Daily Schedule

On today’s show: Former Mexican foreign minister Jorge Castañeda discusses what he sees as the major problems in his country. Then, filmmaker Marshall Curry tells about his new documentary on the rise and fall of an anarchist environmental group. Cookbook editor Molly Birnbaum recounts how she lost her sense of smell in an accident, and the impact it had on her life and her relationship to food. Plus, Jessica B. Harris looks at the history of African American cuisine.

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

Last night, President Obama detailed his policy for pulling troops out of Afghanistan. Hear Robert Haddick of Small Wars Journal break down the speech. Plus: Andrew Beveridge return...

More than 80 years after it was written, the opera “The Cunning Little Vixen,” makes its New York Philharmonic debut. Today, we take a closer look at the life and work of Czech composer Leoš Janáček. Plus, we hear why the Brooklyn Museum has canceled plans to show a graffiti exhibition called “Art in the Streets." And, singer-songwriter Haley Bonar performs live.

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.

We’ll hear the re-shaping and reworking of centuries-old music on this New Sounds.  From New York composer Charles Wuorinen, we’ll hear some of his very early works (from 1962) - pieces recomposed and reworked from a German cathedral Songbook – three of the six of his “Bearbeitungen uber das Glogauer Liederbuch.”