Marketplace (PM)

• For about a year now, the federal government has been refilling the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. That is the stash of crude oil the government keeps on hand in case of supply shocks … like, say, recovery from a global pandemic … or Russia invading Ukraine. Both of which prompted the feds to sell off a bunch of the S-P-R to bring down prices. It turns out that oil … isn’t the only thing the government stockpiles. The Pentagon manages the National Defense Stockpile – which is basically just a bunch of commodity metals … sitting in warehouses around the country. Marketplace’s Daniel Ackerman investigated how the stockpile came about, and how it might end up coming in handy.
• Gross domestic product, or G-D-P, plays an outsize role in how we think of what the American economy creates. It’s what the U-S Bureau of Economic Analysis refers to as its “featured measure of production.” That means it’s the headline number when the agency releases data on economic output. This number therefore drives how the media, economists, and policymakers talk and think about how the country is doing. G-D-P accounts for goods and services produced within the U-S’s geographical borders. But until 1991, the government used gross national product, or G-N-P, as its “featured measure.” So, why’d we switch? Marketplace’s Stephanie Hughes talks us through it.

Marketplace Tech

• Monday September 2: Ask an AI chatbot to write you a joke and the result may not be funny enough to deliver on stage in front of a paying audience. But, as the BBC’s Megan Lawton has been finding out, some comedians are still putting the technology to use.
• Tuesday September 3: Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino speaks with Yanely Espinal, host of the Marketplace podcast Financially Inclined, about “dark patterns,” the way that a website is designed to persuade or trick you into giving up something of value.

On Point

• Monday, September 2: Some estimates say artificial intelligence could replace hundreds of millions of jobs in the not-too-distant future. On this Labor Day we revisit our episode looking into why the rapid advances in AI may be the best argument yet for universal basic income.
• Tuesday, September 3: Washington Post personal finance columnist, Michelle Singletary, and Financial Times associate editor, Rana Faroohar – aka On Point’s Money Ladies – are back to answer listener questions about the economy …. from the cost of housing to inflation, and the lasting effects of Covid on all our finances.
• Wednesday, September 4: As colleges navigate how to maintain diverse enrollments and equitable access in a post-affirmative-action world, admissions offices are turning to artificial intelligence for help. What are the pros and cons of relying on AI to determine who does and does not get into college?
• Thursday, September 5: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed shooting over 400,000 barred owls in the Pacific Northwest over the next 30 years to save endangered spotted owls. We explore the ethical quandary of killing one owl species so another can live and whether that will achieve its goal.

The Splendid Table

September 6 – Repeat episode

We are 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.

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Performance Today

• Sept 2: Members of ROCO perform Jennifer Higdon’s Celestial Hymns from Rothko Chapel in Houston, TX
• Sept 3: Calidore String Quartet performs an excerpt from Wynton Marsalis’s String Quartet No. 1, “At the Octoroon Balls” from Fundacion Juan March in Madrid, Spain
• Sept 4: Jaime Martin, conducts the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra in a performance of Juan Pablo Contreras’ “Mariachiara” from Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, CA
• Sept 5: Kristin Lee and Hyeyeon Park perform Pablo de Sarasate’s Zigeunerweisen for Violin and Piano from the Music@Menlo Chamber Music Festival and Institute in Menlo Park, CA
• Sept 6: David Shifrin; Zlatomir Fung and Zitong Wang perform the Brahms Clarinet Trio in A minor at Reed College in Portland, OR as part of Chamber Music Northwest

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2024 BBC PROMS HIGHLIGHTS (all times CT)

Sept. 2

• 10 AM: Schumann: Genoveva Overture
  (Recorded Aug. 7, Prom No. 25)
  BBC Philharmonic
  John Storgårds, conductor
• 10 PM: Sibelius: Pohjola’s Daughter
  (Recorded Aug. 7, Prom No. 25)
  BBC Philharmonic
  John Storgårds, conductor

