Category Archives: Station Update

APM Weekly Sept 11 – Sept 15, 2023

News

Marketplace

Marketplace (PM)

Kai talks with Janet Freilich, a professor of Law at Fordham University about patents in the age of AI.
We check in with our retail small business folks in Tulsa, Jackson, and Seattle.

Marketplace Morning Report

Marketplace and BBC reporters will be covering the various new regulations and antitrust cases facing tech companies both in the US and abroad.

Marketplace Tech

Monday September 11: Marketplace’s Lily Jamali speaks with Susan Orlean, The New Yorker, about her recent article about miracle kitchen technologies that promise to make cooking more efficient.
Wednesday September 13: Lily Jamali speaks with Nature science journalist Miryam Naddaf about the EU’s 10 yearlong Human Brain Project.

On Point

Monday, September 11: Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution bars from office any public official involved in an insurrection. Some legal thinkers – including some leading conservative ones – argue that applies to Donald Trump. But can legal reasoning withstand political reality when it comes to the former president and leading GOP contender?
Tuesday, September 12: It’s estimated that 300 million jobs worldwide could be lost to Artificial Intelligence in the near future. That could involve a massive dislocation of people losing their ability to make ends meet, and their sense of purpose. How do we prepare for that future? People need a sense of security. Maybe Universal Basic Income willI be part of the answer. Meghna turns to one of her favorite sci-fi series to help explore that.
Wednesday, September 13: At the end of the month – millions of pandemic dollars that were earmarked for childcare will expire. Consequently, providers might be forced to raise tuition for parents, take fewer kids or even close their doors. What will this funding disruption mean for an already hurting industry?
Friday, September 15: A slew of recent studies have shown rising cancer rates in adults younger than 50, particularly among women and people in their 30s. We look into what’s behind this reported increase.

Arts and Culture

We’re looking at women and beermaking this week. First, Theresa McCulla, curator of the American Brewing History Initiative at The Smithsonian, explains why beer is a great lens for examining American history. Then Atinuke Akintola Diver talks about her feature-length documentary This Belongs to Us, chronicling Black women brewers in the American south. And finally, we get beer and food pairings from Stephanie Grant of Good Beer Hunting.

Performance Today

Castalian String Quartet performs Fanny Mendelssohn’s Quartet in E-flat major from Spivey Hall at Clayton State University
Sphinx Virtuosi perform Heitor Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No 9 at the Brooks Center for the Performing Arts at Clemson University
Timothy McAllister performs a saxophone recital at Interlochen
Music by Agustin Barrios, performed by Jason Vieaux presented by Chamber Music Northwest
A concert highlight from Lviv National Philharmonic Orchestra of Ukraine’s recent US tour, conducted by Theodore Kuchar and presented by the Catskill Mountain Foundation

APM Presents special of the week

Music for the Days of Awe: An Observance of the Jewish High Holidays

Air Window: Now – October 31, 2023

A musical observance of Rosh Hashanah (the Jewish New Year) and Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement) known in Hebrew as Yamim Noraim (The Days of Awe).

Questions? Please contact your Station Representative.

APM Weekly: September 4 – September 8, 2023

News

Marketplace

Marketplace (PM)

Kai talks to Adriana Samper, Associate Professor of Consumer Behavior and Marketing at Arizona State University, about trending ways to justify unnecessary spending.
Kai talks with Austan Goolsbee, President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and voting member of the FOMC.

Marketplace Tech

Monday September 4: A few weeks after its launch, Germany’s financial regulator BaFin has launched an investigation into Worldcoin, the digital currency project co-founded by Sam Altman. Meanwhile, in Kenya, the government has ordered a halt to new user sign-ups for Worldcoin’s crypto project, citing data privacy fears. So what’s all the hype about? The BBC’s Leanna Byrne went to a scanning center in London to find out.
Tuesday September 5: Generative artificial intelligence is expected to change the workplace but how businesses and workers see it in the U.S. versus China is very different. Lily Jamali speaks with Marketplace’s China correspondent Jennifer Pak about her reporting on this.

