BBC

Unexpected Elements

• New digital assets for web and social media are now available to download on our website.
• New generic launch promos are now available in ContentDepot.

Marketplace

Marketplace (PM)

• The idea of a “business cycle” permeates a lot of economic thinking and planning — and it’s shot through data from the BLS and BEA. But what exactly is a business cycle — and does the idea still have predictive power in this economy? Marketplace’s Justin Ho reports.
• The wine industry in China has been in decline for the past six years. According to the most recent data, wine imports in 2023 were one-third of what they were in 2017 … their value falling by about 60%. So, what gives? Our China correspondent Jennifer Pak, in Shanghai, has that one.

Marketplace Morning Report

The U.S. is home to 1.4 million immigrants from El Salvador, a poor Central American country with a total population of just 6 million people. These immigrants work physically demanding, low-paying jobs that are often hard to fill – especially as janitors. It’s also the second most common occupation for Salvadorans behind construction, according to the American Immigration Council. These workers are concentrated in cities like LA, Washington, DC and Houston – where they’ve been longtime members of local labor movements. Hear more on the Marketplace Morning Report.

Marketplace Tech

Monday April 22: Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino speaks with Casey Ross, STAT News, about his yearlong investigation about how AI has been misused in the health care and insurance fields.

Thursday April 25: Marketplace’s Lily Jamali speaks with WSJ’s Amazon reporter Dana Mattioli on her upcoming Amazon exposé, The Everything War: Amazon’s Ruthless Quest to Own the World and Remake Corporate Power.

On Point

• Monday, April 22: Languishing is that feeling of a lack of motivation or direction or a disengagement from community. Most people feel a sense of languishing at some point in their lives. So how do we move from languishing to flourishing? Meghna speaks with sociologist Corey Keyes who has spent his career trying to find the answer
• Tuesday, April 23: On Friday last week India began to go to the polls. 2,600 parties are vying for the approval of almost a billion voters in a process that lasts six weeks. That sounds like democracy at work. So why are some observers saying this election could put India on the path to abandoning democracy?
• Wednesday, April 24: Retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer in conversation with Meghna about the current court’s textualist philosophy and his case for a better way to interpret the Constitution.

The Splendid Table

April 26 – Repeat episode

We’re spending time with authors of some of the season’s newest cookbooks. We’re joined by Australian chef Lara Lee, author of A Splash of Soy, Everyday Food From Asia, Lerato Umah- Shaylor author of Africana, Niki Segnit with The Flavor Thesaurus, More Flavors and Tamar Adler author of The Everlasting Meal, Leftovers A to Z.

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Classical

Performance Today

• April 22: Leon Botstein, conducts The Orchestra Now in a performance of William Grant Still’s “Dismal Swamp” at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.
• April 23: Apollo Chamber Players perform Dvorak’s String Quartet No. 14 from the Midtown Arts and Theater Center in Houston, TX.
• April 24: Pianist Courtney Bryan performs her composition “House of Pianos” with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Louis Langree, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
• April 25: Clarinetist Sangyoon Kim performs Carl Maria von Weber:’s Clarinet Quintet in B-flat Major with members of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, from Temple Israel in Minneapolis, MN.
• April 26: Brandon Patrick George and Mahan Esfahani perform J. S. Bach’s Sonata in A Major for flute and harpsichord from Shepherd King Lutheran Church in San Antonio, TX.

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National Poetry Month
Every day in April at 3 pm CT, we’ll feature a piece of music inspired by poetry.

• April 22: Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending
• April 23: Revueltas: Sensemaya
• April 24: Price: Song for Snow
• April 25: Reena Esmail: The Light is the Same
• April 26: Finzi: Nightingales
• April 27: Rautavaara: Lorca Suite
• April 28: Schoenberg: Transfigured Night

New Classical Tracks with Julie Amacher
Wed 7:15am/5pm CT & Sat 9am CT

• Sophie Shao talks with Julie Amacher about her new album Can Can Macabre.

Extra Ecclectic with Steve Seel
Wed 10pm-12am CT

• Into the mountains we go with Jennifer Higdon’s “Coyote Nights,” Ben Shirley’s “High Sierra Sonata,” and Kayhan Kalhor’s “Mountains are Far Away.”

Euro Classic
Thurs 12am CT & Sat 8pm CT

• Apr 25: The vocal ensemble Voces8 sings Eriks Esenvalds’ “Long Road” on tour in Madrid.
• Apr 27: Violinist Simone Lamsma plays the Violin Concerto by American composer John Adams in concert from paris, almost exactly 30 years after it premiered in 1994.

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 Coleridge Taylor Perkinson.

Saturday Cinema
Sat 10am – 12pm CT

• A full two hours dedicated to listener requests!!

