Seven-time Emmy winner and unlikely SNL host Betty White kicks off today’s show. Then, Melissa Fay Greene, who’s best known as a journalist, tells the story of what it’s been like to raise nine children. We’ll take a look at the Rembrandt drawing exhibit at the Frick collection. Plus our latest Backstory segments.
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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: James Gleick tells the history of humans and information—from the invention of writing five millennia ago to Wikipedia’s source code! Then, we’ll talk to the stars of the new hit Broadway musical “Catch Me If You Can.” Linda Grant discusses her latest novel, We Had It So Good. Plus, our latest Please Explain is all about bugs—the good, the bad and the very ugly!
In 1964, Johnny Cash released the most controversial recording of his career. Today: the story of the Man in Black’s obscure - and divisive - protest album, "Bitter Tears: Ballads of the American Indian." Plus: Jazz vocalist Gretchen Parlato performs live in the studio.
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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.
In 1964, Johnny Cash released the most controversial recording of his career. Today: the story of the Man in Black’s obscure - and divisive - protest album, "Bitter Tears: Ballads of the American Indian." Plus: Jazz vocalist Gretchen Parlato performs live in the studio.
“Chamber Music,” the quietly elegant record from Ballaké Sissoko, who plays the traditional kora, a lute-harp from Mali, and Vincent Ségal, the French cellist who plays for the trip-hop band Bumcello, came about because Sissoko approached Segal after a Chocolate Genius show. Following improvisatory leads, they wrote intimate and warm global chamber music, which sounds like it came about in the still of the night.
