Dear colleagues:

I hope this message finds you all well, and things are as well as can be at home and in the office. And if home has become the office, good luck with that too!

It’s an understatement to say that the last several months have been a challenge. Like everyone else, news operations across the world have had to overhaul how they operate—recording in living rooms and garages instead of studios, devising new ways of having material gathered in the field and new ways of interviewing. Facing new challenges and new opportunities.

The pandemic has brought innumerable tragedies around the world, affecting entire societies and individual families. It has forced changes in the way we work. I think it is also causing us to think about what our work is for.

Something is changing in the world, in the same way something is changing in America. The killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis convulsed America. It also appalled the rest of the world. At the same time, the COVID-19 pandemic has both shown the links we share for good and bad in this interconnected world, and how a nation can determine the fate of its citizens.

This time has made us at the BBC rethink both what we do and how we do it. At the BBC World Service, we aim to do more with more of our partners: fly less, partner more; share more and support more news journalists around the world. We have heard from station partners that you want greater amounts of BBC reporting and analysis on how the world is reacting to global events and finding solutions to the problems they face.

I hope that you will be interested in what our plans are for the months ahead. Some of our upcoming plans include:

U.S. Elections: We’ll be covering the U.S. elections by teaming up with stations as we have done in the past. This year, Newshour will be linking up with four stations during the month of October for special programming. We will be working with stations to highlight the importance of this election (infused with your expertise) to our international audience. We’re also bringing you Global View on 2020, a week-in-review :59 or 3:59 module that provides an international perspective on the 2020 elections.

BBC OS is featuring weekly interviews with Nate Hegyi from the Mountain West News Bureau and his 900-mile cycling trip crisscrossing the Continental Divide, interviewing and listening to Americans ahead of the 2020 election. Nate’s journey is supported by America Amplified, a community engagement journalism project based at KCUR.

There will be special reports and debates over the coming week to tell the world what is dividing America, and to share with you what the world is saying about America. We will also be asking just what America’s commitment to the world is at this time, and what the world actually wants from America.

Climate: A new weekly program from the BBC World Service launches the week after the election is over, and for many that’s not a day too soon. To many the climate remains the most important political, economic and environmental issue the world is singularly failing to reach agreement over. The Climate Question asks: Why do we find it so hard to save a planet?
We will of course be keeping the global pandemic to the fore of our news reporting and our science and health analysis. You might be interested to know that in addition to our global 1-minute and 5-minute roundups each day, we do separate regional roundups for Latin America, India and Africa.

We will continue to bring you the global perspective on important topics with special coverage on health, politics, culture and education. We are particularly interested in the effect of COVID-19 on a new generation emerging into a world of drastically changing fortunes, and we’ll continue to monitor the political and social situation in countries like Russia, China, India and Brazil.

Find the latest docs and specials curated for Content Depot here.

I will really miss connecting with many of you in person at this year’s PRPD, as I know you will miss being amused to see the jetlagged Brits slumped over their Starbucks Grande still convinced a pledge drive is something to do with the temperance movement. I will of course join virtually.

Here’s to better times ahead and working closer than ever.

Yours,
Steve

Steve Titherington
Senior Commissioning Editor, BBC World Service

Here are the latest updates for upcoming programs. 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

BBC World Service

Coronavirus Coverage

• The BBC is offering multiple modules and programs to cover the pandemic.
• Visit the landing page on the BBC Partner Site to learn more.

BBC Proms

• The final BBC Proms performances air this weekend on the BBC World Service: September 12-13. As a reminder, the bottom of the hour breaks have been pulled for the performances at 7 a.m. and 2 p.m. on both days. Please adjust your automation system accordingly.
• View the full Proms details on our blog.

Marketplace

Week of September 14

Marketplace (PM)

• Kai talks with Daniel Yergin about his new book The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations.
• Kai talks to Cornell Professor Courtney McCluney about her research on Black women entrepreneurs in Detroit.