Sept. 3

• 10 AM: Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 9 (Jeunehomme)
  (Recorded Aug. 9, Prom No. 27)
  Seong-Jin Cho, piano
  BBC Symphony Orchestra
  Sakari Oramo, conductor
• 10 PM: Debussy: String Quartet
  (Recorded Aug. 11, Prom Belfast)
  Van Kuijk Quartet
  Debussy: String Quartet

Sept. 4

• 10 AM: Wagner: Flying Dutchman Overture
  (Recorded Aug. 10, Prom No. 30)
  The National Youth Orchestra
  Alexandre Bloch, conductor
• 10 PM: (Extra Eclectic) – Jenkins: Stravaganza
  (Recorded Aug. 12, Prom No. 32)
  Jess Gillam, soprano saxophone
  BBC National Orchestra of Wales
  Nil Venditti, conductor

Sept. 5

• 10 AM: Beethoven: Symphony No. 7
  (Recorded Aug. 12, Prom No. 32)
  BBC National Orchestra of Wales
  Nil Venditti, conductor
• 10 AM: Grace Williams: Concert Overture
  (Recorded Aug. 12, Prom No. 32)
  BBC National Orchestra of Wales
  Nil Venditti, conductor
• 10 PM: Vaughan Williams: A London Symphony (excerpt)
  (Recorded Aug. 13, Prom No. 33)
  BBC Symphony Orchestra
  Martyn Brabbins, conductor

Sept. 6

• 10 AM: Elgar: Cockaigne Overture
  (Recorded Aug. 13, Prom No. 33)
  BBC Symphony Orchestra
  Martyn Brabbins, conductor
• 10 PM: Strainvsky: Firebird Suite (1945 version)
  (Recorded Aug. 18, Prom No. 38)
  BBC Symphony Orchestra
  Tianyi Lu, conductor

CELEBRATING ANTON BRUCKNER’S 200TH BIRTHDAY ON THE DAILY DOWNLOAD – 11 AM CT

Anton Bruckner was born on September 4, 1824, and each Daily Download this week (Sunday-Friday on C24 at 11 am CT) features a different movement from a Bruckner symphony, as well as a choral download on Sunday:

• Monday 9/2: Symphony No. 4, 3rd movement
• Tuesday 9/3: Symphony No. 7, 3rd movement
• Wednesday 9/4: Symphony No. 0, 4th movement (not a typo…!)
• Thursday 9/5: Symphony No. 9: 2nd movement
• Friday 9/6: Symphony No. 8: 4th movement
• Sunday 9/8: Tota pulchra es

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

• Jan Vogler and the world premiere recording of a cello concerto by Enrique Casals, Pablo’s brother! This orchestra is a group of 50 young musicians from around the globe…including Russia and Ukraine. Vogler is a cellist who is never afraid to be adventurous!

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

• A World Premiere from the Proms: Karl Jenkins’s Stravaganza for soprano saxophone and orchestra from the BBC Proms, featuring Jess Gillam. Also, another Proms selection by the late Kaija Saariaho, music by John Adams, Sofia Gubaidulina, and more.

Euro Classic
Thurs 12am CT & Sat 8pm CT

• Sept 5: Celebrating the 200th birthday of Anton Bruckner with a complete performance of his Symphony No. 3, in concert from March with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Stockholm.
• Sept 7: Violinist Bin Chao plays Edouard Lalo’s “Symphonie Espagnole” from a September 2023 concert with the Gulbenkian Orchestra of Lisbon.

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

• A profile of British pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason.

Your Classical Discoveries
Sat 4-7pm CT

• Back to School: Music about (and by) teachers and students, including Britten’s “Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra,” Haydn’s “Schoolmaster” Symphony, and more.

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APM Presents special of the week

Love Across the Divide

Air Window: Now – November 15, 2024

Do two people need to be aligned politically to have a deep connection and strong romantic bond? Can one truly be considered liberal if they habitually swipe left on conservatives? In this special, Dating While Gray host Laura Stassi talks to older Americans as well as experts about ideological differences and their role in making and maintaining romantic connections.

