APM Weekly Sept 25 – 29

News

Marketplace

Marketplace (PM)

  • Kai talks to Lillian-Yvonne Bertram about their book of poems, “Negative Money.”
  • Kai talks to Patrick Smith, a hops and apple farmer in Yakima, Washington about how his farm has been doing.

Marketplace Tech

  • Wednesday Sept 27: Marketplace’s Lily Jamali speaks with Marcin Wichary, author of the book Shift Happens, about the century-and-a-half-long story of typewriters and keyboards.
  • Thursday Sept 28: Lily Jamali speaks with Nature science journalist Miryam Naddaf about the EU’s 10 year long Human Brain Project

On Point

**Meghna Chakrabarti hosts Monday through Wednesday, and Friday. Deborah Becker hosts Thursday.**

  • Monday, September 25: Ice and minerals on the Moon could help humanity travel to space’s distant planets and asteroids, and potentially meet all of Earth’s energy needs. But which countries and companies should get the right to extract those resources?
  • Wednesday, September 27: Behind the UAW strike, now entering its second week, is something much larger than a dispute over pay or benefits, or how companies should spend ‘record profits.’ For the auto companies this is a fight for the future of the auto industry itself which is increasingly, and maybe inevitably, going electric.
  • Thursday, September 28: The HIV treatment and prevention program known as PEPFAR is credited with saving 25 million lives. Now a small group of House Republicans are threatening its reauthorization. What’s at stake?

Arts and Culture

Splendid Table

September 29 – Repeat episode

We are Frenchified this week as we head into the kitchen with legendary chef Jacques Pépin to talk about his book: Art of the Chicken. Then we turn to French baking with Aleksandra Crapanzano author of Gateau: The Surprising Simplicity of French Cakes.

Performance Today

  • Music for Yom Kippur
  • A performance by the quartet Espressivo from Jacksonville Beach, Florida
  • Simin Ganatra and John Novacek perform at the Music in the Vineyards Festival at Silverado Vineyards in Napa, CA
  • The Dali Quartet performs at the Hamilton College Performing Arts Series
  • Gloria Chien and Soovin Kim perform with East Coast Chamber Orchestra at Reed College in Portland, OR
  • A performance honoring the harvest moon by the Apollo Chamber Players, playing music by Jerod Impichchaachaaha Tate.

APM Presents special of the week

My Journey, Yours: A Cantus Immigration Special

Air Window: October 1 – November 30, 2023

My Journey Yours, a program of works anchored by Elise Witt’s piece of the same name, explores the courage of those who leave their homes in search of a brighter future and how they adapt to their new homeland. This program honors the struggle, courage, and deep humanity of migration with music from around the world, as well as a newly-commissioned piece by Melissa Dunphy, one of today’s most compelling compositional voices.

Questions? Please contact your Station Representative.

APM Weekly Sept 18 – 22

News

Marketplace

Marketplace (PM)

  • Kai talks to Kashmir Hill about her new book “Your Face Belongs to Us.”
  • Microsoft’s new AI tool for Microsoft Office is called “Co-Pilot”, evoking images of a friendly assistant there to help you safely land YOUR plane…not take over the cockpit. Google has gone with “Bard”, OpenAI “ChatGPT”…Marketplace’s Matt Levin looks at how companies are thinking about naming and branding their consumer facing AI tools. It’s a unique marketing challenge: Getting people to use your tool, without fearing it.

Marketplace Morning Report

  • Beginning Tuesday September 19th, Marketplace Morning Report will feature a series focused on tipping culture in the U.S, UK, and South Korea. We will explore the economics behind tipping, situations when it’s ok to not tip, who really benefits from new wellness charges and other additional fees that pop up on restaurant bills, how to navigate tipping fatigue, and more.

Marketplace Tech

  • Monday September 18: Marketplace’s Lily Jamali speaks with Lauren Goode, senior writer at Wired, about whether smartphone technology has peaked.
  • Tuesday September 19: Lily Jamali speaks with Semafor politics reporter Dave Weigel about whether tech is part of current presidential candidates platforms and campaigns.
  • Wednesday September 20: Private companies are racing to develop the tech for earthquake warning and alert systems. Investment used to be only funded by governments, but now that’s changing. The BBC’s Will Bain reports.

