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News

Marketplace

Week of February 15 

Marketplace (PM) 

• Kai talks with Michael Patrick Smith about his new book The Good Hand: A Memoir of Work, Brotherhood, and Transformation in an American Boomtown.
• Kai talks with Michael Durant and his younger brother AJ Williams for our ongoing series, United States of Work.  Michael is an accountant and his brother, AJ, is a college senior.  We first profiled them a year ago in February and have checked in with Michael over the last year about his job and family   

Marketplace Tech

• February 15 (encore story): Moody’s recently acquired a data company that analyses the financial risks of climate changes. We talk with Emily Mazzacurati, founder of 427, about the work they do and how it influences the decisions companies make around investments that could help us adapt. 
• February 16: Maine’s Colby College announced in January it will be opening an artificial intelligence institute – which it says is the first of its kind at a small liberal arts college. Set to open this fall, the school plans to teach students about AI and machine learning through the lenses of history, gender studies, biology and more. The goal is that eventually every student will need to take courses on artificial intelligence in order to graduate. Guest: David Greene, president, Colby College.      

On Point

Meghna is off, with Anthony Brooks guest hosting February 15-18 and Kimberly Atkins hosting on February 19. 

• February 15: House managers will argue that the events of January 6 could not have happened without former President Trump. For the first time, we’ll see a Senate impeachment trial for a president already out of office. How is it going to work? 

Classical

Performance Today

Performance Today listeners will hear a major musical work composed or performed by a Black artist each hour of the show, every day in the month of February.

The program regularly features BIPOC composers, conductors and performers, but this will be a special celebration of the contribution of Black artists during Black History Month. 

Arts and Culture

Time Machine from The Current

Time Machine from The Current is a sonic journey across music history. Each week, host Bill DeVille takes you back to the sounds of a specific year with a carefully curated list of the best songs. Plus, he’ll invite you to reexamine some deeper cuts as we look back on what happened that year in music, pop culture and the world.

February 19 – 1985:     

It was the year that the USA for Africa took a cue from Band Aid & helped feed the world. Whitney Houston emerged with her debut, and it was a big year for music in Minneapolis with albums from The Replacements, Husker Du & Prince. Run DMC released their 2nd effort & became the first rap act to release a CD, Sting dropped his first solo album and the band Dire Straits had it biggest year with their Brothers in Arms album.

The Chicago Bears recorded the Superbowl Shuffle & ultimately won the big game, Pete Rose breaks Ty Cobb’s All-Time Hit Record and Michael J Fox went back to the future. It was the year that new Coke came and went, Larry King Live was launched on CNN, and the first .com was registered while Windows 1.0 was released. 

The Splendid Table

As The Splendid Table continues to take listener home cooking questions, please follow the program’s updates on Twitter and encourage listeners to send in their questions as voice memos to contact@splendidtable.org, or via phone at 800-537-5252.  

NEW episode – February 19:   

• This week we’re spending the hour with Chinese food authority Grace Young. Grace known to many as the Poet Laureate of the wok has spent years exploring classic Chinese cooking. She is author of the ground-breaking Breath of the Wok and The Wisdom of the Chinese Kitchen. Her latest project is an oral history, Coronavirus: Chinatown Stories. 

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