Marketplace (PM)

• The Federal Reserve begins its two-day meeting on Tuesday, with their decision about interest rates expected on Wednesday. You’ve heard us talk a lot in the last couple of years about the Fed’s efforts to bring inflation down, and you probably know what its target rate is… two percent. You’ve also heard us talk about how the Fed has a dual mandate, price stability (or – keeping inflation down), and maximum employment. So, what’s the Fed’s target for maximum employment? Turns out – it’s complicated. Marketplace’s Samantha Fields reports.

Marketplace Tech

• Tuesday July 30: Marketplace’s Lily Jamali speaks to Annie Gilbertson, Proof News, about her recent investigation into AI companies using YouTube videos to train AI models.
• Wednesday July 31: Marketplace’s Lily Jamali speaks with Heather Woods about her new book, “Threshold: How Smart Homes Change Us Inside and Out.”

On Point

***Meghna Chakrabarti hosts Monday – Wednesday. Deborah Becker hosts Thursday & Friday.***

• Monday, July 29: Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and historian Anne Applebaum joins Meghna for a conversation about her new book, ‘Autocracy Inc.: Dictators Who Want to Run the World’ and her call for the democracies to fundamentally reorient their policies to fight a new kind of threat.
• Tuesday, July 30: Black voters propelled Joe Biden’s candidacy in 2020. And Democrats are hoping they can do it again for Kamala Harris in 2024, particularly Black female voters. So, how are organizers mobilizing this specific demographic just days into the campaign.
• Wednesday, July 31: J.D. Vance has been linked to “The New Right,” a rag-tag band of conservative intellectuals and activists. We look into this ascendant school of thought — and find out how it has influenced the Republican vice-presidential candidate’s beliefs
• Thursday, August 1: Tourism accounts for one in ten jobs worldwide but at the same time can drive out locals and degrade what makes somewhere so great to visit in the first place. So, how can governments encourage the right kind of tourism? And what does it look like when they do.

The Splendid Table

August 2 – Repeat episode

This week we’re looking at how food defines who we are and where we come from with Anya von Bremzen, author of National Dish: Around the World in Search of Food, History and the Meaning of Home. And then we turn to the national drink of Argentina with Tomás Martín Sanchez of Mate & Co.

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Classical

Performance Today

• July 29: World Premiere of Eleanor Alberga’s Piano Concerto performed by Alim Beisembayev and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
• July 30: Brandon Patrick George and Mahan Esfahani perform music by J.S. Bach at the San Antonio Chamber Music Society in San Antonio, TX
• July 31: Organist Daryl Robinson and the Apollo Chamber Players perform a new work by Wang Jie from Rice University in Houston, TX.
• August 1: Augustin Hadelich performs Sergei Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor, with the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra conducted by Sir Donald Runnicles from Grand Teton Music Festival in Jackson Hole, WY.
• August 2: Music inspired by the 100th birth anniversary of James Baldwin

Classical 24

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

• Musical partners: Duos and duets, featuring the Concierto Ecuanime for guitar and vibraphone by Javier Lopez de Guerena, Richard Danielpour’s “In the Arms of the Beloved,” and works by Steve Reich and Jessie Montgomery.

Euro Classic
Thurs 12am CT & Sat 8pm CT

• August 1: Violinist Ana Maria Valderrama and pianist David Kadouch play Reynaldo Hahn’s rarely heard Violin Sonata in C from a May concert in Madrid.
• August 3: The buoyant and triumphant Symphony No. 3 by Jean Sibelius, in concert from March with the Polish National Radio Orchestra.

Your Classical Discoveries
Sat 4-7pm CT

• Competition and Fanfare: As we mark the midway point of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, we’ll hear music about sports, triumph, and competition, including Michael Torke’s “Javelin,” John Williams’s “Olympic Fanfare,” and much more.

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APM Presents special of the week

Off the Path

Air Window: August 5 – September 30, 2024

Follow host Davis Dunavin as he travels the coast from New York to Boston, looking for unusual stories and fascinating histories — including nautical tales of sea monsters and pirates.

Questions? Please contact your Station Representative.

BBC

BBC Paris Update

A 3-minute round up of the day’s action from the Paris Olympics. A century since it last hosted the Olympics, Paris is set to welcome another summer of sport with the 2024 Olympics. The City of Light will play host to the best of the world’s in the biggest sporting event ever held in France. BBC Paris Update will have the latest results and stories as athletes bid for gold and a place in Olympic history.