Your Classical Discoveries
Sat 4-7pm CT

• We observe April birthdays in classical music with heavy hitting Sergeis Rachmaninoff and Prokofiev, lighter fare by Franz von Suppe and Joseph lanner, and many more in between.

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APM Presents special of the week

California Love: K-Pop Dreaming – Moon Night

Air Window: Now – May 31, 2024

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.

Questions? Please contact your Station Representative.

BBC

Unexpected Elements

• New digital assets for web and social media are now available to download on our website.
• New generic launch promos are now available in ContentDepot.

Marketplace

Marketplace (PM)

• April 15 – Predicting Economic Reality: The 4th installment of our series, “Economic Beliefs v. Reality,” with Marketplace host and correspondent, Kimberly Adams.
  • Despite the famous refrain, “it’s the economy, stupid,” when it comes to elections, the link between how the economy is doing and how a presidential election goes is … complicated. Economists have been trying to model this connection for decades, but how much does the economy REALLY matter in an era of extreme polarization?

• Kai talks to Kelsey Vlamis of business insider about how thrift stores are changing.
• Chains are expanding in a big way these days, from fast food to retail. That means finding new locations is top of mind, and competitive. Some companies, like Raising Cane’s are entering communities for the very first time. Others, like Starbucks or Jersey Mike’s are adding a second, or even third or fourth locations to towns they’re already in. There’s the old saying: location, location, location. But HOW important is store location, really? Marketplace’s Kristin Schwab goes scouting.

Marketplace Tech

Monday April 15: Lily speaks with Glenn Fleishman, freelance journalist, about the history and peculiarities of COBOL.

Tuesday April 16: In this next installment of our series, Decoding Democracy, Lily Jamali speaks with Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes about how his office is preparing and training election officials to respond to AI-generated disinformation.

On Point

• Monday, April 15: There are several perfectly legal ways to steal a U.S. presidential election. That’s according to election law expert Lawrence Lessig. He tells Anthony how the U.S. election and legal systems are vulnerable – and why those weaknesses need immediate correction.
• Wednesday, April 17: Several states are pushing to make it easier to involuntarily commit people for mental health disorders. Many families of those struggling with mental health issues support those moves. But they face strong push back from mental health professionals.
• Friday, April 19: Over the past five years, Wall Street Journal reporter Byron Tau has been piecing together how the U.S. government, aided by dozens of anonymous companies, has built a foreign and domestic surveillance apparatus that can peer into the lives of nearly everyone on the planet via our digital devices. Byron joins Deborah to talk about what he found and his new book, “Means of Control: How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New American Surveillance State”

The Splendid Table

April 19 – New episode

This week, we’ve got two chefs who are pushing the boundaries of what we talk about when we talk about soul food. Beloved TV host Carla Hall of the new show, Chasing Flavor on Max and celebrated Atlanta chef Todd Richards author of Roots , Heart , Soul, The Story, Celebration and Recipes of Afro Cuisine in America.

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Classical

Performance Today

• April 15: Zuill Bailey performs the ‘Cello Concerto’ by Ellen Taaffe Zwilich from Boulder, CO
• April 16: Edgar Meyer leads The Scottish Ensemble in a performance of Caroline Shaw’s ‘Punctum’ at the University of Georgia Performing Arts Center in Athens, GA
• April 17: David Shifrin, Peter Wiley and Anna Polonsky perform Johannes Brahms’ Clarinet Trio in A minor from the Brooks Center for the Performing Arts in Clemson, SC
• April 18: Marc-Andre Hamelin and Johannes Moser perform Three Pieces for Cello and Piano by Nadia Boulanger, from Spivey Hall in Morrow, GA
• April 19: Hannu Lintu conducts the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra in a performance of John Corigliano’s Symphony No. 1, from Powell Hall in St. Louis, MO.

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National Poetry Month
Every day in April at 3 pm CT, we’ll feature a piece of music inspired by poetry.

• April 15: Schumann: Hermann und Dorothea Overture
• April 16: R.R. Bennett: Four Poems of Thomas Campion – Never Weather-beaten Saile
• April 17: Sibelius: The Swan of Tuonela
• April 18: Barber: Reincarnations – Mary Hynes
• April 19: Whitacre: The Stolen Child
• April 20: Debussy: Trois Chansons de Charles d’Orleans
• April 21: Foote: Five Poems after Omar Khayyam

New Classical Tracks with Julie Amacher
Wed 7:15am/5pm CT & Sat 9am CT

• Tina Davidson speaks with Julie Amacher about a new album “Hymn of the Universe” in an encore episode in celebration for Earth Day.

Extra Ecclectic with Steve Seel
Wed 10pm-12am CT

• We head to the West Coast with David Crowell’s “Pacific Coast Highway,” Jody Talbot’s “Tide Harmonic,” and John Adams’s “The Dharma at Big Sur.”

