APM Weekly March 18 – 22, 2024

News

BBC World Service

New generic promos for the BBC World Service are up on ContentDepot now. You can find them in the promotional materials tab here.

Marketplace

Marketplace (PM)

  • Breaking Ground Series – March 18 – 20: We’ve reported on the challenge of finding homeowner’s insurance in risky markets like Florida and California, but it’s getting harder for homeowners to find affordable insurance even in less risky places. According to the insurance agency Matic, premiums for new policies rose 8.6% last year, on average, and 24% for renewals. Deductibles are climbing, too. And the number of available policies dropped by half. Meanwhile insurers are making record profits. Marketplace’s Amy Scott looks at why this is happening and how it’s affecting the housing market — making it even harder for people to buy homes and causing some deals to fall through.
  • Kai talks with Emily Badger, reporter for the NYT, about the piece she co-authored on New York City’s trash problem.

Marketplace Morning Report

  • March 15: We look at the alarming decline of federal workers in the nation’s capital. Data from the BLS shows that for more than 20 years, while the number of federal employees nationwide has been growing, it’s been shrinking in DC. Pegged to the release of the latest metro-area BLS employment figures, Marketplace’s Nancy Marshall Genzer reports on what’s going on – and how it’s affecting the economy of the city.

Marketplace Tech

Tuesday March 19: Marketplace’s Lily Jamali speaks with Elizabeth Lopatto at The Verge about how Redditors feel about the expected Reddit IPO.

Wednesday March 20: For the next installment of our series “Decoding Democracy,” Lily Jamali and Marketplace’s Kimberly Adams discuss how visual deepfakes can mislead voters, how people can best spot them and protect themselves from being mislead by them.

On Point

  • Monday, March 18: Duke University recently announced plans to close its century-old herbarium. With a looming biodiversity crisis and climate change, botanists say it’s dangerous to shut down a facility that’s home to more than a million plant specimens.
  • Tuesday, March 19: A growing number of U.S. states are considering using ranked choice voting in elections. Some say the method, where you rank your preferred candidates rather than selecting just one, will fix American democracy. We look at what’s driving the push for ranked choice voting.
  • Wednesday, March 20: Private equity has a new target customer: the wrongfully convicted. When exonerees need cash while lengthy settlements finalize, finance companies can provide it but at a very high interest rate. We’ll examine why private equity is making exonerees their latest investment.

The Splendid Table

March 22 – New episode

We are spending the hour taking your calls with the charming culinary superstar Sohla El-Waylly. Sohla is a writer, teacher, chef, and media personality appearing on tv and internet shows for The New York TimesHistory Channel, and the show The Big Brunch. Her much anticipated first book is Start Here: Instructions for Becoming a Better Cook.


Classical

Performance Today

  • Mar 18: Lara Downes performs music by Harry T. Burleigh from Brevard Music Center in Brevard, NC
  • Mar 19: Mei-Ann Chen, conducts ROCO in a performance of Zoltan Kodaly’s “Dances of Marosszek” from the Cynthia Wood Mitchell Pavilion in Woodlands, TX
  • Mar 20: JoAnn Falletta, conducts The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra in a performance of Florent Schmitt’s “Legende” from Buffalo, NY
  • Mar 21: 2023 Classical Woman of the Year Gabriela Montero co-hosts PT with Fred Child
  • Mar 22: Efe Baltacigil and Anton Nel perform Johannes Brahms’ “Sonata for Cello and Piano in F Major, Op. 99” from The Center for Chamber Music in Seattle, WA

Classical 24

New Classical Tracks with Melissa Ousley
Wed 7:15am/5pm CT & Sat 9am CT

  • Vikingur Olafson talks with Melissa about his new album the Goldberg Variations.

Extra Ecclectic with Steve Seel
Wed 10pm-12am CT

  • More music for Women’s History Month, including Andrea Tarrodi’s “Nightingale,” as well as music by Molly Joyce, Amanda Feery, Allison Loggins-Hull, and more.

Euro Classic
Thurs 12am CT & Sat 8pm CT

  • Mar 21: Tabita Berglund leads the Swedish Radio Symphony in “A Drama in the Air” by contemporary Swedish composer Britta Bystrom.
  • Mar 23: We head to Eisenach, Germany, to hear flutist Tatjana Ruhland and pianist Frank Dupree play Cecile Chaminade’s Concertino for Flute and Piano.

Rhapsody in Black
Thurs 9pm CT & Sun 4pm CT

  • Where we turn up the voices of Black artists in the world of classical music. This week focuses on Julia Perry.

Saturday Cinema
Sat 10am – 12pm CT

  • March Birthdays: The Famous Film Folks who celebrate March Birthdays. David Niven, Ron Howard, Cyd Charisse, Barry Fitrzgerald, Edward Everett horton, Liza Minelli, Dvid Lean, Shirley jones, Gordon Macrae.

Your Classical Discoveries
Sat 4-7pm CT

  • Spring Has Sprung! We’re celebrating the (eventual) return of green grass, flowers, and warmth with all sorts of musical representations of the season.

