BBC World Service delivers breaking news and information programming around the world, in English and 28 other language services, on radio, TV and digital.
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05:00 AM
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Your morning companion from NPR and the WNYC Newsroom, with world news, local features, and weather updates.
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09:00 AM
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BBC World Service delivers breaking news and information programming around the world, in English and 28 other language services, on radio, TV and digital.
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10:00 AM
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Hand Over FistFred Kaplan of Slate discusses the war in Afghanistan in a post-bin Laden world. Plus: the science of what’s annoying; Angela Davis on the “prison-industrial complex”; and novelist ...Go to program: The Brian Lehrer Show -
12:00 PM
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Patterns of InfluenceAlthough economic growth in much of the world is slow, the developing world is booming. On today’s show: Nobel Prize-winning economist Michael Spence explains what will happen to international politics and the environment if current trends continue. Then, we’ll look into Vladimir Nabokov’s vision of what happiness is. William Deresiewicz offers an examination of the life lessons in the work of Jane Austen. Plus, Civil War scholar David Goldfield explains why he thinks the conflict was America’s greatest failure.
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02:00 PM
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Indie History, RevisitedThis year marks the 10th anniversary of Michael Azerrad's influential indie rock history, "Our Band Could Be Your Life." Today, Azerrad stops by Soundcheck to reflect on the state of independent music – then and now. Plus: singer-songwriter Henry Wolfe performs live in our studio.
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03:00 PMSpecial Programming
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04:00 PM
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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.
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06:30 PM
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Marketplace is not only about money and business, but about people, local economies and the world — and what it all means to us.
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07:00 PM
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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.
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08:00 PM
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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.
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09:00 PM
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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.
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10:00 PM
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Indie History, Revisited
This year marks the 10th anniversary of Michael Azerrad's influential indie rock history, "Our Band Could Be Your Life." Today, Azerrad stops by Soundcheck to reflect on the state of independent music – then and now. Plus: singer-songwriter Henry Wolfe performs live in our studio.
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11:00 PM
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#3044: With Daniel BjarnasonThe young Icelandic composer Daniel Bjarnason has worked with Sigur Ros, Amina, and other Icelandic rock and non-classical acts. For this New Sounds program, he’ll unveil a new work at our piano and present some of his electronically-enhanced chamber music on his album "Processions." Its careful and beautiful chaos veers from shred-classical to the lyrical and then the clangorous.
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