Vanity Fair reporter Bryan Burrough profiles financial titan Steve Cohen. Then, Lydia Davis talks about her latest collection of stories. Plus, film historian Ben Model and W.C. Fields' granddaughter discuss the comic’s life. Bruce Beehler explains leading an expedition that discovered new species of animals in New Guinea. And Washington Post reporters talk about an unthinkable experiment: going without the Internet for a week!
BBC World Service delivers breaking news and information programming around the world, in English and 28 other language services, on radio, TV and digital.
Your morning companion from NPR and the WNYC Newsroom, with world news, local features, and weather updates.
BBC World Service delivers breaking news and information programming around the world, in English and 28 other language services, on radio, TV and digital.
Barry C. Lynn explains why he thinks some of the world’s largest corporations should actually be considered modern-day monopolies. Also, Joan Rivers and filmmaker Ricki Stern discuss spending a year together, shooting a warts-and-all documentary. Then, find out how technicians turn materials at crime scenes into evidence in court. Plus, our Gurus of How-To, Al and Larry Ubell, take your calls on home repair!
Robert Johnson's “The Complete Recordings" is one of the most popular blues collections ever released, and is unquestionably the biggest-selling album ever by a pre-World War II bluesman. But new evidence shows we’ve been listening to his music at the wrong speed.
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.
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.
Robert Johnson's “The Complete Recordings" is one of the most popular blues collections ever released, and is unquestionably the biggest-selling album ever by a pre-World War II bluesman. But new evidence shows we’ve been listening to his music at the wrong speed.
There are works for orchestra, works for the dance, and works with electronics on this New Sounds show, including selections from Joseph C. Phillips Jr. ’s work, "Vipassana," which, in the Pali language of early Buddhist texts, means "insight."
