Daily Schedule

Longtime foreign correspondent Kim Barker gives an account of what’s been called the “forgotten war” in Afghanistan and Pakistan, chronicling the years directly after America drove the Taliban from power. Best-selling author Alexander McCall Smith talks about the latest installment in his beloved No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party. Roger Rees and Tony Award-winning writer Rick Elice discuss “Peter and the Starcatcher,” a riff on the Peter Pan story. Plus, Tina Rosenberg explores the ways peer pressure can be a positive force.

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

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and Housing Commissioner Rafael Cestero talk about the program to turn vacant condos into affordable housing. Plus: tracking TARP funds; the mone...

After a five year break, New York’s kings of rock have a brand new album. But, not everyone thinks it’s a royal comeback. Today on Soundcheck: The Strokes get the Smackdown treatment. Plus: a live performance from the classically comedic duo Igudesman and Joo.

Tell us: What do you think of the new Strokes record? Are you glad they're back? Leave a comment.

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.

New Zealand-based Jack Body has written electroacoustic compositions using field recordings from Indonesia (and has also written for the Kronos Quartet.)  We’ll hear his collage of street sounds and toys that ends with pigeons taking off, each with different sized whistles attached.  Also, there’s music from New Zealand composer Gareth Farr, who incorporates the sounds of Indonesian gamelan music into his writing.