If you are interested in carrying this module, please contact your Station Rep by July 25 and they can get the files to you. **You must sign up ahead of time in order to gain access to the files**.

Broadcast Details:
Available daily Monday 25 July to Sunday 11 August
Duration: 3 minutes
Broadcast window: : daily from 19:00 ET/23:00 GMT until 05:00 ET/09:00 GMT the following day

Marketplace

Marketplace (PM)

• Ocean shipping costs have doubled, even tripled this year. The reason is a perfect storm of disruptions around the world and feared disruptions closer to home. Marketplace’s Sabri Ben Achour delves into the diverse drivers straining the global network of ocean trade.
• In May, NVIDIA purchased its 8-building, futuristic HQ in Santa Clara for $374 million– 6 parcels of land, 8 buildings, 2 parking structures and 2 million SQ of future development rights. It’s a massive footprint, but it’s just one of the ways NVIDIA is increasingly looming over the Bay Area—it’s already been based and expanding on this site since 1998. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino looks at the local effects of NVIDIA, now a massive landowner, and its seemingly unstoppable growth.

Marketplace Tech

• Monday July 22: Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty speaks with Theo Wayt, The Information, about the EU scrutinizing Amazon’s recommendation algorithms and the potential impacts that may have for the e-commerce giant.

On Point

It’s On Point’s second annual Week of Wonder: five curated archive episodes exploring and reveling in the wonder of the world we live in.

• Monday, July 22: It’s Day 1 of On Point’s Week of Wonder. Today, the Great Salt Lake is central to environmental and economic life in Utah. It holds great religious significance too. But it’s rapidly drying up. What would it take to save the Great Salt Lake?
• Tuesday, July 23: Day 2 in On Point’s Week of Wonder. In places where human beings have done everything they can to pave and plow over nature, what might happen if we just left those places alone? Meghna speaks with the owner of a country estate in England who takes us inside the “rewilding” movement.
• Wednesday, July 24: On Point’s Week of Wonder continues with the mystery of UFOs, or as the government calls them now – UAPs – Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon. We hear about 75 years of UFO history, government secrecy, and government mistrust.
• Thursday, July 25: On Point’s Week of Wonder embraces uncertainty. No matter how much order, sense, or predictability we try to bring to our lives, uncertainty and the anxiety it can create are always there. Researchers say, that’s actually a good thing. We find out how we can learn to love uncertainty.
• Friday, July 26: On Point’s Week of Wonder wraps up with celebrated author Amy Tan. She doesn’t just write best-selling novels, she’s a passionate birder, too. Her book, ‘The Backyard Bird Chronicles’, describes the wonder she sees looking right outside her own windows.

Digital assets for the series are available to download here.

The Splendid Table

July 26 – Repeat episode

This week we talk to comedian and podcast host Jamie Loftus about her new book, Raw Dog, The Naked Truth About Hotdogs and then dive deep into the most welcome of Mexican parties, the asada with Bricia Lopez author of Asada: The Art of Mexican Style Grilling.

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Classical

Performance Today

• July 22: Dora Pejacevic’s Piano Quartet, Op. 25, performed at the Society for Chamber Music in Rochester, NY
• July 23: Hannu Lintu conducts The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra in a performance of John Corigliano’s Symphony No. 1 from Powell Hall in St. Louis, MO
• July 24: Inon Barnatan, Augustin Hadelich, Efe Baltacigil perform Ravel’s Piano Trio in A minor at The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center in La Jolla, CA
• July 25: Anthony McGill and Gloria Chien perform the Clarinet Sonata No. 1 in F minor by Johannes Brahms, from Reed College in Portland, OR
• July 26: West-Eastern Divan Ensemble performs George Enescu’s Octet in C-Major for Strings from the University of Georgia Performing Arts Center in Athens, GA

Classical 24

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

• Percussive Sounds: hammers, mallets and much more, with works by Andy Akiho, Lou Harrison, and Ying-Hsueh Chen.

