Life
The Leonard Lopate Show
Matthew VanDyke Went From Behind the Camera To the Front Lines in Libya
Thursday, October 30, 2014
Point and Shoot” chronicles VanDyke’s journey, on motorcycle, across the Middle East, joining Libyan rebels, and being captured and sent to a Libyan prison.
New York Philharmonic This Week
Songs and Fairy Tales
Thursday, October 30, 2014
Alan Gilbert conducts the New York Philharmonic in orchestrations of Schubert songs by Britten, Reger and Webern, performed by mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter.
The Piano in France
Maurice Ravel, Parisian Night Owl
Thursday, October 30, 2014
This week on The Piano in France, host David Dubal shares Maurice Ravel’s secret to composing piano music: innovation and observation.
World of Opera
The Barber of Seville From the Rossini Opera Festival
Thursday, October 30, 2014
On World of Opera host Lisa Simeone presents Rossini's "The Barber of Seville" from the 2014 Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, the composer's hometown in Italy.
The Leonard Lopate Show
Eimear McBride Spent Nine Years Trying to Get Her Award-Winning Novel Published
Thursday, October 30, 2014
It tells the story of a young woman's relationship with her brother, and the long shadow cast by his childhood brain tumor.
Features
Bodega Cats In Their Own Words: Gus of Corona, Queens
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
Life is an adventure when you're only six inches tall. Meet Gus, the bodega cat king of Corona.
WNYC News
The World Series of Book Sorting
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
WNYC
When it comes to library books, NYC's 's bitter rival is Washington State's King County Library System. We've got a front row seat in this year's competition.
The Takeaway
High School Sports & The Pressure to Please
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
The dream of a successful career in high school athletics is often the mixed dreams of an innocent child eager to please a parent who never made it to the pros.
The Leonard Lopate Show
The Secret History of the Man who Created Wonder Woman
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
Wonder Woman's creator, William Moulton Marston, was influenced by suffragists, feminists, and centerfold pin-ups.
Studio 360
Doodle Dare: Superheroes Among Us
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
For Studio 360's Doodle Dare, Alison Bechdel started an image — you must finish it. And several artists have turned her girl in distress into a dragon-wrestling, high-flying superhero.
The Longest Shortest Time
Peeping Mom
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
Most people get through postpartum depression with therapy. But for writer Megan Stielstra, the answer was spying on her neighbor.
The Leonard Lopate Show
Making Waves: Hurricane Sandy Two Years Later, the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, and Wonder Woman
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
Adam Sobel on Hurricane Sandy, Margaret Brown on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and Jill Lepore on Wonder Woman.
The Leonard Lopate Show
The Human Impact of the Worst Offshore Oil Spill in American History
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
For four years, Margaret Brown traveled through small towns and major cities across the Gulf of Mexico, documenting the impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in on local citizens.
Radiolab
Your Future Memories Are At Stake
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
In the Digital Age, we're snapping more photos than ever before -- but are they actually causing us to forget?
WNYC News
Landmarks Commission Saves East Village Synagogue
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
WNYC
It only took nearly 50 years to do so.
The Takeaway
The Innovative and Creative Power of ADHD
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
A University of Pennsylvania psychologist argues that we should consider people with ADHD to be highly imaginative people rather than people with a learning disability.
The Takeaway
Ohio May Close Cincinnati's Last Abortion Clinic
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
If the Elizabeth Campbell Surgical Center is shut down, Cincinnati will be the nation's largest metropolitan area without an abortion provider.
The Takeaway
Walter Isaacson on The History of the Future
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
Here, author Walter Isaacson argues that big tech breakthroughs aren’t the work of solitary geniuses, but the result of collective cultural processes.
Studio 360
Why Richard Nixon Declared October Country Music Month
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
In 1969, President Richard Milhous Nixon heard Merle Haggard's hit "Okie From Muskogee," and the first line—"We don't smoke marijuana in Muskogee"—gives a hint to why Nixon liked it.
