Daily Schedule

On today’s show: Alex Prud'homme explains how collaborating on a memoir with his great-aunt, Julia Child, inspired him to investigate our planet’s dwindling supplies of fresh water. Singer/songwriter Jim Lauderdale performs live and talks about his new album, “Reason and Rhyme.” We’ll look back at the “hot coffee” lawsuit against McDonald’s and how it has influenced the debate over tort reform. Plus, we’ll examine the changing definitions of family in the United States.

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

Freakonomics Radio host Stephen Dubner explains the surprising economics of parenting, suicide, quitting, and prediction. Plus: Al-Qaeda after Bin Laden; Governor Cuomo’s deal-making;...

A recent documentary examines the life and legacy of folk singer Phil Ochs. Today on Soundcheck, we’ll hear about the film from its director. Later on: Appalachian folk gets a Chinese twist from banjo player and singer Abigail Washburn. She’ll perform 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.

On this New Sounds program, explore music from the lute family, embracing trance traditions, minimalism, and hearkening back to the Renaissance.  Listen to works for  instruments from Japan (the kugo), from Afghanistan (rebab), and from Mali (kora).   We’ll also hear music for sintir or gimbri (from Morocco), along with the oud, and the Persian tambour.  Plus, a live performance by Dutch lute player Jozef van Wissem on his swan-neck lute.