Classical 24: Holiday Programming 2024

Classical 24

Thanksgiving 2024
Thanksgiving Eve and Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 27 & 28 – C24 will program festive music to celebrate family, feasting and harvest themes.

Christmas 2024
As in the past, Classical 24 will gradually increase Christmas programming throughout December.

  • Nov 29 – Dec 6: 3-5 minutes of Christmas music per hour
  • Dec 7-13: 5-10 minutes of Christmas music per hour
  • Dec 14-18: 10-15 minutes of Christmas music per hour
  • Dec 19-21: 50% Christmas programming
  • Dec 21: 4pm-6pm CT The Nutcracker ballet with Mindy Ratner
  • Dec 22-25: 100% Christmas programming
  • Dec 24 (Christmas Eve): 6:01pm CT and 9:01 pm CT “The Night Before Christmas,” complete with classical music and sound effects, narrated by C24 host, Lynne Warfel, inside the news holes.

Chanukah 2024
Wednesday, Dec. 25 – Thursday, Jan. 2: Classical 24 celebrates each day of Chanukah with a bit of music to celebrate the Jewish Festival of Lights throughout the Chanukah.

ADDITIONAL HOURS of Holiday Music from C24

All APM affiliates: 8 Hours of Christmas Music
C24 is offering 8 hours of Christmas music hosted by Mindy Ratner. Stations may use these hours to best suit their needs. These evergreen hours will be posted on Content Depot Dec. 1, 2024.

C24 affiliates: 20 Bonus hours at no charge
Remember that if you subscribe to any day part of C24, you are entitled to 20 additional C24 hours per quarter without charge. Many stations use this C24 bonus during the holidays.

Contact your APM Station Relations Rep if you have questions about C24 holiday use.

BBC Monthly – November 2024

US Election 2024 – Coverage Plans

BBC World Service will cover the US election with special live programming November 5th and 6th. It’s been a dramatic, surprising and historic race for the White House; whatever happens will have an impact beyond the fifty states. What will the result mean for people, politics and business?

Join us for live coverage from 5PM ET to find out who will be the next US President.

America Decides
8 hours – Live only
5 pm ET Tues, November 5th – 1 am ET Wednesday, November 6th
Live coverage of the US presidential election as the results are announced.
Presented by Nuala McGovern and Ros Atkins

***Please note, the standard BBC clock will NOT be maintained. The top of the hour Newscasts 1 & 2 (xx:01:00 to xx:05:59) and the bottom of the hour Newscast (xx:30:30 to xx:32:29) will be broadcast but all other elements will be dropped to provide full uninterrupted coverage of events as they unfold:

  • 00:00 – 00:59 Live Election Coverage
  • 01:00 – 03:59 Newscast 1
  • 04:00 – 05:59 Newscast 2
  • 06:00 – 30:29 Live Election Coverage
  • 30:30 – 32:29 Newscast
  • 32:30 – 59:59 Live Election Coverage

Newsday
4 hours – Live only
1 a.m. – 5 a.m. ET Wednesday, November 6
An extended edition of Newsday will continue coverage of the US Election.
This program will follow the standard BBC program clock

***Both programs MAY be subject to further clock changes. If a live statement from Kamala Harris or Donald Trump should take place over the Newscast, this will take precedence, and the Newscast will be dropped.***

The Newsroom
2 hours – Live only
5 – 7AM ET Wednesday, November 6
Coverage of the Election continues with two, hour long editions of The Newsroom. This program will follow the standard BBC program clock

November Documentaries

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

World Book Club: Kate Mosse
November 2 – December 31, 2024
One hour

Kate Mosse talks about her bestselling historical thriller Labyrinth. Ahead of its 20th anniversary early next year, the author Kate Mosse talks to Harriett Gilbert and readers from around the world, about her globally bestselling novel, Labyrinth. A historical thriller set between medieval and contemporary France where the lives of two women, living centuries apart, are linked in a common destiny. In 13th century Carcassonne, seventeen-year-old Alaïs is given a mysterious book by her father which he claims contains the secret of the Grail. While 700 years later, archaeologist Dr Alice Tanner discovers two skeletons in a forgotten cave in the French Pyrenees and sets out to investigate their origin.

The Documentary: Eyes to the skies
November 21 – December 17, 2024
Half hour

A week behind the scenes of Heathrow airport’s multi faith chapel. In many ways, St George’s is what you’d expect from a local chapel: friendly dedicated staff, weekly mass, an open door every day of the year. But being in the heart of Heathrow Airport makes its mission unique. With more than 20 multi-faith chaplains representing the major world religions, it offers sanctuary and support to 90 million plus people annually in the unpredictable environment of a mega airport. We spend a week with the chaplains, and the passengers and airport staff they encounter. Can faith and connection soar in this most transitory, stressful, and ethereal of spaces?

