Your week at a glance: June 19 – June 23

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)

AI is already changing the legal industry. An AI chatbot called “Co-Counsel”, specifically trained on legal documents, is already helping firms prepare documents for deposition, do research into case precedent, and produce and summarize legal contracts. These used to be the jobs of junior associate attorneys. There are also reports of AI hallucinations entering into official court documents. Marketplace’s Matt Levin reports…


Marketplace Morning Report

There have been painful layoffs in some sectors, including tech and media. Yet the overall unemployment rate is still at a very low at 3.7% and many companies are looking far and wide for people to hire on. For a lesson on how to get those workers, Marketplace Morning Report will turn to a remote corner of northwest Minnesota. This is a region that has long experience dealing with worker shortages. And Marketplace’s senior economics contributor Chris Farrell made several trips there to find out more his latest series “A Hot Job Market Where It’s Cold as Hell.”


Marketplace Tech

  • Monday: Meghan McCarty Carino speaks with Anthony Fraiser, ABF Creative Founder/CEO and host of the mini-series “Raising the Game,” about Jerry Lawson, the black engineer who helped invent the first video game cartridge console.
  • Tuesday: So much of what we do on a daily basis is online now. Utilities, restaurants, healthcare providers, government services – they all want us to go to a website or download an app. Often this is more efficient- especially for people who don’t remember doing it any other way. A look at how this causes some older adults to be left out.

On Point

  • June 19: The city of Milwaukee has an ambitious climate plan to cut its carbon emissions. Hundreds of U.S. cities have similar plans. We examine why very few have met their goals.

  • June 20: The Southern Baptist Convention has voted to uphold the expulsion of two churches because they have women pastors. We hear about what’s driving that and speak with women pastors in the Southern Baptist Church.

  • June 23: More and more companies are telling their workers to come back to the office for more days. But from Amazon, to Starbucks, to the Disney Corporation, workers are pushing back. Studies show that remote and hybrid workers are more satisfied and more productive than when they were in the office full-time. If return-to-office mandates keep backfiring, why do they persist?

Arts and Culture

Splendid Table

June 23 – Repeat Episode

  • This week, Carla Lalli Music is in the house and ready to take on your summer cooking questions with Francis. She is the author of Where Cooking Begins and the host of Carla’s Cooking Show. And then we dive into the world of cold Asian refreshers with Khushbu Shah, Food & Wine’s restaurant editor.

Performance Today

  • Music by William Grant Still, Carlos Simon, Valerie Coleman, David Baker
  • Performances by Jessye Norman, Michelle Cann, Sheku Kanneh-Mason, the Harlem Quartet and the Sphinx Virtuosi
  • The Imani Winds perform work by Natalie Joachim at the Alberta Rose Theatre, Portland, OR
  • Taipei Music Academy Festival Orchestra performs Steven Stucky’s Chamber Concerto
  • Conrad Tao performs Rachmaninoff solo

APM Presents special of the week

Selected Shorts: Romance of the Summer

Air Window: Now – July 31, 2023

Host Meg Wolitzer presents a light-hearted collection of summer-themed works including:

  • “A Case for Remaining Indoors,” by Samantha Irby, performed by Retta;
  • “The Miraculous Beach, or, Prize for Modesty,” by Massimo Bontempelli, translated by Jenny McPhee, performed by Hugh Dancy; and
  • “The Thrill of the Grass,” by W.P. Kinsella, performed by Denis O’Hare

Our greatest actors transport us through the magic of fiction, one short story at a time. Sometimes funny. Always moving. Selected Shorts is the weekly public radio program that connects you to the world with a rich diversity of voices from literature, film, theater, and comedy. From Symphony Space.

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