Daily Schedule

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.

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

Andrew White of the New School’s Child Welfare Watch discusses the indictment of two former child welfare workers. Plus: whether it’s with a tax preparer or doing it yourself, a loo...

Fever? Kidney failure? Or... murder? Today: We'll hear why Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s mysterious death continues to fascinate, despite having occurred more than two centuries ago. And: we'll catch up with super-funky Bootsy Collins. Plus: Our picks of the week.  

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.

For this New Sounds, listen to the new recording, "September Canons" featuring violinist Todd Reynolds performing a piece written for him by American composer Ingram Marshall.  It’s a soaring, searing work for violin with electronic processing, and is a "lamentation on the events of September 11, 2001."  Also, hear music by new York-based violinist and composer Christopher Tignor, of the band Slow Six, from his release “Core Memory Unwound.”   Plus there’s music from Swiss violinist Paul Giger, with a Tibetan Buddhist-inflected piece for violin and choir, and a work for violin and keyboard by Max Richter.