Euro Classic
Thurs 12am CT & Sat 8pm CT

• Apr 18: The Leonkoro Quartet plays Brahms’s String Quartet No.1 from the Octagon Theater in Pully, Switzerland.
• Apr 20: The North German Radio Symphony heads south…and west…to Madrid! We’ll hear them on tour with pianist Igor Levit playing Bartok’s Piano Concerto No. 3.

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 Organist Alcee Chriss III.

Saturday Cinema
Sat 10am – 12pm CT

• “Does this Dress Make Me Look Famous?”: Films with the greatest costumes and best costume designers. Including Cleopatra, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, My Fair Lady, Funny Face. Also including designers: Edith Head, Irene Sharaff, Orry-Kelly and Givenchy.

Your Classical Discoveries
Sat 4-7pm CT

• As we anticipate Earth Day and Arbor Day, we’ll celebrate with music about the natural world around us: oceans, trees, mountains, rivers, and more.

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APM Presents special of the week

The Poetry Café

Air Window: Now – June 30, 2024

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.

Questions? Please contact your Station Representative.

News/Talk: April 2024

Reminders

BBC Topline Promos
New BBC Topline promos are now available in ContentDepot. They can be downloaded in the Promotional Materials section.

Spring Fundraisers
Spring fundraisers are now available on Content Depot. Follow the links below:

• BBC Newshour
• Marketplace
• Marketplace Morning Report
• Marketplace Tech
• The Daily
• On Point
• Splendid Table

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Five New Call to Mind Specials for May Mental Health Awareness Month

Join Call to Mind for a new Mental Health Awareness Series for May Mental Health Awareness Month. Host Kimberly Adams guides you through five new episodes exploring emerging issues and research on vital issues in mental health. Each hour features compelling interviews with top experts, the voices of people living with mental illness, and sound-rich stories from across the country. Read more here.

Titles in the series:

• The Homelessness Crisis and Mental Health
• The Burden of Being
• Incarcerated with Mental Illness
• Schizophrenia: Finding Hope on a Hard Road
• Birth and Depression: The Unspoken Conversation

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APM Presents: April Specials
Check out our specials for Earth Day and more.

How We Survive: The Worth of Water
Available now – June 30, 2024

Witness History: The Environment
Available now – April 30, 2024

California Love: K-Pop Dreaming – Moon Night
Available now – May 31, 2024

The Poetry Café
Available now – June 30, 2024

Community Science Unifies Us Around Climate Change
Available now – April 30, 2024

How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong**
Available now – June 30, 2024

**How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong is now available in Spanish. Contact your APM Rep for more information if you’d like to broadcast the Spanish-language version**For our full list of specials please visit our APM Presents homepage.

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BBC’s Unexpected Elements now on ContentDepot

By popular demand, the BBC’s new fun and engaging one-hour science program is now available on Content Depot for your automating ease! Satisfy your listeners requests for MORE SCIENCE with Unexpected Elements — The news you know, the science you don’t. Unexpected Elements looks beyond everyday narratives to discover a goldmine of scientific stories and connections from around the globe. Listen to a sample episode here. This program is included as part of your BBC subscription.

Localized Reporting with Marketplace and APM Research Labs

Over the last several months, the APM Research Lab and Marketplace teamed up with APM Distribution to test the viability of a project we’ve internally code-named MERLEN– Marketplace Easily Reportable Localized Economic Numbers.

Starting with employment data from the monthly jobs and unemployment report, this project automates analysis of national data and puts the local data in national context. We then provide script-ready analysis of the information tailored to local markets for use by local stations for web stories, social media and on-air. Over the next several months we intend to expand to other data sets, possibly including housing starts, gross domestic product, poverty rates, and inflation reports.

Our beta group includes KNOW, KCFR, KPCC/LAist, WGCU and WVXU. Recently, WGCU published this article with the data MERLEN provided. We’re thrilled to contribute to local reporting in this way and hope to expand the program to include more station participants. If you are interested in learning more, let your Station Relations Rep know.

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Welcome Additions

• WLTR – BBC Unexpected Elements
• WXXI – BBC Newshour
• WHYY – BBC The Arts Hour
• WVIK – BBC Newshour
• WYPR – BBC The Newsroom
• WTJZ – BBC Newshour
• KERA – BBC The Arts Hour

BBC

Topline

• New generic promos for Topline are now available in ContentDepot and can be downloaded from the Promotional Materials section.