Questions? Please contact your Station Representative.

Marketplace (PM)

Next week, Marketplace continues our Breaking Ground coverage with a focus on broadband.

• Monday August 26: The Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment Program provides $42.45 billion to expand high-speed internet access across the country. This funding is subject to the “Build America, Buy America” domestic content requirement. Kai visits the Prysmian fiber/cable manufacturing facility in Claremont, North Carolina for a look at the broadband supply chain for part 1 of our coverage
• Tuesday August 27: For the second episode in our broadband coverage, Kai heads to Kentucky visiting Meghan Sandfoss, who leads the state’s broadband office, and Chip Spann, the federal official from the NTIA stationed in Kentucky, about the federal/state partnership and getting the broadband funding out on the ground.
• Wednesday August 28: For the third episode in our broadband coverage, Kai visits McKee, the county seat of Jackson County in Kentucky. The rural town of 800 people has been completely connected to fiber since 2014.

Marketplace Morning Report

• Monday August 26: Ghost jobs: Last week’s (8/22) unemployment report showed continuing claims reached their highest level since 2021. This is revealing a trend in some people being out of work and staying out of work for the long haul. Many of these workers are complaining that they apply for dozens, if not HUNDREDS of jobs, only to be constantly rejected or see the jobs fall off and get re-posted. The Marketplace Morning Report looks at the trend of ghost jobs, especially in the tech industry, and how it is affecting the long-term unemployed.

Marketplace Tech

• Monday August 26: Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino speaks with Adi Robertson, senior tech and policy reporter at The Verge, about GROK and its latest AI image generator update.
• Tuesday August 27: Meghan McCarty Carino speaks with Aaron Mackey, Electronic Frontier Foundation, about recent ruling of the California Age Appropriate Design Code Act + other states’ laws on age assurance.

On Point

Next week On Point brings you another opportunity to hear our landmark series, Elements of Energy: Mining for a Green Future, telling the story of critical elements essential to the production of the batteries, turbines, and motors that will power a clean energy future.

Digital assets for the series are available to download here.

• Monday, August 26: 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.
• Tuesday, August 27: 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.
• Wednesday, August 28: 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
• Thursday, August 29: 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?
• Friday, August 30: 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

August 30 – New episode

This week we are talking to two culinary preservationists from opposite sides of the world. Karla Tatiana Vasquez is author of The Salvisoul Cookbook, Salvadoran Recipes and the Women Who Preserve Them and Thai food scholar Austin Bush, author The Food of Southern Thailand.

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Performance Today

• August 26: Flutist Amelia Lukas and pianist Stewart Goodyear perform music by Tania Leon at Chamber Music Northwest at Reed College in Portland, OR.
• August 27: Mei-Ann Chen conducts Awadagin Pratt and the Minnesota Orchestra in a performance of Jessie Montgomery’s Rounds for Piano and Strings from Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis, MN
• August 28: David Neely conducts National Orchestral Institute Philharmonic in a performance of Florence Price’s Symphony No. 3 from the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center in College Park, MD
• August 29: Simone Dinnerstein performs excerpts of Robert Schumann’s Kreisleriana from Spivey Hall at Clayton State University in Morrow, GA.
• August 30: Host Fred Child talks with acclaimed pianist Jonathan Biss

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2024 BBC PROMS HIGHLIGHTS (all times CT)

August 26

• 10 AM: Ravel: Piano Concerto
  (Recorded Aug. 1, Prom No. 17)
  Denis Kozhukhin, piano
  Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
  Vasily Petrenko, conductor
• 10 PM: Ives: Three Places in New England
  (Recorded Aug. 1, Prom No. 17)
  Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
  Vasily Petrenko, conductor

August 27

• 10 AM: Debussy: Nocturnes
  (Recorded Aug. 1, Prom No. 17)
  Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
  Vasily Petrenko, conductor
• 10 PM: Tchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini
  (Recorded Aug. 1, Prom No. 17)
  Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
  Vasily Petrenko, conductor