APM Presents special of the week

A Passion for Bach and Coltrane with Imani Winds

Air Window: March 29 – June 30, 2024

Jeff Scott’s new Grammy winning oratorio is full of inspiration from two giants of music – Johann Sebastian Bach and John Coltrane. Passion for Bach and Coltrane with Imani Winds is an innovative and surprising confluence of classical and jazz. Scott is the founding horn player of Imani Winds, and along with the Harlem Jazz Quartet, jazz soloists, and spoken word by AB Spellman, Passion for Bach and Coltrane offers an intimate perspective on Imani Wind’s most personal recording in their 25-year history.
**This air window has been extended until June 30, 2024**

BBC Monthly – April 2024

Coming in April 2024

New Generic Promos Available
Two new generic BBC World Service promos are available now in ContentDepot. They can be downloaded from the promotional materials tab here.


April Doc picks

The full list of available BBC documentaries can be found here. Look for these specials and their promos on Content Depot.  

Witness History: The Environment
April 1 – April 30, 2024
One hour

An all-new collection of stories from the BBC’s Witness History program, with new stories of environmentalism and conservation. We’ll meet people who have been instrumental in protecting the Amazon rainforest, elephants, and the Russian arctic.

El Salvador’s Missing Children
April 18 – May 15, 2024
One hour

Mike Lanchin follows the dramatic stories of two Salvadoran-born women who were adopted abroad during the country’s brutal civil war, as they try to piece together the circumstances of their adoptions almost four decades ago.

The Forum: Green Revolutions
April 27 – May 24, 2024
One hour

The “green revolution” of the 20th century is credited with saving many people from hunger and malnutrition across Asia and Latin America. And yet, a half-century on, farmers’ incomes in Africa, Asia and Europe are falling and farmers in many countries are on the streets protesting. At the same time, the environmental impacts of intensive food production are becoming increasingly clear. Do we need a new “green revolution”?

APM Weekly March 11 – 15, 2024

News

Marketplace

Marketplace (PM)

  • Kai talks with June Carbone, a law professor at the University of Minnesota, about the article she co-authored for The Conversation, “Marriage is not as effective an anti-poverty strategy as you’ve been led to believe”
  • Kai talks with John Bistline, program manager at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), about uncapped tax credits in the Inflation Reduction Act – and how they could lead to more spending than predicted by the government as part of our Breaking Ground series.

Marketplace Morning Report

Marketplace Morning Report looks at the impact of Silicon Valley Bank one year after its collapse.

Marketplace Tech

Monday March 11: Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino speaks with Stanford researcher and Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Faculty Associate Director Daniel Ho about their latest report, “Hallucinating Law: Legal Mistakes with Large Language Models are Pervasive.”

Thursday March 14: Marketplace’s Lily Jamali speaks with Carl Szabo, VP of NetChoice, and Megan Iorio, Director of EPIC, about where they overlap when it comes to TX and FL social media laws in the quest to protect kids online.

On Point

On Point brings you ‘Elements of Energy: Mining for a Green Future.’

Get ready to explore minerals that matter with On Point.

In a special weeklong exploration from March 11-15, On Point mines for understanding the essential elements for our clean energy future — the things we need to make the batteries that will power our world and spur the transition away from carbon-spewing fossil fuels. From lithium and copper to cobalt and nickel, these elements tell the story of the challenges posed to reach the U.S.’s clean energy goals. On Point goes deep on the story of each mineral: what it is, how and where to get it, the humanitarian costs, the geo-political challenges, and of course the environmental impact, to understand the whole picture of what it will take to move away from fossil fuels.

  • PART ONE: LITHIUM
    The story of lithium. We’ll learn why the US has a quarter of the world’s lithium deposits but produces just 3% of the world’s supply, how all that could be about to change, and what that could mean for the community of Kings Mountain, North Carolina.
  • PART TWO: COPPER
    In this episode we hear about copper mining in Panama and South Africa. We find out about the environmental devastation that mining has caused and what can be done to make mining less destructive.
  • PART THREE: COBALT
    The Democratic Republic of Congo has more cobalt deposits than the rest of the word combined. Hundreds of thousands of people, including tens of thousands of children, work in these mines in what is effectively modern day slavery. We hear first-hand from a Congolese woman leading a grassroots movement to reform conditions
  • PART FOUR: NICKEL
    Indonesia now produces more than half of the world’s nickel and hopes to be the Saudi Arabia of clean energy, raising the living standards of tens of millions of its citizens. But can it escape China’s clutches?
  • PART FIVE: DOMESTIC INDEPENDENCE
    The week wraps up by returning to the US to look at the challenges the US faces in boosting domestic mineral production and what it can do to break China’s dominance in the production of battery-grade minerals.

The Splendid Table

March 15 – Repeat episode

This week we’re taking your cooking questions with James Beard Award winning chef Robynne Mai‘i of Fête in Honolulu and Nick Sharma author of The Flavor Equation brings us a guide to cooking with crispy things!


Classical

Performance Today

  • Mar 11: Catalyst Quartet performs Germaine Tailleferre’s String Quartet from Spivey Hall at Clayton State University in Morrow, GA
  • Mar 12: An all-star group from the most recent Spoleto Festival performs the Piano Quintet in C minor by Ralph Vaughan Williams, from the Dock Street Theatre in Charleston, SC
  • Mar 13: A Far Cry performs Jessie Montgomery’s Banner for solo quartet and chamber orchestra from the Rockport Chamber Music Festival in Rockport, MA
  • Mar 14: The Apollo Chamber Players perform “The Night When You See Again” by Wang Jie, with organist Daryl Robinson, from a concert in Houston, Texas
  • Mar 15: Anthony McGill, clarinet performs Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet in A major with Tessa Lark, Jun Iwasaki, Jonathan Vinocour, and Alisa Weilerstein from the La Jolla Music Society in La Jolla, CA

Classical 24

New Classical Tracks with Julie Amacher
Wed 7:15am/5pm CT & Sat 9am CT

  • The Neave Trio talks with Julie Amacher about the new album a Room of Her Own.

