News/Talk APM Presents Specials Spring/Summer 2024

We present to you our new spring and summer News/Talk specials from APM Presents! This quarter we have an exciting selection of diverse specials for you and your listeners, including five new mental health specials from Call to Mind, a new climate special from How We Survive and Marketplace, plus new specials from the BBC, The Poetry Café, Selected Shorts, LAist, and Audible.

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News / Talk

Call to Mind: Mental Health Awareness Series

  • Broadcast Window: April 4, 2024 – August 31, 2024
  • Description: Five new Call to Mind Specials coming for May, Mental Health Awareness Month. Each hour explores emerging research and informed perspectives on vital issues. Each features thought-provoking interviews with top experts, the voices of people living with mental illness, and sound-rich stories from across the country. The hourlong programs are hosted by Kimberly Adams, a host and senior correspondent for APM’s Marketplace.

The Poetry Café

  • Broadcast Window: April 1, 2024 – June 30, 2024
  • Description: The Poetry Café is poetry, live music and artist interviews around creating community through the arts. It is place where voices and ideas are valued and amplified to feed your mind, your body and your soul. This one-hour special features interviews with poet, playwright, filmaker and educator Ebony Payne-English and with poet and rapper Moses West, along with live poetry performances from various artists.

California Love: K-Pop Dreaming – Moon Night

  • Broadcast Window: April 1, 2024 – May 31, 2024
  • Description: K-Pop Dreaming host Vivian Yoon takes us to an American military neighborhood in Seoul in the late 1980s. Tucked in an alleyway was a little grimy club that blasted American hip-hop, the place was for African American GIs to cut loose, but it pulled in an unexpected crowd – young Koreans who would become the pioneers of modern K-pop. Itaewon was also the setting for the beginning of another story – it was the place where Vivian’s parents met and fell in love. Features Kang Won Rae, one of K-pop’s legends that came out of the Moon Night scene.

BBC Witness History: The Environment

  • Broadcast Window: April 1, 2024 – April 30, 2024
  • Description: An all-new special edition of Witness History from the BBC World Service. We look at the triumphs and setbacks of the environmental movement.

How We Survive: The Worth of Water

  • Broadcast Window: April 1, 2024 – June 30, 2024
  • Description: In a station special adapted from Marketplace’s award-winning podcast “How We Survive,” host Amy Scott visits places across the West that must fundamentally rethink how water is divided up and used. Over the course of an hour, we’ll meet a couple scrambling to find an affordable water supply amidst a worsening drought and making the most of every drop. We’ll look at some of the tech innovations that could help us find a way out of the water crisis—which include looking to the ocean, the sewer and even the sky to produce drinking water. And finally, we’ll look at a growing movement, rooted in Indigenous values, to give nature—rivers, fish, crops and trees—the same rights as people, and what that might mean for the future of the Colorado River.

How Does the Russian Propaganda Machine Work? Are There Lessons for the United States?

  • Broadcast Window: May 1, 2024 – July 31, 2024
  • Description: From Audible podcast, In the Room with Peter Bergen, a new special about that state of journalism in Russia. Objective reporting about the war in Ukraine is now against the law in Russia and journalists can’t even use the word “war” in their stories. But it wasn’t always like this. Two veteran Russian journalists, who’ve experienced the changes firsthand, explain what’s happened and how “fake news” has helped solidify authoritarian rule in Russia.

Early Risers: Breaking Silence

  • Broadcast Window: May 22, 2024 – September 4, 2024
  • Description: In this hour, early childhood experts from around the country talk about the reasons many caregivers are not venturing into conversations about race, racism and cultural diversity and we look at the impact that has on our children, other BIPOC adults, and our early childhood programs. Finally, we explore ways to break down those barriers for the benefit of our children. We will answer the question- what is needed in our early childhood spaces to encourage the vulnerability and exploration caregivers need to enter into these essential conversations with young children?

Witness History: Pride Month

  • Broadcast Window: June 1, 2024 – June 30, 2024
  • Description: An all-new special edition of Witness History from the BBC World Service. Remarkable stories of LGBT+ rights, told by the people who were there.

Selected Shorts: Wishful Thinking

  • Broadcast Window: June 1, 2024 – August 31, 2024
  • Description: Summertime, and the living is easy, and if it isn’t, all you need is a charming trio of works curated by the producers of Selected Shorts about summer wishes and wishful thinking. Hear works from Zadie Smith (performed by the author), Carys Davies, and Ray Bradbury performed by Jane Kaczmarek and Sean Astin.

How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong – en español

  • Broadcast Window: March 18, 2024 – June 30, 2024
  • Description: A Spanish language edition of our special based on the award winning podcast series, Sold a Story. The Spanish edition will feature two episodes, the first is a Spanish translation of the one-hour radio special, How Teaching Kids to Read Went so Wrong, and a second episode featuring a conversation between Sold a Story host Emily Hanford and host of the Spanish language edition, Valeria Fernández.**Please contact your APM Station Rep if you’re interested in airing this special.**