Marketplace

Marketplace (PM)

• Kai talks to songwriter and author Alice Randall about her new book, “My Black Country: A Journey Through Country Music’s Black Past, Present, and Future.”
• A few places in the country have changed the way restaurant workers are paid. Alaska, California, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, and most recently, Washington DC. No longer are restaurants there allowed to count tips as part of hourly wages, and so they would have to pay minimum wage, which is substantial in some places. Marketplace’s Sabri Ben-Achour reports.

Marketplace Morning Report

“Living Together: The Wealth of Generations”
Four-part series: April 3, 5, 8, 9

The multigenerational home was the typical living arrangement in mid-19th century America. A century later the multigenerational home was the exception rather than the norm. Yet, almost unremarked, several forces combined over the past half century to gradually reinvigorate the idea that multiple generations living together is a financially smart and emotionally rewarding choice.

Next up: A major factor behind the shift in living arrangements are immigrants making a home for themselves in the U.S. For Friday’s installment of the series, senior economics contributor Chris Farrell meets with an immigrant family in Waterloo, Iowa.

Also slated to air Monday, April 8: Nancy Marshall-Genzer looks into why women are disproportionately affected by medical debt.

Marketplace Tech

Monday April 8: Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino speaks with Sheera Frenkel at The New York Times, about Israel’s deployment and use of facial recognition in Gaza.

Tuesday April 9: AI supermodels are increasingly being used by the fashion industry, as they’re quicker and cheaper. Some models and agencies are fans, but others want to see more protection for the image rights of models. A look at the growing impact of AI and modeling.

On Point

• Monday, April 8: As humans, we have conversations all the time BUT research shows, we aren’t very good at communicating? So, what makes someone a better communicator? Or even…a super communicator?
• Tuesday, April 9: “3 Body Problem”, a Netflix adaptation of the popular Chinese sci-fi novel by the same name, is causing controversy in China for its depiction of the Cultural Revolution. So, how does the series compare to reality? An On Point deep dive into one of the most crucial periods in modern Chinese history.
• Wednesday, April 10: As Washington condemns Israel for the killing of seven aid workers with World Central Kitchen, the Biden administration is working on an $18 billion sale of jets to Israel. President Biden says the “mistaken” killings are unacceptable–saying he is outraged and heartbroken. But will Jose Andres, celebrity chef turned beloved humanitarian, be the one whose influence pushes Biden to change course on Israel’s war in Gaza?
• Friday, April 12: Children are specializing in specific sports at ever younger ages. Parents are shelling out more and more money for kids to have personal trainers or play on travel teams year-round. Is all this good for kids? Or a recipe for injury and burnout?

The Splendid Table

April 12 – Repeat episode

You will get your weekly dose of fruits and vegetables this week with award-winning author, Abra Berens author of Pulp: A Practical Guide to Cooking With Fruit, and Sheela Prakash and her new book Salad Seasons: Vegetable-Forward Dishes All Year.

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Classical

Performance Today

• April 8: A whole hour dedicated to music inspired by the cosmos, as we anticipate a total solar eclipse. Music from Mahler, Borodin, Handel, Beethoven, Haydn, Khachaturian and Augusta Read Thomas
• April 9: Orli Shaham performs Dvorak at last summer’s Music @ Menlo festival in Menlo Park, CA
• April 10: Courtney Bryan, performs Milhaud’s La creation du monde with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra conducted by Louis Langree
• April 11: Kalena Bovell, conducts the Sewanee Summer Music Festival Orchestra in a performance of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Ballade for Orchestra in A Minor
• April 12: Simone Dinnerstein performs Johann Sebastian Bach’s Keyboard Concerto No. 6 with the Windham Festival Chamber Orchestra conducted by Robert Manno, from Tannersville, NY

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National Poetry Month
Every day in April at 3 pm CT, we’ll feature a piece of music inspired by poetry.

• April 8: Dukas: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
• April 9: Tavener: The Tyger
• April 10: Coleman: Portraits of Langston
• April 11: Mendelssohn: Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage
• April 12: Orff: Carmina Burana – O Fortuna
• April 13: Bedford: Sun paints Rainbows on Vast Waves
• April 14: Stanford: The Bluebird

Solar Eclipse, Monday April 8: From 1pm to 4pm CT, the solar eclipse will be making its way across the eastern United States. We’ll feature music about the sun and the moon throughout those hours.

New Classical Tracks with Julie Amacher
Wed 7:15am/5pm CT & Sat 9am CT

• Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra (JoAnn Falletta), Bella Hristova (violin) speak on their new album ECHOES OF EASTERN EUROPE (Beau Fleuve) which feature recordings of Dvorak (Symphony No. 7), David Ludwig (Violin Concerto, premiere recording).

Extra Ecclectic with Steve Seel
Wed 10pm-12am CT

• As we bask in the afterglow of Monday’s eclipse, we’ll hear music about light and shadows, including Vanessa Lann’s “Shining Still,” Harmen Fraanje and Arve Henriksen’s “The Dark Light,” Elena Ruehr’s “Shadow Light,” and Outi Tarkiainen’s “Midnight Sun Variations.”

