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 April 3
- China is experiencing high unemployment (5-6% and 17% for youth) after three years of zero-COVID lockdowns. But that doesn’t mean there is an oversupply of labor in every sector. Manufacturing is finding it hard to get workers. Marketplace’s Jennifer Pak reports.
- The state of Wisconsin plans to ask voters whether people receiving welfare benefits should be required to work. Georgia will institute work requirements for Medicaid starting in July. Arkansas lawmakers want able-bodied people receiving housing benefits to be required to have a job. Plenty of people who have gone through welfare programs agree, in principle, that work requirements are necessary to keep freeloaders off welfare. But what do work requirements look like in practice? Marketplace’s Krissy Clark reports.
Marketplace Tech
- April 3: Meghan McCarty Carino speaks with Emily M. Bender, a professor of computational linguistics at the University of Washington. She co-authored the paper “On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?” two years ago.
On Point
- April 3: Gun violence recently surpassed car accidents as the leading cause of death for American children. But for Black children – it’s been the leading cause of death since 2006. As gun deaths continue to rise, On Point asks why Black children keep bearing the brunt, and what can be done to address it.
- April 5: As many, if not most, of us are ever more reliant on cell phones for work and beyond, network outages are no longer just personal inconveniences. What causes outages and dead zones, and what do they tell us about the U.S. cell phone infrastructure?
Arts and Culture
The Splendid Table
April 7 – New episode
- This week, it’s an hour devoted to baking with Natasha Pickowicz, author of More Than Cake: 100 Baking Recipes Built for Pleasure and Community, Chetna Makan author of Chetna’s Easy Baking: with a Twist of Spice and Esteban Castillo, author of Chicano Bakes: Recipes for Mexican Pan Dulce, Tamales and My Favorite Desserts
Performance Today
- A performance of Astor Piazzolla’s “Kicho” from Festival Mozaic
- Zhu Wang’s performance of Franz Schubert’s Impromptu in F Minor from Honest Brook
- James Ehnes performing Sergei Prokofiev’s “Concerto No. 2 in G minor for Violin and Orchestra, Opus 63” with Minnesota Orchestra
- Leif Ove Andsnes performing Dvorak at Spivey Hall
- Sterling Elliott and Evren Ozel perform George Walker’s Sonata for Cello and Piano
- Vega String Quartet performs Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 16 at Emory University
Timely Selections
APM Presents special of the week
Melodies of Freedom
Air Window: Available April 1 – April 30, 2023
Description: Melodies of Freedom is a musical celebration of Passover that will explore the power of music to bring people together. Featured music includes A Seder for Peace by Stewart Grant written for a seder that brought together Israelis and Palestinians, Christians, Muslims, and Jews for the cause of peace in the Middle East. We’ll also hear Passover Psalm by Erich Wolfgang Korngold who overcame personal tragedy during the Holocaust.
Encore, from 2022