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BBC World of Secrets
Episode Five: Collapse
Wednesday February 7
People are trapped under rubble in the Lagos church compound. The eyes of the world are now on TB Joshua. Beneath the collapsed building is 23-year-old Princess, from South Africa. Her mother says she’s told: “just pray”. Disciple Emmanuel goes to the scene. “You could hear people, and their voices are fading. From louder, it’s getting weaker.” As suspicion about the cause of the collapse intensifies, Nigeria’s president, Goodluck Jonathan, flies in to offer his condolences to TB Joshua and the bereaved families. Meanwhile, the “prophet” gives a bizarre explanation. Presenters Charlie Northcott and Yemisi Adegoke investigate the cult of TB Joshua, a story of miracles, manipulation and abuse.
Broadcast times: Wed 06:32-07:00, Wed 18:32-19:00, Fri 21:32-22:00, Sat 04:32-05:00, Sat 12:32-13:00 EST
Marketplace
Marketplace (PM)
Kai talks with Ben Zhao, a computer science professor at University of Chicago and leader of the Nightshade and Glaze projects which help artists alter their art to protect them from data scraping.
Thursday, February 8: Episode two of our ongoing series – Breaking Ground—about federal investment in the economy – Kai has the story of one street in one neighborhood in one city…..the story of a $23.9 million grant from the Department of Transportation in East Las Vegas. Note that there will be no numbers segment in this episode.
Marketplace Tech
Monday Feb 5: Marketplace’s Lily Jamali speaks with Lance Ulanoff, TechRadar, about the Apple Vision Pro and the headsets that have tried and failed before it.
Thursday Feb 6: Lily Jamali speaks with Meredith Broussard, NYU Data Journalism Professor, about AI mammogram integration
On Point
- Monday, Feb 5: Should Donald Trump be disqualified from the presidency? This week, the justices hear a blockbuster case that could profoundly shape not only the 2024 election, but American democracy, too.
- Wednesday, Feb 7: The US is reported to have approved plans for a series of strikes on Iranian targets in Syria and Iraq. This follows an attack by Iranian backed militia on its base in Jordan that killed three troops and injured dozens of others. How should the US respond militarily and what else can it do to contain Iran’s seeming determination to provoke the US into a wider war?
- Friday, Feb 9: The Northeast has lost a month of annual snow cover since 2000. Ski resorts in the Northwest are shifting their focus toward mountain biking. 17th-century Dutch masterpieces–depicting winter merrymaking on frozen canals–appear almost laughable today. In many places, snow and ice are functionally gone. Forever. What does this mean for the culture and economies of once-cold places?
The Splendid Table
February 9 – New episode
This week we talk to the NYT’s award – winning columnist Melissa Clark about her deep dive into the world of salt and she takes your cooking questions with Francis. Then we introduce you to Kentucky’s former poet laureate and award- winning author Crystal Wilkinson about her new memoir, Praise Song for the Kitchen Ghosts, Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks.
Classical
Performance Today
- Feb 5: Inna Faliks performs a solo work for piano by Billy Childs
- Feb 6: Todd Palmer and Ayane Kozasa perform music by Rebecca Clarke at the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, SC
- Feb 7: Johannes Debus conducts ROCO in a performance of Clarice Assad’s “Ode to Carmen Miranda”
- Feb 8: Anna Geniushene performs Brahms at the most recent Van Cliburn International Piano Competition
- Feb 9: PT celebrates Lunar New Year and Fred talks with Hilary Hahn about her Ysaye Sonatas release
Classical 24
New Classical Tracks with Julie Amacher
Wed 7:15am/5pm CT & Sat 9am CT
- Lara Downes talks with Julie Amacher about her new album Gershwin Reimagined just in time to celebrate Rhapsody in Blue’s 100th anniversary on Feb 12th.
Extra Ecclectic with Steve Seel
Wed 10pm-12am CT
- Extra Eclectic’s first episode of Black History Month features composers like Michael Abels, Julius Eastman, Carlos Simon, deVon Russell Gray, and Julia Perry.
Euro Classic
Thurs 12am CT & Sat 8pm CT
- Feb 8: We head to last fall’s Bratislava Music Festival to hear the rarely-heard Violin Concerto by Jan Zimmer, with violinist Milan Pal’a and the Slovak Sinfonietta
- Feb 11: Hannah Kendall’s “The Spark Catchers” was written in 2017, inspired by a poem about women who worked in match factories in the 1800s. We’ll hear it in a concert from December in Bangor, Wales, from the BBC National Symphony Orchestra of Wales.
Rhapsody in Black
Thurs 9pm CT & Sun 4pm CT
- Where we turn up the voices of Black artists in the world of classical music. This week focuses on when Dr. Martin Luther King met Maestro Paul Freeman.
Saturday Cinema
Sat 10am – 12pm CT
- In celebration of Valentine’s Day Saturday Cinema will feature the great love themes from the movies.
Your Classical Discoveries
Sat 4-7pm CT
- LUNAR NEW YEAR: Join Mindy Ratner for a celebration of Lunar New Year, featuring music by Chinese composers, musical evocations of the moon, and tunes for good luck and good fortune.
APM Presents special of the week
Beyond ‘Reality’ TV: Inside the Lives of Older Singles
Air Window: now – March 31, 2024
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.