On Point

  • Monday, September 18: There’s growing momentum for U.S.-brokered negotiations to normalize relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel. We explore what’s at stake for the countries involved and what it could mean for the region.
  • Tuesday, September 19: With disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried just a couple of weeks away from going on trial, Bloomberg investigative journalist Zeke Faux joins Meghna to explain how Bankman-Fried fits into the full story of crypto and how so many others have made and lost billions out of something completely intangible. Faux has done extensive reporting on the boom and bust of crypto for his new book, ‘Number Go Up: Inside crypto’s wild rise and staggering fall’.
  • Wednesday, September 20: In the 1960s, there were advocates who wanted everyone to have access to psychedelics. There were also researchers who thought psychedelics should stay in the lab. Now, with psychedelics growing in popularity and inching towards legalization, in this reprise episode, we explore how the tensions between access, money and research are back too.
  • Thursday, September 21: Communities across the country are wiping out people’s medical debt. But they are not paying medical providers directly, instead they are paying debt collectors who have bundled these debts and are selling them to make a profit. On Point explores where this debt buying industry comes from, how it works, who benefits and who loses from it.

The Daily

Stories this week will include:

  • The rise and path to ubiquity for the drug Ozempic
  • An intimate look at the evolution of the Ukraine drone attack program
  • Writer Paul Tough will talk about Americans’ changing view of college

Arts and Culture

Splendid Table

September 22 – New episode

It’s an hour devoted to your questions this week and Francis gets some help from Jewish food writer Adeena Sussman author of Shabbat, Recipes and Rituals from My Table to Yours and JJ Johnson author of The Simple Art of Rice, Recipes from Around the World, For the Heart of Your Table.

Performance Today

  • Michelle Merrill leads ROCO in a performance of Louise Farrenc’s Symphony No. 1 in C minor from Houston
  • Daniela Liebman performs Prokofiev’s Sonata No. 3 in Jacksonville, Florida
  • Jason Vieaux performs works by Joaquin Rodrigo with the Williamsburg Symphony Orchestra
  • All-star performances of works by Ginastera from Festival Mozaic
  • A performance of Joseph Suk’s Piano Quartet in A Minor from Chamber Music Northwest

APM Presents special of the week

How to LA: DACA

Air Window: September 25 – November 30, 2023

In this one hour special, host Brian De Los Santos, a DACA recipient, talks about the hurdles and risks associated with leaving the U.S. and what it meant to go back to Mexico for the first time in 30 years – a place he may not be able to go back to again as DACA and a path to citizenship are in limbo.

Questions? Please contact your Station Representative.

BBC Monthly: October 2023 Docs & Specials

Coming in October 2023

Doc picks BBC Monthly docs and specials are here.  

October 1973 – The War That Changed Everything
September 30 – November 15
One hour

Michael Goldfarb tells the story of the war that began on the 6th October 1973 and ended less than three weeks later – yet somehow the Israeli and Arab states combatants, as well as the rest of the world, still live with the aftermath today.

World Book Club: Michael Chabon
October 7 – October 31
One hour

American writer Michael Chabon talks about his 2001 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay.

Other People’s Children
October 21 – November 15
One hour

Namulanta Kombo hears the stories of domestic workers who spend years away from their homes and families, caring for other people’s children. They talk about the thrill of watching someone else’s child take their first steps, and the challenges of keeping your family together when you’re thousands of miles apart.

APM Presents Fall and Holiday Specials

See below for all Q2 specials and visit our website for more.


News / Talk

How to LA: DACA

  • Broadcast Window: September 25, 2023 – November 30, 2023
  • Description: In this one hour special, host Brian De Los Santos, a DACA recipient, talks about the hurdles and risks associated with leaving the U.S. and what it meant to go back to Mexico for the first time in 30 years – a place he may not be able to go back to again as DACA and a path to citizenship are in limbo.