Euro Classic
Thurs 12am CT & Sat 8pm CT

• Apr 11: Two selections from a concert with the BBC National Philharmonic of Wales in Swansea, Wales: first, the Elegy for Strings by Welsh composer Grace Williams. Then, violinist Liya Petrova plays Carl Nielsen’s Violin Concerto.
• Apr 13: Edouard Lalo’s Sympphone Espagnole is a crowd-pleasing show-stopper for violin, and we’ll hear it with violinist Sarah Nemtanu in her native Romania with the Georges Enescu Philharmonic.

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’s episode features Seth Parker Woods, two-time Grammy-nominated cellist who is reimagining traditional works and commissioning new ones to propel classical music into the future.

Saturday Cinema
Sat 10am – 12pm CT

• Two full hours of your favorite film music. This week’s theme is What a character! – you might know the face, but not the name? Music from films that feature great character actors like Edward Everett Horton, Alec Guiness, Peter Sellers, Anna Revere, Beulah Bondi, Thomas Mitchell and more!

Your Classical Discoveries
Sat 4-7pm CT

• April Showers… April can be wild, with rain, snow, and wind. But the flowers will bloom eventually. We’ll hear music about all kinds of weather, and flowers, too.

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APM Presents special of the week

Witness History: The Environment

Air Window: Now – April 30, 2024

An all-new collection of stories from the BBC’s Witness History program, with new stories of environmentalism and conservation. We’ll meet people who have been instrumental in protecting the Amazon rainforest, elephants, and the Russian arctic.

Questions? Please contact your Station Representative.

Dear Colleagues –

I hope this message finds you, your families, friends and co-workers well.  I’m writing today to share that APM will be commencing our annual pricing discussions for the fiscal year in the weeks ahead.

APM’s FY25 pricing season will reflect a modest increase to select news programming, include new products from the BBC and continue to offer a diverse selection of programming opportunities via APM Presents, our curated offering of 15-20 quarterly specials.

In a landscape of continued economic uncertainties, it’s our hope that this offer will help put you in the best position to succeed in the year ahead:

• The BBC World Service, On Point and APM Classical Programming will reflect 3% YOY increases.
• APM Affiliation and Marketplace will remain flat to FY24 fees.
• The Daily will continue to be offered with no carriage fee.
• APM Presents will continue to be included as part of your overall APM Affiliation.

I’d also like to take this time to share two new offers from the BBC as you plan your FY25 weekday and weekend programming, both available via Content Depot:

• Topline Zero: beginning Monday, May 6th, APM and the BBC Partner Hub will add Topline Zero, a 1:29 feed of the world’s most important unfolding stories, curated for U.S. audiences and made to complement your schedule and the Morning Edition® clock. Available from 5:18-5:52am ET Monday through Friday, Topline Zero will join the 6 other unique hourly Topline feeds offered every weekday via Content Depot until 11:52am ET. To learn more about Topline Zero including existing feeds 1-6, visit apmdistribution.org.
• Unexpected Elements: a one-hour weekly show that looks behind the stories of the day to discover a goldmine of scientific stories and connections from around the globe. From Afronauts, to why we argue, to a deep dive on animal lifespans: your listeners will see the world in a new way. Available on Content Depot every Friday and included in your BBC subscription. Give it a listen here.

Your Station Relations Representative will be reaching out over the weeks ahead to share additional information about APM FY25 pricing, answer any questions you may have and discuss APM opportunities that may be of interest to you and your audiences.

Thank you for your continued support and partnership. We look forward to a successful year ahead serving audiences together with you.

Best,
Mark Evans
Managing Director, APMG Broadcast Distribution

Marketplace

Marketplace (PM)

• Kai talks to Aki Ito about her piece on resume spammer bots, and what happened when she tried to use them to apply for jobs.
• Some lawmakers and AI companies want a new federal agency to oversee and regulate AI. So…where will the actual workers come from? Master of Public Policy programs don’t have AI curriculum just yet, and there’s a very small number of people in academia or the private sector that understand the tech. Marketplace’s Matt Levin reports.

Marketplace Tech

Monday March 25: Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino speaks with New York Times reporter Eli Tan about crypto’s resurgence in the Philippines.

Thursday March 28: “Jawboning” = the act of gov. making under-the-table deals with social media (and other tech) companies to influence their policies, especially, content moderation policies. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali speaks with Matt Perault, UNC Chapel Hill, about how “jawboning” showed up during his tenure at Facebook.