Marketplace Tech

• September 14: Continuing Marketplace Tech’s Monday back-to-school series, we talk with Amelia Vance of the Future of Privacy think tank about how education apps millions of students are using from home collect data and how they share it.
• September 15: Molly speaks with Bill Gates about his foundation’s role in COVID-19 vaccine development.
• September 16: Molly speaks with Bill Gates about his foundation’s role in funding technology to help the world both adapt to and mitigate climate change.
• September 17: As demonstrations against police violence continue throughout the country, what technologies are police using to surveil protestors? We talk with Simone Brown, a professor at UT-Austin.

Classical

SymphonyCast

UPDATE: Now that the BBC Proms have announced their plans for 2020, SymphonyCast plans to air 3 programs this year. BBC Proms concerts will be featured on SymphonyCast for the September 14, 21 and 28 episodes.  View the updated July-September program listings here for more details.

Arts and Culture

Live from Here

A reminder that Live from Here will be ceasing production and distribution this fall. Encore episodes will air for 1 more week – the final episode is scheduled for this Saturday, September 12, 2020. Once that air window expires the following Saturday, September 19, the ContentDepot page will be removed to avoid missing file alerts. Please make the necessary adjustments to accommodate this change. For more information on this change, see the post on the APM Distribution blog or view the entire remaining rebroadcast schedule on the APM Distribution site.

The Splendid Table

As The Splendid Table continues to take listener home cooking questions, 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.

Encore episode – September 18: Culinary Supefans

• Shauna Sever author of Midwest Made tells us why the legendary baker – the late Maida Heatter – rocked her world.
• Chef Preston Clark introduces us to his late father Patrick Clark, the ground-breaking African- American chef who never really got his due.
• Pati Jinich of Pati’s Mexican Table tells us why Jewish food authority Joan Nathan is her superhero. 

Questions? Please contact your Station Representative.

Here are the latest updates for upcoming programs. 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

BBC World Service

Coronavirus Coverage

• The BBC is offering multiple modules and programs to cover the pandemic.
• Visit the landing page on the BBC Partner Site to learn more.

New BBC World Service Schedule

• A new version of the BBC World Service summer schedule will go into effect on Saturday, September 5. Find the updated pdf here.
• NOTE: The Climate Question, originally scheduled to begin airing on September 13, has been postponed.

Marketplace

Week of September 7

Marketplace (PM)

• Kai talks with Netflix co-CEO Reed Hastings. His new book is called No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention.
• Kai talks with food historian Emelyn Rude about the history of takeout, how it got us to where we are today, and some of the socioeconomic forces at play. 

Marketplace Tech

• September 7: Why are laptops for school still so expensive?  Schools are scrambling to get enough laptops for students are they move to remote learning, and the cheaper Chromebooks they want are in short supply.
• September 8: Social media can be critical to informing, supporting and connecting small, rural communities. That’s especially true now, with the pandemic. Those groups have become a resource for some communities, as people look for information about COVID-19; though, they can also be very divisive.

The Daily

September 7: On Labor Day, The Daily will air an encore broadcast of the episode A Missed Warning About the Silent Coronavirus, which looks at why an early scientific report from a German doctor – of how seemingly health people could spread the coronavirus – went unheeded.

Classical

Performance Today

September 10: As part of a new Thursday feature that highlights listener feedback, Performance Today will broadcast an all-time listener favorite piece: Azul by Osvaldo Golijov.

SymphonyCast

UPDATE: Now that the BBC Proms have announced their plans for 2020, SymphonyCast plans to air 3 programs this year. BBC Proms concerts will be featured on SymphonyCast for the September 14, 21 and 28 episodes.  View the updated July-September program listings here for more details.

Arts and Culture

Live from Here

A reminder that Live from Here will be ceasing production and distribution this fall. Encore episodes will air for 2 more weeks, with the final episode scheduled for September 12, 2020. Once that air window expires the following Saturday, September 19, the ContentDepot page will be removed to avoid missing file alerts. Please make the necessary adjustments to accommodate this change. For more information on this change, see the post on the APM Distribution blog or view the entire remaining rebroadcast schedule on the APM Distribution site.

