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.

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.

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.

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.

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.