Daily Schedule

Although 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.

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

Daniel Massey of Crain’s New York Business explains why Mayor Bloomberg thinks the 2010 Census got the NYC numbers wrong. Plus: WNYC’s Beth Fertig on school elections and teacher eval...

Country music history is filled with songs about women who’ve had it up to here with men – and are ready to take it out on a lover’s pickup truck. Today: Angry anthems by female country stars, from Loretta Lynn’s “The Pill” to Carrie Underwood’s “Before He Cheats.” Plus: Country singer-songwriter Laura Cantrell joins us to play songs from her latest album - a tribute to Kitty Wells, the singer who railed against cheatin’ hearts in her 1952 recording “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels.” 

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, we’ll hear from both Meredith Monk and David Hykes, two pioneers in what is now called “extended vocal technique.”  Composer, vocalist, choreographer, and innovator Meredith Monk has lately been expanding into the worlds of orchestra and string quartet.  And on her brand-new release, "Songs of Ascension" she achieves a new balance with her pairing of voice and instruments together with a combination of East and West in the shruti box (a drone instrument from India) together with string quartet.