What’s coming up from APM March 8-14

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.

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News

Marketplace

Week of March 8

Marketplace PM

  • March 8: We continue with our microbusiness series, talking to very small business owners about what a year of the pandemic economy has done to them and their businesses. Kai talks to Audrey Hoyt, owner of The Pioneer Collective in Seattle.
  • Kai talks to Lee Isaac Chung, director of Minari.   

Marketplace Tech

  • March 8 (rescheduled from March 4): Airbnb has struggled during the pandemic. But as more people are getting vaccinated and plan to travel again, what is next for the company and its recent office expansion into Atlanta? We’ll talk with CEO Brian Chesky.
  • March 10: China’s Inner Mongolia region will ban cryptocurrency mining in order to reduce emissions. Bitcoin mining requires a LOT of electricity to run special computers and most of China’s energy is still generated from coal. That’s why China dominated cryptocurrency mining for so long – because electricity in developing regions like Inner Mongolia is incredibly cheap. Guest: Jennifer Pak, Marketplace’s China correspondent.   

On Point

  • March 8: From his first week in office, President Biden made clear that his administration is committed to advancing racial equity. But what makes equitable policy goals different from equal ones? Meghna Chakrabarti discusses this question with Georgetown professor Robert Patterson, author of the forthcoming book Black Equity, Black Equality: Reparation and Black Communities.
  • March 9: Israel is implementing a special passport for its vaccinated citizens in an effort to reopen the economy, safely. Is this a model other countries could adopt? Meghna talks with epidemiologists, public health experts and Israeli citizens about the ethical trade-offs of a ‘vaccine passport.’   

Classical

Performance Today

Performance Today will be broadcasting significant works by female composers throughout March in honor of Women’s History Month. Listeners are invited to nominate a living woman who has inspired them for Performance Today’s Classical Woman of the Year Award. Nominees can be composers, conductors, performers, teachers or music supporters. Nominations close March 14 and Fred will announce the winner on the show during the last week of March.

  • March 8: Fred Child will be talking with cellist Yo-Yo Ma and pianist Kathryn Stott about their new album Songs of Comfort, which is intended to be a balm during the tough stretch of the pandemic. They’ll also talk about what it was like performing at the Presidential Inaugural concert.

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.

March 12 – 1969:    

Led Zepplin emerged with two albums and an American tour where the term ‘headbanging’ was coined. The Beatles and the Rolling Stones both dropped stellar albums, David Bowie issued Space Oddity the same year Apollo 11 lands on the moon, Creedence Clearwater Revival and Sly and the Family Stone were both hit machines. Half a million attended Woodstock in Bethel New York, Elvis was still a musical force, English singer Dusty Springfield went to Memphis and recorded a classic, Diana Ross and the Supremes were still together and the top song was Aquarius/Let the Sun Shine In by the 5th Dimension.

On television, The Brady Bunch & Sesame Street debuted, if you went to the movies you probably saw a western, The Amazing Mets won the World Series and Mickey Mantle called it a career.

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 – March 12: Celebrating books from Spring 2020

  • Saliha Mahmood Ahmed joins us with her book Khazana: A Treasure Trove of Indo-Persian Recipes Inspired by the Mughals.
  • We head deep into the foods of the Louisiana Bayou with chef Melissa M. Martin and her very personal book, The Mosquito Supper Club.
  • We talk to San Francisco chef Bryant Terry about the book Vegetable Kingdom.

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