On Point

Monday, September 4: When dozens of companies in the UK experimented with a four-day work week, employers and employees loved it. Most are sticking with it. In this rebroadcast episode, so that we at On Point can enjoy a four-day week, we ask could a routine four-day work week work in the US?
Tuesday, September 5: Even though the economy is doing better, few Americans say they’re better off financially this year than they were last year. We explore what’s behind the pessimism Americans have about their own financial lives.
Thursday, September 7: As Congress returns from summer recess one of their big priorities is to reauthorize the farm bill before September 30th – something they have to do every five years. We hear from a North Dakota rancher about why he thinks the farm bill has a “destructive impact on rural America” and from Rep. Earl Blumenauer. The Oregon Democrat has devoted 26 years to trying to improve the farm bill. He introduced his latest alternative, the Food and Farm Act, earlier this year.

Arts and Culture

Splendid Table

September 8 – New episode

We’re talking apples this week with Diane Flynt author of Wild, Tamed, Lost, revived: The Surprising Story of Apples in the South and then we turn to another local crop, mezcal with Gary Paul Nabhan and David Suro authors of Agave Spirits The Past, Present, and Future of Mezcals.

Performance Today

A new performance of the Piano Quintet in C minor by Ralph Vaughan Williams from the most recent Spoleto Festival in Charleston, South Carolina
A recent performance of the Schubert Unfinished Symphony from Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Louis Langree
Orli Shaham and The Parker Quartet perform Ignaz Lachner’s arrangement of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No 17 in G Major from the University of Georgia
A performance of the Shostakovich sonata for cello and piano from Tippet Rise Music Festival by Sterling Elliott and Wynona Wang
Joyce Yang performs Edvard Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A minor with The Nashville Symphony, conducted by Giancarlo Guerrero
The world premiere performance of a new work by Wan Jie performed by the Apollo Chamber Players in Houston

APM Presents special of the week

Witness: The Labor Movement

Air Window: Now – September 30, 2023

A collection of stories related to strikes, campaigns and successes for workers rights around the world. Pulled from the BBC’s Witness History program, this specially-curated hour will bring first-hand accounts of significant moments in the labor movement from the US, UK and elsewhere.

Questions? Please contact your Station Representative.

APM Weekly Aug 21 – 25

News

Marketplace

Marketplace (PM)

Generative artificial intelligence tools are keeping a lot of businesses and workers on their toes. First sector to be hit is the video game sector in China and now movies and animation. Marketplace’s Jennifer Pak reports.
Kai talks to Erin Lyndon, president of Poker Power, about the goal of teaching one million women to play poker as a way to close the achievement gap on Wall Street.

Marketplace Morning Report

David Brancaccio will speak with Marketplace’s senior economics contributor Chris Farrell about whether or not concerns about an artificial intelligence speculative bubble are justified.
Sabri Ben-Achour will speak with The Economist magazine’s Vijay Vaitheeswaran for a status update on carbon capture technology, and a check-in on the broader ecosystem of technological advancements for fighting climate change.

Marketplace Tech

Monday August 21: Marketplace’s Lily Jamali speaks with Katie Paul, Tech Transparency Project, about how YouTube disabling some users’ video recommendations could decrease the algorithm pushing problematic videos.

On Point

On Point brings you a week of wonder: A curation of shows from the past year reveling in the wonder of the world we live in. Over the course of the week, we explore what captivates our mind, illuminates our humanity and both delights and confounds us.

Digital assets to promote this special series are available here.

Monday August 21: Earth needs darkness just as much as it needs light. We learn how human light pollution is pushing back the dark and changing the natural world.
Tuesday August 22: What if you could taste the world’s electrical fields? Hear vibrations in a leaf? See magnetic currents guiding you home? Science writer Ed Yong helps us perceive the world the way animals do – through eyes, ears, antennae and more.
Wednesday, August 23: How do you find deep happiness? Researcher Dacher Keltner tells Meghna the answer is to seek and experience more awe.
Thursday, August 24: Parasites are the cause of numerous debilitating diseases, so it’s easy to think of them as doing no good. But, as we hear in this episode, losing parasites could have devastating consequences for our ecosystem.
Friday, August 25: Many of us turn to music to feel better. But music can also help us physically heal. We hear how studies show that music can affect our blood pressure and our heart rate – and even help us manage pain.