September 12: Final Rebroadcast – New York City
Guests:

• Indigo Girls
• Real Estate
• Amanda Brown
• Ken Burns
• Lewis Black

The Splendid Table

As The Splendid Table continues to take listener home cooking questions, 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 – September 11: Baking

• Lisa Donovan, former pastry chef and author of the new memoir Our Lady of Perpetual Hunger teams up with Francis to take your baking questions
• We talk to Anissa Helou, author of Sweet Middle East about the legendary sweets of the region. 

Questions? Please contact your Station Representative.

Due to the difficulty of hosting live events, the BBC Proms schedule will look different this year. Details are listed below.

BBC World Service

Two concerts from What’s On

From September 5th – Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5
BBC Broadcast times: Saturday, September 5, 2-3 p.m. ET, repeat on Sunday, September 6, 7-8 a.m. ET
Air window: Stations may air the program for 1 week after broadcast
Details: London Symphony Orchestra – Simon Rattle, conductor

In the first of this year’s two visits to the Proms on the BBC World Service, the London Symphony Orchestra under their Music Director Sir Simon Rattle perform the most popular among Ralph Vaughan Williams’s nine symphonies, the Fifth. The Symphony was premiered in 1943, in the middle of the Second World War, and its serene beauty was instantly appreciated as an antidote to the tragedies of war. The critic Neville Cardus called it “The most benedictory and consoling music of our time.” Andrew McGregor introduces the concert. You can learn more about this program on the Proms website.

From September 12th – Maurice Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin
BBC Broadcast times: Saturday, September 12, 2-3 p.m. ET, repeat on Sunday, September 13, 7-8 a.m. ET
Air window: Stations may air the program for 1 week after broadcast
Details:
• Dmitry Shostakovich: Concerto for piano, trumpet and strings
• Benjamin Grosvenor, piano
• Jason Evans, trumpet
• Philharmonia Orchestra
• Esa – Pekka Salonen, conductor

In the second visit to this year’s Proms on the BBC World Service, the Philharmonia Orchestra and its Principal Conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen perform two very different 20th century works. Ravel’s Tombeau de Couperin is a double homage: to the splendor of French 18th-century music and to Ravel’s friends and colleagues who perished in the First World War. Ravel was profoundly affected by his experiences as a lorry driver at the front and yet the music he wrote for the Tombeau is calm and reflective rather than tragic. The Shostakovich Concerto presents quite a contrast: written as a virtuoso vehicle for the composer himself who in his youth was also an outstanding pianist, it is an exuberant melange of jaunty tunes and distorted quotes from other composers’ works and popular songs. Andrew McGregor introduces the concert. You can learn more about this program on the Proms website.

SymphonyCast

Three concerts from the updated program listings

September 14, 2020 – First Night of the 2020 BBC Proms
• BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers
• Sakari Oramo, conductor
• Sofi Jeannin, chorus director
HANNAH KENDALL: Tuxedo: Vasco ‘de’ Gama (World Premiere)
WHITACRE: Sleep
COPLAND: Quiet City
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 3
Link to program on Proms website

September 21, 2020 – From the 2020 BBC Proms
• BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
• Thomas Dausgaard, conductor
• Stephen Hough, pianoBEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 19
JAY CAPPERAULD: Circadian Refrains (172 Days Until Dawn) (BBC Commission, World Premiere)
STRAUSS: Metamorphosen
Link to program on Proms website

September 28, 2020 – Last Night of the 2020 BBC Proms
• BBC Symphony Orchestra
• Dalla Stasevska, conductor
• Golda Schultz, soprano
PROGRAM TBA – Link to program on Proms website.

Here are the latest updates for upcoming programs. 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

BBC World Service

Coronavirus Coverage

• The BBC is offering multiple modules and programs to cover the pandemic.
• Visit the landing page on the BBC Partner Site to learn more.