The Forum: Jewellery
November 23 – December 19, 2024
One hour

The timeless allure of precious ornaments. The earliest known precious personal adornments continue to puzzle archaeologists and historians: what were our ancestors using them for tens of thousands of years ago? Since then, why have we continued to ascribe so much value to what are either shiny metals or colourful stones? And why is no traditional wedding in places such as India complete without copious amounts of gold? These are some of the questions that Iszi Lawrence will be asking jewellery makers, art historians and World Service listeners.

Me and My Digital Twin
November 30 – December 27, 2024
One hour

How to build a digital you – Professor Ghislaine Boddington investigates. Ghislaine aspires to be interconnected with an AI digital companion that advises and supports her, keeps her healthy and represents her around the world. A twin that could live on after her death, or for as long as someone pays the subscription. This is not some private fantasy but, as technologies converge, a potential near-future for many of us – or at least those of us who can afford it. Researchers and companies are already experimenting with ways of combining virtual worlds, gaming avatars, fitness sensors, health apps and AI.

In practical terms, a digital bio-twin is made up of continuously measured multiple biological signals from your body. These might include your heartbeat, breath, temperature and muscle tension, as well as food intake, exercise and mental health – all fed into an avatar body. By combining AI and, for example, scanning our bodies and faces, cloning our voice and mannerisms, our virtual twin will become more and more like us.

In a journey that involves an MRI heart scan, dancing in a Belgium basement and a discussion about digital death, Ghislaine explores how existing technology is making a digital human twin possible. She hears from cardiologists, engineers, performance artists and tech entrepreneurs as she learns how to build her own digital twin.

BBC 2024 Fall Interim & Winter Schedules

Fall Interim and Winter Schedules Now Available

The 2024-25 fall interim and winter BBC schedules are now available. The BBC World Service will be on a one week interim schedule prior to the winter schedule to accommodate daylight savings in both the UK and US. Please watch ContentDepot for additional reminders.

The 2024 fall interim schedule is effective Sunday October 27, 2024 through Saturday, November 2, 2024.

Fall Interim Schedule Highlights

  • Newshour
    • Weekday editions remain the same with an extra edition at 5 PM ET
    • Weekend 8 AM ET editions shift one hour to 9 AM ET. This change impacts scheduling on Sunday October 27 and Saturday November 2.
    • Weekend 4pm ET editions remain consistent during the interim schedule week, with an extra edition at 5 PM ET.
  • BBC OS
    • Editions move forward one hour to 12 PM ET and 1 PM ET.
  • The Newsroom
    • The Monday – Sunday edition at 6 PM ET remains the same.

The 2024 winter schedule is effective Sunday November 3, 2024 through Saturday March 8, 2025.

Winter Schedule Highlights

  • Newshour
    • Weekend morning edition returns to 8 AM ET.
  • The Newsroom
    • The Monday – Sunday edition returns to 5 PM ET for the winter as usual.
  • Unspun World
    • On the schedule until the end of its current run, on Friday November 29th.

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

America Are We Ready?

We are pleased to introduce America Are We Ready: Healthcare, Housing, and the Care Economy: What the November Election Means for Our Money. Hosted by WNYC’s Brian Lehrer and Marketplace’s senior Washington correspondent Kimberly Adams, these three live call-in shows will run on Wednesday, October 9, 16, & 23 from 8-9 PM EST. Together with guests, our hosts will take listener calls, opening a national conversation across divides, about what the November election means for some of the biggest pocket-book issues Americans face today: healthcare costs, housing costs, and the care economy. We will hear the stories that shape our points of view, ask questions, and learn what the candidates’ probable policies could mean for things like medicine, bills, rent, and childcare

This series is co-distributed by American Public Media and WNYC Distribution.

Program Details

America Are We Ready: Healthcare, Housing, and the Care Economy: What the November Election Means for our Money

  • Wednesdays Oct 9, 16, & 23
  • 8-9 PM ET
  • Air Window: Live with subsequent air window of 24 hours
  • Content Depot Page
  • Promos: Available a week before each episode
  • Rundowns: Available 12PM ET the day of the show
  • Clock: 59 minutes, newscast compatible, fixed :90 second breaks at 0:19:00 and 0:39:00 (each hour)
  • Call-in Line: This will be provided closer to air time

View full program details here

BBC Monthly – October 2024

October Documentaries

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

The Documentary: Saving a sinking city – Jakarta
October 3 – October 30, 2024
Half hour

Jakarta is the fastest sinking city in the world. Is the solution a new capital?

Jakarta is facing all sorts of problems: deadly floods, land subsidence, extreme pollution, notorious traffic, and overcrowding. Indonesia’s outgoing President has come up with an extreme solution: moving the country’s capital a thousand kilometres away, to the middle of the rainforest. Will the new city be a futuristic utopia and a model for sustainable urbanisation or an eye-wateringly expensive, ecologically disastrous ghost town? BBC Indonesia reporter Astudestra Ajengrastri travels to the island of Borneo to find out if the ambitious plans could live up to reality.

