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  • 12:00 AM
  • Contrarians and Cake!

    Christopher Hitchens. 17 year old scientists. Bonobos. Cake baking.

  • 02:00 AM
  • BBC World Service delivers breaking news and information programming around the world, in English and 28 other language services, on radio, TV and digital.

  • 06:00 AM
    Special Programming
     
     
  • 07:00 AM
  • June 4, 2010
    The Coast Guard, BP, and media access to the Gulf oil spill; Al Qaeda's #3 man killed! (again); a illustrated book tells the gruesome story of the US-Mexico border drug war
  • 08:00 AM
    Special Programming
     
     
  • 10:00 AM
  • For years, America’s funniest auto mechanics, Click and Clack, have offered insights on that weird sound your Volkswagen makes.

  • 11:00 AM
  • The NPR news quiz where the panelists are funny, the limericks are lyrical and you get to shout answers at your radio. Hosted by Peter Sagal.

  • 12:00 PM
    Special Programming
     
     
  • 04:00 PM
  • Bee, Sing Sing, Foreclosed

    This week, Kurt Andersen talks with "Daily Show" correspondent Samantha Bee about her new memoir I Know I Am, But What Are You. An artist pieces together striking images of foreclosed homes vandalized by their owners. And a group of prisoners at the Sing Sing Correctional Facility temporarily trade their cells for the theater stage.

  • 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
  • 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.

  • 08:00 PM
    Special Programming
     
     
  • 09:00 PM
    Weekend Specials - The Moth - Radio Hour
  • Richard Price
    The Moth Radio Hour

    A prisoner in a small town lock-up gets sprung on a promise; a man desperate for a cure for depression travels to Africa to try a tribal remedy; and novelist/screenwriter Richard Price ("Clockers," "Lush Life," "The Wire") gets a lesson in interrogation in the back of a NYC cop car.

  • 10:00 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.

     

  • 11:00 PM
  • #2806: Balmy Fingerstyle Guitar

    All the way from South Africa, guitarist and composer Guy Buttery makes a special appearance in the WNYC studio for this New Sounds.