Global View on 2020 – 4 min. version

• A second version of Global View on 2020 will open on Friday, August 28 on ContentDepot. This version will be 3:59 long, and will give a more in-depth look at how the world is viewing the 2020 U.S. Presidential election.
• The original :59 version of Global View on 2020 will continue to be produced.

NEW BBC World Service Schedule

• A new version of the BBC World Service summer schedule will go into effect on Saturday, September 5. Find the updated pdf here.

Marketplace

Week of August 31

Marketplace (PM)

• We look at the role that Black women play in the labor market, and what would happen if policymakers focused on them. Kai talks with Janelle Jones from the Groundwork Collaborative and Professor Michelle Holder from John Jay at CUNY.
• German Chancellor Angela Merkel is a powerful figure both in Europe’s largest economy and in the European Union. For some 15 years, she has also been an economic bulwark for Germany, guiding the nation through a continental debt crisis, the integration of a million migrants and, more recently, trade tensions with the United States. She is due to leave office next year and there is some uncertainty about who will succeed her. Marketplace’s Stephen Beard looks at her achievements and consider the challenges facing Germany after her departure.

Marketplace Tech

• August 31: Christopher Mitchell of the Institute of Local Self-Reliance speaks about governments deploying hotspots for public school children, and what that means for internet as a utility.
• September 1: Psychiatrist Rachel Bernstein speaks about how tech is driving people towards QAnon –  is there a way for tech to help deprogram them as well?

Classical

Performance Today

August 31: Classical guitarist An Tran, who recently recorded an album of Vietnamese classical guitar music called Stay, My Beloved, will be featured on the program.

SymphonyCast

UPDATE: Now that the BBC Proms have announced their plans for 2020, SymphonyCast plans to air 3 programs this year. BBC Proms concerts will be featured on SymphonyCast for the September 14, 21 and 28 episodes.  View the updated July-September program listings here for more details.

Arts and Culture

Live from Here

A reminder that Live from Here will be ceasing production and distribution this fall. Encore episodes will air for 3 more weeks, with the final episode scheduled for September 12, 2020. Once that air window expires the following Saturday, September 19, the ContentDepot page will be removed to avoid missing file alerts. Please make the necessary adjustments to accommodate this change. For more information on this change, see the post on the APM Distribution blog or view the entire remaining rebroadcast schedule on the APM Distribution site.

September 5: Rebroadcast – New York City
Guests:

• Andrew Bird
• Bedouine
• Sarah Jarosz
• Jia Tolentino
• Tom Papa

The Splendid Table

As The Splendid Table continues to take listener home cooking questions, 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.

Encore episode – September 4: This week we talk to our friends about food from their travels.

• Caroline Eden author of Black Sea: Dispatches and Recipes Through Darkness and Light talks about her food journey throughout the region of the Black Sea.
• Restaurateur and Thai food authority Andy Ricker tells us about noodles and traveling and eating in Thailand. His newest book is Pok Pok Noodles: Recipes from Thailand and Beyond. 

Questions? Please contact your Station Representative.

Here are the latest updates for upcoming programs. 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

BBC World Service

Coronavirus Coverage

• The BBC is offering multiple modules and programs to cover the pandemic.
• Visit the landing page on the BBC Partner Site to learn more.

Proms

• Two BBC Proms performances will be featured on the World Service this year – one on September 5/6 and one on September 12/13. Look for ContentDepot messaging and future APM Weekly newsletters for more details.

Marketplace

Week of August 24

Marketplace (PM)

• Kai talks with Sarah Frey about her new book The Growing Season and fall pumpkins.
• Kai talks with Bill Bynum, the CEO of Hope Credit Union, about banking access and Black-owned businesses.
• Marketplace’s Justin Ho looks into the truck — and lately, the empty truck — as an economic indicator: When demand for products slows down, freight brokers are among the first businesses that can provide a glimpse into what’s happening. Lately, signs are indicating that many smaller trucking companies are getting a little desperate to fill up their semis. How do freight brokers normally make money? How do freight brokers survive when an economy starts shutting down? What does it mean when a trucking company starts cold-calling businesses and asking if they need anything shipped?