Arts and Culture

Splendid Table

August 25 – Repeat episodeWe’re spending the hour talking about summer produce and gardening. Chef Abra Berens, author of Ruffage: A Practical Guide to Vegetables, teams up with Francis to answer listener questions, and we talk to Leah Penniman of Soul Fire Farm about the intersection of community farming and social justice.

Performance Today

Lysander Trio plays Dvorak’s Piano Trio No. 3 at Cooperstown Summer Music Festival
Joshua Bell, violin and Peter Dugan, piano perform Beethoven’s Violin Sonata No. 7 at Spivey Hall in Morrow, GA
An all-star group performs the Mendelssohn String Quintet No. 2 at the Seattle Chamber Music Society
ROCO performs at St. John the Divine, Houston, TX, conducted by Delyana Lazarova
Anthony McGill and Gloria Chien perform the first movement of Carl Maria von Weber’s Grand Duo Concertante

APM Presents special of the week

I Hear America Singing

Air Window: now – September 30, 2023

As in all aspects of our culture, music has been a part of work every step of the way. Today, both the advent of remote-work and the emerging question of universal basic income are creating new paradigms and discussions about the meaning of work. Join Cantus for I Hear America Singing, a joyful examination of the role work has played in our lives in years past and how work might evolve into the future.

Questions? Please contact your Station Representative.

2023 Fall Fundraising Package

It’s fall member drive time again, and to ease your workload and leverage your audience’s affinity for national programming, we have a new batch of fundraising promos, pitch points and segments for you to use. This year’s fall 2023 fundraising tools include:

BBC Newshour new feature segments for pitching around the program.
The Daily A new evergreen episode for use in pledge drives.
Performance Today new long-form, in studio segments.
On Point new promos and three longer fundraising assets voiced by Meghna Chakrabarti

All segments are available now on ContentDepot, exceptions are noted below. Subscribe to program pages today and receive all future updates for each program. Visit the ‘Episodes’ section of the pages below to find new fundraisers, with suggested pitch points following each rundown or posted in the promotional materials tab.

Check out the links below, and if you have any questions please reach out to your station relations representative.

News

BBC World Service

8 new featured BBC Newshour segments

Marketplace

5 promos voiced by Kai Ryssdal

Marketplace Morning Report

4 promos voiced by Nova Safo
1 promo voiced by David Brancaccio

Marketplace Tech

4 promos voiced by interim host Meghan McCarty Carino

The Daily

4 promos voiced by Michael Barbaro and Sabrina Tavernise
1 shortened evergreen episode (including promos)

On Point

7 promos voiced by Meghna Chakrabarti
3 long-form (2:00 – 2:30) promos voice by Meghna Chakrabarti

Classical

Classical 24

7 promos voiced by hosts Valerie Kahler, Jeff Esworthy, Lynne Warfel, Scott Blankenship, and Steve Seel

Performance Today

5 promos voiced by Fred Child
4 long in-studio segments (8:50-12:50) with guest artists

Pipedreams

5 promos voiced by Michael Barone

SymphonyCast

5 promos voiced by Steve Seel

Arts & Culture

The Splendid Table

1 new, shortened evergreen episode will be coming the week of August 21

We welcome your fundraising questions and feedback! Please contact your Station Relations Representative.

APM Weekly: August 14 – August 18, 2023

Use the links below to visit our dedicated program pages, where you’ll find show logos, digital assets and more.

