We’ll explore why so many people who emigrated from Hong Kong to North America are returning home. Then, musician and journalist Alan Paul discusses his unlikely success at the top of the rock charts in China. Also, director Jordan Scott and actress Eva Green talk about their new film called “Cracks.” Plus the Gurus of How-To, Alvin and Lawrence Ubell, take your calls on home repairs!
BBC World Service delivers breaking news and information programming around the world, in English and 28 other language services, on radio, TV and digital.
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.
We’ll look at efforts to smuggle digital technologies like cell phones into North Korea to establish communication with the outside world. David Monagan discusses his experiences as an American in Ireland over the last decade, and what the future might hold now that the Irish economic bubble has burst. Mystery novelist Ian Rankin talks about ending his long-running series featuring detective John Rebus, and his new novel, The Complaints. Plus, our latest Underreported segment looks at the political and humanitarian crisis in Cote D’Ivoire and Backstory discovers the rise of secret facilities within federal prisons that house people with alleged ties to terrorism.
A brain tumor devastates a young man’s ability to create new memories. But, he can still remember the music of his youth. Today on Soundcheck: A discussion of music, memory and a brand new film, called The Music Never Stopped. Plus: Musician and activist Bob Geldof, who famously organized the Live Aid music charity, talks about his new album, How To Compose Popular Songs That Will Sell.
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.
A brain tumor devastates a young man’s ability to create new memories. But, he can still remember the music of his youth. Today on Soundcheck: A discussion of music, memory and a brand new film, called The Music Never Stopped. Plus: Musician and activist Bob Geldof, who famously organized the Live Aid music charity, talks about his new album, How To Compose Popular Songs That Will Sell.
For this New Sounds, listen to some new music with folk roots, and unexpected folk collaborations. There's music by Howard Skempton, the English minimalist, using "Wild Colonial Boy" in his piece "The Durham Strike." Then listen to Jim Moray doing "Two Sisters," Tom Waits doing "Two Sisters," and Julia Wolfe's "Cruel Sister," based on the same song.
