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An Adams Ally Gave a Reporter a Wad of Cash
The Brian Lehrer Show
Katie Honan talks about her recent involvement in a story involving a wad of cash handed to her in an empty bag of potato chips by an ally of Mayor Adams.
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Legionnaires’ outbreak revives questions about Mayor Adams’ response to a crisis
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Cuomo Predicts Trump Will Help Him Become NYC Mayor
Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast
In a leaked recording, NYC mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo suggests that Trump will urge his supporters to vote for him, rather, rather than GOP candidate Curtis Sliwa.On Today's Show:...
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Crown Heights is recovering from a mass shooting in the neighborhood earlier this week
Police continue to investigate the mass shooting at a hookah lounge in Crown Heights over the weekend that killed three men and injured 11 other people.Camara Jackson, the executive d... -
It’s 2025, but a quarter of Bronx families don’t have broadband internet at home
Al Christian says he doesn’t have internet at his Bronx home because he can’t afford the utility bill. That makes it hard to look for work since most applications and job listings are... -
A New Jersey town planned a dozen new affordable homes. They may never be built.
New Jersey state Sen. Owen Henry is angry.Before he was elected to the Legislature last year, he’d negotiated as the mayor of Old Bridge to build 12 new affordably priced homes — many... -
Spike Lee and Denzel Washington on “Highest 2 Lowest.” Plus Mohammed Mhawish on Escaping Death in Gaza
The New Yorker Radio Hour
The director and the actor discuss their latest collaboration, nineteen years after their last one. Plus, a Palestinian reporter’s account of being targeted in an Israeli air strike. -
In Season: Eggplants
With summer comes a seasonal variety of fruits and vegetables that are at peak freshness and priced at a better value than what you can find at your local supermarket. Local farmers s...
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Soap gets laundry done. Conversation gets democracy going. This election year, WNYC is turning some laundromats in the New York metro area into hubs of civic dialogue. -
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One of the Country's Earliest African-American Radio Programs on WNYC 1929-1930
The NAACP scores a regular Wednesday slot for talks on a broad spectrum of issues. -
Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Lilian Supove Blake
When most women in Radio were doing home-ec shows, she was WNYC's News and Special Events Director. -
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As part of WNYC's centennial celebration, each week we'll share key moments from the from the vast WNYC and NYC Municipal archives.
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New Doc About Pee-wee Herman Actor Paul Ruebens
All Of It
[REBROADCAST FROM May 22, 2025] The new two part documentary "Pee-wee As Himself" features some of the final interviews with comedian Paul Ruebens before his death in 2023. The docume... -
Dr. Orna Guralnik On 'Couples Therapy'
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[REBROADCAST FROM May 27. 2025] Relationships can create the need for difficult conversations about the different ways that two (or more) partners are aligned (or not). Dr. Orna Gural... -
Bronx High School Big Band Swings By The Studio
All Of It
[REBROADCAST FROM May 2, 2025] This year marks the thirtieth annual Jazz at Lincoln Center Essentially Ellington festival, where high school big bands from around the country are sele... -
Cynthia Nixon In The Gilded Age, And Just Like That
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Actor and former NY gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon discusses her roles in the most recent seasons of "The Gilded Age," and Sex and the City reboot, "And Just Like That," plus s... -
Fun With Words
The Brian Lehrer Show
Martha Barnette, co-host of A Way with Words and author of Friends with Words (2025), shares fun origins of words like "spam" and "cocktail."
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On The Media: Tuning Into the Divided Dial
Join us on June 11th at 7 PM for a conversation between OTM host Micah Loewinger and journalist Katie Thornton as they discuss their Peabody-winning series, new season of “The Divided Dial.” The first season, released in late 2022, examined how the right came to dominate talk radio in the US — and how one company was launching an ultra-conservative media empire from the airwaves. The second season, released May 2025, explores the world of shortwave radio: the lesser-known cousin of AM and FM radio that travels thousands of miles across rough terrain and geopolitical borders. This once-ubiquitous medium went from a utopian experiment in global communication to a propaganda tool for governments at war — and then became a vehicle for American right-wing extremists and cults. Katie visits a very strange station in Northern Maine. And explains what a little-known battle playing out on the shortwaves right now — between radio fanatics and Wall Street — can tell us about how we value our public airwaves.
Micah goes behind the scenes with Katie — to hear about her reporting process, how she found these stories and audio recordings (some of which had never been digitized), and the talk radio and shortwave gems that were left on the cutting room floor.
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Current threats to public media and what you can do about it
As threats to funding for public media have been in the news, many of you- our audiences, supporters, and community partners—have been asking how to stay informed and support public media
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