L.A. Made: The Barbie Tapes

  • Broadcast Window: September 25, 2023 – November 30, 2023
  • Description: LA Made: The Barbie Tapes tells the backstory of the world’s most popular doll, Barbie. Barbie is a cultural icon but what do you really know about her? Learn Barbie’s origin story from the people who created her. Co-hosted by Antonia Cereijido and M.G. Lord, author of Forever Barbie: The Unauthorized Biography of a Real Doll, hear the wild stories from the never-before-heard tapes of interviews with Barbie inventor Ruth Handler, her wardrobe designer and the sculptors and fabricators, and the innovative marketers who made her what she is today.

Substance Use & New Paths to Recovery

  • Broadcast Window: October 1, 2023 – December 31, 2023
  • Description: Addiction is at an all-time high in the United States and the results are deadly. This program shares the experiences of people who are managing substance use disorders, and leading experts working to transform the substance use disorder treatment field while decriminalizing the conversation about addiction disorders.
    Encore from January 2023

Turkey Confidential

  • Broadcast Window: November 22, 2023 (3pm ET) – November 23, 2023
  • 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 program will be file based for 2023 and going forward.

The One Recipe Holiday Special

  • Broadcast Window: December 1, 2023 – January 1, 2024
  • Description: Join host Jesse Sparks for a holiday edition of The Splendid Table’s newest “podbaby,” The One Recipe. Jesse talks to culinary superstars about their “One,” the recipe that signals the holiday has begun! They’ll get into traditions and food with influences from all over the world and leave you with recipes that could jumpstart your own festivities! It’s delicious eating all month long. Guests to be announced in late September.

Selected Shorts: Unwrapping the Holidays

  • Broadcast Window: December 1, 2023 – January 1, 2024
  • Description: Host Meg Wolitzer presents three unexpected stories that let us see the holidays’ associations—family, friends, food, gifts, and goodwill—in different ways. Selections from Amy Krouse Rosenthal, Sherrie Flick, and John Cheever will be read by Jayne Atkinson, James Naughton, Adina Verson and Teagle F. Bougere.

Get Your Money Life in Order

  • Broadcast Window: December 14, 2023 – February 29, 2024
  • Description: From Marketplace, listen as host Reema Khrais helps listeners get their financial life together in time for the new year. She’ll unpack some practical tips, share a personal money story that is sure to captivate, and interview a financial therapist to get some useful tips for understanding our relationships with money. This hour will make listeners laugh, gasp, and think about money in a whole new way.

Musical / Classical

2023 Remembered from the Current

  • Broadcast Window: December 13 – January 15, 2024
  • Duration: Two hours
  • Description: Join The Current in honoring the life, music, and legacy of artists we lost this year with 2023 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. Each hour will be discrete.

Reclaiming the Sound Waves: with Connor Chee

  • Broadcast Window: October 1 – November 30, 2023
  • Duration: One hour
  • Description: Navajo pianist and composer Connor Chee has embarked on a mission to translate traditional Navajo vocables to the modern piano. Host Scott Blankenship talks with Chee about his artistic process, the importance of preserving Navajo music for future generations, and the Land Back movement. Music includes solo piano compositions from Chee’s recordings, plus the premiere of Unbroken: Music for the Navajo Code Talkers, commissioned by American Public Media. Encore from July 2023

My Journey, Yours : A Cantus Immigration Special

  • Broadcast Window: October 1 – November 30, 2023
  • Duration: One hour
  • Description: My Journey Yours, a program of works anchored by Elise Witt’s piece of the same name, explores the courage of those who leave their homes in search of a brighter future and how they adapt to their new homeland. This program honors the struggle, courage, and deep humanity of migration with music from around the world, as well as a newly-commissioned piece by Melissa Dunphy, one of today’s most compelling compositional voices.

Every Good Thing

  • Broadcast Window: November 3 – November 27, 2023
  • Duration: One hour
  • Description: On Thanksgiving, host Andrea Blain and classical music fans from all around the country take some 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.

Giving Thanks

  • Broadcast Window: November 3 – November 27, 2023
  • Duration: One and two hour versions available
  • Description: Giving Thanks shares music and stories that reflect the meaning of gratitude. And this year for its 25th anniversary Giving Thanks presents the best moments of a quarter century of guests, including Stanley Tucci, Anne Lamott, Deepak Chopra, and many more.