August 28

• 10 AM: Dvořák: String Quartet No. 13
  (Recorded Aug. 4, Prom Newport)
  vision string quartet
• 10 PM: (Extra Eclectic) – Marsalis: Herald, Holler and Hallelujah
  (Recorded Aug. 4, Prom No. 21)
  Sinfonia of London
  John Wilson, conductor

August 29

• 10 AM: Copland: Billy the Kid Suite
  (Recorded Aug. 4, Prom No. 21)
  Sinfonia of London
  John Wilson, conductor
• 10 PM: Elgar: Cello Concerto
  (Recorded Aug. 3, Prom No. 19)
  Senja Rummukainen, cello
  BBC Symphony Orchestra
  Sakari Oramo, conductor

August 30

• 10 AM: Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances
  (Recorded Aug. 5, Prom No. 23)
  London Philharmonic Orchestra
  Edward Gardner, conductor
• 10 PM: Busoni: Piano Concerto (4th and 5th movements)
  (Recorded Aug. 5, Prom No. 23)
  Benjamin Grosvenor, piano
  The Rodolfus Choir
  London Philharmonic Choir
  London Philharmonic Orchestra
  Edward Gardner, conductor

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

• The Danish String Quartet’s new album, “Keel Road,” is grounded in Nordic folks’ music traditions.

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

• Getting in the spirit: We will hear Wynton Marsalis’s “Herald, Holler, and Hallelujah” from the BBC Proms, as well as Carlos Simon’s Concerto for Orchestra called “Wake Up!” and John Adams’s “Hallelujah Junction.”

Euro Classic
Thurs 12am CT & Sat 8pm CT

• August 29: Tchaikovsky’s massive Symphony No. 5 is featured from a June concert at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, Germany.
• August 31: Stephen Hough plays Rachmaninoff’s “Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini” from a February concert in Oslo, Norway.

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

• A profile of Jimi Hendrix.

Your Classical Discoveries
Sat 4-7pm CT

• August Birthdays: As is tradition on the last Saturday of the month, we celebrate that month’s classical music birthdays.

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APM Presents special of the week

I Hear America Singing

Air Window: 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. Encore from 2023

Questions? Please contact your Station Representative.

Marketplace (PM)

• Kai talks to New York Magazine staff writer Reeves Wiedeman about the rise of NDAs, both in work and in personal lives.
• The Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment Program provides $42.45 billion to expand high-speed internet access across the country. As part of our reporting about broadband in Kentucky, Kai talks with Debra Lawson at the Spencer County Library.

Marketplace Morning Report

• Aug 19 – 23: Marketplace reporter Nova Safo will be in Chicago all week for the Democratic National Convention. He will spend time looking into underreported economic stories that impact both delegates at the convention and citizens across the country.

Marketplace Tech

• Monday August 19: Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino speaks with Caroline Mimbs Nyce about her piece in The Atlantic that argues why Apple’s Screen Time monitor is the worst feature the company ever made.
• Tuesday August 20: Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino speaks with Megan Lin, Chandra X-Ray Observatory, about the 25th anniversary of the Chandra x-ray space telescope and its latest “face lift”.

The Daily

• We’re sending Sabrina and a full production team to the DNC next week. We expect to produce several episodes related to the convention.
• We’ll start the week with a profile of Kamala Harris. The guest will be Astead Herndon, who has reported extensively on Harris. The episode will look back on her career, key moments that tell us about her as a leader, about her values, and about how she makes decisions. We expect this can offer the audience context and depth. We expect most of the convention will be dedicated to telling her biography and story — and defining her identity with voters.
• On Tuesday, we’ll likely devote an episode to Joe Biden. The show will examine the unusual and impactful decision he made to relinquish the nomination, and how that will be reflected in the architecture and events of the convention. This will follow on the heels of Monday, when Biden is expected to address the convention, and have a presence, before reportedly promptly leaving and remaining absent for the balance of the week. We’ll examine how his decision continues to reverberate in the party and the race, how the party is still reckoning with it, how he is personally, and the presence he stands to be in the remainder of the election and in the half a year while he is still president.
• We anticipate a likely episode that will reflect on the recent weeks of events as Ukraine has made its military incursion into Russian territory and analyze those events within the larger context and course of the war.