Extra Ecclectic with Steve Seel
Wed 10pm-12am CT

  • Our celebration of Women’s History Month continues with a special edition of Extra Eclectic, curated by 2024 YourClassical Fellow and professional cellist Audrey Snyder. An advocate for the music of contemporary female composers, she has chosen a wide variety of selections that push the boundaries of the genre, including pieces by Missy Mazzoli, Franghiz Ali-Zadeh, Samantha Fernando, Chen Yi, and more. Be sure not to miss this program that truly pushes the envelope.

Euro Classic
Thurs 12am CT & Sat 8pm CT

  • Mar 14: Alma Mahler, overshadowed in history by her illustrious husband, was a prodigious composer herself. We’ll hear her Three Early Songs with the RIAS Chamber Choir in a concert last fall in Berlin.
  • Mar 16: Croatian pianist and composer Dora Pejacevic was a force of nature, and her music is enjoying a renaissance. We’ll hear her Phantasie concertante for piano and orchestra, in concert in London from October 2023.

Rhapsody in Black
Thurs 9pm CT & Sun 4pm CT

  • Where we turn up the voices of Black artists in the world of classical music. This week focuses on Margaret Bonds.

Saturday Cinema
Sat 10am – 12pm CT

  • St. Patrick’s Day: Music from films that were filmed and celebrate the Emerald Isle including the Banshees of Inisherin, The Quiet Man, Going My Way and Far and Away.

Your Classical Discoveries
Sat 4-7pm CT

  • St. Patrick’s Day (a day early): Explore the wonderful world of Irish music and musicians, from well-known figures like James Galway, John Field, and Charles Stanford to lesser-known composers like Joan Trimble, Arthur Duff, and Augusta Holmes.

APM Presents special of the week

Take Me to the Water

Air Window: Now – March 31, 2024

A one-hour special, hosted by Vernon Neal, focusing on harpist Ashley Jackson’s program Take Me to the Water recorded at American Public Medias studios. Take Me to the Water, is an immersive audio experience that touches on themes from African mythology, the antebellum spiritual tradition and water’s transportive, transmogrifying nature.

Questions? Please contact your Station Representative.

News/Talk APM Presents Specials Spring/Summer 2024

We present to you our new spring and summer News/Talk specials from APM Presents! This quarter we have an exciting selection of diverse specials for you and your listeners, including five new mental health specials from Call to Mind, a new climate special from How We Survive and Marketplace, plus new specials from the BBC, The Poetry Café, Selected Shorts, LAist, and Audible.

Check out the full list of News/Talk specials below and our website.

Looking for Classical specials? Subscribe to our Classical APM Monthly newsletter or visit our website for the full list of APM Presents specials.


News / Talk

Call to Mind: Mental Health Awareness Series

  • Broadcast Window: April 4, 2024 – August 31, 2024
  • Description: Five new Call to Mind Specials coming for May, Mental Health Awareness Month. Each hour explores emerging research and informed perspectives on vital issues. Each features thought-provoking interviews with top experts, the voices of people living with mental illness, and sound-rich stories from across the country. The hourlong programs are hosted by Kimberly Adams, a host and senior correspondent for APM’s Marketplace.

The Poetry Café

  • Broadcast Window: April 1, 2024 – June 30, 2024
  • Description: The Poetry Café is poetry, live music and artist interviews around creating community through the arts. It is place where voices and ideas are valued and amplified to feed your mind, your body and your soul. This one-hour special features interviews with poet, playwright, filmaker and educator Ebony Payne-English and with poet and rapper Moses West, along with live poetry performances from various artists.

California Love: K-Pop Dreaming – Moon Night

  • Broadcast Window: April 1, 2024 – May 31, 2024
  • Description: K-Pop Dreaming host Vivian Yoon takes us to an American military neighborhood in Seoul in the late 1980s. Tucked in an alleyway was a little grimy club that blasted American hip-hop, the place was for African American GIs to cut loose, but it pulled in an unexpected crowd – young Koreans who would become the pioneers of modern K-pop. Itaewon was also the setting for the beginning of another story – it was the place where Vivian’s parents met and fell in love. Features Kang Won Rae, one of K-pop’s legends that came out of the Moon Night scene.

BBC Witness History: The Environment

  • Broadcast Window: April 1, 2024 – April 30, 2024
  • Description: An all-new special edition of Witness History from the BBC World Service. We look at the triumphs and setbacks of the environmental movement.

How We Survive: The Worth of Water

  • Broadcast Window: April 1, 2024 – June 30, 2024
  • Description: In a station special adapted from Marketplace’s award-winning podcast “How We Survive,” host Amy Scott visits places across the West that must fundamentally rethink how water is divided up and used. Over the course of an hour, we’ll meet a couple scrambling to find an affordable water supply amidst a worsening drought and making the most of every drop. We’ll look at some of the tech innovations that could help us find a way out of the water crisis—which include looking to the ocean, the sewer and even the sky to produce drinking water. And finally, we’ll look at a growing movement, rooted in Indigenous values, to give nature—rivers, fish, crops and trees—the same rights as people, and what that might mean for the future of the Colorado River.

