What’s coming up from APM March 29-April 4

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 29

Marketplace PM

  • March 29: Kai talks with Mike Sperr, owner of CA Acrylic Design, for our series on running a micro-business in a pandemic economy.
  • For years we’ve been covering the gap between economic fundamentals and people’s lived experience. The pandemic forced policy makers to look for new ways to see what’s happening in the economy at the most granular real time level. Kai takes you inside the world of high frequency data – the companies that supply data about how you live.   

Marketplace Tech

  • March 29: The mRNA technology that brought us several COVID vaccines has promise beyond just coronavirus, and funding is pouring in. Guest: John Cumbers, founder of SynBioBeta.
  • March 30: New York Times reporter Cade Metz has a new book out called Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook and the World.   
  • March 31: Some venture capital firms made big promises last year about diversifying the founders they invest in, and the partners doing that investing. We’ll talk with the head of one firm about those efforts: Mitch Kapor, founder of Kapor Capital.   

On Point

Week of March 29

  • March 29: American presidents are supposed to ask Congress for permission to wage war, but that almost never happens. Meghna talks with Rep. Jim McGovern and Rep. Tom Cole about the movement in Congress to strengthen the War Powers Act.
  • The WHO is set to release a report on its investigation into the origins of COVID-19. Meghna discusses serious questions around the impartiality of the report and how the COVID outbreak emerged.
  • Republican statehouses across the country are attempting to restrict the voting process. We’ll do a deep dive into one state, one law, and the lessons its story holds for the country.

Classical

Performance Today

  • In late March, Performance Today will highlight music for Passover & Easter.   

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.

April 2 – 1977:    

The Punk Rock and New Wave explosion was underway with debut albums from The Clash, Sex Pistols and Elvis Costello. Saturday Night Fever was soon to be an international phenomenon, Fleetwood Mac released Rumors (which went on to become one of the best-selling albums of all time), The Emotions had their biggest hit and Bill Withers dropped one of his most beloved songs. Waylon Jennings got back to the basics of love, Bob Marley was Jammin and Funkadelic brought the funk to the party while there was no partying in New York – as the Big Apple went dark during the New York City Blackout.

Meanwhile, Elvis Presley died at Graceland, a plane carrying the band Lynyrd Skynyrd crashed, killing the band’s singer Ronnie Van Zandt, guitarist Steve Gaines and his sister singer Cassie Gaines, and the first Star Wars film was released.

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 – April 2: Seeds

  • Chef Dan Barber is looking at seeds with new eyes. He’s working with seed developers to bring us unique and very delicious new varieties of plants. Imagine a cucumber that is so fragrant it’s perfume can fill a room.
  • We get spring cocktail suggestions from Maggie Hoffman, author of One Bottle Cocktail.
  • America’s Test Kitchen teaches us how to make a surprising spring vegetable braise.

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