On Point

• Monday, March 25: When should kids be allowed on social media? Some parents say never. Inside the “no social media” movement.
• Tuesday, March 26: Attacks on abortion, Plan B, birth control, IVF. Even “recreational sex”. What’s in the GOP political playbook on reproductive health.
• Wednesday, March 27: Languishing. That feeling of a lack of motivation or direction. Disengagement from community. Most people feel a sense of languishing at some point in their lives. So how do we move from languishing to flourishing?

The Splendid Table

March 29 – Repeat episode

We’re devoting an hour to baking this week with Natasha Pickowicz, author of More Than Cake: 100 Baking Recipes Built for Pleasure and Community, Chetna Makan author of Chetna’s Easy Baking: with a Twist of Spice and Esteban Castillo, author of Chicano Bakes: Recipes for Mexican Pan Dulce, Tamales and My Favorite Desserts.

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Classical

Performance Today

• Mar 25: Christian Reif leads the Lakes Area Music Festival Orchestra in a performance of Anna Clyne’s This Midnight Hour from Brainerd, MN
• Mar 26: Benjamin Beilman, Yura Lee and Bion Tsang perform Sergei Taneyev’s String Trio in D from The Center for Chamber Music in Seattle, WA
• Mar 27: Alice K. Dade performs Vivaldi’s Flute Concerto in D Major at Festival Mozaic
• Mar 28: Pianist Daniela Liebman performs Prokofiev’s Sonata No. 3 Op. 28 in a minor at the Beaches Fine Arts Series in Jacksonville Florida
• Mar 29: Fred Child will announce Performance Today’s 2024 Classical Woman of the Year

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New Classical Tracks with Julie Amacher
Wed 7:15am/5pm CT & Sat 9am CT

• Gao Hong speaks with Julie Amacher about her new album Alondra

Extra Ecclectic with Steve Seel
Wed 10pm-12am CT

• We wrap up four weeks of Women’s History Month with Caroline Shaw, Julia Kent, Gemma Peacocke, and many others.

Euro Classic
Thurs 12am CT & Sat 8pm CT

• Mar 28: 12 am CT: Being in a touring group as a music student is a tremendous thrill: we’ll hear a group of Estonian musicians on tour in Germany playing Five Arabesques by contemporary composer Alisson Kruusma.
• Mar 30: A rare European performance of music by Jessie Montgomery: the Noreia String Quartet plays Montgomery’s “Source Code” at the Carainthian Summer Music Festival in Steindorf, Germany.

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 The String Queens.

Saturday Cinema
Sat 10am – 12pm CT

• It is an episode filled with Listener Requests!

Your Classical Discoveries
Sat 4-7pm CT

• March birthdays: Some big names to celebrate this month, including J.S. Bach (we’ll hear a bit of is B Minor Mass in honor of Holy Week, too), Frederic Chopin, Modest Mussorgsky, and more.

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APM Presents special of the week

California Love: K-Pop Dreaming – Moon Night

Air Window: April 1 – May 31, 2024

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.

Questions? Please contact your Station Representative.

News

BBC World Service

New generic promos for the BBC World Service are up on ContentDepot now. You can find them in the promotional materials tab here.

Marketplace

Marketplace (PM)

• Breaking Ground Series – March 18 – 20: We’ve reported on the challenge of finding homeowner’s insurance in risky markets like Florida and California, but it’s getting harder for homeowners to find affordable insurance even in less risky places. According to the insurance agency Matic, premiums for new policies rose 8.6% last year, on average, and 24% for renewals. Deductibles are climbing, too. And the number of available policies dropped by half. Meanwhile insurers are making record profits. Marketplace’s Amy Scott looks at why this is happening and how it’s affecting the housing market — making it even harder for people to buy homes and causing some deals to fall through.
• Kai talks with Emily Badger, reporter for the NYT, about the piece she co-authored on New York City’s trash problem.

Marketplace Morning Report

• March 15: We look at the alarming decline of federal workers in the nation’s capital. Data from the BLS shows that for more than 20 years, while the number of federal employees nationwide has been growing, it’s been shrinking in DC. Pegged to the release of the latest metro-area BLS employment figures, Marketplace’s Nancy Marshall Genzer reports on what’s going on – and how it’s affecting the economy of the city.

Marketplace Tech

Tuesday March 19: Marketplace’s Lily Jamali speaks with Elizabeth Lopatto at The Verge about how Redditors feel about the expected Reddit IPO.

Wednesday March 20: For the next installment of our series “Decoding Democracy,” Lily Jamali and Marketplace’s Kimberly Adams discuss how visual deepfakes can mislead voters, how people can best spot them and protect themselves from being mislead by them.