How Does the Russian Propaganda Machine Work? Are There Lessons for the United States?

  • Broadcast Window: May 1, 2024 – July 31, 2024
  • Description: From Audible podcast, In the Room with Peter Bergen, a new special about that state of journalism in Russia. Objective reporting about the war in Ukraine is now against the law in Russia and journalists can’t even use the word “war” in their stories. But it wasn’t always like this. Two veteran Russian journalists, who’ve experienced the changes firsthand, explain what’s happened and how “fake news” has helped solidify authoritarian rule in Russia.

Early Risers: Breaking Silence

  • Broadcast Window: May 22, 2024 – September 4, 2024
  • Description: In this hour, early childhood experts from around the country talk about the reasons many caregivers are not venturing into conversations about race, racism and cultural diversity and we look at the impact that has on our children, other BIPOC adults, and our early childhood programs. Finally, we explore ways to break down those barriers for the benefit of our children. We will answer the question- what is needed in our early childhood spaces to encourage the vulnerability and exploration caregivers need to enter into these essential conversations with young children?

Witness History: Pride Month

  • Broadcast Window: June 1, 2024 – June 30, 2024
  • Description: An all-new special edition of Witness History from the BBC World Service. Remarkable stories of LGBT+ rights, told by the people who were there.

Selected Shorts: Wishful Thinking

  • Broadcast Window: June 1, 2024 – August 31, 2024
  • Description: Summertime, and the living is easy, and if it isn’t, all you need is a charming trio of works curated by the producers of Selected Shorts about summer wishes and wishful thinking. Hear works from Zadie Smith (performed by the author), Carys Davies, and Ray Bradbury performed by Jane Kaczmarek and Sean Astin.

How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong – en español

  • Broadcast Window: March 18, 2024 – June 30, 2024
  • Description: A Spanish language edition of our special based on the award winning podcast series, Sold a Story. The Spanish edition will feature two episodes, the first is a Spanish translation of the one-hour radio special, How Teaching Kids to Read Went so Wrong, and a second episode featuring a conversation between Sold a Story host Emily Hanford and host of the Spanish language edition, Valeria Fernández.**Please contact your APM Station Rep if you’re interested in airing this special.**

Classical APM Presents Specials Spring/Summer 2024

We present to you our new spring and summer Classical specials from APM Presents! This quarter we have an exciting selection of diverse specials for you and your listeners, including a new special from Imani Winds!

Check out the full list of classical specials below and our website.

Looking for News/Talk specials? Subscribe to our News/Talk APM Monthly newsletter or visit our website for the full list of APM Presents specials.


Classical

A Passion for Bach and Coltrane with Imani Winds

  • Broadcast Window: March 29, 2024 – April 30, 2024
  • Duration: Two hours
  • Description: Jeff Scott’s new Grammy winning oratorio is full of inspiration from two giants of music – Johann Sebastian Bach and John Coltrane. Passion for Bach and Coltrane with Imani Winds is an innovative and surprising confluence of classical and jazz. Scott is the founding horn player of Imani Winds, and along with the Harlem Jazz Quartet, jazz soloists, and spoken word by AB Spellman, Passion for Bach and Coltrane offers an intimate perspective on Imani Wind’s most personal recording in their 25 year history.

Folk Classics Across the Globe from YourClassical

  • Broadcast Window: May 1, 2024 – May 31, 2024
  • Duration: One hour
  • Description: An hour special featuring never-before recorded folk tunes from three contrasting countries and cultures: Iran, Venezuela and Ukraine/Russia. These tunes have been composed and/or arranged by composers from these locations, two of which are currently living. They will also be performed by professional musicians from the respective countries/cultures. Exploring the intersection of folk and classical music, while also placing the spotlight on present-day communities.

Fur, Feathers and Flutes

  • Broadcast Window: May 1, 2024 – May 31, 2024
  • Duration: One hour
  • Description: We all know that Classical music can calm us – and our pets! We also know that there’s a special connection we have with our pets. Do our pets have a special connection with Classical music? We think so! On Fur, Feathers and Flutes, you’ll hear stories of composers who loved their pets along with music inspired by their furry friends. You’ll also meet an opera-loving parrot, curious Classical-loving cats, and you’ll hear how Classical music helps train canines, as we celebrate the love we have for our special companions and their connection to music on Fur, Feathers and Flutes!

Proud to Be

  • Broadcast Window: May 31, 2024 – June 30, 2024
  • Duration: One hour
  • Description: Pride Month is a wonderful time to celebrate our unique identities and to reflect on how pride and authenticity show up in our lives. We asked classical musicians in the LGBTQIA community about their thoughts on Pride. The answers we got were incredibly diverse and thought-provoking. This one-hour special brings all of those thoughts to you punctuated with music performed, conducted or composed by these featured artists.

