Daily Schedule

David Brock and Ari Rabin-Havt from the liberal media organization Media Matters describe how Fox News has changed under the leadership of its president Roger Ailes. The BBC series A History of the World in 100 Objects looks at a stone version of a belt worn by players of a Mesoamerican ballgame that was most likely used in rituals. On Backstory Jeremy Scahill, National Security Reporter for the Nation, talks about his recent trip to Yemen and why American counterterrorism policy there is increasingly unpopular.  

 

David Brock and Ari Rabin-Havt from the liberal media organization Media Matters describe how Fox News has changed under the leadership of its president Roger Ailes. The BBC series A History of the World in 100 Objects looks at a stone version of a belt worn by players of a Mesoamerican ballgame that was most likely used in rituals. On Backstory Jeremy Scahill, National Security Reporter for the Nation, talks about his recent trip to Yemen and why American counterterrorism policy there is increasingly unpopular.  

 

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Two principals from new schools discuss their mission as the second round of the public high school acceptance process gets underway. Then, John Horgan returns for another conversatio...

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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As news of violence continues to pour out of Syria, we examine the role of music in the country’s ongoing uprising. We talk with Malek Jandali, a composer and musician of Syrian descent, and New York Times UN bureau chief Neil MacFarquhar. Plus, a live performance from Grammy-winning string band the Carolina Chocolate Drops.

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 listen to works that play with sound and music, at the intersection where one leaves off and the other begins.  Hear the latest from Brian Eno, in collaboration with like-minded musicians Jon Hopkins and Leo Abraham, called “Small Craft on a Milk Sea.”