A Winter’s Solstice

  • Broadcast Window: December 1 – December 31, 2023
  • Duration: One hour
  • 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.

This is Christmas with the Imani Winds

  • Broadcast Window: December 1 – December 31, 2023
  • Duration: One hour
  • Description: Join us for a new Christmas special featuring the Imani Winds. More details will be released later in the fall.

Candles Burning Brightly

  • Broadcast Window: December 1 – December 31, 2023
  • Duration: One hour
  • Description: A delightful hour for everyone to celebrate the Jewish Festival of Lights! There is lots of music from Jewish communities worldwide, a hilarious lesson on preparing a classic Hanukkah dish, and a timeless and touching holiday story that brings light into every home.
    Encore from 2022

Montserrat Boy Choir (Escolania de Montserrat)

  • Broadcast Window: December 1 – December 31, 2023
  • Duration: One hour
  • Description: Perched atop the mountains near Barcelona, the choir of the Benedictine Abbey of Santa Maria de Montserrat is one of Europe’s oldest and most prestigious boy choirs. For the first time in their 800-year history, the choir made its Midwest premiere. Bringing with them a message of peace, the choristers will use music to transcend borders and speak directly to your heart.

Welcome Christmas

  • Broadcast Window: December 1 – December 31, 2023
  • Duration: One hour
  • Description: There’s no better way to welcome Christmas than Welcome Christmas!, the VocalEssence holiday concert. It’s an hour of joyful, classic holiday music from VocalEssence, one of the world’s premiere choral groups, singing traditional carols and new discoveries.

All is Bright

  • Broadcast Window: December 1 – December 31, 2023
  • Duration: One hour
  • 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. Updated for 2023

Carol Countdown

  • Broadcast Window: December 15 – December 31, 2023
  • Duration: Two hours
  • Description: Join us this holiday season as we count down the top christmas songs as voted by you in a two-hour special.

MN Orchestra New Year’s Celebration

  • Broadcast Window: December 15 – January 15, 2024
  • Duration: Two hours
  • Description: Ring in the new year with the Minnesota Orchestra! The program opens with Bernstein’s animated Overture to Candide. Awadagin Pratt performs the Minnesota premiere of Jessie Montgomery’s Rounds for Piano and Orchestra, a work written for him. A New Year’s celebration wouldn’t be complete without adventure and passion, and the Orchestra brings that in multitudes in Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s beloved Scheherazade. Encore of 2022 live performance.

St. Olaf Christmas Festival

  • Broadcast Window: December 18 – December 31, 2023
  • Duration: To be confirmed
  • Description: The St. Olaf Christmas Festival has become one of the nation’s most cherished holiday celebrations. Started in 1912 by F. Melius Christiansen, founder of the St. Olaf College Music Department, the festival includes hymns, carols, choral works and orchestral selections celebrating the Nativity. It features the St. Olaf Choir, the St. Olaf Orchestra, the St. Olaf Cantorei, the St. Olaf Chapel Choir, the Manitou Singers and the Viking Chorus, performing as individual groups and as a massed ensemble.

A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols

  • Broadcast Window: December 24 – December 25, 2023
  • Duration: Two hours, beginning at 10 AM ET
  • 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.

APM Weekly Sept 11 – Sept 15, 2023

News

Marketplace

Marketplace (PM)

  • Kai talks with Janet Freilich, a professor of Law at Fordham University about patents in the age of AI.
  • We check in with our retail small business folks in Tulsa, Jackson, and Seattle.

Marketplace Morning Report

  • Marketplace and BBC reporters will be covering the various new regulations and antitrust cases facing tech companies both in the US and abroad.

Marketplace Tech

  • Monday September 11: Marketplace’s Lily Jamali speaks with Susan Orlean, The New Yorker, about her recent article about miracle kitchen technologies that promise to make cooking more efficient.
  • Wednesday September 13: Lily Jamali speaks with Nature science journalist Miryam Naddaf about the EU’s 10 yearlong Human Brain Project.

