Academy Award-winning actor Alan Arkin talks about his career and creative process. Plus our latest Underreported looks at who may have been behind the Stuxnet computer virus that destroyed many of Iran's nuclear facilities.
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BBC World Service delivers breaking news and information programming around the world, in English and 28 other language services, on radio, TV and digital.
Rebecca Hamilton discusses the grassroots campaign to raise awareness of the plight of Darfur’s people. And this week's Please Explain is all about accents and dialects!
In cases of brain injury and trauma, music can sometimes be the best medicine. Today, we hear about the role music is playing in Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords' recovery. And: a music therapist explains the power of healing harmonies. Plus: Irish fiddler Martin Hayes and guitarist Dennis Cahill join us for a live performance.
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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.
In cases of brain injury and trauma, music can sometimes be the best medicine. Today, we hear about the role music is playing in Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords' recovery. And: a music therapist explains the power of healing harmonies. Plus: Irish fiddler Martin Hayes and guitarist Dennis Cahill join us for a live performance.
For this New Sounds, we’ll hear music that incorporates looping and delay devices, first by digging into Todd Reynolds’ new double-CD, “Outerborough.” Reynolds plays a work by Phil Kline, “A Needle Pulling Fred,” and a piece by David T. Little that samples a woman’s voice talking about being in the military and the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy. Then listen to something new from the one-woman band, guitarist/looper/delay-artist Julia Crowe, from her latest, "Empire of Light."