World Questions: Mexico
October 12 – November 29, 2024
One hour

Drug violence, poverty, and democracy: a Mexican panel debates the country’s big issues. As a new President takes power in Mexico, there are major challenges for her to face. Violence, crime, drug cartels, economic inequality, and migration all loom large in a large country that shares a long border with the USA. A new government contemplates politicising the judiciary to tackle corruption, but will it be positive for democracy?

Jonny Dymond and a panel of leading politicians debate questions on the big issues from people across Mexico.

The Evidence: Would you get sick for science?
October 19 – November 15, 2024
One hour

Why are some people deliberately infected with diseases? Human challenge trials are when volunteers are deliberately infected with diseases to help find vaccines or cures. In this episode of The Evidence, Claudia’s expert panel, including Chris Chiu of Imperial College London, Shobana Balasingham of Wellcome and Kondwani Jambo of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine look at what these trials have accomplished, how safe they are, and the long and oftentimes complicated history behind the practice.

The Forum: Insomnia
October 26 – Decmeber 13, 2024
One hour

Do you find it difficult to get a good night’s sleep? If so, you are not alone. According to the US National Institutes of Health, between 6 and 30 percent of adults suffer from insomnia, or lack of restorative sleep. Since the establishment of sleep medicine a century ago, we have learnt a lot about what causes sleeplessness. And yet, as the never-ending proliferation of sleep aids demonstrates, its prevalence remains high.

Persistent lack of sleep can have serious consequences for your health and yet some writers and other creatives, seem to welcome it. Franz Kafka famously claimed that if he couldn’t pursue his stories through the night, they would “break away and disappear”. Iszi Lawrence discusses the past and present of research into insomnia, and its hold over our imagination with scientists, writers, and BBC News World Service listeners.

Performance Today Survey

Dear Program Director,

Thank you so much for your support and commitment to YourClassical’s Performance Today and our work in delivering music and programming to your audiences. With the announcement of Fred Child stepping down as host of Performance Today in October 2025, we are in the process of collecting listener and station feedback to understand audience behavior and sentiment around the show and how we can continue to deliver quality programing in the future.

We would greatly appreciate your feedback about how you and your audiences listen to Performance Today, what you value, what you might like to see change, and how you engage with the show. Please click THIS LINK to take the survey. You may choose to remain anonymous and results will only be used internally.

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APM Distribution

APM Weekly Sept 16 – 20, 2024

Marketplace (PM)

  • Inflation has fallen to its lowest level since February 2021. The Federal Reserve is poised to announce its first rate cut in four years. On Wednesday, Kai will provide context about the rate change with stories from the housing market, history, and a look at the future of what this means for American economy and consumers.

Marketplace Morning Report

  • Monday September 16: David Brancaccio kicks of Marketplace Morning Report newest series: Office Politics. In the run-up to the election, the Marketplace Morning Report is looking at political polarization in America: in particular how companies intensify or ease political divides by taking sides, taking stands and/or bringing us together. In the first installment of Office Politics, a conversation with a CEO who’s all in for Donald Trump but thinks the polarization has gone too far. Anthony Constantino is founder of Stickermule, a multinational company that does customized, branded merchandise from T-shirts to stickers to hot sauce.
  • Tuesday September 17: Newsmaker interview: Marketplace Morning Report host David Brancaccio speaks with Bill Gates co-founder of Microsoft and co-founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, about the foundation’s annual Goalkeepers report.

Marketplace Tech

  • Tuesday September 17: Meghan McCarty Carino speaks with freelance journalist Steven Brachmann about unauthorized digital replica bans in Tennessee and Illinois.
  • Thursday September 19: Meghan speaks with Bruce Scheier, lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School, about how AI can be used to improve polling.

On Point

  • Monday, September 16: Birth rates in the U.S. have been trending down for decades. Policymakers believe the drivers are cost, inconvenience or even climate change. But could the real reason for falling birth rates be that having children has lost its meaning? And if so, what government interventions, if any, could help change that? We’ll explore this over two days. First with Catherine Ruth Pakukak, an economist and a Catholic mother of eight, who interviewed 55 women from across the U.S. with five or more children for her book, Hannah’s Children, The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth.
  • Tuesday, September 17: We continue the conversation about declining birth rates in the U.S. with Anastasia Berg and Rachel Wiseman. In their book, What Are Children For? On Ambivalence and Choice, they engage literature, philosophy, and anti-natalist texts to try to more deeply understand why people are having fewer children and the role of government to address that.
  • Wednesday, September 18: Many economists are skeptical of Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign promise to give $25,000 to first-time homebuyers, saying it will push up the cost of housing. Florida has had a similar program since 2022. Started by Governor Ron DeSantis, the initiative offers eligible Floridians up to $35,000 in home-purchasing help. We look into some creative solutions to America’s housing crisis.
  • Thursday, September 19: Every presidential path to victory leads through Pennsylvania. It’s no exaggeration to say that the election could be decided by voters in just a handful of Pennsylvania counties. So we’ll get to know one of them, Cambria County in Western PA. (Postponed from last week)

The Splendid Table

September 20 – Repeat episode

We are spending some time with two great friends. Dorie Greenspan is in the house answering your questions. Her latest book is Baking with Dorie. We also spend some time with Abra Berens, chef, former farmer, and award-winning author. Her latest book is Pulp: A Practical Guide to Cooking with Fruit.

