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News
Marketplace
Marketplace (PM)
Week of December 12
- Kai talks with Stephanie Silverman about the movie release pipeline and the chatter at a big cinema conference.
- In China, hundreds of thousands of people live apart from their spouses and children to earn more money in the big cities or factory areas. But there is a household registration system, which makes it hard for these workers’ families to join them. So, they tend to reunite maybe once a year in pre-pandemic times. That has been even harder to do under China’s COVID policy. Marketplace’s Jennifer Pak shares the story of one family.
Marketplace Tech
Kimberly Adams hosts all week.
- Dec 12: Kimberly Adams speaks with Ryan Jenkins, Cal Poly SLO, on the ethical considerations of police using robots for lethal enforcement purposes – or in other words, to harm or kill.
- Dec 13: A featured Q with China correspondent Jennifer Pak. Police in China have reportedly tracked people who attended recent protests, using a mix of CCTV cameras and phone pings, as well as the scanning of health QR codes nearby the area. But we’ve also seen the surveillance system’s limits. It didn’t actually avoid the protests, which were organized and spread across Twitter and Telegram– apps that are banned in mainland China, and somehow the young people bypassed the bans.
- Dec 15: A conversation with Rob Joyce, NSA Director of Cybersecurity, on current/emerging cybersecurity threats on the NSA’s radar and how they’re working with Silicon Valley and the private sector to shore up national cyber security.
- Dec 16: A Q with David Brancaccio about MMR’s series on the transistor, which was invented 75 years ago next week. We’ll dig into the ecosystems of innovation that turned that invention into nearly everything. And a look at why the transistor fully bloomed that would one day be called Silicon Valley. (It has to do in part with a Nobel Prize-winner’s mom.)
On Point
- Dec 12: What do American Christians believe about their religion? A new survey finds that their beliefs are as diverse as the country they live in, and a sizable number of regular churchgoing people believe Jesus was a great teacher, but not divine. We go beyond the narrow slice of political evangelicalism that often grabs media attention to explore the broad spectrum of belief in American Christianity.
- Dec 13: Meghna speaks with Achut Deng. Originally from Sudan, she now lives in Sioux Falls, South Dakota where she’s raising three children. She thought she was protecting them and preserving their innocence by keeping her own harrowing childhood from them. She never told them how she escaped a bloody civil war — the trauma she suffered and the trauma she survived. But a near-death experience with COVID changed her mind about that and now she has shared her story in a new memoir for young readers, Don’t Look Back.
- Dec 14: Meghna speaks with LA property developer Martin Muoto who says he’s building high quality affordable housing for roughly have of what traditional property developers have been able to do. His secret, he says, is avoiding public funding. Read and listen to the story here. (Rebroadcast)
Arts and Culture
The Splendid Table
New episode – December 16
- We’re talking to the people behind some of our favorite cookbooks of the fall just in time for holiday gift-giving. Our guests include Cynthia Shanmugalingam author of Rambutan, Recipes from Sri Lanka, Pascal Baudar author of Wildcrafted Vinegars, Ben Mervis author of The British Cookbook and Chris Scott, author of Homage, Recipes + Stories from an Amish Soul Food Kitchen.
Timely Selections
Shareable video of the week
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People Fixing the World: the ‘life-changing’ electric suit
- Description: A special body suit for people with cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis and strokes has had some remarkable results. It sends electrical stimulation to muscles which can reduce pain and make movement easier. Reporter: Myra Anubi Produced by William Kremer and Richard Kenny.
- Suggested social copy: A special body suit for people with cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis and strokes has had some remarkable results.
- Duration: 2 minutes 27 seconds
Questions? Please contact your Station Representative.
APM Presents special of the week
Sober Curiosity: More than Dry January
Broadcast Window: Jan 1 – Feb 28, 2022
Length: One hour
Embodied host Anita Rao examines the tenets and experiences of sober curiosity through a conversation with two people who collectively have close to two decades of sobriety experience. The two reflect on how their sobriety journeys have shaped everything from their romantic and platonic relationships to their careers and thoughts about the future. Questions? Please contact your Station Representative.