Daily Schedule

Eric Bogosian fills in for Leonard Lopate. On today’s show: Tracie McMillan discusses what she learned about the American food system by going undercover on a farm, at a Wal-Mart, and a Brooklyn Applebee’s. Writer and editor Craig Taylor discusses his book about life in London. A History of the World in 100 Objects looks at a stone head of the Roman Emperor Augustus. Ruben Santiago-Hudson talks about directing and starring in a new radio play production of Zora Neale Hurston’s “Their Eyes Were Watching God” in WNYC’s Jerome L. Greene Performance Space. And Maggie Anderson talks about the challenges faced by black-owned business.

Eric Bogosian fills in for Leonard Lopate. On today’s show: Tracie McMillan discusses what she learned about the American food system by going undercover on a farm, at a Wal-Mart, and a Brooklyn Applebee’s. Writer and editor Craig Taylor discusses his book about life in London. A History of the World in 100 Objects looks at a stone head of the Roman Emperor Augustus. Ruben Santiago-Hudson talks about directing and starring in a new radio play production of Zora Neale Hurston’s “Their Eyes Were Watching God” in WNYC’s Jerome L. Greene Performance Space. And Maggie Anderson talks about the challenges faced by black-owned business.

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Chief Washington correspondent for the New York Times and WNYC contributor, David Sanger, describes what he sees as the Obama Doctrine—and where the complicated situations in Syria, I...

Throughout this week Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum, explores the ways in which people sought pleasure around the world 2,000 years ago: from pipe smoking to sex.

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Singer-songwriter Lana Del Rey made internet headlines for her sudden rise to fame – and a notorious performance on Saturday Night Live. Today, in our Smackdown: critics debate the image-conscious sensation. Plus: live music from the New York electronic-pop band Tiny Victories. And, our weekly Pick Three.

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, hear choral music from a new recording of a score by Canadian composer Matthew Patton for the film “Tales From Gimli Hospital,” a film by Guy Maddin.  Patton has worked with world-class choreographers (the likes of Paul Taylor for a production called "Speaking in Tongues"), collaborated with with Icelandic musicians (members of múm and amiina) for a 2011 cinema-musical event of the film, and worked with filmmaker Guy Maddin on multiple occasions and in multiple projects.