APM Presents Q3 Specials (Jan – March 2024)

We present to you our new winter APM Presents specials!

This quarter we have a new special from WAMU and the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum about Latino influence in aerospace, we have a brand new special from Dating While Gray about the impact of the Golden Bachelor reality program on the dating scene, and a new climate change special from Higher Ground.

We also have our annual Black History Month and Women’s History Month specials from BBC’s Witness History, along with a brand new Classical special featuring harpist Ashley Jackson, in a performance recorded at APM, that touches on themes from African mythology, the antebellum spiritual tradition and water’s transportive, transmogrifying nature.

See below for all Q3 specials and visit our website for more.

News / Talk

Higher Ground: Community Science Unifies Us Around Climate Change

  • Broadcast Window: January 19, 2024 – April 30, 2024
  • Description: Climate change can feel apocalyptic and unsolvable. Yet, communities across the U.S. are finding ways to adapt and build resilience to its impacts. Higher Ground tells the stories of people engaging in community science to take control and find understanding in changes to their environment. Empowered with information, these communities are able to keep cool heads in the face of global warming. Hope and progress in the eye of the storm.

AeroEspacial: Latino People and Stories at the Heart of AeroSpace

  • Broadcast Window: January 22, 2024 – March 31, 2024
  • Description: This special program explores the history, and future, of Latino influence and representation in aviation and space exploration. Based on “AeroEspacial,” a limited series from the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, this show spotlights Latino voices and introduces listeners to the diversity of people working in and around aerospace across the United States. We hear from scientists, scholars, historians, and artists.

Dating While Gray: Beyond ‘Reality’ TV: Inside the Lives of Older Singles

  • Broadcast Window: January 29, 2024 – March 31, 2024
  • Description: ABC’s “The Golden Bachelor” brought long-overdue attention to the dating lives of older singles. But how much of the reality TV show actually rang true? In this special, Dating While Gray host Laura Stassi sifts through research and talks to older singles about our dating lives, including: tools and strategies to make love connections, ways we’re incorporating – and discarding – traditional arrangements for marriage and living together 24/7, and how we’re navigating new romance around already established family commitments.

Selected Shorts: A Celebration of Langston Hughes

  • Broadcast Window: February 1, 2024 – February 29, 2024
  • Description: This special program, hosted by stage and film actor Teagle F. Bougere, celebrates the protean literary master and social activist Langston Hughes. Featured works include “Passing”, “The Blues I’m Playing”, and “Thank you, Ma’am” .

Witness: Black History Month

  • Broadcast Window: February 1, 2024 – February 29, 2024
  • Description: A new special hour-long edition of Witness History from the BBC World Service, bringing together some incredible interviews looking at the African-American experience. Told by people who were there, we hear stories that are fascinating, harrowing, and inspiring.

Witness: Women’s History Month

  • Broadcast Window: March 1, 2024 – March 31, 2024
  • Description: A new special hour-long edition of Witness History from the BBC World Service. Remarkable stories of women’s history, told by the women who were there. Selected from the BBC’s Witness History program, we hear moving, inspiring and even outrageous stories about a few of the most important women in living memory.

Classical

Take Me to the Water

  • Broadcast Window: February 12, 2024 – March 31, 2024
  • Duration: One hour
  • Description: A one-hour special, hosted by Vernon Neal, focusing on harpist Ashley Jackson’s program Take Me to the Water recorded at American Public Medias studios. Take Me to the Water, is an immersive audio experience that touches on themes from African mythology, the antebellum spiritual tradition and water’s transportive, transmogrifying nature.