On today’s show: Tom Stoppard, Billy Crudup, and Tom Riley discuss the new Broadway production of “Arcadia.” Gail Levin talks about Lee Krasner’s artwork and her marriage to Jackson Pollock. Marshall Arisman tells us about The Divine Elvis, his innovative illustrated novel. Plus, our resident word-maven Patricia T. O’Conner explains the language of cats.
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.
On today’s show: Bing West, an Assistant Secretary of Defense in the Reagan Administration who’s traveled extensively in Afghanistan, gives his thoughts on how we can get out of there. The one and only Angela Lansbury stops by to talk about her amazing career and her salute to playwright Terrence McNally. Our latest Backstory segment is about the Saudi Royal Family and how they’ve repressed the nascent protest movement in Saudi Arabia. And on Underreported, we find out how the Indian Point nuclear power plant is creating environmental problems in the Hudson River.
A pop music critic falls in love with Bach's beloved cello suites, discovers a mysterious history - and joins us to share the story. Plus: Brooklyn band Les Chauds Lapins performs French swing from the 1920s, '30s and '40s live in our 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.
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 pop music critic falls in love with Bach's beloved cello suites, discovers a mysterious history - and joins us to share the story. Plus: Brooklyn band Les Chauds Lapins performs French swing from the 1920s, '30s and '40s live in our studio.
From the Alloy Orchestra's most recent three-night residency at the World Financial Center this past February, we'll listen to selections from some of their original film scores including Douglas Fairbanks' "The Black Pirate." The Alloy Orchestra is just an orchestra of three -Terry Donahue, Roger Miller, Ken Winokur- whose instruments include their famous "rack of junk" (scrap metal transformed into percussion) together with electronic synthesizers and more. We'll hear their original scores for the 1920 Buster Keaton film, "One Week" and the 1917 Chaplin film, "Easy Street," and more.