Take Me to the Water – Encore

  • Broadcast Window: May 31, 2024 – June 30, 2024
  • Duration: One hour
  • Description: A one-hour special, hosted by Vernon Neal, focusing on harpist Ashley Jackson’s program Take Me to the Water recorded at American Public Medias studios. Take Me to the Water, is an immersive audio experience that touches on themes from African mythology, the antebellum spiritual tradition and water’s transportive, transmogrifying nature. This will be an encore from February 2024

Classical Monthly: March 2024

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Spring Fundraisers

Spring fundraisers are up and ready on Content Depot! Follow the links below:


New and Upcoming

Pipedreams celebrates Women’s History and International Women’s Day
This week’s Pipedreams program #2410, celebrates Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day and is devoted entirely to works by women composers…Fanny Mendelssohn, Clara Schumann, Gwyneth Walker, Sharon J. Willis, Barbara Dennerlein, Margie Griebling-Haigh, Margaret Sandresky, Theophania Cecil, Pamela Decker, Rachel Laurin, and Wang Jie, whose new score for organ and string quartet, “The Night When You See Again,” will be heard in its world premiere performance.

On Saturday, March 23rd, Michael Barone will co-host with Tyrone Whiting Philadelphia Orchestra’s Organ Day, a family-friendly event with lively performances by the Philadelphia Orchestra, Paul Jacobs, the Lucas Brown Trio, the Philadelphia Ballet, Dr. Jay Fluellen, John Walthausen, and much more. This event features the Fred J. Cooper Memorial Organ, the largest mechanical-action concert hall organ in the United States with 6,938 pipes, four blowers, 300 levels of memory, 111 stops, and a total weight of approximately 32 tons!

SymphonyCast
Coming up on SymphonyCast in March, listen for a dazzling program from the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra with Michael Tilson Thomas on the podium, including a Liszt piano concerto featuring Yuja Wang, and Mahler’s titanic symphonic debut. Later this spring, we’ll hear Andy Akiho and his steel pan concerto, Beneath Lighted Coffers, backed by the Oregon Symphony.

Performance Today
Performance Today’s 2024 class of Young Artists in Residence opened with Sarah Ma, a violinist recently graduated from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. Sarah’s interview with Fred will air in March, with four more artists lined up to complete their residencies by June. The Young Artists in Residence program has hosted a number of young talents over the years and we are proud of its alumni. Most have gone on to successful music careers. Scroll through the pages here to see past and present Young Artists.

Performance Today will also choose their 2024 Classical Woman of the Year- the winner will be announced on air and online on March 29th.

Performance Today: Request for Music

If you have a strong partnership with your local orchestra, please encourage them to submit their concerts to us- If you have a contact who’d like to start (or continue) submitting to PT, please put them in touch with kslusher@mpr.org for guidelines and a submission account.


APM Presents: March Specials
Check out our special featuring harpist Ashley Jackson.

Take Me to the Water
Available now – March 31, 2024

For more upcoming specials visit our website.

Take Me to the Water—behind the scenes
“Take Me to the Water,” from American Public Media, explores the profound meaning of water across different cultures and different religions, led by Vernon Neal and harpist Ashley Jackson. The program explores water’s historical significance in Black culture, the symbolism in spirituals, and the ripple effect of George Floyd’s murder in 2020. It culminates in a powerful performance of “Take Me to the Water” by Ashley and Twin Cities youth choir, KNOWN MPLS.

Julie Amacher shared, “Vernon and I had a fabulous time getting to know Ashley during these recording sessions. She stretches the limits of her instrument in such a powerful, and beautiful way. Her playing is so fluid, which makes her style a perfect fit for this program. This is the first time we brought an artist into the studios to create a national special with them – creating content exclusively for us to share with stations.”

To learn more about the show, learn more about Ashley Jackson’s music, and watch videos of Ashley performing this music in our St. Paul studio, go to YourClassical.org.


Welcome Additions

APM Weekly March 4 – March 8, 2024

News

Marketplace

Marketplace (PM)

  • Kai checks back in with Wesley Morris, critic-at-large with the New York Times, about the state of the film industry ahead of the Academy Awards. This is part of our revisiting author and artist series that we kicked off in January.
  • Kai talks with Caroline O’Donovan, reporter at the Washington Post, about the emerging side-hustle of Amazon influencers.

Marketplace Morning Report

Monday March 4: Paramount recently said it won’t be returning to pre-strike spending levels on content as experiments during the strikes, like relying more on cheaper production abroad and non-scripted content, had proved an effective way to cut costs. The pressure to turn a profit in the competitive streaming world is intensifying. Marketplace Morning Report looks at how the last big strikes affected the media landscape in a durable way, with the rise of non-scripted TV, and what we might see carry through from these ones.

Marketplace Tech

Monday March 4: Marketplace’s Lily Jamali speaks with Boston University Professor Joan Donovan about misinformation issues with the 2024 election.

Decoding Democracy: New series beginning March 5 Generative artificial intelligence tools have made it much cheaper and easier to spread misinformation that can mislead voters and potentially influence elections. Companies that once invested heavily in correcting the record have shifted their priorities. Marketplace Tech, in collaboration with Washington Correspondent Kimberly Adams, will produce a video-first series looking at how disinformation and misinformation is occurring in the 2024 election campaign: how to spot it, how to fight it, and how to talk to family members and friends about it. The video trailer for this series is out now.

Tuesday March 5: Lily Jamali speaks with Marketplace’s Washington Correspondent Kimberly Adams about deepfakes in the 2024 election, kicking off “Marketplace Tech’s” new series all about mis-and-dis information called “Decoding Democracy.”

