Remembering 9-11: special broadcast schedule
This American Life checks in with people whose lives were significantly touched by the attacks, including Lynn Simpson, who escaped the Twin Towers; Hyder Akbar, an Afghan-American teen whose father, a dry cleaner in the Bay Area, was tapped by Hamid Karzai to return to Afghanistan following the American invasion and become governor of the Kunar region; and an American soldier who came home from Iraq and Afghanistan with severe PTSD, who now believes he’s won the battle with his demons. Sunday, 11 am
Studio 360 talks to artists whose work responds to the attack and its aftermath. Steve Reich describes how he came to write his new musical triptych WTC 9-11. Maira Kalman talks about the challenges of writing a children’s book about 9/11. Mohsin Hamid explains how the attacks forced him to entirely rewrite his novel, The Reluctant Fundamentalist. A roundtable of New York comedians describe what it was like to try to make audiences laugh in the days and weeks afterward. And a visit to the national 9/11 memorial at Ground Zero, opening this weekend, with its architect and designer, Michael Arad. Sunday, noon
We Remember: StoryCorps Stories from 9/11. Hosted by NPR’s Audie Cornish, in partnership with StoryCorps and the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, an intimate look at lives forever changed by the attacks on 9/11. Sunday, 1 pm
National Call-in Program from NPR. analysis and perspectives on how 9-11 changed us personally, changed our nation, and changed the world. Neal Conan hosts, Sunday 2-5 pm.
We Were On Duty. A first-person oral history of the September 11th attack on the Pentagon. Because the Pentagon attack was dwarfed by the tragedy at the World Trade Center, many do not know the stories of those who perished and those who survived. Voted Best Radio Documentary by The Society of Professional Journalists. Sunday, 6 pm
The Sonic Memorial Project commemorates the life and history of the World Trade Center and the people who passed through its doors. A collaboration between The Kitchen Sisters, NPR, independent producers, and stations and listeners nationwide, the project was created with audio artifacts, rare recordings, and the input of thousands of people who called in with their personal stories. New York writer Paul Auster hosts. Sunday, 7 pm
A Concert for Hope, a 9/11 Anniversary Event, live from the Kennedy Center in Washington. Performances by Patti Labelle, Alan Jackson and Denyce Graves. President Obama will speak. Sunday, 8 pm
Monday morning during The 8 O’clock Hour, a special documentary, The Road from 9/11, tracing the lives and the ten-year journey of the Olsen family, on the front lines in New York City and Baghdad and on the home front in Saranac Lake. Monday 8:30 am
