Your week at a glance: December 27 – January 2

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

BBC World Service

  • December 31: The four-minute module Global View will take a look at international media coverage of major U.S. stories in 2021:
    • Nigeria and Europe on the Jan 6 storming of the capitol
    • South African commentary about the murder conviction of Derek Chauvin
    • Reaction to the US withdrawal from Afghanistan from the Taliban and Russia
  • Note: Due to challenges from the rise in Covid cases in the UK, the BBC is implementing temporary schedule changes. This includes changes to the 9 p.m. and 11 p.m. ET editions of The Newsroom, in addition to other schedule changes. This will start Monday, December 20 and is due to run until Sunday, January 9, and will be reviewed again in early January. The BBC is aiming to have these editions of The Newsroom back on-air as soon as possible. An updated schedule is available online.

Marketplace

Week of December 27

Marketplace (PM)

  • Kimberly talks to Megan Devine, psychotherapist and author of “It’s Ok to Not Be Ok” about how the language of grief has changed, two years into the pandemic economy.
  • The country’s historically Black colleges and universities are funneling stimulus money directly to students, wiping out loans and past-due fees. But one is going a step further with its financial assistance. Blake Farmer of WPLN in Nashville reports.

Marketplace Tech

  • Kimberly Adams hosts through the month of December.
  • December 28: Encore episode from Kimberly Adams about a special wastewater treatment facility, DC Water’s Blue Plains, that uses thermal hydrolysis to turn waste into gas and heat that can be captured and reused for energy, as well as create safe fertilizer for use with food crops.
  • December 30: Encore episode of an interview between Kimberly Adams and NASA’s Chief Science Data Officer, Kevin Murphy, on their earth sciences division’s plans to move their huge and still growing cache of climate and environmental data to larger cloud storage base and how that could make the data easier to access for anyone, potentially.

The Daily

  • NOTE: Each encore episode will also include new reporting, checking in with the characters from the original story to see where they are since the story was first reported. Each episode will also begin with an updated billboard from Michael Barbaro:

HEY, IT’S MICHAEL. THIS WEEK, THE DAILY IS REVISITING SOME OF OUR FAVORITE EPISODES OF THE YEAR … AND HEARING WHAT’S HAPPENED IN THE TIME SINCE THEY FIRST RAN. TODAY…WE RETURN TO….[DESCRIPTION OF STORY]. IT’S [DATE]

On Point

  • December 27: ‘The Genetic Lottery,’ Katheryn Paige Harden considers a new moral framework for genetics (Air Date: 9/17/21)

    A polygenic score. Have you heard of it? Researcher Kathryn Paige Harden says it’s a set of DNA variants added up into a single number. It can predict what math class you get tracked into high school, your likelihood of graduating from college,” she says, “And it predicts those things even above and beyond you’re controlling–something like family income.” A new moral framework for how we talk about genetics.

  • December 29: High conflict and how to free yourself from it (Air Date: 4/12/21)

    Investigative journalist Amanda Ripley wanted to understand the sources of human conflict. So she studied it for more than four years. She detected a strong pattern to the most intractable conflicts, big and small. She found it in divorces, gang violence and political polarization. From the personal to the tribal, we discuss high conflict, and how to pull free of it.

  • December 30: multi-level marketing companies and the disinformation they sell (Air Date: 9/30/21)

    Multi-level marketing distributors promise big money in a way that fits into your life. But for many people who sign up, they quickly discover a problem. Their entire industry is founded on disinformation–and that disinformation is metastasizing into conspiracy theories.

  • December 31: from unknown successes to personal disillusionment: what the public doesn’t know about Colin Powell (Air Date: 10/22/21)

    For more than a decade Retired Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson stood at Colin Powell’s side. Wilkerson served as Powell’s chief of staff both at the Joint Chiefs, and from 2002 to 2005, when Powell was Secretary of State. In an exclusive conversation with host Meghna Chakrabarti, Wilkerson shares what the public doesn’t know about Colin Powell, including major diplomatic successes that never made it into the public eye. He also shares Powell’s internal conflict, blind spots, and disillusionment over his role in the Iraq war.

Classical

Performance Today

  • December 27: Performance Today will have music representing the seven principles of Kwanza.
  • January 1-2: PT will distribute a special New Year’s Day program. Typically, just one program is distributed for weekend broadcasts. However, for stations that broadcast PT Weekend on Sundays, we will also make a non-holiday program available for broadcast on Jan 2. This will be posted in the evergreen episode section of ContentDepot; files will be posted next Tuesday, December 28.

Arts and Culture

Time Machine from The Current

December 30 – 1981

  • The Time Machine invades 1981 this time. Synth-pop and new-wave were emerging with albums by Devo, Soft Cell, The Go-Go’s and the Police. Rock still rolled with releases by the Rolling Stones, Stevie Nicks, Tom Petty & Joan Jett and the Blackhearts while Rush created their defining track of the early 80’s. There were funky hits from Rick James and Grace Jones and Talking Heads offshoot Tom Tom Club. The ska band The Specials released one of England’s biggest songs of the year. Speaking of England, the royal wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana captured our imaginations.

    In the States, Ronald Reagan became president. Later in the year he and his press secretary James Brady were shot. Both survived. Sandra Day O’Connor became the first Woman to serve on the US Supreme Court and the Most Trusted man in America Walter Cronkite, retired as anchor of CBS News. It was a big year for cable TV, both HBO and MTV signed on. It’s all 1981, our year on this episode of Time Machine from the Current.

The Splendid Table

  • December 31 – ENCORE EPISODE: It’s an hour with renown Philadelphia chef and author of Israeli Soul and Zahav, Michael Solomonov. We hear about what puts the soul into Israeli food, we get the recipe for his deliciously addictive tehina shake, Michael and Francis swap disaster stories and take on callers as a team.

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 explore the library of videos!

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Hygge Holiday: Cozy Classics

Broadcast Window: December 1, 2021 – January 31, 2022

Length: One hour

Join host Elena See for an hour-long program of nostalgic favorites for the winter season. Programming includes favorites from Tchaikovsky, Vivaldi, Debussy and Blake.

Questions? Please contact your Station Representative.