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  • 12:00 AM
  • BBC World Service delivers breaking news and information programming around the world, in English and 28 other language services, on radio, TV and digital.

  • 05:00 AM
  • Your morning companion from NPR and the WNYC Newsroom, with world news, local features, and weather updates.

  • 09:00 AM
  • BBC World Service delivers breaking news and information programming around the world, in English and 28 other language services, on radio, TV and digital.

  • 10:00 AM
  • Social Animals
    On this Memorial Day, a special re-broadcast of the interview with the late photojournalist and filmmaker Tim Hetherington. Plus: David Brooks, Ken Burns, John Waters, Kurt Andersen, ...
  • 12:00 PM
  • Fact and Fiction

    We’re replaying some favorite interviews for today’s Memorial Day show: Tina Fey talks about her memoir Bossypants, her hit TV show “30 Rock,” and why she was reluctant at first to play Sarah Palin on “Saturday Night Live” during the 2008 campaign. Slate’s former culture editor Meghan O’Rourke discusses coming to terms with the death of her mother. Erin Brockovich discusses her first novel, Rock Bottom. And: New Yorker contributor James Stewart talks about the impact of what he calls “the perjury epidemic” that is sweeping through the country’s courts.

  • 02:00 PM
  • Steve Martin: Rare Bird Alert

    Join us for an encore presentation of our Greene Space show with actor, author and banjo player Steve Martin and comedian Mike Birbiglia.

  • 03:00 PM
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  • 04:00 PM
  • 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.

  • 06:30 PM
  • Marketplace is not only about money and business, but about people, local economies and the world — and what it all means to us.

  • 07:00 PM
  • 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.

  • 08:00 PM
  • 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.

  • 09:00 PM
  • 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.

  • 10:00 PM
  • Steve Martin: Rare Bird Alert

    Join us for an encore presentation of our Greene Space show with actor, author and banjo player Steve Martin and comedian Mike Birbiglia.

  • 11:00 PM
  • #2927: With Terry Riley and David Harrington

    Terry Riley and David Harrington join John Schaefer for this New Sounds program.  Riley is the composer of "In C," the landmark 1964 work that ushered in the style known as Minimalism. Harrington is leader of the Kronos Quartet, and helped to organize the all-star, once-in-a-lifetime cast who performed "In C" last season at Carnegie Hall.