Pamela Haag talks about modern marriage and why she thinks we’re living a “post-romantic” age of matrimony. Then, Priscilla Gilman describes the unexpected twists of having a hyperlexic child. Jaimy Gordon discusses her National Book Award-winning novel Lord of Misrule. Plus, we’ll look at why so many people are pushing and profiting from precious metals like gold...and why some are saying it’s all a bubble.
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.
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Willman talks about the government’s search for the anthrax killer. Then, Jennifer Grant discusses growing up the daughter of Cary Grant. Elaine Sciolino, longtime Paris bureau chief of the New York Times, describes why understanding seduction is key to understanding France. Plus, our word maven, Patricia T. O’Conner, takes calls on our complicated English language....and the perils of judges using dictionary definitions in their rulings.
Sax player Joshua Redman is known for his work with the SFJAZZ Collective, his Ivy League smarts... and his occasional appearance on Reading Rainbow. Today: The multitalented saxophonist and his James Farm bandmates perform live. Plus: We check in with a singer-songwriter who churns out a song a day - and this month, he's not doing it alone. And: a look inside the history of the ticketing industry.
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.
Sax player Joshua Redman is known for his work with the SFJAZZ Collective, his Ivy League smarts... and his occasional appearance on Reading Rainbow. Today: The multitalented saxophonist and his James Farm bandmates perform live. Plus: We check in with a singer-songwriter who churns out a song a day - and this month, he's not doing it alone. And: a look inside the history of the ticketing industry.
For this New Sounds, we’ll listen to some of the budding and now fruitful partnership of the BYU Choirs (Concert Choir, BYU Women’s Chorus, and others) and composer Eric Whitacre. Hear Hebrew love song settings by Whitacre, from a recent recording by the BYU Choirs, along with music sung by Chanticleer. Plus, there’s also choral music with and without instruments from Osvaldo Golijov, Gavin Bryars, and Estonian Veljo Tormis. Some of these works have sound design, another work is accompanied only by a Tibetan singing bowl. All that, and more.
