Time magazine’s Alice Park brings us up-to-date on the latest science on stem cell research and its potential to change lives. Then Dean Martin’s daughter talks about her father’s career and life. Eleanor Henderson talks about her new novel Ten Thousand Saints. And the gurus of how-to, Alvin and Larry Ubell, take your calls on the nuts and bolts of home repair!
BBC World Service delivers breaking news and information programming around the world, in English and 28 other language services, on radio, TV and digital.
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.
On today’s show: We’ll look into the parallels between the student loan debt crisis and the recent housing quagmire. Then, we’ll talk to Steve-O, one of the breakout stars of MTV’s outrageous stunt collective, “Jackass.” Filmmakers Suki Hawley and Michael Galinsky talk about their documentary “Battle for Brooklyn, about the fight over the Atlantic Yards development. Plus, an update on what's happening in Syria, and our latest Backstory segment.
It was the year that NWA first shocked suburban America, Public Enemy partied for their right to fight, and the high-top fade was the coolest hairstyle on the block. Today: a look back at a 1988, a "Year to Remember" in hip hop. Plus: A bonus "Year to Remember" - this time, in the classical world. We explore 1976 and its importance in contemporary American music. And: our listeners weigh in.
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.
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.
It was the year that NWA first shocked suburban America, Public Enemy partied for their right to fight, and the high-top fade was the coolest hairstyle on the block. Today: a look back at a 1988, a "Year to Remember" in hip hop. Plus: A bonus "Year to Remember" - this time, in the classical world. We explore 1976 and its importance in contemporary American music. And: our listeners weigh in.
The old tradition of the keyboardist/composer (think Bach, Beethoven, Mozart) lives on in the works of England’s Andrew Poppy, whose music might be a mix of rock/pop, with some ambient, minimalist, electronic, and contemporary chamber thrown in. He calls it a “stew” and rather than fusion music, has dubbed it “con-fusion” music. We’ll hear some of Poppy’s works, along with some keyboard-informed works by Russian Anton Batagov, music from French-born American Elodie Lauten, and more music for piano, with electronics, tape, and other sounds.
