APM PRESENTS
APM Presents offers a unique package of programs with timely relevance for your audiences.
APM Presents 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.
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APM Presents: News & Talk
Timely news programming tackling the biggest questions of our time
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Witness: The Labor Movement
One hour
Broadcast Window: August 28, 2023 - 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.
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How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong
One hour
Broadcast Window: August 8, 2023 - 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
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How to LA: DACA
One hour
Broadcast Window: September 29, 2023 - November 30, 2023
In this one hour special, host Brian De Los Santos, a DACA recipient, talks about the hurdles and risks associated with leaving the U.S. and what it meant to go back to Mexico for the first time in 30 years - a place he may not be able to go back to again as DACA and a path to citizenship are in limbo.
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L.A. Made: The Barbie Tapes
One hour
Broadcast Window: September 25, 2023 - November 30, 2023
LA Made: The Barbie Tapes tells the backstory of the world’s most popular doll, Barbie. Barbie is a cultural icon but what do you really know about her? Learn Barbie’s origin story from the people who created her. Co-hosted by Antonia Cereijido and M.G. Lord, author of Forever Barbie: The Unauthorized Biography of a Real Doll, hear the wild stories from the never-before-heard tapes of interviews with Barbie inventor Ruth Handler, her wardrobe designer and the sculptors and fabricators, and the innovative marketers who made her what she is today.
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Substance Use & New Paths to Recovery
One hour
Broadcast Window: October 1, 2023 - December 31, 2023
Addiction is at an all-time high in the United States and the results are deadly. This program shares the experiences of people who are managing substance use disorders, and leading experts working to transform the substance use disorder treatment field while decriminalizing the conversation about addiction disorders.
Encore from January 2023
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Turkey Confidential
Two hours
Broadcast Window: November 22, 2023 (3pm ET) - November 23, 2023
Turkey Confidential is The Splendid Table’s annual Thanksgiving show. Francis Lam takes calls and comes to the rescue of Thanksgiving cooks, kitchen helpers, and dinner guests during the biggest cooking day of the year.
This program will be file based for 2023 and going forward.
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The One Recipe Holiday Special
One hour
Broadcast Window: December 1, 2023 - January 1, 2024
Join host Jesse Sparks for an all new holiday edition of The Splendid Table’s “podbaby,” The One Recipe. Jesse talks to culinary superstars about their “One,” the recipe that signals the holiday has begun! They’ll get into traditions and food with influences from all over the world and leave you with recipes that could jumpstart your own festivities! It’s delicious eating all month long.
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Selected Shorts: Unwrapping the Holidays
One hour
Broadcast Window: December 1, 2023 - January 1, 2024
Host Meg Wolitzer presents three unexpected stories that let us see the holidays’ associations—family, friends, food, gifts, and goodwill—in different ways. Selections from Amy Krouse Rosenthal, Sherrie Flick, and John Cheever will be read by Jayne Atkinson, James Naughton, Adina Verson and Teagle F. Bougere.
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Get Your Money Life in Order
One hour
Broadcast Window: December 14, 2023 - February 29, 2024
From Marketplace, listen as host Reema Khrais helps listeners get their financial life together in time for the new year. She’ll unpack some practical tips, share a personal money story that is sure to captivate, and interview a financial therapist to get some useful tips for understanding our relationships with money. This hour will make listeners laugh, gasp, and think about money in a whole new way.
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APM Presents: Musical
Timely musical programming to delight and engage your audiences.
From the Current
2023 Remembered from The Current
Two hours
Broadcast Window: December 13, 2023 - January 15, 2024
Join The Current in honoring the life, music, and legacy of artists we lost this year with 2023 Remembered from The Current. This two-hour musical tribute is a celebration of all sounds - from indie to influential - and the perfect way for music lovers to unite in paying homage to the artists who have shaped music history.Each hour will be discrete.
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Classical
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I Hear America Singing
One hour
Broadcast Window: August 15 - 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.
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Music for the Days of Awe: An Observance of the Jewish High Holidays
One hour
Broadcast Window: September 1 - 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).
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Reclaiming the Sound Waves: with Connor Chee
One hour
Broadcast Window: October 1 - November 30, 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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My Journey, Yours: A Cantus Immigration Special
One hour
Broadcast Window: October 1 - November 30, 2023
My Journey Yours, a program of works anchored by Elise Witt’s piece of the same name, explores the courage of those who leave their homes in search of a brighter future and how they adapt to their new homeland. This program honors the struggle, courage, and deep humanity of migration with music from around the world, as well as a newly-commissioned piece by Melissa Dunphy, one of today’s most compelling compositional voices.
