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News
BBC World Service
An updated version of the BBC World Service winter schedule will go into effect on Saturday, February 6. There will be minor changes to weekend programming – find the new schedule here.
Marketplace
Week of February 8
Marketplace (PM)
- Kai talks to Nahnatchka Khan, co-creator of the upcoming NBC series Young Rock.
- Administering the COVID-19 vaccines will be a challenge for retailers. Both require careful refrigeration (especially the Pfizer one, which can only be stored long-term in a special freezer that most pharmacies don’t have). There’s the question of where to actually administer the vaccinations while also keeping people socially distanced. Retailers also have to remind people to come in for their shot twice. All that will be hard enough for the big retail chains like CVS, Walgreens, and Walmart. But small, community pharmacies are going to be a part of the rollout too – and they have even fewer resources to work with. We profile a local community pharmacist.
Marketplace Tech
- February 8: The FCC launched a program – planned just before the pandemic – to provide Native American tribes with free access to a spectrum capable of broadcasting high-speed wireless connectivity. The FCC unexpectedly received hundreds of applications for the program as tribes prioritized CARES dollars for internet projects. While the spectrum is free, tribes are charged with meeting expensive buildout requirements for the program over the next five years. The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes in northwest Montana are in the midst of a multi-millions-dollar project that will provide high-speed internet to residents on this mostly rural reservation. This project is one of the first stemming from the FCC spectrum program to be built across the country.
- February 10: There’s a saying that I’m sure you’ve heard: “History is written by the victors.” But what if that history wasn’t a written document, but a smartphone video? The decisions social media platforms make about how to preserve videos uploaded by users can determine the historical record. It made us wonder: is there any possibility that international standards could emerge about how and what content should be digitally archived? Jay Aronson is the founder and director of the Center for Human Rights Science at Carnegie Mellon and works with organizations around the world to preserve the historical record.
On Point
Week of February 8
House managers will argue that the events of January 6 could not have happened without former President Trump. For the first time, we’ll see a Senate impeachment trial for a president already out of office. How is it going to work?
Classical
Performance Today
Performance Today listeners will hear a major musical work composed or performed by a Black artist each hour of the show, every day in the month of February.
The program regularly features BIPOC composers, conductors and performers, but this will be a special celebration of the contribution of Black artists during Black History Month.
Arts and Culture
Time Machine from The Current
Time Machine from The Current is a sonic journey across music history. Each week, host Bill DeVille takes you back to the sounds of a specific year with a carefully curated list of the best songs. Plus, he’ll invite you to reexamine some deeper cuts as we look back on what happened that year in music, pop culture and the world.
February 12 – 2006:
The year the world first learned of Amy Winehouse who released her big selling Back to Black album. We were all whistling along to Young Folks by the Swedish trio Peter Bjorn and John, and there were big debuts from across the pond from Lilly Allen and Arctic Monkeys who released the fastest selling debut album in UK chart history. In the states, it was the first album from Hip Hop artist Lupe Fiasco, guitars were still in style with albums from The Hold Steady and The Raconteurs which featured Jack White from The White Stripes.
Outside the world of music, crocodile hunter and Australian TV personality Steve Irwin died after a stingray pierced his heart during filming, you probably watched The Wire on HBO and The Office on network TV, and the Miami Heat won its first NBA championship.
The Splendid Table
As The Splendid Table continues to take listener home cooking questions, please 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 – February 12: Culture of drinking
- We visit restaurateurs Brian and Mark Canlis of Canlis restaurant and gather around their special barrel of whiskey in their secret basement.
- San Francisco Chronicle wine critic Esther Mobley explains the method and a bit of the madness behind the language of wine.
Brad Thomas Parsons, author of Last Call: Bartenders on Their Final Drink and The Wisdom and Rituals of Closing Time, has stories from the restaurant world’s witching hour – last call.
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