News

Marketplace

Marketplace (PM)

Kai talks with Kali Grant, Associate Director at the Georgetown Center on Poverty & Inequality, about the economic benefits of subsidized employment programs in the last 50 years.
Since Tropical Storm Irene hit Vermont in 2011, government agencies helped buyout 170 homes in flood plains. That work seems to have paid off – to an extent – in the floods that devastated the state in early July. Where houses once stood, flooded rivers poured into grassy fields instead. But other houses were swamped, and some owners are already inquiring about buyouts. Vermont has been fairly active around buyouts in recent years, but hundreds more may be needed. And Vermont’s need pales in comparison to coastal areas of the country. Marketplace’s Henry Epp reports.

Marketplace Morning Report

MMR will be exploring how downtown areas in cities are recovering from pandemic slowdowns, with a series of feature stories from reporter Nova Safo. New research shows one of the biggest factors in whether or not a city is bouncing back is the mix of available jobs in the area. The series will concentrate on California, with looks at Fresno and San Francisco.
MMR will also be collaborating with our editorial partners at the BBC to examine the state of tourism and travel amid the busy summer season. The BBC has taken a look at several aspects of this, including the cruise industry, overcrowding and its detriments, and the hotel industry.

Marketplace Tech

Monday August 14: Marketplace’s Lily Jamali speaks with Axios’ Ryan Heath about the current AI sentiment in the US.

On Point

**Meghna is away this week. Deborah Becker hosts Monday – Friday**

Monday August 14: When police respond to someone having a mental health crisis it can have tragic consequences. Some advocates and police officers are trying to change that. We look into efforts underway to rethink policing and mental health and who should best respond to behavioral health emergencies.

Tuesday August 15: Postpartum depression affects 1 in 7 mothers and even 1 in 10 fathers and most suffer in silence. A new pill offers new hope but it’s not the only recent advance. We hear about the growing understanding in the medical and mental health professions of this potentially life-threatening condition.

Wednesday, August 16: Overdose deaths for Black people in America have skyrocketed. For those aged 15 to 24 the increase was as high as 86 percent. On Point looks into what’s driving that increase and what can be done to combat it.

Arts and Culture

Splendid Table

August 18 – New episodeWe’re thinking about food and families this week with Michaele Weissman author of The Rye Bread Marriage: How I Found Happiness with a Partner I’ll Never Understand and Barkha Cardoz, entrepreneur, author, writer and wife of the renowned, late chef Floyd Cardoz and head of Cardoz Legacy, celebrating the food, flavor and fun of India’s culinary heritage.

Performance Today

Leif Ove Andsnes performing from Spivey Hall at Clayton State University in Morrow, GA
William Hagen and Andrei Ionita perform the Brahms Concerto for Violin and Cello from the Aspen Music Festival
Balourdet String Quartet perform Hugo Wolf’s Italian Serenade at the Strings Music Festival in Colorado Springs
Louis Langree leads the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Samuel Adams: Variations
Jennifer Frautschi and Max Levinson perform Mozart: Sonata for Violin and Piano in G Major at the Seattle Chamber Music Society
Jessica Horsley leads Basel Sinfonietta in a performance of “Ethiopia’s Shadow in America” by Florence Price

APM Presents special of the week

Witness: The Labor Movement

Air Window: August 28 – September 30, 2023

Questions? Please contact your Station Representative.

APM Weekly: August 7 – August 11, 2023

Use the links below to visit our dedicated program pages, where you’ll find show logos, digital assets and more.

News

Marketplace

Marketplace (PM)

Inflation is at its lowest level in about two and a half years, but the cost of repairing cars is going in the other direction. Marketplace’s Samantha Fields looks at the stickiness of car repair inflation at a maintenance shop.

Marketplace Morning Report

Marketplace’s China correspondent Jennifer Pak will have an interview with David Brancaccio about how Hollywood films are faring with Chinese audiences. There’s been declining success for U.S. films in Chinese theaters, mainly because the import of such films has been limited. It’s now picking up again, as evidenced by “Barbie” cracking the top 5 at the Chinese box office.
Marketplace Morning Report’s “Econ Extra Credit” documentary series continues this month, where we pick one film a month for business and economic themes. In August, it’s “Beanie Mania,” a documentary about the Beanie Baby bubble we saw in the ’90s and early 2000s. We’ll have an interview with the so-called “Beanie Meanie,” about the perils of treating collectibles as investments, secondary markets and more.
We’ll conclude next week with a feature story on the birth of hip-hop 50 years ago. To commemorate hip-hop’s half-century anniversary, we’re looking at how it became the lucrative business it is today through the rise of entrepreneurship within the industry.