On Point

***Meghna Chakrabarti is away. Tiziana Dearing hosts Monday to Friday.***

• Monday, August 19: For three years, hundreds of people in Texas and Illinois received payments of $1,000 a month, no strings attached. It was the biggest study of its kind into the impact of guaranteed income. And after eight years of research – the results are in. We find out what was learned from the largest study on guaranteed income programs to date.
• Wednesday, August 21: Both VP nominees JD Vance and Tim Walz claim to represent the Midwest and the people that live there. Both claim to know what midwestern people “are actually like” and what they want from policy and politicians. Yet they paint different portraits of what it means to be a Midwesterner, and what values unite Midwesterners.We explore what both parties think is the Midwestern Identity and what policies they aim to implement to support the heartland.
• Friday, August 23: The morning after Kamala Harris’ speech at the Democratic National Convention we ask what was at stake for this speech, whether it delivered, and what it says about the Democratic nominee.

The Splendid Table

August 23 – Repeat episode

We’re going deep into pizza this week with the charming Nathan Myhrvold, founder of Modern Cuisine and co-author of the ground-breaking Modernist Pizza. We’re answering listener questions, talking about real-life pizza-making strategies, and looking at pizza traditions all over the globe. And then we turn to journalist Liana Aghajanian to talk about the emotional and cultural connection to a very particular pizza.

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Performance Today

• August 19: Fred Child in conversation with our latest PT Young Artist in Residence, clarinetist Najee Greelee
• August 20: Johannes Moser and Marc-Andre Hamelin perform Claude Debussy’s Cello Sonata in D minor at Spivey Hall at Clayton State University in Morrow, GA
• August 21: East Coast Chamber Orchestra performs Max Bruch’s String Octet in B-flat major from the Skaneateles Festival in Skaneateles, NY
• August 22: Lio Kuokman leads the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland in a performance of Tchaikovsky’s 1st Symphony
• August 23: Gabriela Montero performs Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor at the Prager Family Center for the Arts in Easton, MD

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2024 BBC PROMS HIGHLIGHTS (all times CT)

August 19

• 10 AM: Brahms: Symphony No. 3, Prom 9
  BBC Scottish Symphony/Ryan Wigglesworth
  Performed 7/25/24
• 10 PM: Verdi: Requiem – Libera me, Prom 6,
  BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales
  Crouch End Festival Chorus
  Latonia Moore, soprano
  Performed 7/23/24

August 20

• 10 AM: Tailleferre: Little suite for orchestra
  Proms at Sage Gateshead
  Royal Northern Sinfonia/Dinis Sousa
  Performed 7/26/24
• 10 PM: Schoenberg: Transfigured Night, Prom 9
  BBC Scottish Symphony/Ryan Wigglesworth
  Performed 7/25/24

August 21

• 10 AM: Sibelius: Violin Concerto
  Proms at Sage Gateshead,
  Royal Northern Sinfonia/Dinis Sousa;
  Alena Baeva, violin
  Performed 7/26/24
• 10 PM: (Extra Eclectic) – Cheryl Frances-Hoad: Cello Concerto “Earth, Sea, Air” Prom 10
  BBC Scottish Symphony/Ryan Wigglesworth
  Laura van der Heijden, cello
  Performed 7/29/24
• 10 PM: (Extra Eclectic) – Erkki-Sven Tüür: Aditus, Prom 14
  BBC Symphony/ Paavo Järvi
  Performed 7/29/24

August 22

• 10 AM: Dvorak: Symphony No. 8
  Proms at Sage Gateshead,
  Royal Northern Sinfonia/Dinis Sousa
  Performed 7/26/24
• 10 PM: Britten: Symphonic Suite from ‘Gloriana’, Prom 10
  BBC Scottish Symphony/Ryan Wigglesworth
  Performed 7/26/24

August 23

• 10 AM: Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 ‘Emperor’, Prom 14
  BBC Symphony/ Paavo Järvi
  Yunchan Lim, piano
  Performed 7/29/24
• 10 PM: Cassandra Miller: Viola Concerto “I cannot love without trembling” Prom 16
  BBC Philharmonic/John Storgards
  Lawrence Power, viola
  Performed 7/29/24

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

• Soprano Karen Slack and pianist Michelle Cann’s new album “Beyond the Years” features songs by Florence Price.