Marketplace Tech

• August 24: Apple and Epic are in a feud over the game Fortnite.  Apple has blocked it from being sold in the app store after Epic enabled users to buy in-app purchases in a method that keeps Apple from charging its 30% fee, a clear violation of the Apple store rules. Guest: Nicole Carpenter, who works for the gaming news site Polygon.
• August 25: Lyft is planning to stop service in California.  What does this mean for the many independent contractors who drive for the platform – how are they thinking about their futures? Guest: Harry Campbell – drives for both Lyft and Uber, and also blogs about it at TheRideShareGuy.
• August 26: The future of virtual events – was the first virtual convention considered a success? How much did the DNC spend on it, and is this a potential model for how to do a virtual event in the future? Guest: Maggie Reardon, reporter for CNET.

Classical

Performance Today

August 26: Performance Today will celebrate Women’s Equality Day with music by historic and living female composers including Margi Griebling-Haigh, Clarice Assad, Mel Bonis and Andrea Clearfield.

SymphonyCast

UPDATE: Now that the BBC Proms have announced their plans for 2020, SymphonyCast plans to air 3 programs this year. BBC Proms concerts will be featured on SymphonyCast for the September 14, 21 and 28 episodes.  View the updated July-September program listings here for more details.

Arts and Culture

Live from Here

A reminder that Live from Here will be ceasing production and distribution this fall. Encore episodes will air for 4 more weeks, with the final episode scheduled for September 12, 2020. Once that air window expires the following Saturday, September 19, the ContentDepot page will be removed to avoid missing file alerts. Please make the necessary adjustments to accommodate this change. For more information on this change, see the post on the APM Distribution blog or view the entire remaining rebroadcast schedule on the APM Distribution site.

August 29: Rebroadcast – San Francisco, CA; Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival
Guests:

• Grace Potter
• JS Ondara
• Milk Carton Kids
• Nore Davis

The Splendid Table

As The Splendid Table continues to take listener home cooking questions, 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 – August 28: We’re getting advice from friends about things you should try in the kitchen. From the new-ancient grain fonio to a weapons-grade ratatouille recipe to surprising wine picks and pairings, get ready to learn something new! Guests include Chef Pierre Thiam and Food & Wine’s restaurant editor, Khushbu Shah.

Questions? Please contact your Station Representative.

Here are the latest updates for upcoming programs. 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

BBC World Service

Coronavirus Coverage

• The BBC is offering multiple modules and programs to cover the unprecedented outbreak.
• Visit the landing page on the BBC Partner Site to learn more.

Marketplace

Week of August 17

Marketplace (PM)

• While a college degree is an investment that pays off, on average, for students of color and black students in particular the risk that it won’t pay off is much higher. Kai talks with Ashley Harrington, the Federal Advocacy Director and a Senior Counsel at the Center for Responsible Lending (CRL).
• Increasingly, PTO is becoming kind of a problem. Workers are taking fewer days off (Where do you go in a pandemic? Does it look bad to a vacation when your job seems tenuous?). We’re burned out, and that’s not good for us or our employers. Meanwhile, rapidly accumulating PTO is a liability on balance sheets.  Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino reports.

Marketplace Tech

• August 18: Social media can be critical to informing, supporting and connecting small, rural communities. That’s especially true now, with the pandemic. Those groups have become a resource for some communities, as people look for information about COVID-19. But as KUNC’s Adam Rayes reports, it can also be a divisive platform.
• August 19: Dan Ackerman has been reporting for APM’s new podcast, In Deep. He’ll speak about a biotech startup using wastewater to track COVID cases.
• August 20: The app Citizen lets people know about crimes in their neighborhood. Is it creating more divisions between us, during this time of protests? We speak with CEO Andrew Frame.

