delivers breaking news and information programming around the world, in English and 28 other language services, on radio, TV and digital.

  • 05:00 AM
  • Your morning companion from NPR and the WNYC Newsroom, with world news, local features, and weather updates.

  • 09:00 AM
  • BBC World Service delivers breaking news and information programming around the world, in English and 28 other language services, on radio, TV and digital.

  • 10:00 AM
  • Midsummer Decisions
    WNYC’s Bob Hennelly on the jury’s decisions in the Deutsche Bank building case. Plus: Roger Clemens’ perjury trial; Van Jones on his new project “Rebuilding the Dream; and a tour of...
  • 12:00 PM
  • Feeling the Sting

    On today’s show, we’ll look at whether tenure is a cause of some of the problems in higher education. Then, we’ll talk to the director and one of the human participants in a documentary called “Project Nim,” about a chimpanzee who was raised to test the language abilities of apes. Joseph Dorman talks about his documentary on the writer Sholem Aleichem. Plus, Please Explain is all about those gelatinous blobs that may sting you at the beach—jellyfish!

  • 02:00 PM
  • The Travels of A Tribe

    The New York hip hop group A Tribe Called Quest is known as much for their genre-defining albums as for their highly publicized 1998 breakup. Now, they’re the subject of a new documentary. Today: a conversation with the film’s director -- Michael Rapaport. Plus: a live performance from singer-songwriter Rickie Lee Jones.

  • 03:00 PM
  • The source for entertaining stories about science, technology, and other cool stuff.

  • 04:00 PM
  • 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.

  • 06:30 PM
  • Marketplace is not only about money and business, but about people, local economies and the world — and what it all means to us.

  • 07:00 PM
  • 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.

  • 08:00 PM
  • 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.

  • 09:00 PM
  • 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.

  • 10:00 PM
  • The Travels of A Tribe

    The New York hip hop group A Tribe Called Quest is known as much for their genre-defining albums as for their highly publicized 1998 breakup. Now, they’re the subject of a new documentary. Today: a conversation with the film’s director -- Michael Rapaport. Plus: a live performance from singer-songwriter Rickie Lee Jones.

  • 11:00 PM
  • #3223: Mystics and the Mediterranean

    For this New Sounds, we’ll sample liberally from the latest recording from Moroccan-born singer Amina Alaoui, called “Arco Iris.”  It’s a pan-Mediterranean blend of flamenco music from Spain, fado music from Portugal, Arab-Andalusian music and Brazilian choro, linked by jazz and a night in Tunisia.