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News
Marketplace
Week of December 6
Marketplace (PM)
- Kai talks with Sam Wallace, owner of From Field and Flower in London’s Borough Market, about holiday business, prices, and her pivot from imported flour to selling other products.
- Kai talks to Hayden Brown, CEO of Upwork, about trends in the freelance economy.
Marketplace Tech
- Kimberly Adams hosts through the month of December.
- December 6: We talk with Marketplace China correspondent Jennifer Pak on the creation of global standards around new kinds of technology, and what it means if Chinese companies are playing a bigger role in those discussions than American companies.
On Point
- December 7: On Point looks at how South Africa is tackling the COVID-19 pandemic. The fact that the Omicron variant was first discovered there is in part due to their comprehensive testing and gene sequencing program. But the nation also faces high degrees of vaccine hesitancy and resistance, fueled by misinformation and disinformation originating in the US. What can we learn from the South African experience about how to tackle the ongoing pandemic?
Classical
Performance Today
- December 6: Christmas music starts to appear on Performance Today, featuring mandolinist Avi Avital performing a special arrangement of Christmas from Vivaldi’s Winter Concerto of the Four Seasons.
Arts and Culture
Time Machine from The Current
December 10 – 1972
- Stevie Wonder dominated the airwaves, The Rolling Stones made a double album masterpiece, there were soundtracks like The Harder They Come (starring Jimmy Cliff) and Superfly featured the music of Curtis Mayfield. David Bowie made an album and wrote a big hit for Mott the Hoople, Lou Reed took a walk on the wild side, and we leaned on Bill Withers while The Eagles were taking it easy.
- Outside the world of music, The Miami Dolphins had a perfect season, it was Nixon over McGovern in a landslide and if you saw a movie, it might have been The Godfather or Deliverance.
The Splendid Table
Encore episode – December 10:
- We are talking to one of the founding fathers of food science and cooking, Harold McGee.
- Harold is the author of the beloved, bestselling, game-changing culinary guide On Food and Cooking.
- He has recently turned his attention to one of the most overlooked dimensions of our world—smell. His new book is Nose Dive: A Field Guide to the World’s Smells.
Timely Selections
Digital / Marketing tool from the BBC World Service
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Questions? Reach out to your Station Relations Representative.
Welcome Christmas!
Broadcast Window: December 1 – 31, 2021
Length: One hour
There’s no better way to welcome Christmas than Welcome Christmas!, the VocalEssence holiday concert conducted by Philip Brunelle. It’s an hour of joyful, classic holiday music from VocalEssence, one of the world’s premiere choral groups, singing traditional carols and new discoveries.
About the host:
- John Birge is the morning host on Classical Minnesota Public Radio, host of APM’s Composers Datebook, and has brought Welcome Christmas! to hundreds of public radio stations since 1998.
Questions? Please contact your Station Representative.