On Point

  • Monday, September 11: Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution bars from office any public official involved in an insurrection. Some legal thinkers – including some leading conservative ones – argue that applies to Donald Trump. But can legal reasoning withstand political reality when it comes to the former president and leading GOP contender?
  • Tuesday, September 12: It’s estimated that 300 million jobs worldwide could be lost to Artificial Intelligence in the near future. That could involve a massive dislocation of people losing their ability to make ends meet, and their sense of purpose. How do we prepare for that future? People need a sense of security. Maybe Universal Basic Income willI be part of the answer. Meghna turns to one of her favorite sci-fi series to help explore that.
  • Wednesday, September 13: At the end of the month – millions of pandemic dollars that were earmarked for childcare will expire. Consequently, providers might be forced to raise tuition for parents, take fewer kids or even close their doors. What will this funding disruption mean for an already hurting industry?
  • Friday, September 15: A slew of recent studies have shown rising cancer rates in adults younger than 50, particularly among women and people in their 30s. We look into what’s behind this reported increase.

Arts and Culture

Splendid Table

September 15 – Repeat episode

We’re looking at women and beermaking this week. First, Theresa McCulla, curator of the American Brewing History Initiative at The Smithsonian, explains why beer is a great lens for examining American history. Then Atinuke Akintola Diver talks about her feature-length documentary This Belongs to Us, chronicling Black women brewers in the American south. And finally, we get beer and food pairings from Stephanie Grant of Good Beer Hunting.

Performance Today

  • Castalian String Quartet performs Fanny Mendelssohn’s Quartet in E-flat major from Spivey Hall at Clayton State University
  • Sphinx Virtuosi perform Heitor Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No 9 at the Brooks Center for the Performing Arts at Clemson University
  • Timothy McAllister performs a saxophone recital at Interlochen
  • Music by Agustin Barrios, performed by Jason Vieaux presented by Chamber Music Northwest
  • A concert highlight from Lviv National Philharmonic Orchestra of Ukraine’s recent US tour, conducted by Theodore Kuchar and presented by the Catskill Mountain Foundation

APM Presents special of the week

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

Air Window: Now – October 31, 2023

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).

Questions? Please contact your Station Representative.

APM Weekly: September 4 – September 8, 2023

News

Marketplace

Marketplace (PM)

  • Kai talks to Adriana Samper, Associate Professor of Consumer Behavior and Marketing at Arizona State University, about trending ways to justify unnecessary spending.
  • Kai talks with Austan Goolsbee, President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and voting member of the FOMC.

Marketplace Tech

  • Monday September 4: A few weeks after its launch, Germany’s financial regulator BaFin has launched an investigation into Worldcoin, the digital currency project co-founded by Sam Altman. Meanwhile, in Kenya, the government has ordered a halt to new user sign-ups for Worldcoin’s crypto project, citing data privacy fears. So what’s all the hype about? The BBC’s Leanna Byrne went to a scanning center in London to find out.
  • Tuesday September 5: Generative artificial intelligence is expected to change the workplace but how businesses and workers see it in the U.S. versus China is very different. Lily Jamali speaks with Marketplace’s China correspondent Jennifer Pak about her reporting on this.

On Point

  • Monday, September 4: When dozens of companies in the UK experimented with a four-day work week, employers and employees loved it. Most are sticking with it. In this rebroadcast episode, so that we at On Point can enjoy a four-day week, we ask could a routine four-day work week work in the US?
  • Tuesday, September 5: Even though the economy is doing better, few Americans say they’re better off financially this year than they were last year. We explore what’s behind the pessimism Americans have about their own financial lives.
  • Thursday, September 7: As Congress returns from summer recess one of their big priorities is to reauthorize the farm bill before September 30th – something they have to do every five years. We hear from a North Dakota rancher about why he thinks the farm bill has a “destructive impact on rural America” and from Rep. Earl Blumenauer. The Oregon Democrat has devoted 26 years to trying to improve the farm bill. He introduced his latest alternative, the Food and Farm Act, earlier this year.

Arts and Culture

Splendid Table

September 8 – New episode

We’re talking apples this week with Diane Flynt author of Wild, Tamed, Lost, revived: The Surprising Story of Apples in the South and then we turn to another local crop, mezcal with Gary Paul Nabhan and David Suro authors of Agave Spirits The Past, Present, and Future of Mezcals.