Classical

Performance Today

  • Sept 16: A performance of Louise Farrenc’s Sextet in C minor for Winds and Piano, Op. 40 by members of the members of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, from Saint Paul, MN.
  • Sept 17: Concerto Copenhagen performs Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre’s work Cephale et Procris, conducted by Lars Ulrik Mortensen, from Copenhagen, Denmark.
  • Sept 18: Jader Bignamini leads the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Richard Strauss’s Don Juan, Op. 20, from the Kresge Auditorium in Interlochen, MI
  • Sept 19: Cuarteto Latinoamericano performs Joaquin Turina’s La Oracion del Torero, Op.34 (The Bullfighter’s Prayer) from The Henry Morrison Flagler Museum in Palm Beach, FL
  • Sept 20: Jason Vieaux, guitar performs a Waltz in G major, Op. 8, No. 3 by Agustin Barrios from the Brooks Center for the Performing Arts, in Clemson, SC

Classical 24

2024 BBC PROMS HIGHLIGHTS (all times CT)

Sept. 16

  • 10 AM: Sibelius: Symphony No. 5
    (Recorded Aug. 24, Prom No. 45) )
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    Dalia Stasevska, conductor
  • 10 PM: Janacek: Glagolitic Mass
    (Recorded Aug. 28, Prom No. 50)
    Corinne Winters, soprano
    Bella Adamova, mezzo-soprano
    David Butt Philip, tenor
    Brindley Sherratt, bass
    Christian Schmitt, organ
    The City of Prague Philharmonic Choir
    Czech Philharmonic
    Jakub Hrůša, conductor

Sept. 17

  • 10 AM: Kapralova: Military Sinfonietta
    (Recorded Aug. 28, Prom No. 50)
    Czech Philharmonic
    Jakub Hrůša, conductor
  • 10 PM: Stravinsky: Symphony in Three Movements
    (Recorded Aug. 30, Prom No. 53)
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    Martyn Brabbins, conductor

Sept. 18

  • 10 AM: Brahms: Piano Trio No. 2
    (Recorded Aug. 31, Prom No. 54)
    Emanuel Ax, piano
    Leonidas Kavakos, violin
    Yo‐Yo Ma, cello
  • 10 PM: (Extra Eclectic) – Eastman: Symphony No. 2 “The Faithful Friend: The Lover Friend’s Love for the Beloved”
    (Recorded Aug. 24, Prom No. 45)
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    Dalia Stasevska, conductor

Sept. 19

  • 10 AM: Smetana: Ma Vlast: Vysehrad, Vltava, Sarka
    (Recorded Aug. 31, Prom No. 55)
    Berliner Philharmoniker
    Kirill Petrenko, conductor
  • 10 PM: Faure: Requiem
    (Recorded Sept. 4, Prom No. 59)
    BBC Philharmonic
    Stephane Deneve, conductor
    Golda Schultz, soprano
    Jacques Imbraillo, baritone

Sept. 20

  • 10 AM: Ravel: Daphnis and Chloe Suite No. 2
    (Recorded Sept. 4, Prom No. 59)
    BBC Philharmonic
    Stephane Deneve, conductor
  • 10 PM: Tippett: The Midsummer Marriage: “Ritual Dances”
    (Recorded Aug. 30, Prom No. 53)
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    Martyn Brabbins, conductor

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

  • Isata Kanneh-Mason recently appeared in the critically acclaimed film, ‘The Other Mendelssohn.’ The film, produced by the composer’s great-great-great granddaughter, Sheila Hayman, explores the life of Fanny Mendelssohn and reveals the fascinating story behind her, ‘Easter Sonata.’ On Isata’s new recording, ‘Mendelssohn,’ she features, ‘Easter Sonata,’ along with other works by these two creative siblings, Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn.

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

  • A celebration of Black composers: We’ll hear Julius Eastman’s Symphony No. 2 “The Faithful Friend: The Lover Friend’s Love for the Beloved” from the 2024 BBC Proms, as well as works by George Walker, James Lee III, Jeffrey Mumford, Anthony Davis, and Shelley Washington.

Euro Classic
Thurs 12am CT & Sat 8pm CT

  • Sept 19: Antonin Dvorak’s rich Sring Sextet, in a May concert from Croatia.
  • Sept 21: Pianist Yukiko Akagi plays Rachmaninoff’s stormy Piano Sonata No. 2 from an August 2023 concert in Barcelona.