Marketplace Tech

Monday August 7: Lily Jamali speaks with Aurora CEO Chris Urmson about California Assembly Bill 316 which would place limits on when autonomous trucking in the state could start

On Point

Monday August 7: Index funds. They’re a popular way of investing across the stock market. But now the top four funds control roughly one-quarter of all public U.S. companies. Are they becoming too powerful?

Tuesday August 8: A weather buoy near Key Largo, Florida has recorded water temperatures over 101 degrees Fahrenheit. That’s like swimming in a hot tub. Almost half the world’s oceans are experiencing marine heatwaves right now. Is it a passing phenomenon, or more evidence of a permanently warming planet?

Wednesday, August 9: The political organization No Labels is trying to unite Americans around a third-party candidate for 2024. But critics say their efforts are more likely to lead to the re-election of Donald Trump.

Arts and Culture

Splendid Table

August 11 – Repeat episodeThis week we’re talking to Jorge Gaviria author of Masa: Techniques, Recipes and Reflections on a Timeless Staple and Chef Vishwesh Bhatt author of I Am From Here: Stories and Recipes from a Southern Chef.

Performance Today

Cellist Cameron Crozman performs music by Antonin Dvorak and David Popper at the Quebec Summer Festival

Augustin Hadelich performs the Sibelius Concerto D minor, Op. 47 with WDR Symphony Orchestra conducted by Stephane Deneve

Dover Quartet performs Felix Mendelssohn’s String Quartet in E-flat Major from Reed College in Portland, OR

Imani Winds performs work by Wayne Shorter at the University of Georgia

Nathalie Stutzmann conducts the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

APM Presents special of the week

Reclaiming the Sound Waves

Air Window: August 8 – June 30, 2024

Navajo pianist and composer Connor Chee has embarked on a mission to translate traditional Navajo vocables to the modern piano. Host Scott Blankenship talks with Chee about his artistic process, the importance of preserving Navajo music for future generations, and the Land Back movement. Music includes solo piano compositions from Chee’s recordings, plus the premiere of Unbroken: Music for the Navajo Code Talkers, commissioned by American Public Media.

Questions? Please contact your Station Representative.

APM Weekly: July 31 – August 4, 2023

Use the links below to visit our dedicated program pages, where you’ll find show logos, digital assets and more.

News

Marketplace

Marketplace (PM)

Kai talks to journalist Tara Weiss about her story on company benefits aimed at retaining workers 50-and-up.
Citizenship by (Crypto) Investment: For a gift of $150K to the St. Marks government, you can become a citizen of the small Caribbean island nation—and beyond enjoying it’s tropical locale, you can enjoy other perks like no income tax. Marketplace’s Matt Levin went to the Bitcoin 2023 convention in Miami….to check out a few companies that specialize in “citizenship by investment”, an old tool for tax avoidance for ultra-wealthy but one with a fresh clientele: crypto enthusiasts.

Marketplace Morning Report

Tuesday August 1: Our new immigration series, Barriers to Entry: The Cost of Crossing the Southern Border airs its first segment with related content throughout the week.

Marketplace Tech

Monday July 31: Meghan McCarty Carino speaks with Professor Tom Goldstein, University of Maryland, for a general discussion on open generative AI models.

Tuesday August 1: If you drive an electric car, there’s always the worry that you might run out of power. In Sweden, one company is trying to change that by developing technology to allow vehicles to charge while driving along the road. The BBC’s Adrienne Murray reports.