Performance Today

  • A new performance of the Piano Quintet in C minor by Ralph Vaughan Williams from the most recent Spoleto Festival in Charleston, South Carolina
  • A recent performance of the Schubert Unfinished Symphony from Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Louis Langree
  • Orli Shaham and The Parker Quartet perform Ignaz Lachner’s arrangement of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No 17 in G Major from the University of Georgia
  • A performance of the Shostakovich sonata for cello and piano from Tippet Rise Music Festival by Sterling Elliott and Wynona Wang
  • Joyce Yang performs Edvard Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A minor with The Nashville Symphony, conducted by Giancarlo Guerrero
  • The world premiere performance of a new work by Wan Jie performed by the Apollo Chamber Players in Houston

APM Presents special of the week

Witness: The Labor Movement

Air Window: Now – September 30, 2023

A collection of stories related to strikes, campaigns and successes for workers rights around the world. Pulled from the BBC’s Witness History program, this specially-curated hour will bring first-hand accounts of significant moments in the labor movement from the US, UK and elsewhere.

Questions? Please contact your Station Representative.

APM Weekly: August 28 – September 1, 2023

Below you will find the latest upcoming program updates for the week ahead. PLEASE NOTE: All details are subject to change. Additional details will be shared via ContentDepot as they become available.

Use the links below to visit our dedicated program pages, where you’ll find show logos, digital assets and more.


News

Marketplace

Marketplace (PM)

  • Kai talks to Heather Boushey, member of Pres. Biden’s Council of Economic Advisors and Chief Economist of the Investing in America Cabinet.
  • Inflation is easing, but every consumer sentiment survey indicates we’re still aghast about rising prices. Part of this is our consumer brains are still using pre-COVID prices as a benchmark When will our brains adjust to higher prices to gauge what’s a bargain? Marketplace’s Matt Levin reports.

Marketplace Tech

  • Monday August 28: Marketplace Tech’s Lily Jamali speaks with Marketplace Morning Report’s David Brancaccio about MMR’s recent Skin in the Game series.
  • Wednesday August 30: Lily Jamali speaks with Brittany Hawkins, Co-Founder and CEO of ELANZA Wellness, about investment in women’s health startups.
  • Friday September 1: Lily Jamali speaks with Signal President Meredith Whittaker about the UK’s Online Safety Bill and the potential ramifications for messaging app users around the world.

On Point

  • Monday August 28: The West African country of Niger has been a bright spot of democratization and key to U.S. efforts against jihadi terrorist groups across sub-Saharan Africa. How will the coup in Niger impact its people, the region and the world?

  • Tuesday, August 29: There are various statewide efforts to decriminalize sex work in the U.S. But not all current or former sex workers share the same goals. In fact, in many states, they are actually fighting against each other. Why?

  • Wednesday, August 30: House Republicans have announced their plan to fight climate change: plant a trillion trees. While some scientists support a version of this plan, others say it distracts from the more fundamental goal of reducing our reliance on fossil fuels.

  • Friday, September 1: In a world where we emphasize productivity and even celebrate busyness, is constant fatigue inevitable? In this rebroadcast conversation, Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith teaches us how to learn and practice meaningful rest. Repeat episode

Arts and Culture

Splendid Table

September 1 – Repeat episode

It’s dads and kids this week with Kenji López-Alt of Serious Eats and his latest project, Every Night is Pizza Night. He’ll be taking your calls with Francis about cooking with and feeding. The dynamic duo, David Chang and Chris Ying join us to talk about their podcast show, DADS, devoted to dads and their offspring. David Chang’s new book is Eat a Peach, A Memoir. Chris Ying’s latest with Ivan Orkin is Gaijin Cookbook: Japanese Recipes from a Chef, Father, Eater and Lifelong Outsider.

