Daily Schedule

The worldwide demand for seafood is soaring. On today’s show: Time correspondent Bryan Walsh describes the exponential growth of fish farming. Then, filmmaker Tsui Hark, part of Hong Kong’s New Wave, discusses his long career and his mega-hit films “Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame” and “The Blade.” Jason Zinoman explains why the 1970s were the golden age of modern horror films. Plus, we’ll tale a look at epigenetics and how environmental factors can affect our genes.

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

Reuters columnist David Cay Johnston digs deep into tax loopholes and deductions. Plus: why Generation X is getting divorced less than their baby boomer parents; and listeners nomina...

In 1964, author Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters famously crossed the country on a painted bus fueled by sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll. Today: Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney talks about turning the footage shot en route into a new movie, appropriately titled "Magic Trip."

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.

Listen to compositions for electric violin on this New Sounds program.  We'll hear Nico Muhly's Seeing Is Believing, a concerto for electric violin, which features the Aurora Orchestra and Thomas Gould on electric six-string violin, Also, we'll hear music by John Adams from his work, "The Dharma At Big Sur" - "Sri Moonshine" for electric violin and orchestra. It's an homage to the beat poets and to minimalists, like Terry Riley, with its Eastern-tinged strings and shimmering suspended chords.  Plus, other works.