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Digital offer from the BBC World Service
All BBC affiliated stations have access to rights-cleared videos produced by the BBC, available through the BBC Media Partner Centre. Increase your social media presence with consistent, shareable videos about activism, climate change, politics and more. Access the instructional guide and best practices guide to learn more.
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News
Marketplace
Marketplace PM
Week of June 28
- Kai talks with Harvard Prof Willy Shih about the “bullwhip effect” on supply chains.
- Kai talks with Shauna Carpenter Kruse, Juanita Gable, and Alan Buxbaum about finding/searching for jobs in new industries post-pandemic.
Marketplace Tech
- Throughout the summer, Marketplace Tech will have a rotating schedule of hosts during the summer months. Amy Scott will host June 28-29, Kimberly Adams will host June 30-July 2.
- June 28: Venture capital is notorious for its lack of diversity – only about 3 percent of decision makers in the industry are Black. One challenge, recruiters say, is that most people don’t know much about venture capital compared to companies seeking similarly tech-savvy candidates, like Google or Facebook. The non-profit HBCUvc is partnering with HBCUs to try and get students interested in this career path. But how much of this work should the venture firms be doing themselves? Host feature from Amy Scott.
- June 29: Former Googler Sridhar Ramaswamy is creating a new search engine to compete with Google. Called Neeva, it’ll have a monthly fee, but there won’t be any ads. It will collect information in order to personalize the experience – unless you don’t want it to, in which case you can turn it off. Will this create yet another digital divide, where people who can’t afford to pay for a search engine are more likely to be misled and tracked by ads. Guest: Sridhar Ramaswamy.
- June 30: Nevada’s governor is looking at the possibility of creating “opportunity zones” that essentially give companies broad license to operate almost like a government…with the ability to levy taxes and provide their own police force. It’s a potential return to the company town model of the early 1900s. Reporter feature from Benjamin Payne.
The Daily
June 25: Day X — For over a decade, a series of murders in Germany went unsolved. Of the 10 victims, nine were immigrants—and all were shot in the head. Then one day in 2011, a botched escape after a bank robbery revealed that a neo-Nazi terrorist group, the National Socialist Underground, was responsible for the killings. On this episode of Day X, Katrin Bennhold investigates the question: Why has a country that spent decades atoning for its Nazi past so often failed to confront right-wing extremism?
On Point
June 28: The next installment of the series on Amazon: Amazon web services, or AWS, is the most powerful tool fueling our activity online. AWS brought in more than $50 billion for Amazon last year, so it’s no surprise then that the former head of AWS succeeded Jeff Bezos as the CEO of Amazon. On Monday, Meghna Chakrabarti dives deep into the cloud, the infrastructure that really controls the web and how Amazon uses AWS to build power and grow. She’ll talk with AWS CTO Werner Vogels, former AWS executive Tim Bray and other digital platform experts.
Classical
Performance Today
- July 1: Performance Today welcomes this season’s final Young Artist In Residence – pianist, Tristan Paradee.
- July 2: Performance Today interviews Yo-Yo Ma and pianist, Emanuel Ax on what it means to be an immigrant to the United States and the duality, not binary nature, of their idea of home.
- July 3-4: Performance Today airs a special Fourth of July episode celebrating the diversity of American musical voices through new music.
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.
July 2 – 1990:
Public Enemy released perhaps the most important album of the year & bandleader Chuck D even found time to record with Sonic Youth. The Most Famous Person in America was probably Madonna, and she struck the Voguing pose in 1990, and Jane’s Addiction were becoming the icons of the Alternative Nation. Depeche Mode dropped the biggest single of their career, there were big debuts from The Sundays and the Black Crowes, Sinead O’Connor covered a Prince song to huge success and we all had that catchy song by the La’s, “There She Goes” stuck in our heads.
Outside the world of music, Nelson Mandela was released from prison in South Africa after 27 years. David Lynch’s Twin Peaks debuted, Cheers was the top show on TV and The Detroit Piston became just the 3rd NBA team to win consecutive NBA Championships.
The Splendid Table
Encore episode – July 2: A Carla Hall 4th of July This week, the charming Carla Hall spends the hour with Francis taking your questions. Carla is the former co-host of The Chew and is a culinary contributor to Good Morning America. Her latest book is Carla Hall’s Soul Food: Everyday and Celebration.
Timely Selections
Digital Offer from the BBC World Service
All BBC affiliated stations have access to rights-cleared videos produced by the BBC. Use these shareable videos to bolster your social platforms.
“Why my mother hid her racial heritage”
- Description: What would you do if you discovered one of your parents wasn’t who they said they were? That’s what happened to Gail Lukasik who found out her mother had ‘passed’ as white to escape racial segregation in the US, in the early 20th Century. She was in fact, mixed race but had kept it a secret and made Gail promise to keep the secret until after she died. Gail has now turned her story into a book called White Like Her.
- Suggested post: Gail Lukasik’s life was turned upside down when she discovered that her mother was mixed race but had ‘passed’ as white to escape racial segregation in the U.S.
- Duration: 3 minutes 25 seconds
Fourth of July with the Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square
One hour
July 1, 2021 – July 17, 2021
Join Julie Amacher for an hour of traditional, patriotic choral music performed by the world-renowned Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square.
Questions? Please contact your Station Representative.