Performance Today

  • Randall Goosby and Zhu Wang perform at Honest Brook Music Festival in Delhi, NY
  • Stephen Hough performs at Spivey Hall at Clayton State University in Morrow, GA
  • Sharon Isbin joins us to talk about her Strings for Peace project
  • Anthony McGill joins Fred as co-host and performs with the Pacifica Quartet
  • Lakes Area Music Festival Orchestra performs Mahler’s symphony 4 at their most recent festival in Brainerd, MN

APM Presents special of the week

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

Air Window: September 1 – September 30, 2023

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).

Questions? Please contact your Station Representative.

BBC Monthly: September Docs & Specials

Coming in September 2023

Doc picks BBC Monthly docs and specials are here.  

Witness History: The Labor Movement
August 28– September 30
One hour

A collection of stories related to strikes, campaigns and successes for workers’ rights around the world. Drawn from the BBC’s Witness History program, this specially-curated hour will bring first-hand accounts of significant moments in the labor movement from the US, UK and elsewhere.

Heart and Soul: Faith, terrorists and mercy at Guantanamo Bay
September 15 – October 6
Half hour

Dr Jennifer Bryson interrogated suspected Al-Qaeda terrorists at the infamous Guantanamo Bay. She worked at the detention centre in Cuba for two years and says that some of the inmates bragged openly about helping to organise the terrorist attacks of 9/11.

After some time, she started to feel uneasy about some of the ‘enhanced interrogation’ methods she was asked to approve.

What are the moral challenges of this work for a person of faith?

Global News Podcast special: AI: Who Cares?
September 16 – October 6
One hour

Nick Miles will be joined by the BBC’s technology editor Zoe Kleinman and a panel of experts to discuss how AI fits into health, the environment, justice, and the workplace. We will be taking questions from people all over the world as well as from our live audience.


Visit BBC Partners for detailed program descriptions, new program rundowns, content downloads, and more.

Questions about BBC docs and specials? Please contact your Station Representative.

Visit our website to learn more about BBC World Service programs, digital offerings and newsletters.

APM Weekly Aug 21 – 25

News

Marketplace

Marketplace (PM)

  • Generative artificial intelligence tools are keeping a lot of businesses and workers on their toes. First sector to be hit is the video game sector in China and now movies and animation. Marketplace’s Jennifer Pak reports.
  • Kai talks to Erin Lyndon, president of Poker Power, about the goal of teaching one million women to play poker as a way to close the achievement gap on Wall Street.

Marketplace Morning Report

  • David Brancaccio will speak with Marketplace’s senior economics contributor Chris Farrell about whether or not concerns about an artificial intelligence speculative bubble are justified.
  • Sabri Ben-Achour will speak with The Economist magazine’s Vijay Vaitheeswaran for a status update on carbon capture technology, and a check-in on the broader ecosystem of technological advancements for fighting climate change.

Marketplace Tech

Monday August 21: Marketplace’s Lily Jamali speaks with Katie Paul, Tech Transparency Project, about how YouTube disabling some users’ video recommendations could decrease the algorithm pushing problematic videos.

On Point

On Point brings you a week of wonder: A curation of shows from the past year reveling in the wonder of the world we live in. Over the course of the week, we explore what captivates our mind, illuminates our humanity and both delights and confounds us.

Digital assets to promote this special series are available here.

  • Monday August 21: Earth needs darkness just as much as it needs light. We learn how human light pollution is pushing back the dark and changing the natural world.
  • Tuesday August 22: What if you could taste the world’s electrical fields? Hear vibrations in a leaf? See magnetic currents guiding you home? Science writer Ed Yong helps us perceive the world the way animals do – through eyes, ears, antennae and more.
  • Wednesday, August 23: How do you find deep happiness? Researcher Dacher Keltner tells Meghna the answer is to seek and experience more awe.
  • Thursday, August 24: Parasites are the cause of numerous debilitating diseases, so it’s easy to think of them as doing no good. But, as we hear in this episode, losing parasites could have devastating consequences for our ecosystem.
  • Friday, August 25: Many of us turn to music to feel better. But music can also help us physically heal. We hear how studies show that music can affect our blood pressure and our heart rate – and even help us manage pain.

