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  • 12:00 AM
  • Perfect Pairs

    New York Times advice columnist Philip Galanes takes your calls and offers some tips on navigating relationships and romantic
    quandaries. Karen Page and Andrew Dornenburg tell us about pairing food and wine for your Valentine’s Day meal. The BBC series A History of the World in 100 Objects looks at one of the world’s oldest gold coins. George Steel, general manager and artistic director of the New York City Opera, discusses the long and bumpy road toward its upcoming season. Plus, two dog handlers give us an insider’s perspective on the upcoming Westminster Dog Show!

  • 01:00 AM
  • Gold Coin of Croesus

    From the very first coinage to burial shrouds, Neil MacGregor decodes five objects to reveal the ambition of new regimes across the world.

    Read more about the Gold Coin of Croesus.

  • 01:15 AM
  • Perfect Pairs

    New York Times advice columnist Philip Galanes takes your calls and offers some tips on navigating relationships and romantic
    quandaries. Karen Page and Andrew Dornenburg tell us about pairing food and wine for your Valentine’s Day meal. The BBC series A History of the World in 100 Objects looks at one of the world’s oldest gold coins. George Steel, general manager and artistic director of the New York City Opera, discusses the long and bumpy road toward its upcoming season. Plus, two dog handlers give us an insider’s perspective on the upcoming Westminster Dog Show!

  • 02:00 AM
  • BBC World Service delivers breaking news and information programming around the world, in English and 42 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 42 other language services, on radio, TV and digital.

  • 10:00 AM
  • Seek and You May Find
    It’s a Free Country contributor and the Wall Street Journal’s Speakeasy blogger Jeff Yang, and the Takeaway’s sports correspondent Ibrahim Abdul-Matin discuss Lin’s meteoric rise of N...
  • 12:00 PM
  • The Shape of Things

    We’ll look at the science of yoga with William Broad of the New York Times—from its many benefits to some dangerous. We’ll hear the story of the couple behind the landmark interracial marriage Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia with the director of a new documentary. The BBC’s A History of the World in 100 Objects continues with a look at a tiny model of a chariot found in Tajikistan. Edward St. Aubyn tells about his latest novel, At Last. Plus, we’ll look at the contributions of American gay writers in the 20th century, including Gore Vidal, Tony Kushner, and others.

  • 01:00 PM
  • Oxus Chariot Model

    2,500 years ago thinkers such as Confucius and Plato were exploring how people should live, but can objects like the Parthenon sculptures or a golden chariot tell us more?

    Read more about the Oxus Chariot Model.

  • 01:15 PM
  • The Shape of Things

    We’ll look at the science of yoga with William Broad of the New York Times—from its many benefits to some dangerous. We’ll hear the story of the couple behind the landmark interracial marriage Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia with the director of a new documentary. The BBC’s A History of the World in 100 Objects continues with a look at a tiny model of a chariot found in Tajikistan. Edward St. Aubyn tells about his latest novel, At Last. Plus, we’ll look at the contributions of American gay writers in the 20th century, including Gore Vidal, Tony Kushner, and others.

  • 02:00 PM
  • Super Collections; Creepy Love Songs

    To heck with candy and roses. For Valentine's Day, Soundcheck celebrates love songs gone wrong. Music writers and listeners give their picks for romantic music … that also happens to be creepy, sleazy or unintentionally funny. Plus: Supercollectors continues with bandleader Vince Giordano's massive sheet music collection. And: We want to hear about what you collect - and why.

  • 03:00 PM
  • RelationShow

    RelationShow tackles the wild, wonderful landscape of modern relationships with surprising, hard-won, and often funny insights gleaned from today’s most provocative thinkers.

  • 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
    Specials
  • The Harlem Renaissance: Music, Religion, and the Politics of Race
    Tuesday, February 14th at 8PM on 93.9 FM, AM 820, and NJPR; Sunday, February 19th at 9PM on AM 820 During the vibrant years of the Harlem Renaissance, music, religion, and spiritual...
  • 09:00 PM
  • RelationShow

    RelationShow tackles the wild, wonderful landscape of modern relationships with surprising, hard-won, and often funny insights gleaned from today’s most provocative thinkers.

  • 10:00 PM
  • Super Collections; Creepy Love Songs

    To heck with candy and roses. For Valentine's Day, Soundcheck celebrates love songs gone wrong. Music writers and listeners give their picks for romantic music … that also happens to be creepy, sleazy or unintentionally funny. Plus: Supercollectors continues with bandleader Vince Giordano's massive sheet music collection. And: We want to hear about what you collect - and why.

  • 11:00 PM
  • #3131: Sufi Crossovers

    For this New Sounds, listen to music that combines Sufi traditions with Western sounds.  We’ll hear Sufi singers Abdul Ghani, Ajah Maideen and Saburmaideen Babha Sabeer from the Nagore Dargah -a sufi shrine- in a town of the same name in South India where a church, this shrine, and a Hindu temple are all next to each other.  They are part of a musical collaboration featuring Sufi, Indian, Middle Eastern and Western elements called the Nagore Sessions.