Daily Schedule

Theoretical physicist Michio Kaku discusses the science of the future—and what our lives may look like in the year 2100. Then, Frank Rose of Wired magazine explains the evolution of the participatory media. We’ll look at Fair Play by the late Finish novelist Tove Jansson, with her niece and translator. Rosie Perez talks about the Urban Arts Partnership. And we’ll get the latest on the political uprisings in the Middle East, from Yemen to Libya to Bahrain.

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

NPR’s Tom Gjelten discusses the current intervention in Libya as it compares to the NATO intervention in Bosnia in 1995. Plus: the New York State budget negotiations; a new poll about...

Count 'em... not one, not two, but three songs currently in the Billboard Top 10 bear titles containing variations of the F-word. Today: some straight talk on profanity in pop. Plus: singer-songwriter Keren Ann shares her take on "dangerous" tunes live in studio.

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, we'll hear music from our New Sounds Live collaboration with the Ecstatic Music Festival: the Bang on a Can People's Commissioning Fund Concert recorded at Merkin Hall.  The All-Stars perform Steve Martland's propulsive "Horses of Instruction." Also, listen to the hauntingly subtle “Convex/Concave/Concord” by Danish composer Pelle Gudmunsen-Holmgreen, and the intensely grooving “Believing” by Bang on a Can co-founder Julia Wolfe.  And more.