What’s coming up from APM May 31 – June 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.

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News

Marketplace

Marketplace PM

Week of May 31

  • Kai talks with India Hynes, CEO of Vinotemp about supply chain and distribution challenges in the wine market.
  • In the years after the mass layoffs of the 1980s, and again after the Great Recession, we learned how damaging long-term unemployment can be for individuals, families, and communities. There have been strategies and programs developed for peer support, career counselling, retraining, etc., Marketplace’s Mitchell Hartman looks at workforce experts are proposing to help the pandemic long-term unemployed.

Marketplace Tech

  • Throughout the summer, Marketplace Tech will have a rotating schedule of hosts during the summer months. Amy Scott will host June 1-25.
  • May 31 (encore): Artificial intelligence is supposed to make the most educated guesses, working with all the possible data to identify patterns and people and things. But what happens when the data and the code created by humans come with all of our human biases? Guest: Joy Buolamwini researches bias in algorithms at the MIT Media Lab, and her work is featured in a new Netflix documentary called Coded Bias.
  • June 1: As President Biden calls global leaders to go all in on climate change, misinformation on climate change on Facebook – and other social media platforms – will also be a challenge to tackle. Guest: Erin McAweeney, from the data firm Graphika.

The Daily

  • Day X Series: Starting May 28, and continuing over the next several Fridays, The Daily will feature a series on the rise of far-right extremism in Germany and its implications around the world. The series, called Day X, will be hosted by Katrin Bennhold, The New York Times’ Berlin bureau chief, though the top, rejoinder and bottom of the show will still be voiced by Michael Barbaro. The series will be at least 5 episodes long, but may be extended by 1-2 episodes to accommodate the full story for radio audiences.
  • May 28: Day X, Episode One – The story of Franco A., the military officer who faked his identity and plotted an attack that he hoped would be blamed on refugees and migrants, was widely publicized in the German press. Then reports emerged that he wasn’t alone — that soldiers and police officers across the country were organizing via encrypted messages. They were preparing for the day they believed democracy would collapse, a day they called Day X. In this episode, we ask: Just how dangerous are they?
  • June 4: Day X, Episode Two – The case of Franco A., the German military officer accused of terrorism charges, has come to represent something investigators are increasingly worried about – that Day X is a call for action, a pretext for terrorism, or worse, a coup. That’s why prosecutors say Franco A. picked the targets that he did. In this episode, Katrin Bennhold, the Times’ Berlin bureau chief, speaks with two of those alleged targets.
  • Over the next few months, Astead Herndon, Sabrina Tavernise and Kevin Roose will be mixed in with Michael as occasional guest hosts of The Daily. Michael will continue to voice the billboard of the show, even when the guest host leads the conversation with a reporter.

On Point

June 1: Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman joins Meghna Chakrabarti for a discussion about how the distraction of noise impacts decision-making, and what decision-makers can do about it.

Classical

Performance Today

May 31: Listeners will hear music for Memorial Day including Mikis Theodorakis’ One Day in May, Hymn to the Fallen by John Williams and American Folk Songs by Ruth Crawford Seeger.

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 listeners back to the sounds and events of a specific year.

June 4 – 1962:

The year Ray Charles bridged the gap in music with his Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music. Bob Dylan and the Beach Boys released their first albums, and across the pond the Beatles released their first single. Surf music was king with big songs from the Surfaris and Dick Dale, Booker T and the MG’s recorded one of the most popular instrumentals in recorded music history, George Jones and Patsy Cline ruled country radio and if you were dancing, you were probably doing the Twist to songs by Sam Cooke or Isley Brothers.

Outside the world of music it was the year of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Jackie Robinson became the first Black American elected to The Baseball Hall of Fame, the first James Bond film, Dr. No, hit the big screen and The Beverly Hillbillies hit the TV and quickly became the most popular show of the year.

The Splendid Table

Encore episode – June 4: Madhur Jaffrey

  • We’re spending the hour with the legendary award-winning food writer and actress Madhur Jaffrey. Madhur has been writing about Indian food and cooking for over 40 years and is considered one of the world’s foremost authorities.