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  • 12:00 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
    Special Programming
     
     
  • 05:30 AM
  • Provocative, up-to-the-minute, alive and witty, KCRW's weekly confrontation over politics, policy and popular culture proves those with impeccable credentials needn't lack personality.

  • 06:00 AM
  • Maria Hinojosa guides our cross-cultural understanding of politics, social ideas and personal stories, told through the lens of the nation’s growing and increasingly diverse community of Latinos. 

  • 07:00 AM
  • Hearing Voices from NPR® is a weekly series of The Best of Public Radio: a sixty-minute stream of “driveway moments” all connected by a weekly theme. We listen to broadcasts and podcasts; we dig through audio archives; and we scour the web to find the best stories, sound-portraits, slam poets, docs, radio dramas, features, and found-sound.

  • 08:00 AM
  • Interviews with top newsmakers in politics, science, and the arts, and Will Shortz brings you the beloved Weekend Puzzle.

  • 11:00 AM
  • Acclaimed musician and songwriter Chris Thile welcomes a wide range of well-known and up-and-coming talent to share the stage and create a beautiful listening experience on his variety show, Live from Here.

  • 01:00 PM
  • Classic and contemporary short fiction read by some of the most iconic voices in today’s world of film, theater and comedy. Recorded live at Symphony Space in New York City.

     

  • 02:00 PM
  • Willem Dafoe & Homemade Hunger Games

    Kurt Andersen talks with Willem Dafoe — the shapeshifting actor is starring in three movies in theaters now. We’ll hear from fans of The Hunger Games who made their own film versions of the books long before Hollywood. And we’ll turn trash into treasure with the help of talented writers: ...

  • 03:00 PM
    Special Programming
     
     
  • 04:00 PM
  • Have fun discovering the hidden side of everything.

  • 05:00 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.

  • 06:00 PM
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  • 07:00 PM
    The News Quiz USA
  • Lewis Black
    The News Quiz USA

    The BBC hit topical comedy show from the UK, ‘The News Quiz’, is coming Stateside. Host Lewis Black challenges comedian panelists Andy Borowitz, Kathleen Madigan and Ted Alexandro to dissect the week’s news, from Primary fever to the next outbreak of Linsanity.

  • 07:30 PM
    Left, Right & Center
  • Left, Right & Center

    Provocative, up-to-the-minute, alive and witty, KCRW's weekly confrontation over politics, policy and popular culture proves those with impeccable credentials needn't lack personality.

  • 08:00 PM
    Specials
  • The Mind of the Innovator

    We’re told almost daily that we need innovation; that it drives prosperity and economic growth and is the engine of job creation.  We hear about these innovations all the time.  But do we ever stop and wonder where the innovation comes from?  What fosters it?  How we keep it flowing?  ...

  • 09:00 PM
  • Featuring first-person stories from around the world about how we treat each other. The State We're In is a weekly radio program from Radio Netherlands Worldwide.

  • 10:00 PM
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  • 11:00 PM
  • A long time favorite with public radio audiences, Joe Frank's programs are sometimes dark, sometimes absurdist, sometimes solo recitations, sometimes ensemble pieces performed and/or improvised by actors, sometimes voices of real people heard in real situations, whether man-in-the-street interviews or phone conversations with lovers or strangers.

    Visit Joe Frank's website