Thursday, March 7: Lily Jamali will sit down with SF Fed President and CEO Mary Daly for an interview focusing on the state of the economy in Silicon Valley, the SVB collapse anniversary, and AI driven tech layoffs.

On Point

  • Monday, March 4: Foreign diplomats are nervous that the United States’ once solid global leadership is on shaky ground. We hear from a panel of experienced diplomats why their home nations are alarmed at America’s partisan divides.
  • Wednesday, March 6: Meghna speaks with Michael J. Graetz about his new book, The Power to Destroy: How the Anti-tax Movement Hijacked America. In it, Graetz explores how what was once a fringe position fringe went mainstream and the consequences of that for US politics and its ability to address society’s problems.

The Splendid Table

March 8 – New episode

We’re looking at the world of restaurants and flavors this week with conversations with Andrew Friedman author of The Dish, The Lives and Labor Behind One Plate of Food and flavor scientist Arielle Johnson author of Flavorama: A Guide to Unlocking the Art and Science of Flavor.


Classical

Performance Today

  • Mar 4: Music by Mel Bonis, performed by musicians from ROCO, from the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston TX
  • Mar 5: Maureen Nelson and Michael Brown perform Claude Debussy’s Sonata for Violin and Piano in G minor from Music in the Vineyards Festival, Inglenook Winery, Rutherford, CA.
  • Mar 6: Inon Barnatan, Augustin Hadelich and Efe Baltacigil perform Maurice Ravel’s Piano Trio in A minor from the La Jolla Music Society in La Jolla, CA.
  • Mar 7: Christian Zacharias performs Haydn’s Piano Sonata in E-flat major from Spivey Hall at Clayton State University in Morrow, GA.
  • Mar 8: Aaron Boyd and Juho Pohjonen perform Clara Schuman’s Three Romances for Violin and Piano from Music@Menlo Chamber Music Festival and Institute in Menlo Park, CA.

Classical 24

Friday March 8: International Women’s Day: Female artists will be featured ALL DAY LONG. Nearly every selection is by a female composer, and the few that don’t will still feature a prominent female performer or conductor. 24 hours of delights and discoveries from an often-overlooked part of the classical repertoire .

New Classical Tracks with Julie Amacher
Wed 7:15am/5pm CT & Sat 9am CT

  • Julie Perry talks with Julie Amacher about the new album American Counterpoints.

Extra Ecclectic with Steve Seel
Wed 10pm-12am CT

  • Extra Eclectic kicks off Women’s History Month with works from well-known composers like Caroline Shaw and Jennifer Higdon, and lesser-known gems by Layale Chaker, Outi Tarkiainen, and Mary Kouyoudjian.

Euro Classic
Thurs 12am CT & Sat 8pm CT

  • Mar 7: Jennifer Higdon’s exciting and twangy Mandolin Concerto featuring Avi Avital in a concert from Frankfurt, Germany.
  • Mar 9: Alma Mahler, overshadowed in history by her illustrious husband, was a prodigious composer herself. We’ll hear her Three Early Songs with the RIAS Chamber Choir in a concert last fall in Berlin.

Saturday Cinema
Sat 10am – 12pm CT

  • An Oscar retrospective. A potpourri of the Oscar Winners for Best Score and Best Song from 1938-present.

Your Classical Discoveries
Sat 4-7pm CT

  • Music in Time: As most of the country prepares to “spring forward” this evening, we’ll explore music about clocks and the passage of time, including Haydn’s “Clock” Symphony, Robert Thurston’s “Time Travels,” and “The Flower Clock” by Jean Francaix.

APM Presents special of the week

Witness History: Women’s History Month

Air Window: March 1 – March 31, 2024

A special hour-long edition of Witness History from the BBC World Service. Remarkable stories of women’s history, told by the women who were there. Selected from the BBC’s Witness History program, we hear moving, inspiring and even outrageous stories about a few of the most important women in living memory.

Questions? Please contact your Station Representative.

On Point Quarterly Newsletter – February 2024

Greetings,
At On Point we relish digging deeper into stories. It’s an opportunity that our format of one topic per hour uniquely offers in weekday programming. And that’s why I’m excited to start this newsletter with details about an upcoming series that is about digging deeper both figuratively and literally.

It’s inspired by the Biden administration’s push to tackle climate change by speeding up the transition away from fossil fuels to clean energy technologies. The Inflation Reduction Act, signed into law 18 months ago, boosted investment in the production of electric vehicles across the US. The Administration is also spending billions of dollars to boost domestic production of materials like lithium and nickel, essential components in the batteries that will power those EVs.

We are going to spend a week’s worth of shows telling the story of some of the minerals and elements essential to the production of those batteries and the motors that will power the clean energy future – where they come from, how we get them, how we use them, and of course the environmental and humanitarian challenges that come along with them.

Part One will tell the story of lithium. We’ll learn why the US has a quarter of the world’s lithium deposits but produces just 3% of the world’s supply, how all that could be about to change, and what that could mean for the community of Kings Mountain, North Carolina.

Part Two takes us to a copper mine in South Africa where we find out about the environmental devastation that mining has caused and what can be done to make mining less destructive.

In Part Three, we turn our attention to the Democratic Republic of Congo, which has more cobalt deposits than the rest of the word combined. Hundreds of thousands of people, including tens of thousands of children, work in these mines in what is effectively modern day slavery. We will hear first-hand from a mine-worker leading a grassroots movement to reform conditions.

