APM Presents - News & Talk Specials
The Poetry Cafe Live
Feed your mind, your body, and your soul as you immerse yourself in this open mic night over the airwaves.
One hour
Broadcast Window: November 10, 2025 - January 4, 2026
Feeding the Family
For many people gathering around the table this holiday season, things feel… a little different. Maybe it’s the cost of ingredients that’s on your mind. Or you’ve been furloughed from your job. Whatever it is, these things have a way of showing up at our tables.
This hour, we’ll have tips for making festive meals on a shoestring; we’ll talk about how to avoid the pressure of putting on a good show; and we’ll look at the little-known economic history of one of America’s favorite desserts.
In this station special from Marketplace, we will explore the complicated forces impacting the food on our tables this holiday season. From farmers in Texas grappling with a sudden loss in federal funding, to the ways Tik Tok is reshaping our meals, to the ways climate change is impacting our favorite desserts.
One hour
Broadcast Window: November 10, 2025 - January 5, 2026
Selected Shorts: What You Wish For
Host Meg Wolitzer presents three Christmas stories in different moods—satirical, fantastical, and nostalgic:
“A Visit from Saint Nicholas (In the Ernest Hemingway Manner),” by James Thurber, performed by James Naughton
“O’Brien’s First Christmas,” by Jeanette Winterson, performed by Jayne Atkinson
“One Christmas,” by Truman Capote, performed by John Shea
One hour
Broadcast Window: December 1, 2025 - January 4, 2026
2025 Remembered from The Current
Join The Current in honoring the life, music, and legacy of artists we lost this year with 2025 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.
Two hours
Broadcast Window: December 10, 2025 - January 16, 2026
Storytellers: Muslims, Community, and Culture in America
There has been considerable attention paid to American Muslims in the 25 years since 9/11. But largely missing are people from the community telling compelling and authentic stories about their history and their own lived experiences. Comedian and host Sabeen Sadiq introduces listeners to engaging Muslim American storytellers, starting with Sadiq’s own honest and very funny story about growing up a sort of “secret Muslim” in Chicago. Listeners will be captivated and moved by these stories, which reveal the complexity and deep roots of vibrant Muslim communities in America.One hour
Broadcast Window: January 1, 2026 - March 31, 2026
The Poetry Cafe: Live from Greensboro
Feed your mind, your body, and your soul as you immerse yourself in this open mic night featuring talented poets and musicians live from Greensboro, NC!
One hour
Broadcast Window: January 5, 2026 - April 30, 2026
Collaborative for the Earth (C4E)
The United States is going nuclear, after shying away from an energy source that is now needed to power its modern computing and ever-expanding artificial intelligence.
The Collaborative for the Earth covers the debate in public opinion and politics, the immediacy of climate change, and a new generation of advanced nuclear technology that offer the promise of safe, reliable, and carbon-free energy in the U.S.
The desire to move away from fossil fuels is now running up against the insatiable energy demands of data centers, cryptocurrency, and AI. And the biggest players in these new industries know it — Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Meta — all eyeing nuclear energy as one possible off ramp to our impending energy crisis.
One hour
Broadcast Window: January 15, 2026 - April 30, 2026
Witness: Black History Month
A new special hour-long edition of Witness History from the BBC World Service, bringing together some incredible stories about the Black experience. Told by people who were there, we hear stories that are fascinating, harrowing, and inspiring.
One hour
Broadcast Window: January 27, 2026 - February 28, 2026
Selected Shorts: Celebrating James Baldwin
Guest host LeVar Burton presents a program celebrating the author he calls “potent and polemical.” Christopher Jackson reads an excerpt from Baldwin’s famous letter The Fire Next Time: in “My Dungeon Shook,” he addresses internalized racism. Next, Anthony Rapp performs an excerpt from Giovanni's Room, in which an ex-pat comes to terms with his sexuality and loneliness in Paris. And Baldwin contemplates The Great Migration in his novel Go Tell It On The Mountain. We hear an excerpt performed by Charlayne Woodard. Encore from 2021.
One hour
Broadcast Window: January 27, 2026 - March 20, 2026
Building Tomorrow
Marketplace and This Old House Radio Hour are collaborating on Building Tomorrow, a one-hour national radio special that explores how American homes are being reimagined for the next century. Co-hosted by Marketplace’s David Brancaccio and This Old House Radio Hour’s Jenn Largesse, Building Tomorrow blends personal narrative, design reporting, and economic insight into a sweeping look at what the next hundred years of American housing might hold. Throughout the hour, listeners will meet the architects, builders, and homeowners redefining the American dream from the ground up. Each act of construction becomes an act of imagination—proof that resilience begins not with what we can build, but with what we can envision.
Building Tomorrow will be released February 12th as that weekend's This Old House Radio Hour episode and will also be available as a one-hour special through April 2026.
One hour
Broadcast Window: February 13, 2026 - April 30, 2026
Witness: Women’s History Month
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.
One hour
Broadcast Window: February 24, 2026 - March 31, 2026