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  • 12:00 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
  • A Better Way
    Journalist Joe Flood explains how the FDNY decided which fire companies to shutter due to budget cuts—and how they’re trying to avoid making the same mistakes they made in the 1970’s....
  • 12:00 PM
  • Life's Journey

    On today’s show: We’ll delve deep into the subconscious brain. Novelist Oscar Hijuelos talks about his memoir Thoughts Without Cigarettes. Former Mets star Shawn Green discusses his career and how he managed to stay calm and focused, both on and off the field. David McCullough tells us about the American artists, writers, and other pioneers who headed to Paris from 1830 to 1900—and how they influenced American culture.

  • 02:00 PM
  • Year To Remember: 1970

    Join Soundcheck all this week for our “Year To Remember” series. We’ll ask musicians, critics and other guests to name a single year that was monumental in music. Today, we kick things off with the year that brought us "Let It Be," "Bridge Over Troubled Water" and some "Deja Vu": 1970.

    Plus: Jim James of My Morning Jacket tells us about the band's declarative new album, "Circuital."

  • 03:00 PM
    Special Programming
     
     
  • 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
  • Year To Remember: 1970

    Join Soundcheck all this week for our “Year To Remember” series. We’ll ask musicians, critics and other guests to name a single year that was monumental in music. Today, we kick things off with the year that brought us "Let It Be," "Bridge Over Troubled Water" and some "Deja Vu": 1970.

    Plus: Jim James of My Morning Jacket tells us about the band's declarative new album, "Circuital."

  • 11:00 PM
  • #3051: Bang on a Can PCF Concert 2010, Part II

    From the New Sounds Live concerts at Merkin Hall, the Bang On A Can All-Stars premiere the newly commissioned work by Christine Southworth, called "Concerning The Doodle."  Rounding out the show are (relatively) older favorites by Michael Nyman, his "Manhatta" and Brian Eno's "Music for Airports 2/2."