Your week at a glance: February 27 – March 5, 2023

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 February 27

  • Kai talks to New York Times’ reporter Jeanna Smialek about her book Limitless: The Federal Reserve Takes on a New Age of Crisis.

Marketplace Tech

  • Feb 27: Meghan McCarty Carino talks with Mohar Chatterjee, journalist at Politico, about the use of AI and machines when drafting laws.
  • Mar 3: We’ll have a story on how Amazon and Walmart turn to its influencer programs so that content creators on TikTok can highlight their products, as a way for these retail giants to upscale their presence on social platforms.

On Point

  • Feb 27: Since the 1950s, the number of workers in the US who need a state license to do their job has quadrupled. Additionally, most states won’t recognize a license from a different state, though a couple of states have slowly started to push back on that. We explore what’s behind America’s burgeoning state licensing system and ask who benefits, who loses?
  • Feb 28: The American blood market is booming. US blood sales overseas are worth more than $24 billion. Blood plasma is being touted as a wonder drug for everything from wrinkles to COVID-19. But the plasma collection industry is also rife with exploitation and risk — often targeting our nation’s most vulnerable. Meghna speaks with journalist Kathleen McLaughlin about what she found researching her forthcoming book, Blood Money: the Story of Life, Death, and Profit Inside America’s Blood industry.
  • Mar 1: In 1993, then-Deputy Defense Sec. William Perry invited defense company executives to dinner and urged them to join forces to survive. Since then, the number of defense prime contractors shrank from 51 to five. We hear the story of the 1993 “last supper” and what that means for our current defense budget.
  • Mar 3: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has pushed for major changes in the state’s public schools. We take a close look at how legislation is impacting classrooms and teachers, plus the politicization of Florida’s K-12 education. Meghna traveled to Florida to report this episode, where she spoke at length with a Florida school superintendent who has some revealing insight into public education in Florida today.

Arts and Culture

The Splendid Table

March 3

  • This week we’re learning about tea with East Asian tea authority Theresa Wong of NYC’s T Shop. Theresa leads Francis through a tasting from black, thru oolong all the way to green Then we talk about the surprising history of chai with food and culture writer Leena Trevedi- Grenier who also shares an uber personalized masala chai recipe.

Performance Today

  • Members of the Minnesota Orchestra perform Joel Thompson’s In Response to the Madness for string quartet
  • Colorado Music Festival Orchestra performs a new work by Wang Jie: Flying on the Scaly Backs of Our Mountains
  • Fred co-hosts a special hour with pianist and Classical Woman of the Year Lara Downes
  • Alice K. Dade performs Mozart’s Flute Quintet with an all-star group of string players at Festival Mozaic
  • Gabriela Montero performs Prokofiev’s Sarcasms at Prager Family Center for the Arts in Easton, MD

Timely Selections

Shareable video of the week


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People Fixing The World: Meet the unsung heroes of the ocean

sea cucumbers

  • Description: Sea cucumbers are being farmed in Madagascar. This is improving lives in coastal communities and also helping to keep the seas healthy. For more solutions, download the People Fixing the World podcast. Video by Richard Kenny.
  • Suggested social copy: Sea cucumber farming, and how it’s helping coastal communities in Madagascar.
  • Duration: 2 minutes 27 seconds

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APM Presents special of the week

La Mujer en la Música

Broadcast Window: Mar 1 – 31, 2023

Length: One hour

Teresa Carreño was a Venezuelan composer and pianist who was nicknamed the “The Valkyrie of the Piano,” due to her formidable and impactful playing. But Teresa’s legacy extends beyond the amazing works and recordings she left behind and she is not the only Latin American woman to have done so. Listen as we explore the music and lives of select women composers and performers from Latin America who have re-shaped music history and continue to do so to this day. The program will feature Latin American performers and composers such as Gabriela Montero, Gabriela Lena Frank, and Clara Rodriguez. Questions? Please contact your Station Representative.