On Point

• Monday, March 18: Duke University recently announced plans to close its century-old herbarium. With a looming biodiversity crisis and climate change, botanists say it’s dangerous to shut down a facility that’s home to more than a million plant specimens.
• Tuesday, March 19: A growing number of U.S. states are considering using ranked choice voting in elections. Some say the method, where you rank your preferred candidates rather than selecting just one, will fix American democracy. We look at what’s driving the push for ranked choice voting.
• Wednesday, March 20: Private equity has a new target customer: the wrongfully convicted. When exonerees need cash while lengthy settlements finalize, finance companies can provide it but at a very high interest rate. We’ll examine why private equity is making exonerees their latest investment.

The Splendid Table

March 22 – New episode

We are spending the hour taking your calls with the charming culinary superstar Sohla El-Waylly. Sohla is a writer, teacher, chef, and media personality appearing on tv and internet shows for The New York Times, History Channel, and the show The Big Brunch. Her much anticipated first book is Start Here: Instructions for Becoming a Better Cook.

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Classical

Performance Today

• Mar 18: Lara Downes performs music by Harry T. Burleigh from Brevard Music Center in Brevard, NC
• Mar 19: Mei-Ann Chen, conducts ROCO in a performance of Zoltan Kodaly’s “Dances of Marosszek” from the Cynthia Wood Mitchell Pavilion in Woodlands, TX
• Mar 20: JoAnn Falletta, conducts The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra in a performance of Florent Schmitt’s “Legende” from Buffalo, NY
• Mar 21: 2023 Classical Woman of the Year Gabriela Montero co-hosts PT with Fred Child
• Mar 22: Efe Baltacigil and Anton Nel perform Johannes Brahms’ “Sonata for Cello and Piano in F Major, Op. 99” from The Center for Chamber Music in Seattle, WA

Classical 24

New Classical Tracks with Melissa Ousley
Wed 7:15am/5pm CT & Sat 9am CT

• Vikingur Olafson talks with Melissa about his new album the Goldberg Variations.

Extra Ecclectic with Steve Seel
Wed 10pm-12am CT

• More music for Women’s History Month, including Andrea Tarrodi’s “Nightingale,” as well as music by Molly Joyce, Amanda Feery, Allison Loggins-Hull, and more.

Euro Classic
Thurs 12am CT & Sat 8pm CT

• Mar 21: Tabita Berglund leads the Swedish Radio Symphony in “A Drama in the Air” by contemporary Swedish composer Britta Bystrom.
• Mar 23: We head to Eisenach, Germany, to hear flutist Tatjana Ruhland and pianist Frank Dupree play Cecile Chaminade’s Concertino for Flute and Piano.

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 Julia Perry.

Saturday Cinema
Sat 10am – 12pm CT

• March Birthdays: The Famous Film Folks who celebrate March Birthdays. David Niven, Ron Howard, Cyd Charisse, Barry Fitrzgerald, Edward Everett horton, Liza Minelli, Dvid Lean, Shirley jones, Gordon Macrae.

Your Classical Discoveries
Sat 4-7pm CT

• Spring Has Sprung! We’re celebrating the (eventual) return of green grass, flowers, and warmth with all sorts of musical representations of the season.

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APM Presents special of the week

A Passion for Bach and Coltrane with Imani Winds

Air Window: March 29 – June 30, 2024

Jeff Scott’s new Grammy winning oratorio is full of inspiration from two giants of music – Johann Sebastian Bach and John Coltrane. Passion for Bach and Coltrane with Imani Winds is an innovative and surprising confluence of classical and jazz. Scott is the founding horn player of Imani Winds, and along with the Harlem Jazz Quartet, jazz soloists, and spoken word by AB Spellman, Passion for Bach and Coltrane offers an intimate perspective on Imani Wind’s most personal recording in their 25-year history.
**This air window has been extended until June 30, 2024**

News

Marketplace

Marketplace (PM)

• Kai talks with June Carbone, a law professor at the University of Minnesota, about the article she co-authored for The Conversation, “Marriage is not as effective an anti-poverty strategy as you’ve been led to believe”
• Kai talks with John Bistline, program manager at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), about uncapped tax credits in the Inflation Reduction Act – and how they could lead to more spending than predicted by the government as part of our Breaking Ground series.

Marketplace Morning Report

Marketplace Morning Report looks at the impact of Silicon Valley Bank one year after its collapse.

Marketplace Tech

Monday March 11: Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino speaks with Stanford researcher and Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Faculty Associate Director Daniel Ho about their latest report, “Hallucinating Law: Legal Mistakes with Large Language Models are Pervasive.”

Thursday March 14: Marketplace’s Lily Jamali speaks with Carl Szabo, VP of NetChoice, and Megan Iorio, Director of EPIC, about where they overlap when it comes to TX and FL social media laws in the quest to protect kids online.

On Point

On Point brings you ‘Elements of Energy: Mining for a Green Future.’

