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News
BBC World Service
- From August 7 through September 11, the 2021 BBC Proms will air every Saturday afternoon from 2-3 p.m. ET, with repeats on Sunday mornings from 7-8 a.m. ET. Episodes available for download Media Partner Centre for one week after broadcast.
- Note: Proms broadcasts will not follow the standard BBC World Service clock – breaks at the bottom of the hour will be dropped.
- Saturday, September 11: Dvorak’s Cello Concerto in B minor, performed by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.
Marketplace
Marketplace PM
Week of September 6
- How we view economic uncertainty twenty years after 9/11: Kai has a host feature.
- Before 9/11, most office workers walked into the building, waved to the person behind the desk who wasn’t armed, rode the elevator to their floor and walked into the office. After September 11 we got turnstiles, armed security and a surge in the use of key cards. It’s hard to remember a time when we didn’t swipe our way into work, up the elevator and through the office door. Matt Levin looks at the key card.
Marketplace Tech
- Throughout the summer, Marketplace Tech will have a rotating schedule of hosts. Jed Kim hosts September 6-10.
- September 6 (encore): The Federal Trade Commission is turning its attention to the right-to-repair movement — a pushback against manufacturers limiting who can repair the equipment they make. The agency put out a report in May that found “the burden of repair restrictions may fall more heavily on communities of color and lower-income communities.” One group watching this debate is farmers. Some companies that make farm equipment only allow repairs at their own dealerships. Guest: Terry Griffin, an agricultural economist with Kansas State University.
- September 7: El Salvador today will start accepting Bitcoin as a national currency, alongside the US dollar. The government is betting this will drive investment into the country and make it cheaper for ex-pats to send remittances back home. But the logistical hurdles could lead the country with difficult-to-control inflation. Guest: George Selgin, CATO Institute
On Point
- September 6 (encore): There’s a massive shift in employment numbers–and it has to do with people leaving their jobs. More than 4 million Americans quit their jobs in April, a 20 year high. That helped put job vacancies also at a 20 year high. So what’s going on? We’ll talk with our Money Ladies, Michelle Singletary and Rana Foroohar, about the new labor gap.
- This week On Point presents ‘The Longest War,’ a four-part series profiling Afghans and Americans whose lives have been shaped by two decades of war in Afghanistan. A generic promo for the series is available here on ContentDepot.
- September 7: We focus on the lives of Afghan women, when Meghna speaks with Shabana Basij-Rasikh. She is an Afghan women’s rights champion and educator who co-founded Afghanistan’s first boarding school for girls when she was just a teenager. We also hear from Fanoos Basir, a former member of the Afghan national women’s soccer team who is currently in a refugee camp in France.
- September 8: We turn our attention to U.S. veterans of the Afghan war with soldiers Trevor deBoer and his son Payton Sluss. The two men were deployed to Afghanistan twenty years apart with differing understandings of why they were there and quite different experiences.
- September 9: We’ll explore how the U.S. involvement in Afghanistan has affected U.S. politics for a generation.
- September 10: We ask what the future holds for the nation now back under Taliban rule.
Classical
Performance Today
- Between now and October 27, Performance Today audiences will hear new Piano Puzzlers every Wednesday.
- September 10: Listeners will hear an hour of programming in remembrance of 9/11. This hour will include several listener favorites from past shows about 9/11 including Arvo Part’s Spiegel im Spiegel.
SymphonyCast
- September 6: SymphonyCast broadcasts the 2021 BBC Proms, featuring the Philharmonia Orchestra performing Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 1, Bach’s Keyboard Concerto in F minor, Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 24 and Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 9.
Arts and Culture
Time Machine from The Current
September 10 – 2001:
- Alicia Keys, The Strokes & Pete Yorn released some of the year’s great debut’s. Gorillaz also released their debut, which became the biggest album ever from a virtual band. Missy Elliot released one of the best singles of the year, The Shins dropped the song that will change your life, and Gary Jules had a timely take on a Tears for Fears tune.
- 9/11 put a cloud over everything.
- Outside the world of music, 9/11 is the biggest news story. It was also the year of the longball in Major League Baseball, as Barry Bonds hits 73 home runs (with an asterisk). Brady and the New England Patriots win the Superbowl, the Arizona Diamondbacks became the youngest team to win a World Series, and the first Harry Potter was tops at the box office.
The Splendid Table
NEW episode – September 10: Back into the kitchen
- VICE’s Farideh Sadeghin teams up with Francis to take your cooking questions on everything from what to do with a bumper crop of tomatillos to how to amp up your vegetable stock.
- Then, we talk to San Francisco Chronicle’s restaurant critic Soleil Ho about lessons learned from our new pandemic life and what’s ahead for the restaurant industry.
Timely Selections
Digital / Marketing tool 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. Set up your account to access the BBC Media Partner Centre and follow the link below to download today!
Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy among young people
- Description: The World Health Organization says it’s “really concerned” that some young people are doubting whether they would want to get vaccinated against Covid-19. Experts say a vaccine offers the best chance for lockdown and social distancing measures to be relaxed, as it would train people’s immune system to fight the virus so they don’t become sick. But amidst misinformation online, research shows that a number of young people may choose not to get the jab. BBC Minute’s Olivia Le Poidevin reports.
- Suggested caption: The World Health Organization is concerned some under 35s may not choose to get the coronavirus jab.
- Duration: 2 minutes 46 seconds
In Deep: One City’s Year of Climate Chaos
One-hour
August 27, 2021 – November 30, 2021
In summer and fall of 2020, amidst the global COVID-19 pandemic, two hurricanes hit Lake Charles in short succession. That winter, the city was hobbled by an ice storm, and just a few months later, devastating flooding killed several people and left many stranded in their cars, fearing for their lives.
This program will put these events into context through the lenses of climate change and equity. Climate change doesn’t affect everyone equally. As storms and other calamities fueled by a warming climate devastate cities with growing frequency, the trauma and burdens will be increasingly suffered by poor people and, in many places, disproportionately people of color.
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