Part Four takes us to Indonesia which now produces more than half of the world’s nickel and hopes to be the Saudi Arabia of the electric age, raising the living standards of tens of millions of its citizens. But can it escape China’s clutches?

The week wraps up by returning to the US to look at the challenges the US faces in boosting domestic mineral production and what it can do to break China’s dominance in the production of these battery-grade minerals.

We’re calling the series Elements of Energy: Mining for a Green Future. It will run the week of March 11, Monday through Friday. As you know these special series are a signature element of On Point’s programming and a demonstration of the editorial ambition we deliver for you and, most importantly, your listeners.

Before I sign off, as excited as I am to share our upcoming series plans with you, I can’t ignore the fact that this is 2024 and later this year there will be a hugely consequential election — one that may determine the future path of American democracy. Please know that we at On Point will waste no time horse-race tracking of who’s up or down each day. In our signature deep dive full-hour conversations On Point will explore the fragility of our democracy, the seen and unseen forces shaping that, and what is really at stake in this election. Expect to hear complexity and nuance.

More on that in my next newsletter. Thanks for reading this far!

Jonathan Dyer
Executive Producer, On Point

APM Weekly February 26 – March 1, 2024

News

Marketplace

Marketplace (PM)

  • Consumer Indexes: Kai talks with Prof. Sasha Indarte, UPenn, and Prof. Karthik Sastry, Princeton, about the difference between the consumer confidence and consumer sentiment indexes, their strengths, and weaknesses, and why we measure consumer feelings at all.
  • Restaurants and Credit Card Fees: There is a simmering conflict between the restaurant industry and the credit card industry. Restaurants say credit card fees have been rising and are becoming more confusing. Credit card fees are their third largest expense after food and labor, and the fees have doubled in the past 10 years, with more fee increases coming next year. They complain that Visa and Mastercard are operating a duopoly. Marketplace’s Sabri Ben Achour looks at the duopoly in credit cards generally, and the fight between these two industries as an example.
  • Feb 28: New York City Office Conversions: Marketplace’s Samantha Fields looks at what it actually takes – and costs – to turn offices into apartments. There’s a lot of talk these days about what to do with all the vacant office space around the country, and whether it could be turned into much-needed housing, especially in big city centers. New York City just announced that 46 buildings in the city have signed up so far to participate in its new “office conversion accelerator,” which is designed to help what can be a lengthy, cumbersome process move more quickly. Four projects are already underway that the city says will create more than 2,000 apartments. Marketplace’s Samantha Fields looks at one of these projects, takes a tour, and tries to get a sense of what it actually takes – and costs – to turn offices into apartments.

Marketplace Morning ReportNew Series: “Democracy in the Desert”

Several counties in Super Tuesday states have been defined by academic researchers as local news “deserts,” where residents have little to no coverage of what’s happening in their region – or how they might be affected by government policies. Voters need reliable local news to inform their decisions on election day: why have those local news business models failed, where are voters getting information now, and what are business models that can help solve this dilemma for democracy? “Marketplace Morning Report’s” David Brancaccio explores these questions in counties in South Texas, North Carolina, and Virginia.

  • Monday, February 26: They say all politics is local. So where’s the local news coverage this election year? David Brancaccio has been traveling to “news deserts” in Super Tuesday states to look at the business models that are failing or informing voters as they make their choices on Tuesday. Coverage begins in Val Verde County, Texas, where Mexico is just across the river.
  • Tuesday February 27: Yesterday we heard about the last daily newspaper in Val Verde county that folded more than 3 years ago. Who’s covering things now?
  • Wednesday February 28: North Carolina, where some experts say a news desert may have played a role in a Congressional election so fouled up, there was a do-over.
  • Thursday February 29: Voices from a news desert less than an hour’s drive from the center of American politics.
  • Friday March 1: Q &A: As we wrap up our weeklong coverage, a conversation with a man in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley who had to pull the plug on the local newspaper he published for years and now gets by printing campus newspapers.

Marketplace Tech

Tuesday Feb 27: Marketplace’s Lily Jamali speaks with Vox senior correspondent Rebecca Jennings about “trendbait” language on TikTok.

Thursday Feb 29: Lily Jamali speaks with Sarah Myers West, AI Now Institute, about the National AI Research Resource and what she sees as the dangers of private-public AI partnerships.

On Point

  • Monday, Feb 26: The Authoritarian Playbook for 2025 is a new report by the bipartisan group Protect Democracy. Using the former president’s own words, it outlines in details the “promises, powers, and plans” of Donald Trumps as he seeks to return to the White House. We speak with two of its authors.
  • Tuesday, Feb 27: Is “color blindness” the best way to achieve equality? Meghna speaks with Coleman Hughes about his provocative new book, in which he contends that race-conscious policy-making has only deepened divides in America.
  • Wednesday, Feb 28: Hot flashes. Sleep problems. Brain fog. More than one million women in the U.S. experience menopause each year. What’s happening in our brains during these hormonal changes?
  • Thursday, Feb 29: Last September, the U.S. Government Accountability Office published a damning report about the poor living conditions at military barracks — mold, broken windows, nonexistent HVAC systems and more. What has been done to fix those issues? Spoiler alert: very little. So what will it take to fix them?