Euro Classic
Thurs 12am CT & Sat 8pm CT

• July 25: Bedřich Smetana’s Piano Sonata performed by Matouš Zukal, from the 44th Smetana Days Festival in Pilsen, Czech Republic.
• July 27: Johannes Brahms’ summery Symphony No. 2, from a concert this past winter by the Janáček Philharmonic led by Lucie Leguay.

Your Classical Discoveries
Sat 4-7pm CT

• July Birthdays: celebrating composers born in July, including Ottorino Respighi, Mauro Giuliani, and Leoš Janáček.

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APM Presents special of the week

Fur, Feathers and Flutes

Air Window: now – September 30, 2024

We all know that Classical music can calm us – and our pets! We also know that there’s a special connection we have with our pets. Do our pets have a special connection with Classical music? We think so! On Fur, Feathers and Flutes, you’ll hear stories of composers who loved their pets along with music inspired by their furry friends. Encore from May 2024

Questions? Please contact your Station Representative.

Marketplace (PM)

• Kai talks to Rogé Karma, staff writer at The Atlantic, about his story looking at what interest rates do in the economy.
• We may be slightly biased here, but part of the reason audio is clearly the best medium to work in…the sound of the human voice can tell you so much more about a person than just words. A pregnant pause here, some nervous laughter there, maybe a resigned sigh or two…all breadcrumbs for a deeper understanding of how someone is feeling. Now obviously guessing someone’s emotions from how they sound is an imperfect science at best. But there’s some folks in the artificial intelligence world trying to make it more perfect…Marketplace’s Matt Levin takes us on a tour of “emotionally intelligent” AI.

UPS series

• July 15: UPS’ newest warehouse, called Velocity, is not your typical ant farm of workers on forklifts and pushing handcarts. This facility has more robots than humans – Roomba-like gadgets that zip around the space. It’s one aspect of a big system that allows the company to achieve its same day delivery service. In part one of this two-part series, senior reporter Kristin Schwab visits the warehouse UPS will model all of its future warehouses after and get a detailed look at how you order something at 10 pm and it arrives at your doorstep the next day.
• July 16: Just 15 minutes away from Velocity is the Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport. Fun fact: It’s only called an international airport because of UPS. The company occupies a bigger portion of the airport than commercial carriers do. UPS’ section is called Worldport. And it’s so extensive that it has its own pilot training facility, mechanics, “hotel” for workers, food trucks and shuttle service. More than 300 UPS planes take off here every night. Senior reporter Kristin Schwab visits the airport in the middle of the night, at the height of its activity, to watch packages get puzzle-piece loaded onto a 747.

Marketplace Morning Report

• Marketplace Morning Report has the story of one individual pursuing a Limited Liability Company (LLC) to find work until his visa arrives.

Marketplace Tech

• Monday July 15: Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino speaks with Lauren Feiner, senior policy reporter with The Verge, about SCOTUS’ recent NetChoice court decision.

The Daily

Next week for the RNC, we are expecting:

A look at the VP pick once that choice is announced. That announcement is expected over the weekend so we are aiming to turn that around for Monday.

We plan to air another installment of our Trump 2.0 series with Charlie Savage, Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan. In this second installment, we will look at Trump’s rhetoric as it has evolved in recent years.

We’ll conclude the week with a look back at the convention.

On Point

• Monday, July 15: Donald Trump demands loyalty from the Republican Party and gets it. Most Democratic lawmakers are now acting much the same way, publicly professing loyalty to Joe Biden, at any cost. We explore how loyalty politics has come to dominate American political discourse and decision making.
• Tuesday, July 16: Dr. Anthony Fauci became one of the most recognized public faces of the COVID19 crisis as public health officials struggled to contain the pandemic amid political polarization. His advice, offered from a White House podium, led to death threats. Dr. Fauci speaks with Meghna about the lessons learned from that experience and his long career in public health. (Postponed from last week)
• Thursday, July 18: The American West has been experiencing a severe heat wave that has 60 million people under heat alerts from the National Weather Service. Hospitals are overwhelmed and power grids are failing. Federal help is not available to help because FEMA doesn’t classify extreme heat as a natural disaster. We hear about efforts underway to change that.

On Point’s Week of Wonder: July 22 – 26, 2024

On Point heard from many enthusiastic listeners last year about how much they enjoyed and appreciated the Week of Wonder in which they let awe inspire us. It seemed to be perfect summer break listening…so they’re doing it again. On July 22-26, join Host Meghna Chakrabarti to explore what captivates our mind, illuminates our humanity and both delights and confounds us. It might just be the audio tonic for our times.