Arts and Culture

Splendid Table

August 25 – Repeat episodeWe’re spending the hour talking about summer produce and gardening. Chef Abra Berens, author of Ruffage: A Practical Guide to Vegetables, teams up with Francis to answer listener questions, and we talk to Leah Penniman of Soul Fire Farm about the intersection of community farming and social justice.

Performance Today

  • Lysander Trio plays Dvorak’s Piano Trio No. 3 at Cooperstown Summer Music Festival
  • Joshua Bell, violin and Peter Dugan, piano perform Beethoven’s Violin Sonata No. 7 at Spivey Hall in Morrow, GA
  • An all-star group performs the Mendelssohn String Quintet No. 2 at the Seattle Chamber Music Society
  • ROCO performs at St. John the Divine, Houston, TX, conducted by Delyana Lazarova
  • Anthony McGill and Gloria Chien perform the first movement of Carl Maria von Weber’s Grand Duo Concertante

APM Presents special of the week

I Hear America Singing

Air Window: now – September 30, 2023

As in all aspects of our culture, music has been a part of work every step of the way. Today, both the advent of remote-work and the emerging question of universal basic income are creating new paradigms and discussions about the meaning of work. Join Cantus for I Hear America Singing, a joyful examination of the role work has played in our lives in years past and how work might evolve into the future.

Questions? Please contact your Station Representative.

A word from Jonathan Dyer, EP of On Point: August 15, 2023

Greetings,

I hope you have been having a fine summer and have been able to take some time off to get away from this relentless news cycle, to a lake or the ocean or your favorite place to decompress. At On Point, we’ll take a week off from our live show production next week and what we have planned for that week we hope will be a much needed treat for your listeners. More on that later.

But first I want to share the news that On Point is now heard on more public radio stations than ever before. APM tells me that as of June 30th On Point was carried on 342 public radio stations. The last two digits seemed familiar. A quick check confirmed that since being recast as a single topic conversation, guided by Meghna Chakrabarti, over the course of one hour, back in October 2020, On Point has picked up an even 100 stations! We could not be more delighted nor honored. But that nice round number hasn’t lasted long, because by the time you read this, it will be 101 thanks to WUWM. After trying out various shows and soliciting feedback from its listeners, we’re honored that Milwaukee selected On Point for its weekday schedule. The depth we bring to each show was a signature element from the start — and as On Point has evolved from one driven by the daily news agenda, we have also worked to ensure a breadth of topics across the week. I was speaking recently with the editor in chief of a national publication who told me how much he loved the range of topics we cover. As he put it, “Things that interest you which are consequential.” And that pretty much sums it up. With just five topics or stories each week, we get to be choosy. It does have to interest us. It does have to be consequential. It does have to be something that we can advance over the course of an hour that other shows with different formats and cadences could not.

And that means we give a lot of thought to how On Point connects to the news cycle. Many stations don’t broadcast us live at 10 a.m. Eastern. It’s important that we are just as relevant to people who hear us at 2 p.m. or 7 p.m. as we are to those who listen at 10 a.m. Our mantra is that On Point prioritizes being news relevant, over news reactive. Whether listeners have heard All Things Considered followed by Morning Edition, or Morning Edition followed by All Things Considered it’s important that we are distinctive and additive in our listeners’ lives, not repetitive. I’m looking forward to diving into this topic further at the upcoming Public Radio Content Conference in Philadelphia where I’ll be moderating a panel on how local talk shows define their editorial identity and relationship with the daily news cycle. Joining me on the panel will be WUNC Program Director, Terry Gildea, and Catie Talarski, Senior Director of Storytelling and Radio Programming at Connecticut Public. If the prep call we had last week is anything to go by, it’ll be a fascinating conversation! And if you’re attending the Content Conference in person, I really hope you will also be able to join us at the On Point breakfast earlier the same day. Look out for an invite to that from APM. I hope to see you there!

And before I sign off, that much needed treat for your listeners when On Point takes a week off from live production next week is something we are calling On Point’s Week of Wonder. It’s a curation of five shows from the past year exploring and reveling in the wonder of the world we live in. From the transformational power of awe to the healing power of music. It might just be the audio tonic for our times.

Hope to see you in Philly!

Jonathan Dyer
Executive Producer, On Point