Steve Engelberg and Raney Aronson talk about long-form journalism in a short form world. Deb Olin Unferth talks about dropping out of college to join the Sandinistas. Adam Rapp, Julianne Nicholson and Louis Cancelmi talk about "The Hallway Trilogy." Rodney Crowell on his memoir, Chinaberry Sidewalks.
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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.
Historian and foreign policy analyst James Peck talks about how the United States has used human rights as a potent ideological weapon. Then, we’ll hear about an Afghan woman who had to give up her dream of becoming a teacher after the breakout of civil war and the Taliban’s rise to power. Also, we’ll get a sneak peek at the Iranian Theater Festival. And Ted Danson explains the dangers facing the oceans.
Rock journalist Neil Strauss discusses "Everyone Loves You When You’re Dead," his tell-all memoir of adventures interviewing celebrities like Lady Gaga, Prince, and Radiohead. And: a live performance from Brooklyn indie-folk act Phosphorescent.
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.
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Recorded live at Merkin Hall as part of the New Sounds Live concert series, together with the Ecstatic Music Festival mere weeks ago, listen to premiere works by the 8-piece ensemble Newspeak and Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society, the 18-piece big band. Mind control experiments and conspiracy theories are the subject matter for these brand-new pieces, and there might be works by Vijay Iyer and Nicole Lizée as well.