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

  • The story of the Black violinist who inspired Beethoven, George Bridgetower.

Your Classical Discoveries
Sat 4-7pm CT

  • Autumn Leaves: We celebrate the impending arrival of fall with some of the usual suspects (Vivaldi, Grieg, and Glazunov) but also some surprises (Gerald Finzi, Ilmari Hannikianen, Dan Locklair, and more).

APM Presents special of the week

Music for the Days of Awe: An Observance of the Jewish High Holidays

Air Window: Now – September 30, 2024

At this time of year, Jews around the world gather together to celebrate new beginnings. Host Mindy Ratner guides us in a musical observance of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, and Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, known in Hebrew as Yamim Noraim, the Days of Awe. Encore from 2023 Questions? Please contact your Station Representative

APM Presents Fall/Winter 2024 Specials

News / Talk

The Breakthrough of ’48: When Civil Rights Won the White House

  • Broadcast Window: September 26, 2024 – November 6, 2024
  • Description: During this historic presidential election season — when issues of race and states’ rights are prominent themes — comes a compelling radio program that tells the story of President Harry Truman’s dramatic victory as the “candidate of civil rights” and how that victory set the stage for the landmark civil rights laws of the 1960s. Based on veteran journalist Samuel Freedman’s celebrated new book, “Into the Bright Sunshine,” this documentary uses first-person interviews and compelling archival audio to recall a pivotal moment in American history that remains relevant and revealing today.”

Turkey Confidential

  • Broadcast Window: November 27, 2024 – November 28, 2024
  • Description: Turkey Confidential is The Splendid Table’s annual Thanksgiving show. Francis Lam takes calls and comes to the rescue of Thanksgiving cooks, kitchen helpers, and dinner guests during the biggest cooking day of the year. This year’s guests include Paola Velez author of the forthcoming Bodega Bakes: Recipes for Sweets and Treats Inspired by My Corner Store, Joe Yonan author of Mastering the Art of Plant-Based Cooking, Texan chef of Roots Chicken Shack in Dallas, Tiffany Derry, and James Beard award-winning author and cooking teacher, Andrea Nguyen.

Selected Shorts: Holiday Hitches

  • Broadcast Window: December 1, 2024 – January 1, 2025
  • Description: We love the holidays, but sometimes things don’t go as planned. This seasonal special from SELECTED SHORTS, hosted by Meg Wolitzer, offers three tales about uncommon roads travelled by the celebrants. Writers, inlcuding Andy Borowitz, mesh tradition, humor, and family dynamics for the perfect seasonal package.

Music

2024 Remembered from the Current

  • Broadcast Window: December 16, 2024 – January 17, 2025
  • Description: Join The Current in honoring the life, music, and legacy of artists we lost this year with 2024 Remembered from The Current. This two-hour musical tribute is a celebration of all sounds – from indie to influential – and the perfect way for music lovers to unite in paying homage to the artists who have shaped music history.

Classical

Every Good Thing

  • Broadcast Window: November 1, 2024 – November 30, 2024
  • Description: This Thanksgiving, host Andrea Blain and classical music fans from all around the country take time to give thanks and celebrate one of life’s most meaningful gifts: music. It’s Every Good Thing — an hour of stories and music to celebrate Thanksgiving.

This Land: Thanksgiving with The American Sound

  • Broadcast Window: November 1, 2024 – November 30, 2024
  • Description: This land, the physical land called the United States of America, is home to people of a wide range of ethnicities, cultures, races, creeds and genders. This Thanksgiving Day join host Jennifer Hambrick for a musical celebration of the diversity of this land – the varied natural topographies and biospheres, and the many communities that make this land exceptionally rich.

Songs of Thanks

  • Broadcast Window: November 1, 2024 – November 30, 2024
  • Description: Join us for “Songs of Thanks,” an innovative new production by Cantus, presented exclusively by Minnesota Public Radio. Through their signature narrative programming, the acclaimed octet will weave together stories and songs celebrating gratitude and community. Don’t miss this special broadcast, designed to uplift the human spirit and honor the season.

All is Bright

  • Broadcast Window: November 15, 2024 – December 31, 2024
  • Description: All Is Bright, with host Lynne Warfel, offers an hour of gorgeous, contemplative choral music that tells the traditional Christmas story with songs about angels, the star and the manger scene. Featured artists include Cantus, Chanticleer, Cambridge Singers, Bryn Terfel, Emma Kirkby, Jessye Norman, and a variety of choirs. Encore from 2023

A Chanticleer Christmas

  • Broadcast Window: November 29, 2024 – December 31, 2024
  • Description: The beloved, Grammy-winning men’s chorus brings its “rich, intricately blended sound” (The Washington Post) to its signature holiday celebration. The centuries-spanning program ranges from Renaissance masterworks to roof-raising spirituals.