The Splendid Table

March 1 – Repeat episode

This week we’re learning about tea with East Asian tea authority Theresa Wong of NYC’s T Shop. Theresa leads Francis through a tasting from black, thru oolong all the way to green. Then we talk about the surprising history of chai with food and culture writer Leena Trevedi- Grenier who also shares an uber personalized masala chai recipe.


Classical

Performance Today

  • Feb 26: Brandon Patrick’s George’s second album, “Twofold” is featured on PT
  • Feb 27: Yunchan Lim performs Ludwig van Beethoven’s Variations and Fugue in E-flat Major, op. 35 “Eroica” at the most recent Van Cliburn International Piano Competition
  • Feb 28: Gabriela Montero performs Frederic Chopin’s Polonaise – Fantaisie in A-flat Major from a recital in Lisbon
  • Feb 29: Featuring music by leap-year baby Giochino Rossini performed by Lawrence Brownlee and Martin Katz; The Knights, conducted by Eric Jacobsen and Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century conducted by Giancarlo Andretta
  • Mar 1: A performance of David Ludwig’s Concerto for Violin and Orchestra featuring Bella Hristova and the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by JoAnn Falletta

Classical 24

New Classical Tracks with Julie Amacher
Wed 7:15am/5pm CT & Sat 9am CT

  • Featuring new album BLACK IS BEAUTIFUL by the Eugene Concert Choir & Orchestra and EXIGENCE: A Sphinx Vocal Ensemble.

Extra Ecclectic with Steve Seel
Wed 10pm-12am CT

  • For the last episode of Black History Month, we’ll sample music by Julia perry, Derrick Skye, Wynton Marsalis, Errolyn Wallen, and Daniel Bernard Roumain.

Euro Classic
Thurs 12am CT & Sat 8pm CT

  • Feb 29: Our first 2024 concert has arrived! We’ll head to the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam to hear pianist Javier Perianes and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra play Manuel de Falla’s “Nights in the Gardens of Spain.”
  • Mar 2: We kick of a full month of Euro Classics featuring female composers for Women’s History Month. Tonight we’ll hear the Concerto for String Orchestra by Polish composer Graznya Bacewicz in a concert from Riga, Latvia.

Saturday Cinema
Sat 10am – 12pm CT

  • Join Lynne as she starts the countdown to the Oscars on March 10th.

Your Classical Discoveries
Sat 4-7pm CT

  • Large Czechs: As we celebrate the 200th birthday of Bedrich Smetana, we’ll hear his complete Ma Vlast (My Fatherland): 4 pm hour: Vyserhad and The Moldau; 5 pm hour: Sarka and From Bohemia’s Forests and Fields; 6 pm hour: Tabor and Blanik. Also, plenty of other Czech composers from the baroque to the 20th century, featuring some names you may not know!

200th birthday of Bedrich Smetana: On Saturday March 2, each shift will feature a selection by Smetana, including a complete survey of his most famous work, Ma Vlast (My Fatherland), during YourClassical Discoveries.


APM Presents special of the week

AeroEspacial: Latino People and Stories at the Heart of Aerospace

Air Window: now – April 30, 2024

This special program explores the history, and future, of Latino influence and representation in aviation and space exploration. Based on “AeroEspacial,” a limited series from the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, this show spotlights Latino voices and introduces listeners to the diversity of people working in and around aerospace across the United States. We hear from scientists, scholars, historians, and artists..

Questions? Please contact your Station Representative.

2024 BBC Spring Interim and Summer Schedules Now Available

Schedule Changes Coming Soon

Given the differences in daylight saving time between the US and the UK, the BBC World Service will be on a three-week interim schedule prior to the 2024 summer schedule. Please watch ContentDepot for additional reminders.

The 2024 spring interim schedule is effective Sunday, March 10, 2024 through Saturday, March 30, 2024.

Spring Interim Schedule Highlights

  • Newshour
    • Weekday editions remain the same with an extra edition at 5pm ET
    • Weekend 8am ET editions shift one hour to 9am ET. This change impacts scheduling on March 10, March 16 – 17, March 23 – 24, and March 30.
    • Weekend 4pm ET editions remain consistent during the interim schedule, with an extra edition at 5pm ET.
  • BBC OS
    • Editions move forward one hour to 12 PM ET and 1 PM ET
  • The Newsroom
    • There will be no 2 PM ET edition Sunday – Friday

The 2024 summer schedule is effective Sunday, March 31, 2024 through Saturday, October 26, 2024.

Summer Schedule Highlights

  • Core news programs (Newshour, Newsday, BBC OS) remain consistent with previous (non-interim) schedules.
  • The Newsroom
    • The Monday – Sunday edition returns to 6 pm ET for the summer as usual.
  • Other Programs
    • Two new programs join the schedule, The Global Story (Mon – Fri 6:30 a.m. ET) and The Media Show (Thursday 3 a.m. and 7 p.m. ET)
    • Outlook Weekend and The Real Story will be sunset.
    • Outlook will add a Friday edition so it will now broadcast Monday – Friday.
    • Unexpected Elements moves from Thursday to Friday.
    • The Documentary (Tue) moves later in the week and becomes The Documentary (Thu), with Assignment moving to take the Tuesday slot.

Find these schedules on our website. Please review them carefully and contact your Station Representative with any questions.