Daily Schedule

On today’s show: We’ll get a comprehensive history of the war on cancer and look at how far today’s treatments have come toward cures. Dame Daphne Sheldrick tells about her efforts to conserve wildlife in Africa, which include raising orphaned elephants. The BBC’s A History of the World in 100 Objects is about an Akran drum, one of the oldest surviving African American artifacts. And legal historian and human rights lawyer Sadakat Kadri debunks some of the widespread misconceptions about Sharia law.

On today’s show: We’ll get a comprehensive history of the war on cancer and look at how far today’s treatments have come toward cures. Dame Daphne Sheldrick tells about her efforts to conserve wildlife in Africa, which include raising orphaned elephants. The BBC’s A History of the World in 100 Objects is about an Akran drum, one of the oldest surviving African American artifacts. And legal historian and human rights lawyer Sadakat Kadri debunks some of the widespread misconceptions about Sharia law.

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It’s a Free Country reporter, Anna Sale, talks about how races around the country seek funding in New York. Plus: the debate continues over fracking upstate with actor Alec Baldwin an...

Neil MacGregor goes back to the 18th century to look at the Age of the European Enlightenment, through five objects from different cultures around the world.

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Musician M. Ward has become quite the collaborator, as part of the supergroup Monsters of Folk and one half of the duo She & Him. Today: M. Ward shows off his solo side, with a performance of songs from his new album, “A Wasteland Companion.” Plus: Aaron Freeman, aka "Gene Ween," talks about his solo debut - based on the work of best-selling poet and balladeer Rod McKuen. And: We turn to the "Copy Cat" for a look at recent copyright capers.

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 have at least a double-helping of guitar music, featuring some solo works by Marc Ribot intended as music for films: some are adaptations of music he has actually written for films, others for classic silent movies that he scored for his personal amusement, still others for films of his own imagination.  These haunting and wistful pieces explore, as Ribot says, "the strange area between language and spatiality that exists partly in between music and visual image, and partly as a common property of both."