Daily Schedule

Akash Kapur describes moving back to India in 2003 and witnessing the country’s great change. We’ll find out about the small group of men and women who built one of the first computers, completing Alan Turing’s vision of a Universal Machine. Today's installment of A History of the World in 100 Objects continues with a look at a Moche warrior pot, used to guard the grave of a wealthy member of the South American society. Plus our latest Underreported segments.

 

Akash Kapur describes moving back to India in 2003 and witnessing the country’s great change. We’ll find out about the small group of men and women who built one of the first computers, completing Alan Turing’s vision of a Universal Machine. Today's installment of A History of the World in 100 Objects continues with a look at a Moche warrior pot, used to guard the grave of a wealthy member of the South American society. Plus our latest Underreported segments.

 

Your morning companion from NPR and the WNYC Newsroom, with world news, local features, and weather updates.

New York Times Op-Ed columnist and WNYC contributor Joe Nocera has a plan to fix college sports. Hear about his NCAA reform proposals, plus he’ll weigh in on the debate over the cultu...

Five objects from the British Museum tell the story of the movement of goods and ideas, along the Silk Road out of China, to Korea and even as far as East Anglia.

Read more about the Korean Roof Tile.

Best known for her role on the TV series “Law & Order,” S. Epatha Merkerson joins guest host Christian McBride to talk about her documentary, “The Contradictions of Fair Hope.” It chronicles the evolution of an African-American benevolent society that was founded to support newly freed slaves after the Civil War. Plus, a live performance from jazz singer Gregory Porter.

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.

Hear some rock and/or classical hybrid ensembles on this edition of New Sounds.  There's relatively older music from the 1980's by Mikel Rouse, and some from Bang on a Can folks along with brand new music from Bing & Ruth (David Moore) and Newspeak.  That, and more.