Your week at a glance: Dec 26 – Jan 1

Below you will find the latest upcoming program updates for the week ahead. PLEASE NOTE: All details are subject to change. Additional details will be shared via ContentDepot as they become available.

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News

Marketplace


Marketplace (PM)

Week of December 26

  • Kimberly talks with Karen Levy, a science information professor at Cornell, about the future of transportation and trucking with AI.
  • When people come out of prison, they often have to start over from the ground up. Having a criminal conviction on your record can complicate basic things like finding a job or renting an apartment. Mothers coming out of prison have added challenges– finding childcare and buying formula that is affordable. A program in Indiana is trying to ease the way and make the future better for these women and their children. Alisa Roth reports.

Marketplace Tech

  • Dec 26: A featured conversation with archaeologist Justin Dunnavant, about how tech is speeding up the search for ships—and stories—from the trans-Atlantic slave trade. (Rebroadcast)
  • Dec 27: We’ll have a conversation with Chris Impey, professor of astronomy at the University of Arizona, about a topic that the government hasn’t openly discussed in decades: unidentified flying objects. (Rebroadcast)
  • Dec 28: We’ll encore our summer story about the increase in the number of women protagonists in video games. (Rebroadcast)
  • Dec 29: We’ll revisit our conversation with futurist Amy Webb about the technologies that allow for a more “engineered life.” (Rebroadcast)

On Point

  • Dec 26: More than Money: The Monopoly on Meat – Corporate monopolies, or near monopolies, exercise a lot of power in U.S. markets. They dominate several business sectors like meat processing or entertainment ticket sales. Our special series More than Money kicks off with a conversation about monopolistic practices in meat processing. (Rebroadcast)
  • Dec 27: More than Money: Microsoft and the Big Tech Question – Microsoft has a long-standing bid to buy gaming company Activision-Blizzard for almost $70 billion dollars. It would be just one of Microsoft’s many recent acquisitions. Monopolies have always been defined as one big player in one market. But now, the tech sector has a few giant players, pushing in a lot of markets. In Part Two of our special series More than Money: Are these mega-mergers a new kind of monopoly? (Rebroadcast)
  • Dec 28: More than Money: Antitrust Lessons of the Gilded Age – The nineteenth century saw the rise of great monopolies. In Part Three of our special series More than Money, On Point looks at how Americans pushed back. From President Teddy Roosevelt to journalist Ida Tarbell to Justice Louis Brandeis, we hear about lessons learned from antitrust action in the Gilded Age. (Rebroadcast)
  • Dec 29: More than Money: Defining American Antitrust Law, from Bork to Khan – In 1978 legal scholar Robert Bork wrote a book called The Antitrust Paradox. Bork argued that economic efficiency and “consumer welfare” should be the unique goals of American antitrust law. Now, FTC chair Lina Khan says Bork’s consumer welfare standard is too narrow and wants regulators to ask whether monopolies hurt the welfare of democracies. In Part Four of our special series More than Money: understanding Robert Bork and Lina Khan. (Rebroadcast)
  • Dec 30: More than Money: Solutions for Reigning in Monopoly Power (Original Air Date: 2/18/22) – For antitrust reformers, the size and power of companies like Google and Facebook represent more than a threat to consumer welfare. Can vigorous antitrust regulation meaningfully reduce inequality, and bring about a stronger democracy? In the concluding episode of our special series More than Money, we discuss solutions for reigning in monopoly power. (Rebroadcast)

The Daily

  • Dec 26: On the Road with Ukraine’s Refugees: An Update on the status of refugees in the war.
  • Dec 27: How Two Friends Beat Amazon & Built a Union: A follow-up conversation with the union organizers, Chris & Derrick, on the progress of organizing efforts at Amazon
  • Dec 28: A View of the Beginning of Time: An Update on what the Webb telescope has captured during its time in orbit.
  • Dec 29: A Post-Roe America (originally pts 1 and 2): Follow-up conversations with one anti-abortion activist and one abortion provider we interviewed after the SCOTUS leak to find out what’s happened with them since Roe was officially overturned
  • Dec 30: One Man Flees Putin’s Draft: A follow-up conversation with a man who left Russia to avoid the draft.

Arts and Culture

The Splendid Table

December 30

  • Soup is on this week with award-winning chef Jenn Louis and her new book The Chicken Soup Manifesto. Jenn answers listener questions and brings us her uniquely global take on chicken soup. She’s collected recipes from all over the world, from Algeria to Columbia to Panama. And then, the Splendid Table staff holds a taste-off of store-bought chicken stock. Make sure you tune in to find out who the winner is. (Rebroadcast)

Classical 24

  • Saturday Cinema will not air in the C24 stream on Saturday, Dec 24. Instead, C24 will be broadcasting Christmas music from Dec 23 – 25.

Timely Selections

APM Presents special staff pick

Substance Use & New Paths to Recovery

Broadcast Window: Jan 1 – Feb 28, 2023

Length: One hour

What causes addiction? How do substance use disorders compromise our mental and physical health? And what new treatments are helping people recover from addiction, while making substance use disorders a manageable and treatable condition for those who can access help? Join Call to Mind host Kimberly Adams for a critical hour-long broadcast special exploring substance use disorders in the US. Questions? Please contact your Station Representative.