On Point

Monday, July 31: Since the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, experts in the US and Europe have lamented that the Global South hasn’t taken a strong stance against Russia. International Crisis Group president and CEO, Comfort Ero, joins Meghna for a closer look at what’s behind their caution towards aligning with the West.

Thursday, August 3: The Georgetown scholar Richard Kahlenberg calls himself a liberal champion of the working class. He’s also long-been opposed to affirmative action. He joins Meghna to talk about how he thinks a class-conscious approach could better address inequities in higher education and other societal systems and structures.

Friday, August 4: In this rebroadcast conversation, Meghna speaks with Richard Reeves about why he thinks the modern male is struggling and what to do about it. Reeves is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and the author of ‘Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male is Struggling, Why it Matters and What to Do about it’.

Arts and Culture

Splendid Table

August 4 – New episodeThis week we’re looking at how food defines who we are and where we come from with Anya von Bremzen, author of National Dish: Around the World in Search of Food, History and the Meaning of Home. And then we turn to the national drink of Argentina with Tomás Martín Sanchez of Mate & Co.

Performance Today

A performance by the Polish Radio Orchestra in Warsaw conducted by Christian Vasquez
Imani Winds perform at the University of Georgia Performing Arts Center
Teddy Abrams, conducts The Britt Festival Orchestra in a performance of Christopher Cerrone’s Meander, Spiral, Explode
ROCO performs music by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor at Rice University
Jeffrey Kahane performs Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 22 with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra

APM Presents special of the week

How teaching kids to read went so wrong

Air Window: August 8 – June 30, 2024

There’s an idea about how children learn to read that’s held sway in schools for more than a generation — even though it was proven wrong by cognitive scientists decades ago. Host Emily Hanford investigates the influential authors who promote this idea and the company that sells their work. It’s an exposé of how educators came to believe in something that isn’t true and are now reckoning with the consequences

Questions? Please contact your Station Representative.

APM Weekly: July 24-28, 2023

News

Marketplace

Marketplace (PM)

The latest Federal Reserve interest decision happens on Wed—Kai has a two-part piece—starting on Monday—about a phrase you hear a lot from fed officials…the long and variable lag of monetary policy. The origin story of that phrase (Milton Friedman coined it in the late 50s) and how Fed officials use it today to communicate about all things related to the fed—inflation, interest rates, and unemployment.

Marketplace Morning Report

Monday July 24: Join us for the last episode in our Skin in the Game series, which looks at the economics of the video game industry.

Marketplace Tech

Monday July 24: Meghan McCarty Carino speaks with Dylan Matthews, senior correspondent and head writer of Vox’s Future Perfect, about his recent piece comparing the development of AI and the development of nuclear weapons.

Tuesday July 25: Meghan McCarty Carino speaks with Jim Steyer, CEO of Common Sense, about their latest report on the state of children’s digital privacy in the US.

Thursday July 27: Meghan McCarty Carino speaks with Lan Guan, Senior Managing Director in Accenture Technology, about the company’s recent AI research.

On Point

Note: Anthony Brooks hosts July 24 – 26, Tiziana Dearing hosts July 27 – 28

Monday July 24: Florida governor Ron DeSantis had a strong start in his run for the GOP presidential nomination. But lately, his polling numbers have dropped, and big donors are hitting the pause button. We take a closer look at what behind the DeSantis campaign faltering so soon, how might it rebound, and if not DeSantis, where might GOP money looking for a candidate who isn’t Donald Trump turn?
Thursday July 27: An increasing number of restaurants around the country are adding service charges to diners’ bills; sometimes in lieu of tipping, sometimes not. But who’s pocket does that service charge end up in? Meanwhile more and more over-the-counter food service places have point-of-sale screens with double digit tipping as a default. How are we to navigate the new rules of tipping and what does this tell us about the health of the food service industry today?
Friday July 28: In 2021 Frances Haugen leaked thousands of pages of internal information from her employer, Facebook, that revealed the degree to which the social media giant was causing harm. She joins Tiziana to talk about her new memoir, ‘The Power of One: How I Found the Strength to tell the Truth and Why I Blew the Whistle on Facebook.’

