More than two-thirds of the new airports under construction today are being built in China. James Fallows talks about China’s pursuit of aerospace supremacy. Today’s installment of the BBC’s A History of the World in 100 Objects is about a Russian plate depicting a worker trampling the word “Kapital.” New Yorker art editor Françoise Mouly talks about her book Blown Covers: New Yorker Covers You Were Never Meant to See.
Neil MacGregor concludes the series with five objects from the C20th and C21st whose stories explore different aspects of our world from plastics to propaganda, sexual revolutions to war.
Read more about the Russian Revolutionary Plate.
More than two-thirds of the new airports under construction today are being built in China. James Fallows talks about China’s pursuit of aerospace supremacy. Today’s installment of the BBC’s A History of the World in 100 Objects is about a Russian plate depicting a worker trampling the word “Kapital.” New Yorker art editor Françoise Mouly talks about her book Blown Covers: New Yorker Covers You Were Never Meant to See.
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David Westin talks about his tenure as president of ABC News, during some of the most tumultuous years in recent history. Today’s installment of the BBC’s A History of the World in 100 Objects is about a 1966 etching by David Hockney, from a series illustrating 14 poems by the Greek poet C. P. Cavafy. And Peter Kaminsky and Marion Nestle explain how to have healthy eating habits without sacrificing the flavor, fun, and pleasure of food.
Neil MacGregor concludes the series with five objects from the C20th and C21st whose stories explore different aspects of our world from plastics to propaganda, sexual revolutions to war.
Read more about the Hockney's 'In the Dull Village.'
David Westin talks about his tenure as president of ABC News, during some of the most tumultuous years in recent history. Today’s installment of the BBC’s A History of the World in 100 Objects is about a 1966 etching by David Hockney, from a series illustrating 14 poems by the Greek poet C. P. Cavafy. And Peter Kaminsky and Marion Nestle explain how to have healthy eating habits without sacrificing the flavor, fun, and pleasure of food.
Has food become the new rebel rock? Following last weekend's Great GoogaMooga food and music festival in Brooklyn, we host a Soundcheck Smackdown debate about the growing influence of foodie culture in music. Plus: New York City rapper Jean Grae previews her forthcoming album, Cake or Death, with a live in studio performance.
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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.
Has food become the new rebel rock? Following last weekend's Great GoogaMooga food and music festival in Brooklyn, we host a Soundcheck Smackdown debate about the growing influence of foodie culture in music. Plus: New York City rapper Jean Grae previews her forthcoming album, Cake or Death, with a live in studio performance.
New music made on old instruments, and older music in positively modern settings is what’s in store for this New Sounds program. Listen to a record from the early music vocal group Orlando Consort in collaboration with jazz rock band Perfect Houseplants, called “Extempore” – literally “out of time.” There’s also a folk setting involving banjo of a 14th Century tune by Guillaume de Machaut, and music by abbess, composer, and recently sainted Hildegard von Bingen in a decidedly modern arrangement from violist (and viola d’amore wielder) Garth Knox.