Carols as Home with the Imani Winds

  • Broadcast Window: November 29, 2024 – December 31, 2024
  • Description: Carols as Home features a modern take on classic Christmas carols, hosted by Imani Winds founding oboist, Toyin Spellman-Diaz. Toyin coaxes intimate stories of Christmas memories from the members of the ensemble, and why these classic carols are still essential today.
    Encore from 2023

St. Olaf Christmas Festival 2024: Celebrating 150 Years of St. Olaf College

  • Broadcast Window: November 29, 2024 – December 31, 2024
  • Description: For one and a half centuries, St. Olaf has been a hub of connections, knowledge, and growth. And for more than a century, the St. Olaf Christmas festival has been a cherished part of that history. Join us as we celebrate their legacy.

Three Tales of Christmas with Cantus

  • Broadcast Window: November 29, 2024 – December 31, 2024
  • Description: In Christmas with Cantus, Cantus weaves together three holiday stories with time-honored carols and new classics. Blending narration and song, the program features Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol and Christine Lê’s The Hawai’i Snowman, alongside Mark Twain’s “A Letter from Santa Claus,” offering an opportunity to reflect on the meaning and joy of the holiday season.

Welcome Christmas

  • Broadcast Window: November 29, 2024 – December 31, 2024
  • Description: Welcome Christmas is a perennial Christmas favorite from VocalEssence, one of the world’s premier choral ensembles, conducted by Philip Brunelle and G. Phillip Shoultz. Join host Bonnie North for an hour of traditional carols and new discoveries, including including the world premiere of three beloved Latvian carols by composer Ēriks Ešenvalds.

Carols, Customs and Candlelight: a Celtic Christmas Celebration

  • Broadcast Window: December 1, 2024 – December 31, 2024
  • Description: Listen as host Andrea Blain explores music and customs that have roots in ancient winter celebrations and traditional Christmas festivals. The music features classical ensembles and soloists like Apollo’s Fire and Bryn Terfel, as well as traditional instruments like harp, fiddle and mandolin.

In Winter’s Glow

  • Broadcast Window: December 1, 2024 – December 31, 2024
  • Description: A winter solstice program, with modern classical sounds for the longest night of the year, chosen especially to compliment the chilly, starry nights of the season. Encore from 2023

Candles Burning Brightly

  • Broadcast Window: December 12, 2024 – January 5, 2025
  • Description: A new, delightful hour for everyone to celebrate the Jewish Festival of Lights! Lots of music from Jewish communities around the world, plus a hilarious lesson on how to prepare a classic Chanukah dish, and a timeless and touching holiday story that brings light into every home.

YourClassical Christmas Favorites

  • Broadcast Window: December 16, 2024 – December 31, 2024
  • Description: You ranked your favorite holiday tunes. Now, we’ve tallied the results to create YourClassical Christmas Favorites, an hour holiday special highlighting the top carols based on your votes. hosts Tom Crann and Valerie Kahler.

A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols

  • Broadcast Window:December 24, 2024 – December 25, 2024
  • Description: A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols presents your audience with an opportunity to share in a live, world-wide Christmas Eve broadcast of a service of Biblical readings, carols, and related seasonal Classical music. This special will be presented by one of the world’s foremost choirs of men and boys and performed in an acoustically and architecturally renowned venue, the 500-year-old Chapel of King’s College, Cambridge, England.

Classical APM Monthly – September 2024

C24 Holiday Programming Preview

Thanksgiving 2024
Thanksgiving Eve and Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 27 & 28 – C24 will program festive music to celebrate family, feasting and harvest themes.

Christmas 2024
As in the past, Classical 24 will gradually increase Christmas programming throughout December.

  • Nov 29 – Dec 6: 3-5 minutes of Christmas music per hour
  • Dec 7-13: 5-10 minutes of Christmas music per hour
  • Dec 14-18: 10-15 minutes of Christmas music per hour
  • Dec 19-21: 50% Christmas programming
  • Dec 21: 4pm-6pm CT The Nutcracker ballet with Mindy Ratner
  • Dec 22-25: 100% Christmas programming
  • Dec 24 (Christmas Eve): 6:01pm CT and 9:01 pm CT “The Night Before Christmas,” complete with classical music and sound effects, narrated by C24 host, Lynne Warfel, inside the news holes.

Chanukah 2024
Wednesday, Dec. 25 – Thursday, Jan. 2: Classical 24 celebrates each day of Chanukah with a bit of music to celebrate the Jewish Festival of Lights throughout the Chanukah.

ADDITIONAL HOURS of Holiday Music from C24

All APM affiliates: 8 Hours of Christmas Music
C24 is offering 8 hours of Christmas music hosted by Mindy Ratner. Stations may use these hours to best suit their needs. These evergreen hours will be posted on Content Depot Dec. 1, 2024.

C24 affiliates: 20 Bonus hours at no charge
Remember that if you subscribe to any day part of C24, you are entitled to 20 additional C24 hours per quarter without charge. Many stations use this C24 bonus during the holidays.