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

• 2024 BBC Proms: We’ll hear two exciting performances of new music at this summer’s Proms – Erkki-Sven Tüür’s “Aditus,” and Cheryl Frances-Hoad’s Cello Concerto “Earth, Sea, Air.” Also, modern takes on hymns and chorales by Jessie Montgomery, Nico Muhly, Dobrinka Tabakova, and more.

Euro Classic
Thurs 12am CT & Sat 8pm CT

• August 22: The Nash Ensemble takes us to Spain with Joaquin Turina’s “Scene Andalouse,” from a February concert in London.
• August 24: The Vienna Piano Quartet plays Brahms’s epic Piano Quartet No. 1 in a June performance from the studios of Czech Radio in Prague.

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

• A profile of Imani Winds.

Your Classical Discoveries
Sat 4-7pm CT

• Summer Fairs: As summer ends, we pay tribute to all the great county and state fairs that happen all around the country, with music about animals, carnivals, food, and general revelry.

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APM Presents special of the week

Love Across the Divide

Air Window: August 23 – November 15, 2024

Do two people need to be aligned politically to have a deep connection and strong romantic bond? Can one truly be considered liberal if they habitually swipe left on conservatives? In this special, Dating While Gray host Laura Stassi talks to older Americans as well as experts about ideological differences and their role in making and maintaining romantic connections.

Questions? Please contact your Station Representative.

Marketplace (PM)

• Monday, August 12: It’s been a tough handful of years for Chinatown, which faced more hate crimes, received fewer PPP loans, and recovered more slowly compared to other parts of the city since the pandemic. Now, Chinatown is facing a succession plan problem. One of the only working-class neighborhoods left in Manhattan, the number of seniors in Chinatown has increased more than 20 percent in the last decade, according to the nonprofit Welcome to Chinatown. The stakes are high: Investors are waiting to buy out the real estate, which will inevitably change it (the Asian population has already declined more than 20% in the last decade). And a big reason why succession planning is so difficult is because Asian-Americans are still a comparatively new population in the US, most of the business owners are immigrants who have raised more educated kids who don’t want to take over. Marketplace’s Kristin Schwab reports.
• Kai talks to Atlanta Fed President Raphael Bostic ahead of the Jackson Hole Economic Symposium.

Marketplace Morning Report

• David Brancaccio speaks with the editor-in-chief of The Economist magazine for a check-in on the big economic stories.
• New York is often called the city that never sleeps. But that technically isn’t true, with the last orders at 4 am. Only Berlin and Tokyo truly have a claim to that title as both legally serve alcohol 24 hours a day. One place hoping to join them is Montreal in Canada. As the city prepares to open curfew free zones.

Marketplace Tech

• Tuesday August 13: It wasn’t that long ago that people were discussing whether generative AI had the capacity to replace people. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino speaks with Journalist Evan Ratliff, who replaced himself with a series of AI voice clones to see if it was able to interact with customer service representatives, therapists, and scammers in his new podcast, “Shell Game.”
• Thursday August 15: Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino speaks with Megan Lin, Chandra X-Ray Observatory, about the 25th anniversary of the Chandra x-ray space telescope and its latest “face lift.”

