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On today’s show: We’ll get a history of the populist Right in the United States. Pico Iyer discusses his fondness for the writer Graham Greene. The BBC’s A History of the World in 100 Objects continues with a look at the 2,700 year old Lachish Reliefs. Margot Livesey tells us about her new novel, The Flight of Gemma Hardy. And Jamal Joseph, former spokesman and leader of the New York Black Panthers, talks about his time with the group and how he found a new calling in prison.

On today’s show: We’ll get a history of the populist Right in the United States. Pico Iyer discusses his fondness for the writer Graham Greene. The BBC’s A History of the World in 100 Objects continues with a look at the 2,700 year old Lachish Reliefs. Margot Livesey tells us about her new novel, The Flight of Gemma Hardy. And Jamal Joseph, former spokesman and leader of the New York Black Panthers, talks about his time with the group and how he found a new calling in prison.

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The late musician and writer Gil Scott-Heron will be remembered with a lifetime achievement award during Grammy festivities this weekend. Today: How the artist's posthumous memoir is adding a new chapter to the story of his life. Plus: reunited Irish pop band The Cranberries plays live in our 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.

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 take a new look at the Four Seasons - not the Vivaldi work, but instead what it has inspired.  There are lots of other composers who have riffed off of that theme, say - Thomas Wilbrandt, Astor Piazzolla, Philip Glass, and Mark O'Connor, to name a few.