Digital assets for the series are available to download here.

The Splendid Table

July 19 – New episode

We are channeling summer in France this week with Steve Hoffman author of the memoir of A Season for That: Lost and Found in the Other Southern France and then we turn to Rebekah Peppler and her new book Le Sud, Recipes from Provence-Alpes-Côte-D’Azur.

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Classical

Performance Today

• July 15: Stewart Goodyear performs Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37 with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, from Ordway Hall in Sanit Paul, MN
• July 16: Naomi Woo conducts The Orchestra Now in a performance of Gabriela Lena Frank’s Elegia Andina, from Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
• July 17: Sharon Isbin performs Vivaldi’s Guitar Concerto with the Pacifica Quartet at the Aspen Music Festival in Aspen, CO
• July 18: Imani Winds perform Valerie Coleman’s “Rubispheres” from the University of Georgia Performing Arts Center in Athens, GA
• July 19: Cellist Sterling Elliott joins the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Tchaikovsky’s Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33, conducted by Kwame Ryan from the Blumenthal Performing Arts Center in Charlotte, NC

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

• Summer Scenery: Carlos Simon’s “Warmth from Other Suns,” Peteris Vasks’s “Summer Dances,” Algirdas Martinaitis’s “Birds of Eden,” and other music about sunlight and nature.

Euro Classic
Thurs 12am CT & Sat 8pm CT

• July 18: Franz Schubert’s epic Quintet in C from a March 2024 concert at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen.
• July 20: Igor Stravinsky’s suite from his ballet “The Firebird,” in concert from February. The Brussels Philharmonic left the city to perform this concert at St. Elisabeth Church in Kortrijk, Belgium.

Your Classical Discoveries
Sat 4-7pm CT

• Stormy Weather: It’s been a summer of extreme weather so far, and we’ll explore classical music about the storms and tempests, including the thunderstorm from Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony, Johann Strauss Jr.’s Thunder and Lightning Polka, “Cloudburst” from Ferde Grofe’s Grand Canyon Suite, and more.

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APM Presents special of the week

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

Air Window: Now – July 31, 2024

When Ukrainian soldiers liberated the town of Bucha, Ukraine in March, 2022, news reports showed scenes of bodies lying in the streets. Human Rights Watch documented cases of summary executions. But on Russian state television, the news was presented as “fake,” a staged event. Objective reporting about the war in Ukraine is now against the law in Russia and journalists can’t even use the word “war” in their stories. But it wasn’t always like this. Two veteran Russian journalists, who’ve experienced the changes firsthand, explain what’s happened and how “fake news” has helped solidify authoritarian rule in Russia.

Questions? Please contact your Station Representative.

Marketplace (PM)

• College alumni magazines have long been a standby of print journalism. Their cheerful, picture-filled pages are meant to remind readers of what the old campus looks like … what old classmates are up to … and provide a poke to maybe give some money to keep it all going. But during the pandemic, many colleges cut costs by taking their magazines entirely online….at least, for a little bit. Marketplace’s Stephanie Hughes looks at where they are now.

Marketplace Morning Report

• Tuesday July 9: Marketplace’s David Brancaccio will speak with Charlotte Burrows, Chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, about newly implemented guidelines from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for compliance with the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act.

Marketplace Tech

• Monday July 8: Marketplace’s Lily Jamali speaks with AP reporter Sarah Parvini on negotiations between Hollywood voice actors and studios/companies looking to use AI.
• Wednesday July 10: Lily Jamali speaks with Clayton Dalton, emergency physician and writer, about how medical technology ECMO is redefining death.

On Point

• Monday, July 8: Dr. Anthony Fauci became one of the most recognized public faces of the COVID19 crisis as public health officials struggled to contain the pandemic amid political polarization. His advice, offered from a White House podium, led to death threats. Dr. Fauci speaks with Meghna about the lessons learned from that experience and his long career in public health.
• Tuesday, July 9: There are many actors and perspectives involved behind the number of migrants crossing the southern U.S. border. One part of the story that is rarely, if ever, heard is that of the smugglers bringing those migrants up to the border. Jason De Leon is a professor of Anthropology at UCLA, where he studies clandestine migration. For his book, Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling De Leon embedded with smugglers in Honduras working to bring migrants up to the Mexico/US border. He joins Meghna for a conversation that promises to be both “enlightening and frightening”.
• Friday, July 12: Among the consequential decisions the Supreme Court issued at the end of its last term was one upending a 1984 ruling setting in place the Chevron deference which empowered federal agencies to interpret legislation and impose regulations on businesses to protect the environment, public health, workplace safety, among other national interests. The Supreme Court’s ruling largely hands that power to the courts. What will the consequences of that decision be for the regulations that protect so many Americans?