Arts and Culture

Splendid Table

July 28 – Repeat episode

We’re cooking over fire this week with Sarit Packer and Itamar Srulovich, authors of Chasing Smoke: Cooking Over Fire Around the Levant. Then, author of Life of Fire and BBQ genius, Pat Martin, joins us to talk about the disappearance of rural BBQ restaurants. Plus, we get some sassy etiquette advice from the duo behind the award-winning podcast, Were You Raised by Wolves, Nick Leighton and Leah Bonnema.

Performance Today

Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra performs Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Op. 44, “The Fiery Angel” conducted by Louis Langree
Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra performs Marin Goleminov’s Symphonic Poem conducted by Delyana Lazarova
A performance of Maurice Ravel’s Introduction and Allegro by Chamber Music Northwest Summer Festival Musicians
Trio con Brio Copenhagen performs Tchaikovsky’s Trio in A minor at the University of Georgia Performing Arts Center
Performances of music by Brahms and Clara Schumann from Tippet Rise Arts Center
A performance of Pietro Locatelli’s Concerto Grosso from the Lakes Festival in Brainerd, MN

APM Presents special of the week

I Hear America Singing

Air Window: August 15 – September 30, 2023

Questions? Please contact your Station Representative.

APM Weekly: July 17 – 21, 2023

News

Marketplace

Marketplace (PM)

Kai talks to Ben McKenzie about his new book, “Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud.”

One peril of AI in the legal field: case law hallucination. In a now infamous case in Miami, a lawyer used an AI tool to write a motion which contained made-up case law — made up by ChatGPT, that is. Marketplace’s Matt Levin looks at other examples where AI presents a threat to the legal industry, and the ripple effects.

Marketplace Morning Report

Marketplace Morning Report host David Brancaccio speaks to San Francisco Mayor London Breed about the unique economic challenges facing the city and her plans to fix them.

Marketplace Tech

Tune in to AI ON THE JOB, a content series produced by the Marketplace Tech team and hosted by Meghan McCarty Carino. As artificial intelligence tools become part of our everyday lives, there’s a big question on all our minds: what will it mean for jobs?

Every day this week, we will look at how artificial intelligence is showing up in the workplace and which skills and jobs AI has the most potential to disrupt in the near future.

On Point

Monday July 17: We are constantly bombarded with diet advice and messages about how we should look. Meghna speaks neuroscientist June Gjata and Dr. Edward Phillips who say they have a science -based way of making peace with your body.

Tuesday July 18: Large parts of the US are bracing themselves for extreme heat in what is already a record-breaking year for high temperatures. Cities such as Phoenix, and Miami have appointed Chief Heat Officers. We find out how communities are reassessing the risk of heat.

Wednesday July 19: It’s been a year since the James Web Space Telescope first beamed its spectacular images back to earth. When the telescope launched, we spoke with JWST scientists Marcia J Rieke and Nicole Lewis about what they hoped to learn from it. They join us again to speak about the JWST’s year of discovery.

Thursday July 20: States across the U.S. are grappling with a shortage of licensed foster homes. Many states are seeing a year-on-year decline in foster homes that began before the pandemic. We look into what’s driving this and what states are doing to address it.

Arts and Culture

Splendid Table

July 21 – New Episode

This week we talk to comedian and podcast host Jamie Loftus about her new book, Raw Dog, The Naked Truth About Hotdogs and then dive deep into the most welcome of Mexican parties, the asada with Bricia Lopez author of Asada: The Art of Mexican Style Grilling.