Classical

Performance Today

August 18: Performance Today will mark the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment with music inspired by the women’s suffrage movement – including one of the right-to-vote rallying songs (recorded in 1916) and music from the Virgil Thompson’s opera about the suffragist movement called “The Mother of Us All.” The hour will also include music by Ethel Smyth (“Sm-eye-th”), a composer who was a prominent suffragette in England.

SymphonyCast

At this time, SymphonyCast does not plan to air programming from the BBC Proms as most of the performances this year will not be live. Should this change, ContentDepot alerts will be sent to notify stations. View the current July-September program listings here.

Arts and Culture

Live from Here

A reminder that Live from Here will be ceasing production and distribution this fall. Encore episodes will air for 5 more weeks, with the final episode scheduled for September 12, 2020. Once that air window expires the following Saturday, September 19, the ContentDepot page will be removed to avoid missing file alerts. Please make the necessary adjustments to accommodate this change. For more information on this change, see the post on the APM Distribution blog or view the entire remaining rebroadcast schedule on the APM Distribution site.

August 22: Rebroadcast – New York City, NY
Guests:

• Ezra Koenig
• Natalia Lafourcade
• Jake Gyllenhaal
• Sarah Jarosz
• Matt Braunger
• Holly Lauren

The Splendid Table

As The Splendid Table continues to take listener home cooking questions, 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.

Encore episode – August 21: This week it’s a show devoted to mothers & daughters.

• The mother-daughter team, Priya & Ritu Krishna, teach Francis how to make an amazing grilled cheese sandwich with yogurt. They are the authors of Indian(-ish).
• Chef Bonnie Frumkin Morales of Kachka in Portland, Oregon talks about her restaurant’s matrilineal cooking.
• We talk to Asma Khan of London’s Darjeeling.
• Molly Birnbaum of America’s Test Kitchen brings us real-life advice to make cooking with your kid pleasurable.

Questions? Please contact your Station Representative.

Here are the latest updates for upcoming programs. 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

BBC World Service

Coronavirus Coverage

• The BBC is offering multiple modules and programs to cover the unprecedented outbreak.
• Visit the landing page on the BBC Partner Site to learn more.

Marketplace

Week of August 10

Marketplace (PM)

• Kai checks back in with Claire Babineaux-Fontenot, CEO of Feeding America. 
• Kai talks with Rita Colwell, former director of the National Science Foundation about her new book A Lab of One’s Own and the persistent problems that have kept many women from rising to the top of the profession.
• One of the consequences of structural racism in our economy is the persistent gap between Black and white homeownership. Just 42-percent of Black households own their homes compared to 72 of white households, and yet in majority-Black communities like Baltimore there are thousands of houses just sitting empty. Marketplace’s Amy Scott has been reporting on the ongoing vacancy crisis in Baltimore where there are more than 16,000 buildings on the city’s official vacancy list. Although that number has been approximately the same for a decade, even after millions of dollars in investment, there has been progress in some neighborhoods. For the past several months, Amy has been following the evolution of a single block in West Baltimore.

Marketplace Tech

• August 10: Inclusive design – Nicolas Steenhout advises companies on web accessibility, inclusion and disability. How should websites—and even our own social media posts—be designed?
• August 11: Haben Girma is a disability rights lawyer and recently wrote a book about her experiences – Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard. How did tech help her on her journey, what tech is she most excited about? 
• August 12 (tentative): Are there any tech solutions to the additional needs students with disabilities will have learning remotely this fall? What do Zoom / Google Classroom, etc. not provide?

Classical

Performance Today

August 11: Performance Today will share an interview with classical guitarist An Tran about his new album “Stay, My Beloved” featuring music from Vietnam. 

SymphonyCast

At this time, SymphonyCast does not plan to air programming from the BBC Proms as most of the performances this year will not be live. Should this change, ContentDepot alerts will be sent to notify stations. View the current July-September program listings here.

Arts and Culture

Live from Here

Please see our post on the APM Distribution blog regarding the changes to Live from Here . The entire remaining rebroadcast schedule is available on the APM Distribution site.

