Billy Joel -- When you put two creative, well-known personalities together in conversation, it's hard to stop listening. WNYC and PRX announce the debut of "Here's the Thing with Alec Baldwin." In five programs, Alec Baldwin gives listeners unique entree into the lives of artists, policymakers and performers. Baldwin sidesteps the predictable by taking listeners inside the dressing rooms, apartments and offices of some of the leading creative personalities of our time. In this first episode, Alec sits down with Billy Joel at a piano as Joel details the decisions -- musical and personal -- that helped shape his music and his career.

Should Drugs Be Legalized? -- It was 1971 when President Richard Nixon declared a "war on drugs" - and $2.5 trillion later, drug use is half of what it was 30 years ago. Yet, 22 million Americans still use illegal drugs. Now, with the highest incarceration rate in the world, is it time to legalize drugs or is this a war that we're winning? The Oxford-style debate program takes up whether drugs should be legalized.

Should Drugs Be Legalized? -- It was 1971 when President Richard Nixon declared a "war on drugs" - and $2.5 trillion later, drug use is half of what it was 30 years ago. Yet, 22 million Americans still use illegal drugs. Now, with the highest incarceration rate in the world, is it time to legalize drugs or is this a war that we're winning? The Oxford-style debate program takes up whether drugs should be legalized.

Youth in the Arab World, After the Revolution -- Arabs under 30 drove the region's revolutions. They have emerged as prominent social and political actors. But now that Libya, Egypt and Tunisia have new governments, what has changed? And are young Arabs satisfied with those changes? The program hears from university students in Egypt, young Syrian refugees in Lebanon and an anti-violence activist in Tunisia about how young people in each of those countries are faring.

Youth in the Arab World, After the Revolution -- Arabs under 30 drove the region's revolutions. They have emerged as prominent social and political actors. But now that Libya, Egypt and Tunisia have new governments, what has changed? And are young Arabs satisfied with those changes? The program hears from university students in Egypt, young Syrian refugees in Lebanon and an anti-violence activist in Tunisia about how young people in each of those countries are faring.