The Splendid Table

July 12 – Repeat episode

We’re bringing you the regional foods of the Greek Isles this week with Greek food authority Diane Kochilas, award-winning scholar, and author of the classic, The Glorious Foods of Greece and her latest, The IkariaWay: 100 Delicious Plant-Based Recipes Inspired by My Homeland, the Greek Island of Longevity. Then we dive into the fascinating and underappreciated world of Greek wine with Tara Q. Thomas, Editor-in-Chief of Wine & Spirits and author of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Wine Basics.

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Classical

Performance Today

• July 8: Emanuel Ax, Yo-Yo Ma and Leonidas Kavakos perform an arrangement of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 4 in B-flat Major, Op. 60, for just the three of them, from the Verbier Festival in Switzerland.
• July 9: Miguel Harth-Bedoya conducts a performance of Clarice Assad’s Bonecos de Olinda from the Grand Teton Music Festival in Jackson Hole, WY
• July 10: WDR Symphony Orchestra performs the Ballet Suite from “La Strada”, conducted by Giacomo Sagripanti, from Cologne, Germany.
• July 11: The Catalyst Quartet performs Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s 5 Fantasiestucke for String Quartet, Op. 5 from Chamber Music Northwest at the Cleveland Institute of Music in Cleveland, OH
• July 12: Garrick Ohlsson performs Johannes Brahms’ Variations on a Theme of Paganini from the 92nd Street Y in New York, NY

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

• Night music: It’s hard to believe that nights are already getting a bit longer again…! We’ll hear Meredith Monk’s “Nightfall,” Johann Johannsson’s “Good Night, Day,” Caroline Shaw’s “Who Turns Out the Light,” and more.

Euro Classic
Thurs 12am CT & Sat 8pm CT

• July 11: Debussy’s mysterious Cello Sonata, performed by cellist Torun Sæter Stavseng and pianist Anna Christensson, in a March concert from a beautiful church in Stockholm, Sweden.
• July 13: Mozart’s “Linz” Symphony, in concert from the Polish Radio Orchestra in Warsaw from April.

Your Classical Discoveries
Sat 4-7pm CT

• Summer Dance Party! Mindy shares music for ballets and other dances, including Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake, Respighi’s Ancient Airs and Dances, and lesser-known music by Anton Rubenstein, Mykola Kolessa, and Gabriela Lena Frank.

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APM Presents special of the week

Folk Classics Across the Globe from YourClassical

Air Window: Now – September 30, 2024

In this program, we explore classical pieces inspired by folk music from composers and cultures that have often existed on the fringes of the classical canon. You’ll hear three world premieres of folk music recorded live in the Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio at Minnesota Public Radio’s headquarters in St. Paul. The pieces have been recorded by five guest musicians from those cultures who will tell us more about the music in the program.

Questions? Please contact your Station Representative.

News/Talk: July 2024

Thank You

APM’s pricing season and fiscal year closed on June 30th. Thank you for choosing APM. We are grateful for your loyal support of our programming and look forward to serving you and your audiences in FY25!

On Point’s Week of Wonder: July 22 – 26, 2024

On Point heard from many enthusiastic listeners last year about how much they enjoyed and appreciated the Week of Wonder in which they let awe inspire us. It seemed to be perfect summer break listening…so they’re doing it again. On July 22-26, join Host Meghna Chakrabarti to explore what captivates our mind, illuminates our humanity and both delights and confounds us. It might just be the audio tonic for our times.

Digital assets for the series are available to download here.

Marketplace News & Awards

Marketplace reporter Savannah Maher won first place at the Indigenous Media Awards for Best Radio News Story “Who is the Indian Arts and Crafts Act supposed to protect?” and second place for Best Feature Story “Indigenous creatives are blazing trails in the gaming industry”.

