The New Yorker’s John Seabrook tells us how hit pop songs are made. Abel Ferrara and Willem Dafoe discuss their new film “4:44 Last Day on Earth” and other projects. A History of the World in 100 Objects explores the silk road through a 7th-century Chinese painting. Dr. Ira Byock looks at ways to reform end-of-life care. Plus, James Kunen tells us about going through the process of losing a corporate PR job and, as a result, finding a life.
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 Silk Princess Painting.
The New Yorker’s John Seabrook tells us how hit pop songs are made. Abel Ferrara and Willem Dafoe discuss their new film “4:44 Last Day on Earth” and other projects. A History of the World in 100 Objects explores the silk road through a 7th-century Chinese painting. Dr. Ira Byock looks at ways to reform end-of-life care. Plus, James Kunen tells us about going through the process of losing a corporate PR job and, as a result, finding a life.
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Journalist Ahmed Rashid discusses the possibilities and the hazards of American disengagement with Afghanistan and Pakistan. Writer-director Kenneth Lonergan and actress J. Smith-Cameron tell us about their latest film, “Margaret.” Today’s installment of A History of World in 100 Objects takes a look at a lintel from the doorway of a Mayan temple. The young Russian author Alisa Ganieva talks about her award-winning story Salam, Dalgat, which she wrote under a male pseudonym. Plus, we’ll take a look at the Freedom Riders campaign in the south during the 1960s, with activist Dr. Bernard LaFayette Jr. and former civil rights lawyer Gerald Stern.
From the inside of a harem to inside a Chinese grave, five objects shed light on the lives of the ruling elites 1200 years ago.
Read more about the Maya Relief of Royal Blood-Letting.
Journalist Ahmed Rashid discusses the possibilities and the hazards of American disengagement with Afghanistan and Pakistan. Writer-director Kenneth Lonergan and actress J. Smith-Cameron tell us about their latest film, “Margaret.” Today’s installment of A History of World in 100 Objects takes a look at a lintel from the doorway of a Mayan temple. The young Russian author Alisa Ganieva talks about her award-winning story Salam, Dalgat, which she wrote under a male pseudonym. Plus, we’ll take a look at the Freedom Riders campaign in the south during the 1960s, with activist Dr. Bernard LaFayette Jr. and former civil rights lawyer Gerald Stern.
The accordion is the Rodney Dangerfield of musical instruments – it gets no respect. Today: the rise… fall…and scrappy comeback of the squeezebox. Plus: Daniel Rossen of the band Grizzly Bear plays songs from his debut solo EP.
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Marketplace is not only about money and business, but about people, local economies and the world — and what it all means to us.
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 hybrid of a talk program and a newsmagazine, On Point puts each day's news into context and provides a lively forum for discussion and debate.
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.
The accordion is the Rodney Dangerfield of musical instruments – it gets no respect. Today: the rise… fall…and scrappy comeback of the squeezebox. Plus: Daniel Rossen of the band Grizzly Bear plays songs from his debut solo EP.
For this New Sounds, listen to a really impressive roundup of world music. There’s music from a group of Sufi singers, the Bedouin Jerry Can Band, who play abandoned fuel containers and ammunition boxes left behind by the Israeli army. Also, hear music from Brazil by Renata Rosa, in a style that translates as “sea horse,” a fading tradition of street theatre that has to do with Christmas and the three wise men. It’s from a compilation released by the BBC’s “World Routes” program, "On the Road."