August 15: Rebroadcast – New York City, NY
Guests:

• Pixies
• Black Pumas
• Crooked Still
• Aoife O’Donovan
• Cast of “Freestyle Love Supreme”

The Splendid Table

As The Splendid Table continues to take listener home cooking questions, 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 – August 14: We’re talking to Olia Hercules, author of Summer Kitchens about a particular Ukrainian tradition of an outdoor kitchen for cooking in the heat of summer, and Helen Rosner from The New Yorker joins us to help Francis take your hot weather cooking questions. 

Questions? Please contact your Station Representative.

Here are the latest updates for upcoming programs. 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

BBC World Service

Coronavirus Coverage

• The BBC is offering multiple modules and programs to cover the unprecedented outbreak.
• Visit the landing page on the BBC Partner Site to learn more.
• Reminder: The final episode of Coronavirus Global Update airs Friday, July 31.

Marketplace

Week of August 3

Marketplace (PM)

• Kai talks with Isabel Wilkerson about her new book CASTE.
• Almost exactly a year ago, we reported on the supply glut of milk: farmers had been dealing with big oversupply issues in the US, which were exacerbated by the trade war.  A year later, the situation has reversed. Dairy prices have shot up through the pandemic, thanks to increased demand and cutbacks in production because of COVID. Marketplace’s Justin Ho checks in with dairy farmers.

Marketplace Tech

• August 3: The Games and Online Harassment Hotline launches – a mental health resource for people who make and play games. Video game playing has spiked during the pandemic, and many marginalized groups are targets of harassment. Guest: Anita Sarkeesian.
• August 4: Google is running an 8-week bootcamp for entrepreneurs who want to launch a digital news startup, focusing on founders of color and other underrepresented groups in media. Guest: Erika Alexander, founder, Color Farm Media.

Arts and Culture

Live from Here

Please see our post on the APM Distribution blog regarding the changes to Live from Here . The entire remaining rebroadcast schedule is available on the APM Distribution site.

August 8: Rebroadcast – New York City, NY
Guests:

• Paul Simon
• Vagabon
• Holly Laurent
• Anais Mitchell
• Ryan Hamilton

The Splendid Table

As The Splendid Table continues to take listener home cooking questions, 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.

Encore episode – August 7:

• We talk to conservation biologist, Thor Hanson author of Buzz, The Nature, and Necessity of Bees.
• America’s Test Kitchen has the latest on how we should be deploying honey in our kitchens.
• We get the story of Brooklyn’s red bees and other urban tales of beekeeping from Andrew Coté, founder of the New York City Beekeepers Association. 

Questions? Please contact your Station Representative.

Here are the latest updates for upcoming programs. 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

BBC World Service

Coronavirus Coverage

• The BBC is offering multiple modules and programs to cover the unprecedented outbreak.
• Visit the landing page on the BBC Partner Site to learn more.

Marketplace

Week of July 27

Marketplace (PM)

• Kai talks with Claire Babineaux-Fonteno, the CEO of Feeding America.
• Many consumers, fearing that they may contract COVID-19, are staying away from stores to minimize contact with others. China’s Livestream – a web-based shopping promotion service – is coming to the rescue of retailers. Livestream, however, is not a silver bullet. Marketplace’s Jennifer Pak looks at how some companies are thriving and others struggling to benefit from Livestream.

Classical

Performance Today

July 29: Performance Today will feature the performance of Eric Whitacre’s Virtual Choir – 1,500 singers from around the world – for Sing Gently.

Arts and Culture

Live from Here

Please see our post on the APM Distribution blog regarding the changes to Live from Here . The entire remaining rebroadcast schedule is available on the APM Distribution site.

August 1: Rebroadcast – New York City, NY
Guests:

• They Might Be Giants
• Big Thief
• Marina Franklin
• Cast of Betrayal
• Aoife O’Donovan
• Author DW Gibson

The Splendid Table

As The Splendid Table continues to take listener home cooking questions, 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 – July 31: We are 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.   

Questions? Please contact your Station Representative.