Contact your APM Station Relations Rep if you have questions about C24 holiday use.

APM Presents: September Specials

  • Music for the Days of Awe
    Available September 27 – October 31, 2024
    Host Mindy Ratner guides us in a musical observance of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, and Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, known in Hebrew as Yamim Noraim, the Days of Awe.
  • Folk Classics Across the Globe (Encore)
    Available now – September 30, 2024
    Newly recorded versions of folk songs from cultures typically on the fringes of the classical canon.
  • Fur, Feathers and Flutes (Encore)
    Available now – September 30, 2024
    A light-hearted look into the relationship between our pets and music.
  • I Hear America Singing (Encore)
    August 23 – September 30, 2024
    Join Cantus for a joyful examination of the role work has played in our lives in years past and how work might evolve into the future.

Visit our APM Presents webpage for more information on these specials perfect for the summer!

C24 Host News

In October, C24 afternoon drivetime host Jeff Esworthy will retire, changing his status from a full-time host to on-call.

For nearly 30 years, Jeff has kept listeners company sharing his love of classical music including several of those years hosting Music Through the Night. Jeff has been an essential voice on YourClassical with his commitment to his craft, humor, and his deep knowledge of the classical repertoire.

We are so grateful to Jeff and his work with C24. We are also happy that he will be staying with us as an on-call host so that listeners may still occasionally hear him. You may send your congratulations to your Station Relations Rep and we’ll pass them along to Jeff. His last day on air as a full-time host will be October 30th. YourClassical.org will also celebrate him in an article that will be available in October with a more in-depth look at Jeff and his time with C24.

Steve Staruch, a familiar voice, will be the interim afternoon drive host.

SymphonyCast

Coming up on SymphonyCast in September, it’s a wrap to two months of the world’s greatest classical music festival–the BBC Proms! Highlights include Anthony McGill and Mozart’s emotional Clarinet Concerto, the inimitable Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Schoenberg’s Violin Concerto, and an end-of-season party like no other: the Last Night of the Proms! (more below)

Pipedreams

PIPEDREAMS Program #2346 (9/2/24) celebrates the 200th birthday of Anton Bruckner with “A Big Bruckner Bicentennial Bash” featuring transcriptions of movements form his symphonies plus new works commissioned by soloist Hansjörg Albrecht.

PIPEDREAMS Program #2347 (9/9/24) honors the memory of the late, lauded Canadian musician Rachel Laurin (1961-2023), with concert performances and composer comments…Remembering Rachel.

PIPEDREAMS Program #2348 (9/16/24) preludes the upcoming Canadian International Organ Competition (October 17-27) with highlights from the final round and gala awards concert of the 2021 competition and festival.

PIPEDREAMS Program #2349 (9/23/24) honors the centenary of the death of celebrated Irish-English composer Charles Villiers Stanford with a cross-section of his organ and choral music…The Stanford Standard.

Also, check out Pipedreams new video content – visit their Facebook Page or visit YourClassical.org to watch, learn, and listen!

BBC Proms 2024

Proms on C24: C24’s programming will air BBC Proms selections every weekday at 10 am and 10 pm starting on August 19 and running through September 27th. Some hours will contain multiple selections from either the same program or different programs, depending on timing and programmatic elements. We’re delighted to share this beloved annual event with your listeners!

Proms on SymphonyCast: Beginning with the August 5th program and ending with The Last Night of the Proms on the September 30th program, SymphonyCast will once again broadcast the BBC Proms. A full list with dates and details is available here. These programs are available to ALL APM affiliates regardless of your SymphonyCast subscription status. We hope you’ll take advantage of this much-anticipated annual gift to your listeners.

Welcome Additions

  • KHCC (Witchita, KS) – Rhapsody in Black
  • KWRV (Sun Valley, ID) – Performance Today Weekend

News/Talk Monthly: September 2024

The Splendid Table

Get those questions ready! Francis and friends will be taking your kitchen questions all fall including questions for Turkey Confidential! Record a question on your phone using your voice memo app and send it to us at contact@splendidtable.org or leave a voice message at 800-537-5252.

Feel free to copy and share this call for questions with your staff and listeners.

Marketplace

21 Questions with David Brancaccio
Learn some fun facts about Marketplace Morning Report host, David Brancaccio!

How We Survive
Kai Ryssdal will host the new season of the podcast “How We Survive” which launches Sept. 11th exploring what the military is doing to adapt to climate change. Excerpts of the series will air on Marketplace during the season, with the first airing in mid-September.

The Economics of Being Single Panel with Kimberly Adams
Kimberly Adams, co-host of “Make Me Smart” is heading to Denver, Colorado (Colorado Public Radio) on September 23rd for a live show on the Economics of Being Single. In her panel she will speak about the financial challenges of being single and what some wished others knew about being single. Listeners get a chance to submit their questions and may have their video featured at the event!

