Symphony Space’s marks its 30th annual celebration of James Joyce’s Ulysses Thursday, June 16 with a marathon reading featuring over 100 actors and all 18 episodes of the famed novel. WNYC 93.9 FM will join in to broadcast the readings from 8pm until it ends sometime after midnight, or you ...
We’ll look at the worldwide trend of parents choosing to have boys rather than girls, and what the consequences of a global gender imbalance could be. Former Major League baseball player Jim Leyritz talks about his professional highs and lows—on and off the field. Eilen Jewell and her band perform songs from her new album, “Queen of the Minor Key.” On Underreported, find out what the WikiLeaks cables reveal about diplomatic attitudes toward Haiti. And Backstory looks at Yemen’s next-door neighbor, the isolated kingdom of Oman.
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BBC World Service delivers breaking news and information programming around the world, in English and 42 other language services, on radio, TV and digital.
The hosts of “Radiolab,” Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich, take us behind the scenes of their award-winning show and give us a preview of their upcoming season. Robert Jay Lifton talks about how he became a passionate social activist by studying the impact of war and cruelty. Jim Axelrod explains how his quest to run the New York City Marathon became an emotional journey about his father, his marriage, and his career. Plus, on this week’s Please Explain, find out how much you really save when you use coupons—and what about that newcomer Groupon?
She was an heiress who traded her high social standing for a permanent place in New York City’s hippest jazz clubs. Today: The story behind infamous twentieth-century jazz patron Kathleen Pannonica Rothschild, otherwise known as Nica. Plus: We set you up on a second Soundcheck Blind Date. And: A closer look at "The Book of Mormon" cast album's miraculous leap to a No. 3 spot on the charts.
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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.
She was an heiress who traded her high social standing for a permanent place in New York City’s hippest jazz clubs. Today: The story behind infamous twentieth-century jazz patron Kathleen Pannonica Rothschild, otherwise known as Nica. Plus: We set you up on a second Soundcheck Blind Date. And: A closer look at "The Book of Mormon" cast album's miraculous leap to a No. 3 spot on the charts.
For this New Sounds, we'll dive into music from South America, with much of it from Brazil & Argentina. We’ll hear some selections from a new compilation from the Red Hot organization: “Red Hot and Rio,” Vol. 2, including music from Caetano Veloso, remixed by Prefuse 73, David Byrne with Caetano, and Beirut performing a Caetano song, "o Leaozinho."