On Point

• Monday, August 12: It’s been a month since former President Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt. What do we know about how this happened and more importantly what went wrong? We take a deep dive into the long simmering troubles inside the Secret Service.
• Tuesday, August 13: Wildfires have become a year-round reality for the western United States, but “wildfires” may no longer accurately describe what’s happening anymore. As summer becomes the season of “firestorms,” On Point examines the conditions out West driving firestorms to be the new norm.
• Thursday, August 15: On Point is a winner of the national Edward R. Murrow award, one of broadcast journalism’s highest honors. ProPublica is an independent, nonprofit, investigative newsroom and a seven-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Now our two teams are coming together for a special ongoing collaboration, bringing you ProPublica’s groundbreaking investigative reporting combined with On Point’s incisive analysis. We bring you the first episode of that collaboration Thursday.
• Friday, August 16: Economists talk about the “real economy” when talking about job numbers, the stock market, the GDP. There is also the “felt economy” or how people feel about the economy in their lives. But isn’t the felt economy the real economy? We take a closer look at the effect of the felt economy in the lives of Americans.

The Splendid Table

August 16 – New episode

Chef Ashley Christensen is in the house to take your summer cooking questions with Francis this week. Ashley is the award-winning chef of Poole’s Diner, and Death and Taxes in Raleigh, North Carolina and the author of Poole’s: Recipes and Stories from a Modern Diner and Its Always Freezer Season. Then, we’ve a delicious homage to Hippie food with Jess Damuck author of Health Nut, A Feel-Good Cookbook.

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Performance Today

• August 12: Pianist Stewart Goodyear performs at Chamber Music Northwest at Reed College in Portland, OR.
• August 13: Excerpts from Anton Bruckner’s Symphony No. 8 in C minor performed by Lucerne Festival Orchestra conducted by Yannick Nezet-Seguin, from the Lucerne Festival, in Lucerne, Switzerland.
• August 14: Tessa Lark performs Eugene Ysaye’s Violin Sonata No. 4 in E minor from the Hamilton College, Performing Arts Series in Clinton, NY.
• August 15: Inon Barnatan performs Franz Schubert’s Moments musicaux from Spivey Hall at Clayton State University in Morrow, GA.
• August 16: Daniil Trifonov performs a Piano Concerto by Mason Bates with the Orchestra of the National Academy of Santa Cecilia in Rome, Italy.

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

• Sharon Isbin/Amjad Ali Khan/Amann Ali Ali Bangash/Amit Kavthekar – Live in Aspen (Zoho) This recording was released just in time for the 75th anniversary of the Aspen Music Festival, which is currently happening through August 18th.

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

• A Night Out: “You Come Here Often?” It’s not a question, it’s the name of a piece for piano by conductor and composer Michael Tilson Thomas. We’ll hear it along with Paul Schoenfield’s “Café Music” and John Adams’s Saxophone Concerto in the first hour of the program. In the second hour, reflections on the afterlife from Steven Mackey, Caroline Shaw, Olivier Messiaen, and more.

Euro Classic
Thurs 12am CT & Sat 8pm CT

• August 15: Richard Strauss’s “Death and Transfiguration” from a June concert in Cologne, Germany.
• August 17: The Leos Janacek International Music Festival in Ostrava, CZ, is celebrating the “Year of the Czech Composer,” in 2024 and we’ll hear Czechia’s most famous native son, Antonin Dvorak’s F major violin sonata from a June concert at the festival.

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

• A profile of ‘Chi-Chi’ Nwanoku, founder of the Chineke! Orchestra.

Your Classical Discoveries
Sat 4-7pm CT

• Water Music: There is no shortage of classical music about the substance that makes up two-thirds of our own bodies. We’ll hear some of the usual suspects like Handel’s “Water Music,” as well as surprises by Clive Richardson, Juventino Rosas, guitarist Mark Small, and more.

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APM Presents special of the week

Early Risers: Breaking Silence

Air Window: now – September 4, 2024

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?

Questions? Please contact your Station Representative.

On Point’s Elements of Energy: August 26 – 30, 2024

On Point will rebroadcast its Elements of Energy series the week of August 26th. In this series, 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.

Download the digital assets for the series for web and social media.