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Every Good Thing
One hour
Broadcast Window: November 3 - November 27, 2023
On Thanksgiving, host Andrea Blain and classical music fans from all around the country take some time to give thanks and celebrate one of life's most meaningful gifts: music. It's "Every Good Thing" — an hour of stories and music to celebrate Thanksgiving.
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Giving Thanks
One and Two hours
Broadcast Window: November 3 - November 27, 2023
Giving Thanks shares music and stories that reflect the meaning of gratitude. And this year for its 25th anniversary Giving Thanks presents the best moments of a quarter century of guests, including Stanley Tucci, Anne Lamott, Deepak Chopra, and many more.
One and two hour versions will be available.
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A Winter's Solstice
One hour
Broadcast Window: December 1 - December 31, 2023
A winter solstice program, with modern classical sounds for the longest night of the year, chosen especially to compliment the chilly, starry nights of the season.
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This is Christmas with the Imani Winds
One hour
Broadcast Window: December 1 - December 31, 2023
Join us for a new Christmas special featuring the Imani Winds. More details will be released later in the fall.
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Candles Burning Brightly
One hour
Broadcast Window: December 1 - December 31, 2023
A delightful hour for everyone to celebrate the Jewish Festival of Lights! There is lots of music from Jewish communities worldwide, a hilarious lesson on preparing a classic Hanukkah dish, and a timeless and touching holiday story that brings light into every home.
Encore from 2022
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Montserrat Boy Choir (Escolania de Montserrat)
One hour
Broadcast Window: December 1 - December 31, 2023
Perched atop the mountains near Barcelona, the choir of the Benedictine Abbey of Santa Maria de Montserrat is one of Europe’s oldest and most prestigious boy choirs. For the first time in their 800-year history, the choir made its Midwest premiere. Bringing with them a message of peace, the choristers will use music to transcend borders and speak directly to your heart.
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Welcome Christmas
One hour
Broadcast Window: December 1 - December 31, 2023
There’s no better way to welcome Christmas than Welcome Christmas!, the VocalEssence holiday concert. It’s an hour of joyful, classic holiday music from VocalEssence, one of the world’s premiere choral groups, singing traditional carols and new discoveries.
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All is Bright
One hour
Broadcast Window: December 1 - December 31, 2023
All Is Bright, with host Lynne Warfel, offers an hour of gorgeous, contemplative choral music that tells the traditional Christmas story with songs about angels, the star and the manger scene. Updated for 2023.
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Carol Countdown
Two hours
Broadcast Window: December 15 - December 31, 2023
Join us this holiday season as we count down the top christmas songs as voted by you in a two-hour special.
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MN Orchestra New Year's Celebration
Two hours
Broadcast Window: December 15 - January 15, 2024
Ring in the new year with the Minnesota Orchestra! The program opens with Bernstein’s animated Overture to Candide. Awadagin Pratt performs the Minnesota premiere of Jessie Montgomery’s Rounds for Piano and Orchestra, a work written for him. A New Year’s celebration wouldn’t be complete without adventure and passion, and the Orchestra brings that in multitudes in Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s beloved Scheherazade. Encore of 2022 live performance.
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St. Olaf Christmas Festival
Length to be confirmed
Broadcast Window: December 18 - December 31, 2023
The St. Olaf Christmas Festival has become one of the nation's most cherished holiday celebrations. Started in 1912 by F. Melius Christiansen, founder of the St. Olaf College Music Department, the festival includes hymns, carols, choral works and orchestral selections celebrating the Nativity. It features the St. Olaf Choir, the St. Olaf Orchestra, the St. Olaf Cantorei, the St. Olaf Chapel Choir, the Manitou Singers and the Viking Chorus, performing as individual groups and as a massed ensemble.
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A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols
Two hours
Broadcast Window: December 24 - December 25, 2023
A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols presents your audience with an opportunity to share in a live, world-wide Christmas Eve broadcast of a service of Biblical readings, carols, and related seasonal Classical music. This special will be presented by one of the world’s foremost choirs of men and boys and performed in an acoustically and architecturally renowned venue, the 500-year-old Chapel of King’s College, Cambridge, England.
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