Get ready to explore minerals that matter with On Point.

In a special weeklong exploration from March 11-15, On Point mines for understanding the essential elements for our clean energy future — the things we need to make the batteries that will power our world and spur the transition away from carbon-spewing fossil fuels. From lithium and copper to cobalt and nickel, these elements tell the story of the challenges posed to reach the U.S.’s clean energy goals. On Point goes deep on the story of each mineral: what it is, how and where to get it, the humanitarian costs, the geo-political challenges, and of course the environmental impact, to understand the whole picture of what it will take to move away from fossil fuels.

• PART ONE: LITHIUM
  The story of lithium. We’ll learn why the US has a quarter of the world’s lithium deposits but produces just 3% of the world’s supply, how all that could be about to change, and what that could mean for the community of Kings Mountain, North Carolina.
• PART TWO: COPPER
  In this episode we hear about copper mining in Panama and South Africa. We find out about the environmental devastation that mining has caused and what can be done to make mining less destructive.
• PART THREE: COBALT
  The Democratic Republic of Congo has more cobalt deposits than the rest of the word combined. Hundreds of thousands of people, including tens of thousands of children, work in these mines in what is effectively modern day slavery. We hear first-hand from a Congolese woman leading a grassroots movement to reform conditions
• PART FOUR: NICKEL
  Indonesia now produces more than half of the world’s nickel and hopes to be the Saudi Arabia of clean energy, raising the living standards of tens of millions of its citizens. But can it escape China’s clutches?
• PART FIVE: DOMESTIC INDEPENDENCE
  The week wraps up by returning to the US to look at the challenges the US faces in boosting domestic mineral production and what it can do to break China’s dominance in the production of battery-grade minerals.

The Splendid Table

March 15 – Repeat episode

This week we’re taking your cooking questions with James Beard Award winning chef Robynne Mai‘i of Fête in Honolulu and Nick Sharma author of The Flavor Equation brings us a guide to cooking with crispy things!

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Classical

Performance Today

• Mar 11: Catalyst Quartet performs Germaine Tailleferre’s String Quartet from Spivey Hall at Clayton State University in Morrow, GA
• Mar 12: An all-star group from the most recent Spoleto Festival performs the Piano Quintet in C minor by Ralph Vaughan Williams, from the Dock Street Theatre in Charleston, SC
• Mar 13: A Far Cry performs Jessie Montgomery’s Banner for solo quartet and chamber orchestra from the Rockport Chamber Music Festival in Rockport, MA
• Mar 14: The Apollo Chamber Players perform “The Night When You See Again” by Wang Jie, with organist Daryl Robinson, from a concert in Houston, Texas
• Mar 15: Anthony McGill, clarinet performs Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet in A major with Tessa Lark, Jun Iwasaki, Jonathan Vinocour, and Alisa Weilerstein from the La Jolla Music Society in La Jolla, CA

Classical 24

New Classical Tracks with Julie Amacher
Wed 7:15am/5pm CT & Sat 9am CT

• The Neave Trio talks with Julie Amacher about the new album a Room of Her Own.

Extra Ecclectic with Steve Seel
Wed 10pm-12am CT

• Our celebration of Women’s History Month continues with a special edition of Extra Eclectic, curated by 2024 YourClassical Fellow and professional cellist Audrey Snyder. An advocate for the music of contemporary female composers, she has chosen a wide variety of selections that push the boundaries of the genre, including pieces by Missy Mazzoli, Franghiz Ali-Zadeh, Samantha Fernando, Chen Yi, and more. Be sure not to miss this program that truly pushes the envelope.

Euro Classic
Thurs 12am CT & Sat 8pm CT

• Mar 14: Alma Mahler, overshadowed in history by her illustrious husband, was a prodigious composer herself. We’ll hear her Three Early Songs with the RIAS Chamber Choir in a concert last fall in Berlin.
• Mar 16: Croatian pianist and composer Dora Pejacevic was a force of nature, and her music is enjoying a renaissance. We’ll hear her Phantasie concertante for piano and orchestra, in concert in London from October 2023.

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 Margaret Bonds.

Saturday Cinema
Sat 10am – 12pm CT

• St. Patrick’s Day: Music from films that were filmed and celebrate the Emerald Isle including the Banshees of Inisherin, The Quiet Man, Going My Way and Far and Away.

Your Classical Discoveries
Sat 4-7pm CT

• St. Patrick’s Day (a day early): Explore the wonderful world of Irish music and musicians, from well-known figures like James Galway, John Field, and Charles Stanford to lesser-known composers like Joan Trimble, Arthur Duff, and Augusta Holmes.

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APM Presents special of the week

Take Me to the Water

Air Window: Now – March 31, 2024

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.

Questions? Please contact your Station Representative.