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.
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APM Presents: News & Talk
Timely news programming tackling the biggest questions of our time
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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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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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The One Recipe Holiday Special
One hour
Broadcast Window: December 1, 2023 - January 1, 2024
Join host Jesse Sparks for a holiday edition of The Splendid Table’s sister podcast The One Recipe. In this hour-long episode, Jesse talks to culinary superstars about their family traditions and their “One,” the recipe that signals the holidays have officially begun! Guests include Britain's queen of Indian home cooking Chetna Makan, Texan chef Tiffany Derry, and influencer and author Matt Adlard.
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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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Community Science Unifies Us Around Climate Change
One hour
Broadcast Window: January 19, 2024 - April 30, 2024
Climate change can feel apocalyptic and unsolvable. Yet, communities across the U.S. are finding ways to adapt and build resilience to its impacts. Higher Ground tells the stories of people engaging in community science to take control and find understanding in changes to their environment. Empowered with information, these communities are able to keep cool heads in the face of global warming. Hope and progress in the eye of the storm.
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AeroEspacial: Latino People and Stories at the Heart of Aerospace
One hour
Broadcast Window: January 22, 2024 - March 31, 2024
This special program explores the history, and future, of Latino influence and representation in aviation and space exploration. Based on “AeroEspacial,” a limited series from the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, this show spotlights Latino voices and introduces listeners to the diversity of people working in and around aerospace across the United States. We hear from scientists, scholars, historians, and artists.
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Beyond 'Reality' TV: Inside the Lives of Older Singles
One hour
Broadcast Window: January 29, 2024 - March 31, 2024
ABC’s “The Golden Bachelor” brought long-overdue attention to the dating lives of older singles. But how much of the reality TV show actually rang true? In this special, Dating While Gray host Laura Stassi sifts through research and talks to older singles about our dating lives, including: tools and strategies to make love connections, ways we’re incorporating – and discarding – traditional arrangements for marriage and living together 24/7, and how we’re navigating new romance around already established family commitments.
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A Celebration of Langston Hughes
One hour
Broadcast Window: February 1, 2024 - February 29, 2024
This special program, hosted by stage and film actor Teagle F. Bougere, celebrates the protean literary master and social activist Langston Hughes. Featured works include "Passing", "The Blues I'm Playing", and "Thank you, Ma'am" .
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Witness: Black History Month
One hour
Broadcast Window: February 1, 2024 - February 29, 2024
A new special hour-long edition of Witness History from the BBC World Service, bringing together some incredible interviews looking at the African-American experience. Told by people who were there, we hear stories that are fascinating, harrowing, and inspiring.
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Witness: Women's History Month
One hour
Broadcast Window: March 1, 2024 - March 31, 2024
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. Selected from the BBC’s Witness History program, we hear moving, inspiring and even outrageous stories about a few of the most important women in living memory.
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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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In Winter's Glow
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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Carols as Home with the Imani Winds
One hour
Broadcast Window: December 1 - December 31, 2023
Carols as Home features a modern take on classic Christmas carols, hosted by Imani Winds founding oboist, Toyin Spellman-Diaz. Toyin coaxes intimate stories of Christmas memories from the members of the ensemble, and why these classic carols are still essential today.
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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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Anticipation and Celebration: Advent with the Montserrat Boy Choir
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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Chanticleer Christmas
One hour
Broadcast Window: December 1 - December 31, 2023
This one-hour program of holiday favorites, new and old, will be presented live in concert by Chanticleer, the superb 12-man ensemble known as "an orchestra of voices." Chanticleer is one of the premiere vocal ensembles in the nation. The ensemble has won two Grammys and is a member of the American Classical Music Hall of Fame. Encore from 2022
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Your Classical Christmas Favorites
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
Two hours
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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Take Me to the Water
One hour
Broadcast Window: February 12 - 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
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