On today’s show: Moby discusses his new album and new book of photographs. Then we’ll look at how the Berlin Crisis in 1961 shaped the Cold War. Geoff Dyer discusses his collection of essays and other writings, Otherwise Known as the Human Condition. Plus, word maven Patricia T. O’Conner stops by to talk about how many of our favorite movie lines were all made up on the spot.
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: Scott Cleland explains why he thinks you can’t trust Google. Jazz pianist Jason Moran talks about his tribute concert to Fats Waller. David Goldman gives an account of his long struggle to bring his abducted son home. Underreported looks at medical societies and their financial ties to drug and medical device makers. Plus, an update on the protests and crackdown in Yemen.
Recording giant Warner Music Group is going once, going twice… sold. Today: The tumultuous history of the label behind artists like Cee Lo Green and Red Hot Chili Peppers, and the effect its sale could have on the music biz. Plus: We hear about the effort to make New York's cab horns less annoying. And: Joan As Police Woman plays live in the 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.
Recording giant Warner Music Group is going once, going twice… sold. Today: The tumultuous history of the label behind artists like Cee Lo Green and Red Hot Chili Peppers, and the effect its sale could have on the music biz. Plus: We hear about the effort to make New York's cab horns less annoying. And: Joan As Police Woman plays live in the studio.
For this New Sounds, listen to selections from Sarah Kirkland Snider's epic song cycle, Penelope. From a New Sounds Live recorded in March of 2011 at Merkin Hall as part of the Ecstatic Music Festival, we'll hear composer/vocalist Shara Worden (My Brightest Diamond. together with the versatile sextet yMusic. Also, yMusic performs Snider's instrumental piece, "Daughter of the Waves."
