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America's oldest Bach choir performs Cantatas Nos. 4, 5 and 6 on this Christmas Day broadcast at 8 pm.

This program is a collection of stage, film , and television musical songs about going back and being in school.

Nilsson sings excerpts from Aida and Tristan and Isolde.

This performance from February features works in transcription by Beethoven, Chopin, and Smetana. Listen Monday (4/7) at 8 pm.

Miranda July's new novel The First Bad Man defies neat summaries; reviewer Annalisa Quinn calls July "a master of the intimate weirdnesses of human thought," who treats dusty mental corners with care.

This program is a survey of songs from musicals that opened in New York in March spanning 118 years from 1902 to 2020.

Tim Carney, the last American ambassador to Sudan before the United States downgraded relations in 1997, wants to promote a broader view of the country through a new collection of photographs. NPR foreign correspondent Michele Kelemen reviews Carney's book, Sudan: The Land and the People.

Jane Smiley, Carl Hiaasen, James Lee Burke and Alan Furst all return with novels in which the characters gradually awaken to the toxicity of their choices, while in nonfiction, Sonia Shah looks at how malaria has ruled humankind for 500,000 years.

The latest installment of the Hogarth Shakespeare series sees crime novelist Nesbo taking on the Scottish Play in an adaptation that comes alive the farther he strays from Shakespeare's original.

Like a hidden NINA, there are great moments in Ellen Stern's hefty new biography of cartoonist Al Hirschfeld — but they're obscured by her off-puttingly glib tone and perpetual present tense.