What’s coming up from APM August 31-September 6

Here are the latest updates for upcoming programs. PLEASE NOTE: All details are subject to change. Additional details will be shared via ContentDepot as they become available.

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

News

BBC World Service

Coronavirus Coverage

Global View on 2020 – 4 min. version

  • A second version of Global View on 2020 will open on Friday, August 28 on ContentDepot. This version will be 3:59 long, and will give a more in-depth look at how the world is viewing the 2020 U.S. Presidential election.
  • The original :59 version of Global View on 2020 will continue to be produced.

NEW BBC World Service Schedule

  • A new version of the BBC World Service summer schedule will go into effect on Saturday, September 5. Find the updated pdf here.

Marketplace

Week of August 31

Marketplace (PM)

  • We look at the role that Black women play in the labor market, and what would happen if policymakers focused on them. Kai talks with Janelle Jones from the Groundwork Collaborative and Professor Michelle Holder from John Jay at CUNY.
  • German Chancellor Angela Merkel is a powerful figure both in Europe’s largest economy and in the European Union. For some 15 years, she has also been an economic bulwark for Germany, guiding the nation through a continental debt crisis, the integration of a million migrants and, more recently, trade tensions with the United States. She is due to leave office next year and there is some uncertainty about who will succeed her. Marketplace’s Stephen Beard looks at her achievements and consider the challenges facing Germany after her departure.

Marketplace Tech

  • August 31: Christopher Mitchell of the Institute of Local Self-Reliance speaks about governments deploying hotspots for public school children, and what that means for internet as a utility.
  • September 1: Psychiatrist Rachel Bernstein speaks about how tech is driving people towards QAnon –  is there a way for tech to help deprogram them as well?

Classical

Performance Today

August 31: Classical guitarist An Tran, who recently recorded an album of Vietnamese classical guitar music called Stay, My Beloved, will be featured on the program.

SymphonyCast

UPDATE: Now that the BBC Proms have announced their plans for 2020, SymphonyCast plans to air 3 programs this year. BBC Proms concerts will be featured on SymphonyCast for the September 14, 21 and 28 episodes.  View the updated July-September program listings here for more details.

Arts and Culture

Live from Here

A reminder that Live from Here will be ceasing production and distribution this fall. Encore episodes will air for 3 more weeks, with the final episode scheduled for September 12, 2020. Once that air window expires the following Saturday, September 19, the ContentDepot page will be removed to avoid missing file alerts. Please make the necessary adjustments to accommodate this change. For more information on this change, see the post on the APM Distribution blog or view the entire remaining rebroadcast schedule on the APM Distribution site.

September 5: Rebroadcast – New York City
Guests:

  • Andrew Bird
  • Bedouine
  • Sarah Jarosz
  • Jia Tolentino
  • Tom Papa

The Splendid Table

As The Splendid Table continues to take listener home cooking questions, follow the program’s updates on Twitter and encourage listeners to send in their questions as voice memos to contact@splendidtable.org, or via phone at 800-537-5252.

Encore episode – September 4: This week we talk to our friends about food from their travels.

  • Caroline Eden author of Black Sea: Dispatches and Recipes Through Darkness and Light talks about her food journey throughout the region of the Black Sea.
  • Restaurateur and Thai food authority Andy Ricker tells us about noodles and traveling and eating in Thailand. His newest book is Pok Pok Noodles: Recipes from Thailand and Beyond. 

Questions? Please contact your Station Representative.