Listener Kudos: “You have found a very effective way to make financial discussions entertaining, informative, and relevant. Rather than tell the listener what to think about a situation, you provide the data and resources that allow the listener to grasp the concepts and draw their own informed conclusions. Put it all together and you have the definition of great “education.” As a professional educator, I congratulate and thank you.” -Mark in LA

“Consistently excellent business/economic journalism, such as the deep dive into employment stimulus prospects from CHIPS Act (and the entire “Government in the Economy” series).”-Stephen in Sherman Oaks, CA

Marketplace Morning Report
Listen this month as Lee Hawkins continues to cover reparations on Marketplace Morning Report as part of the Golden Promises series.

Marketplace PM
Listen to Marketplace’s delightful series My Analog Life — from hand-drawn draft work to typewriters and letters with stamps, it’s a glimpse of how we used to work.

BBC World Service

Don’t forget to check out our two new programs available now in ContentDepot:

• Topline Zero: 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, visit apmdistribution.org
• Unexpected Elements: Satisfy your listeners’ requests for MORE SCIENCE with Unexpected Elements– The news you know, the science you don’t. This fun and engaging science program 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: July Specials

New for July

• Inheriting: Nicole and the Third World Liberation Front
  Available July 15 – September 30, 2024

Continuing in July

• Selected Shorts: Wishful Thinking
  Available now – August 31, 2024
• How Does the Russian Propaganda Machine Work? Are There Lessons for the United States?
  Available now – July 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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Marketplace and APM Research Labs Offer Localized Reporting

The 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.

Starting with employment data from the monthly jobs and unemployment report, this project automates analysis of national data and puts the local data in national context. We then provide script-ready analysis of the information tailored to local markets for use by local stations for web stories, social media and on-air. 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 includes KNOW, KCFR, KPCC/LAist, WGCU and WVXU. Recently, WGCU published this article with the data MERLEN provided. We’re thrilled to contribute to local reporting in this way and hope to expand the program to include more station participants. If you are interested in learning more, let your Station Relations Rep know.

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Welcome Additions

• KCFR – Marketplace Tech

Marketplace (PM)

• Our new summer self-narrated series debuts—My Analog life—stories from all over the country about how you…. used to do your job.
• It’s like a rigged game of Monopoly. Urban Cipher, a board game created by Afrofuturist and research scientist Lawrence Brown, aims to let players experience firsthand the legacy of redlining. Players who start out in red and yellow neighborhoods (reflecting the “riskier” labels imposed by the federal government in its racist 1930s residential security maps) have a harder time moving around the board and acquiring property than those who start in blue and green neighborhoods (those considered “safer” for investment). Marketplace’s Amy Scott spends a morning with Dr. Brown and a group of Baltimore educators as they play the game.
• July 2: St. Mary’s County, Maryland: Earlier this year, Marketplace looked at the process of organic certification with a visit to the Raaka chocolate factory. Raaka noted that certified organic ingredients generally cost more, which drives up their prices. Marketplace’s Stephanie Hughes takes the next step and visits an organic farm to find out what costs they have that a non-organic farm doesn’t and how that affects final prices.

Marketplace Morning Report

Monday July 1: With only three days to go before the UK’s general election, one of the big election issues is the price of homes. The two main political parties – Labour and the Conservatives – are trying to sell voters on their solutions for Britain’s housing problems. But are these party pledges reassuring people on home affordability? The BBC’s Leanna Byrne reports.

Marketplace Tech

Monday July 1: Is the tech sector truly “back” in San Francisco? What is the city doing to encourage people to return? How have views of tech changed over the last decade? Marketplace’s Lily Jamali is joined by Heather Knight, SF bureau chief of The New York Times, on the streets of SF to discuss the state of the city, and where tech fits in.

Wednesday July 3: On the drive from Silicon Valley to San Francisco, there’s a stretch of the 101 Freeway that is crowded with billboards. Nearly all of them are advertising tech companies, from the old guard to newer players. These billboards tell the story of the state of the industry – who’s in and who’s out, what’s hot and what’s not. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali talks to Shernaz Daver, Operating Partner and CMO at Khosla Ventures about what these billboards say about the state of the tech industry.