Marketplace Morning Report
David Brancaccio is on the West Coast this month working on two new reporting projects including Tricks of the Trade where he’ll be paying visits to the wild places known as markets. There, he’ll learn from deal-hardened veterans with long experience about the world of face-to-face human commerce. He’ll visit wholesale car markets, diamond markets, even job markets where people with skills connect with people looking to hire.

Marketplace Tech
Marketplace Tech closed out August on a high with its best performing Tech Bytes episode to date. What Telegram’s CEO’s Arrest Means for Tech has nine thousand views and counting. It’s a great milestone for the show’s video-first segment which began last October.

The limited series Decoding Democracy is back with senior Washington correspondent Kimberly Adams. This season she’ll talk to experts about what online misinformation narratives have emerged in this election cycle and what voters need to keep in mind before Voting Day.

The Daily

Election Coverage
The Daily has focused its energies on the 2024 election including robust coverage of both conventions, Biden’s decision to withdraw, and the launch of the Harris campaign. They sent muscular teams to both the RNC and DNC, along with a host. The result was lively and sophisticated coverage that traced the arc of each week and highlighted the analysis and context available from the NYT newsroom.

In the coming months, they’ll continue that focus with news-oriented episodes — breaking down NYT polling, discussing the debates, covering both campaigns. They ‘re also planning episodes on key issues, such as housing and immigration; companion pieces that explore those episodes through the eyes and voices of voters and partnering with the newsroom on macro issues such as voting access/infrastructure and mis and disinformation.

Staff News
Paige Cowett, a long-time editor, and deputy editor has been promoted to editor of the program. Paige has been with the show since its earliest days and has produced some of its most memorable episodes. She — like so many of the team — began her career in public radio, as a reporter and producer at WNYC. Paige will fill the position after Lisa Chow’s tremendous and meaningful tenure in that role. Lisa will remain with the show — she’s just shifting her focus to making episodes.

The Daily also welcomes Maria Byrne and Chris Haxel to the team. Maria is currently the supervising editor of The Journal from the WSJ, and before that had a long and decorated career at the BBC. Chris joins us from APM Reports. Previously, he worked on longform audio from NPR’s investigations team — including the series No Compromise, which he hosted and reported, and for which he won a Pulitzer.

Coming in September: The Breakthrough of ’48: When Civil Rights Won the White House

A new special from MPR News
Air window: September 26 – November 6, 2024
Length: One hour

During this historic presidential election season — when issues of race and states’ rights are prominent themes — comes a compelling radio program of national significance: “The Breakthrough of ’48: When Civil Rights Won the White House.”

At the 1948 Democratic National Convention, Minneapolis Mayor Hubert Humphrey demanded that his party “walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights.” Southern Democrats defected, creating their own Dixiecrat Party. But President Harry Truman ran for re-election as the candidate of civil rights, and his dramatic victory set the stage for the landmark civil rights laws of the 1960s.

Based on veteran journalist Samuel Freedman’s celebrated new book, “Into the Bright Sunshine,” this documentary uses first-person interviews and compelling archival audio to recall a pivotal moment in American history that remains relevant and revealing today.

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BBC World Service

Three Cities, Three Programs & Three Partners: The BBC US Roadshow
The BBC World Service will be touring the United States in September, bringing audiences live programming from Atlanta (WABE), Portland (OPB) and St. Louis (STLPR).

In the lead up to the US election, and working with partner stations across the US, The Roadshow will feature special broadcasts from Newshour, The Arts Hour on Tour and Unexpected Elements. The roadshow is a partnership between BBC World Service and American Public Media.

Gwenan Roberts, Commissioning Editor, BBC World Service, says: “We are thrilled to announce The Roadshow where we will bring three beloved BBC World Service programmes on a tour of the US, in what is a critical time for the country as it prepares to head to the polls in November.”

“We’ll be taking the temperature of all facets of life in the country by being at the heart of the action and demonstrating the breadth of World Service content across news, culture and science programming.”

Learn more about The Roadshow here.

APM Presents: September Specials

New for September

Continuing in September

For our full list of specials please visit our APM Presents homepage.

Reporting from Marketplace and APM Research Tailored to your Market

It’s not too late to get script-ready analysis of the national monthly jobs and unemployment report tailored to your market for use as web stories, on social media and on-air– just let your Station Relations Rep know and we’ll introduce you to “MERLEN” Marketplace Easily Reportable Localized Economic Numbers, a collaboration by APM Research Lab, Marketplace and APM Distribution.

Our beta group for this project includes KNOW, KCFR, KPCC/LAist, WGCU, WFDD and WVXU. We’re thrilled to contribute to local reporting in this way and hope to expand the program to include YOU!

Welcome Additions

  • WCBU (Peoria, IL) – BBC Newshour
  • WGLT (Bloomington, IL) – BBC Newshour
  • WCMU (Mt Pleasant, MI) – BBC Climate Watch
  • KVPR (Fresno, CA) – BBC Unexpected Elements