APM PRESENTS
APM Presents offers a unique package of programs with timely relevance for your audiences.
APM Presents, previously known as APM Celebrates, is a collection of specials available through American Public Media to all affiliated stations. News and Talk specials tackle some of the biggest questions of our time while our Classical collection engages audiences with musical performances from renowned musicians.
Air windows are listed below and on individual program pages. Specific download times are listed in ContentDepot. If you would like to request an air window extension, please contact your Station Relations Representative. Extensions are considered on a case-by-case basis and may be granted subject to rights.
This year, 48 specials have been included in the APM Presents package, which is up from a total of 42 last fiscal year. Out of these specials, 73% included host(s) who identified as a woman and 29% included host(s) self-identified as BIPOC.
Docs and Specials from the BBC can be found here.
If you'd like to submit an idea or program for national distribution, please fill out this request form.
APM Presents: News & Talk
Timely news programming tackling the biggest questions of our time
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Dating While Gray
One hour
Broadcast Window: January 1, 2022 - March 31, 2022
In this special hour of audio, you’ll hear from single people 50 and older who are navigating all kinds of physical and mental changes and are driven by spontaneous emotions and primal urges sometimes manifesting in behavior that proves no, we aren’t always old enough to know better.
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Higher Ground
One hour
Broadcast Window: January 17, 2022 - April 1, 2022
Higher Ground tells the stories of communities on Long Island preparing and adapting to extreme weather and rising tides.
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Call to Mind: Spotlight on Virtual Mental Health Care
One hour
January 21, 2022 - May 31, 2022
In “Spotlight on Virtual Mental Health Care” we explore how mental health care’s urgent pivot to new technologies fared during the pandemic’s critical stress test.
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Witness: Black History Month
One hour
Broadcast Window: February 1, 2022 - February 28, 2022
A special hour-long edition of Witness History from the BBC World Service, bringing together some incredible interviews looking at the African-American experience.
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Selected Shorts: Celebrating Toni Morrison
One hour
Broadcast Window: February 1, 2022 - March 31, 2022
Guest host Tayari Jones (New York Times bestselling author, most recently of the novel An American Marriage) helps us to celebrate Morrison, the American master who died in 2019.
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Witness: Women's History Month
One hour
Broadcast Window: March 1, 2022 - March 31, 2022
A special hour-long edition of Witness History from the BBC World Service. Remarkable stories of women’s history, told by the women who were there.
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IWMF Connections: Muslim Culture in America Today
One hour
Broadcast Window: March 18, 2022 - June 30, 2022
Connections looks at contemporary Muslim culture in America from fashion to food to hip hop and opera as we look at the myriad ways contemporary Muslim culture has mixed and melded with American culture.
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Call to Mind: Covering Mental Health Care
One hour
Air window has been temporarily postponed
“Spotlight on the Confusion of Covering Mental Health Care” will help make sense of how you and anyone seeking therapy can get the coverage health plans actually provide.
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APM Presents: Musical
Timely musical programming to delight and engage your audiences.
Classical
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Hygge Holiday
One hour
Broadcast Window: December 1, 2021 - January 31, 2022
Join host Elena See for an hour-long program of nostalgic favorites for the winter season. Programming includes favorites from Tchaikovsky, Vivaldi, Debussy and Blake. Encore from 2019
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Spring Moon
One hour
Broadcast Window: February 1, 2022 - February 15, 2022
A musical celebration of Lunar New Year.
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Love at the Movies
One hour
Broadcast Window: February 1, 2022 - February 28, 2022
An hour of classic movie scores from romantic films, rom-coms, animated love stories and more. Encore from 2020 with updates
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Homeward Sound
One hour
Broadcast Window: February 22, 2022 - March 31, 2022
An hour dedicated to the lives of women composers from the 17th century through the present day with a focus on their personal lives, their struggles and what they devoted their lives to beyond music.
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The Envelope, Please
One hour
Broadcast Window: March 1, 2022 - March 31, 2022
An hour of classic movie scores from Academy Award winning films past and present.
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