Performance Today

Performance and conversation with our latest Young Artist in Residence: Talin Nalbandian, mezzo-soprano
Adam Sadberry performs Amy Beach’s Theme and Variations for Strings Quartet and Flute with The Balourdet String Quartet
Tessa Lark, Cynthia Phelps and Ani Aznavoorian, cello performing Mozart together at the Seattle Chamber Music Society
Solo piano performance from Lara Downes
Minnesota Orchestra performs Shostakovich’s Chamber Symphony at Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis
East Coast Chamber Orchestra performs Peter Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings at Reed College in Portland, OR
Garrick Ohlsson performs at the 92nd St. Y in New York City

APM Presents special of the week

Selected Shorts: Romance of the Summer

Air Window: Now – July 31, 2023

Join host Meg Wolitzer as she presents a light-hearted collection of summer-themed works from Summer Irby, Massimo Bontempelli, and W.P. Kinsella. Featuring performances from Retta, Hugh Dancy, and Denis O’Hare. Questions? Please contact your Station Representative.

Your week at a glance: July 10-14

Below you will find the latest upcoming program updates for the week ahead. PLEASE NOTE: All details are subject to change. Additional details will be shared via ContentDepot as they become available.

Use the links below to visit our dedicated program pages, where you’ll find show logos, digital assets and more.

News

Marketplace

Marketplace (PM)

Kai is traveling with the pool of reporters covering Secretary Yellen’s first trip to China (trip starting on Wed July 5th)—hear his reporting and observations next week on Marketplace.

Marketplace Morning Report

July 10: It’s not news that young people are into video games. But how does a younger person crack into this massive industry? The Marketplace Morning Report is embarking on a new project called “Skin in the Game.”

It’s a full-immersion adventure that is both audio–the next one’s on Monday, July 10th– AND on YouTube, where they’re putting the finishing touches on a video series on young game developers and the games they create that touch on money, entrepreneurship and a more equitable economy. The video-inclined are invited to follow along from our YouTube channel, Marketplace APM.

Marketplace Tech

Monday July 10: Meghan McCarty Carino speaks with K.K. Barrett, production designer for Her, about the 10th anniversary of the film.
Friday July 14: Meghan McCarty Carino speaks with Marco Dehnert, Ph.D. Candidate & Graduate Teaching Associate at the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University about relationships between humans and machines.

On Point

Monday July 10: Many Americans with ADHD are scrambling for their prescription medication due to a months-long shortage. We find out what’s behind the demand for ADHD drugs and how people are coping when they can’t get their medication.

Tuesday July 11: One year after he was sworn in as the first permanent director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives since 2015, Steven Dettelbach joins Meghna for a conversation about the challenges of his first year heading the bureau and what lies ahead in the bureau’s efforts to reduce gun violence.

Thursday July 13: The International Energy Agency projects that demand for electric car battery minerals such as nickel and cobalt could soar 600% over the next two decades. We’ve exhausted many of our accessible resources on land for these minerals, so now attention is turning to the seabed. We look into what’s at stake as the UN considers approving mining of the deep ocean.

Arts and Culture

Splendid Table

July 14 – Repeat Episode

Seattle has a legendary food scene, and we’re taking you there for an event recorded live onstage for KUOW. Guests include bestselling author and newly minted Seattleite J. Kenji López-Alt, Angela Dunleavy, CEO of FareStart, Ruby DeLuna, food reporter at KUOW, Kara Martin of the Food Innovation Network and chef Theary Ngeth.

Performance Today

Camerata Pacifica performing Nielsen’s Wind Quintet from Santa Barbara, CA
Sterling Elliott and Evren Ozel performing George Walker’s Sonata for Cello and Piano from ChamberFest Cleveland
Vega String Quartet performs Beethoven’s String Quartet in F Major from Emory University in Atlanta
Michelle Cann performs the Piano Concerto in One Movement by Florence Price from the Geneva Music Festival
Conversation and a performance from our Young Artist in Residence, Jory Lane

APM Presents special of the week

Reclaiming the Sound Waves: with Connor Chee

Air Window: Now – August 31, 2023

Navajo pianist and composer Connor Chee has embarked on a mission to translate traditional Navajo vocables to the modern piano. Host Scott Blankenship talks with Chee about his artistic process, the importance of preserving Navajo music for future generations, and the Land Back movement. Music includes solo piano compositions from Chee’s recordings, plus the premiere of Unbroken: Music for the Navajo Code Talkers, commissioned by American Public Media.

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