Brian Laird on WNYC, and a quick reminder after our conversation with Christina

Greer that was partly at the beginning based in the Democratic Convention of 1924, that today is WNYC's 100th birthday,

and we will have a special 100 birthday program tonight beginning at 7.

I'll be hosting kind of a pregame show from 7 until a little before 9 with lots of audio tape from the hundred-year history of

WNYC in our archives. And then we're going to have a live reenactment from the green space

that's also going to air on the radio of the first moments of WNYC's history.

Brooke Gladstone is going to be playing the mayor of New York from the time, John Hyland.

John Schaefer is going to be playing a role.

The actor, Sarah Jones, is going to be playing a role.

LaFontaine Oliver, our president, is going to be playing a role.

And so that ought to be too much fun.

It all starts tonight at 7 here on the station. Now we

turn to elections over the last few days in other countries where parties that long held political

power are now taking a back seat, but the trend seemed to be, and this was a surprise to a lot of

people, more toward the left than toward the right. France and Britain

held major elections that many saw as referenda to long-term ruling parties or on long-term

ruling parties in both countries, but very much in left-right terms with the far right

supposedly rising, but not so much as it turned out. The U.K. general election held last

Thursday, the 4th of July. How dare they hold an election on the day that we declared our

independence from them? But they ousted Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, head of the Conservative Party.

That party had been leading the government for 14 years. His Labor

Party opponent, Kier Starrmer, will now be Prime Minister. And in France, you've no doubt heard

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