On Point

• Monday, July 1: The Port of Baltimore is back in business – 78 days after the Francis Scott Key Bridge was struck by a massive container ship, plunging it into the Patapsco River and blocking the river’s shipping lanes. We find out what it took to re-open one of the nation’s busiest ports in a matter of weeks.
• Tuesday, July 2: Sports have brought people together for generations … but could that be changing? That’s the question Washington Post sports columnist Jerry Brewer is asking. How the promise of sports as a national unifier has buckled under the pressures of grievance and division.
• Wednesday, July 3: There has been a surge in ransomware attacks on healthcare providers, when Change Healthcare acknowledged that it paid $22 million to hackers. We explore why the US healthcare system is especially vulnerable to cyberattacks, what’s at risk, and what it would take to fix it.
• Thursday, July 4: State and federal government is so focused on policymaking and not implementation that it often fails to provide the services its laws intend. Today we revisit Meghna’s conversation with author Jennifer Pahlka about her book, “Recoding America,” in which she outlines why the government doesn’t work and how to fix it. (Rebroadcast)
• Friday, July 5: The world of fine art is full of multimillion dollar one-of-a-kinds and breathtaking masterpieces. But it’s also rife with fraudsters and forgers. What happens when fakes are worth a fortune…and what that says about how we value art. (Rebroadcast)

The Splendid Table

July 5 – Repeat episode

We’re getting advice for a summer road trip from photographer Kate Medley author of Thank You, Please Come Again: How Gas Stations Feed & Fuel the American South and then we turn to some of your summer cooking questions with Jocelyn Delk Adams, author of Everyday Grand, Soulful Recipes for Celebrating Life’s Big and Small Moments.

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Classical

Performance Today

• July 1: Joyce Yang performs Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor with the Aspen Chamber Symphony conducted by Jane Glover, from last summer’s Aspen Music Festival and School in Aspen, CO.
• July 2: A performance of the Six Bagatelles by Gyorgy Ligeti from musicians of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, on tour at Spivey Hall at Clayton State University in Morrow GA.
• July 3: A performance of the Septet for Piano Trio and String Quartet by Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, from the Geneva Music Festival in Geneva, New York
• July 4: Performance Today celebrates Independance Day with music from American composers Leonard Bernstein, Jennifer Higdon, Jessie Montgomery, Ben Shirley, Harry T. Burleigh and Lukas Foss, featuring performances by the Apollo Chamber Players, Nikki Chooi and the Buffalo Philharmonic, Horszowski Trio, Cecile Licad, Anthony McGill and the Pacifica Trio and conductors JoAnn Falletta and Marin Alsop.
• July 5: Kenneth Woods conducts the Colorado MahlerFest Orchestra in a performance of Phoenix Rising by Thea Musgrave, from Macky Auditorium in Boulder, CO.

Classical 24

Music for Fireworks, Thurs. July 4, 9:15pm – 11pm CT

Join Scott Blankenship after Rhapsody in Black for a musical fireworks display, including but not limited to Sousa marches, Handel’s “Music for the Royal Fireworks,” and of course, Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture.

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

• This week is an encore episode to celebrate the Fourth of July. Lara Downes reimagines Gershwin’s ‘Rhapsody in Blue’.

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

• Contemporary Americans: With July 4 imminent, we’ll hear works by American composers Alex Berko, Kevin Puts, Bryce Dessner, John Adams, and more.

Euro Classic
Thurs 12am CT & Sat 8pm CT

• July 4: Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes, one of the world’s greatest, tackles the famously difficult Piano Concerto No. 3 by Sergei Rachmaninoff, in concert from May with the Swedish Radio Symphony.
• July 6: Young Canadian pianist Jaeden Izik-Dzurko plays Chopin’s Scherzo No. 1 in a concert from February at the Barcelona Emergents Music Festival.

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

• Where we turn up the voices of Black artists in the world of classical music. This week focuses on instrumentalist Sly5thAve.

Saturday Cinema
Sat 10am – 12pm CT

• Summer! Films about the 4th, travel, vacations, et. Al. “Yankee Doodle Dandy”, “1776”, “Summertime”, “Picnic”, “Room with a View”.

Your Classical Discoveries
Sat 4-7pm CT

• In celebration of Fourth of July: American Composers, known and “unknown”.

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APM Presents special of the week

Selected Shorts: Wishful Thinking

Air Window: Now – August 31, 2024

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

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