The Splendid Table

Who hosts The Splendid Table and is also a new judge on PBS’ The Great American Recipe? Francis Lam, of course! Check out this delightful sneak peek at Season 3 of The Great American Recipe where Francis is introduced as one of the judges and then hop on over to The Splendid Table to hear Francis and his guests discuss everything from gas station food to women beermakers to how food and wine defines national cultures. Every week, Francis serves up a modern, multicultural snapshot of the food world – exploring cultures, cuisines and ideas, as well as the small personal stories that come out of the expansive world of food. If you haven’t listened lately, it’s time you did!

Marketplace

The Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment Program, part of the infrastructure package, provides $42.45 billion to expand high-speed internet access across the country. This funding is subject to the “Build America, Buy America” domestic content requirement.

In August (anticipated week of 8/26 but subject to change), Marketplace will broadcast three stories diving deep into broadband coverage and fiber:

• For the first episode of their broadband coverage, Kai visits the Prysmian fiber/cable manufacturing facility in Claremont, North Carolina for a look at the broadband supply chain.
• For the second episode, Marketplace speaks to Meghan Sandfoss, who leads the state’s broadband office, and Chip Spann, the federal official from the NTIA stationed in Kentucky, about the federal/state partnership and getting the money out in Kentucky.
• For the third episode, they visit McKee, the county seat of Jackson County. This rural county has been completely connected to fiber since 2014.

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

A new special from MPR News
Air window: October 3 – 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.

Subscribe on ContentDepot

BBC World Service

NEW– Topline Zero
Topline Zero is now available in ContentDepot. Like Toplines 1-6, it is a 1:29 feed of the world’s most important unfolding stories, curated for U.S. audiences and made to complement your schedule and the Morning Edition® clock. Available from 5:18-5:52 am ET Monday through Friday. To learn more about Topline Zero and the existing feeds Toplines 1-6, visit apmdistribution.org. This program is included as part of your BBC subscription.

NEW– BBC’s Unexpected Elements
Check out the BBC’s new fun and engaging 1-hour science program now available on Content Depot for your automating ease! Satisfy your listeners requests for MORE SCIENCE with Unexpected Elements— The news you know, the science you don’t. Unexpected Elements looks beyond everyday narratives to discover a goldmine of scientific stories and connections from around the globe. This program is included as part of your BBC subscription.

• Check out the sizzle reel
• Listen to a sample episode here

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APM Presents: August Specials

New for August

• Off the Path
  Available now – September 30, 2024
• Love Across the Divide
  Available August 23 – November 15, 2024

Continuing in August

• Inheriting: Nicole and the Third World Liberation Front
  Available now – September 30, 2024
• Selected Shorts: Wishful Thinking
  Available now – August 31, 2024
• Call to Mind Mental Health Awareness Series
  Available now – August 31, 2024
• Early Risers: Breaking Silence
  Available now – September 4, 2024

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

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Get Localized Reporting from Marketplace and APM Research Labs

If you’d like 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, let your Station Relations Rep know. APM Research Lab, Marketplace and APM Distribution are testing the viability of a project we’ve internally code-named MERLEN– Marketplace Easily Reportable Localized Economic Numbers. Over the next several months we intend to expand to other data sets, possibly including housing starts, gross domestic product, poverty rates, and inflation reports.

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!

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Welcome Additions

• WXLJ (Whitehall, NY) – BBC Newshour, BBC The Arts Hour, Marketplace Morning Report, The Splendid Table
• KERA (Dallas, TX) – BBC Topline
• KCUR (Kansas City, MO) – THe Daily
• KNOW (Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN) – Marketplace Morning Report
• KJZZ (Phoenix, AZ) – BBC Overnights
• KSMF (Ashland, OR) – Marketplace PM
• KHCC (Wichita, KS) – BBC The Newsroom, BBC World Business Report, BBC Weekend Insights, BBC Unexpected Elements
• WCVE (Richmond, VA) – BBC Unexpected Elements
• WPLN (Nashville, TN) – BBC Newshour