Roméo Dallaire talks about the use of child soldiers in conflicts throughout the world, and his mission to end the practice. Mamie Gummer and Hamish Linklater discuss their roles in “The School for Lies.” Robert Sean Leonard and Nina Arianda talk about their roles in “Born Yesterday.”
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.
Barry Manilow performs live in our studio! Gretchen Morgenson and Joshua Rosner talk about what caused the financial meltdown and what has changed in its aftermath.
Singer-songwriter Randy Newman has been adding to the American songbook for decades. Now he’s adding to his own official songbook, too. Today: Randy joins us for the hour to talk about his life's work and to perform songs from his latest release, The Randy Newman Songbook Vol. 2.
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.
Singer-songwriter Randy Newman has been adding to the American songbook for decades. Now he’s adding to his own official songbook, too. Today: Randy joins us for the hour to talk about his life's work and to perform songs from his latest release, The Randy Newman Songbook Vol. 2.
From the New Sounds Live concerts, we'll hear the Bang on a Can All-Stars performing world premieres by Swiss ambient-funk-pianist-composer Nik Bärtsch and by composer/instrument-maker Oscar Bettison, who plays well with others in both the concert hall and the rock ensemble. Plus, hear music by Brooklyn's David Longstreth, the driving force behind the ground-breaking indie rock band Dirty Projectors (Sorry, no audio archive for his pieces.) Recorded live in 2010, these works were part of the annual Bang on a Can People's Commissioning Fund Concert, a launch pad for emerging composers.
