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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Making Sense of the Misunderstood Foreign Policy of Jimmy Carter
One hour
Broadcast Window: December 30, 2024 - February 9, 2025
The 39th president is remembered today as one of America’s greatest. That hasn’t changed the popular perception of him as a failure while in office, weak and overwhelmed by events, and forever defined by the 444 day long debacle of the Iran hostage crisis. But is it time for another look — especially when it comes to the late president’s foreign policy record? Because with the passage of time, Jimmy Carter’s key initiatives abroad — from Central America to the Middle East, and with human rights at the center — are now looking more visionary by the day.
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The Poetry Café
One hour
Broadcast Window: January 1, 2025 - March 31, 2025
The Poetry Café is back to feed your mind, your body, and your soul. This edition features CJ Suitt, the first Chapel Hill poet laureate talking about his poetry and his work as an arts educator and community organizer. Plus a few special guests from our open mic!
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The First Five Days: Inside LA's Most Destructive Wildfires
One hour
Broadcast Window: January 18, 2025 - March 1, 2025
Larry Mantle has been a radio host in Los Angeles for nearly 40 years. Over the course of hosting his live, daily, public affairs call-in show on LAist 89.3, he’s covered the region’s biggest triumphs and tragedies, hearing from officials and Angelenos alike. Covering the Palisades, Eaton, and other current LA wildfires has been especially trying. “I have never seen in such a short period of time this kind of devastation,” said Mantle. Imperfect Paradise host Antonia Cereijdio and AirTalk’s Larry Mantle take us inside the first five days of the wildfires and how Mantle is helping Angelenos process the devastation throughout Southern California on his show.
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Inside the Movement to Teach Kids About Money
One hour
Broadcast Window: January 29, 2025 - March 31, 2025
This new special from Marketplace explores the financial literacy movement sweeping through schools and how effective it is at preparing teenagers for their financial lives.
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Selected Shorts: Changing the Narrative
One hour
Broadcast Window: February 1, 2025 - February 28, 2025
This special program, hosted by author, educator and activist DeRay McKesson, celebrates Black authors and politicians who have rethought and rewritten the narratives we tell ourselves about our shared history and who we are as a nation.
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Witness History: Black History Month
One hour
Broadcast Window: February 1, 2025 - February 28, 2025
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.
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Haitian Voices: Exodus, Community and the Vital Role of Music
One hour
Broadcast Window: February 1, 2025 - March 31, 2025
This documentary weaves together the voices of Haitian artists and activists, in dialogue with historical audio from the one of the world’s most distinguished radio archives, Radio Haiti-Inter, now housed at Duke University. We chronicle how Haitians have always used song as the preeminent tool for preserving their shared memory of oppression and injustice — and for mapping a hopeful vision for their future. Our co-hosts are journalists, Haitians and sisters, Nathalie (Talie) and Mélodie Cerin, with Nathalie in the U.S. and Mélodie in Haiti.
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Unlocking the Gates: How the North led Housing Discrimination in America
One hour
Broadcast Window: January 29, 2025 - March 31, 2025
Host Lee Hawkins investigates how a secret nighttime business deal unlocked the gates of a community called Maplewood for dozens of Black families seeking better housing, schools, and safer neighborhoods. His own family included. Hawkins returns to the place where he grew up to discover that state officials were instrumental in the practice of adding clauses to property deeds specifying that it could be held only by white people. These clauses or covenants as they are known, set the stage for other kinds of discrimination including redlining, which has exacerbated the racial wealth gap.
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The Other Moonshot
Four, one-hour episodes
Broadcast Window: February 3, 2025 - March 31, 2025
As America seethes with civil unrest in the 1960s, three Black aerospace engineers in Los Angeles play a key role in getting us to the moon, despite daily humiliation and prejudice as the federal government pushes forward integration in the workplace.
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The Breakthrough of 48'
One hour
Broadcast Window: January 1, 2025 - February 28, 2025
During this time when racial politics and presidential authority are critical themes, comes a compelling radio program revealing a lesser-known chapter in America’s civil rights story. In 1948, Minneapolis Mayor Hubert Humphrey called on the Democratic party to “walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights.” This led to a series of dramatic political events eventually leading to the landmark civil rights laws of the 1960s. Based on Samuel Freedman’s book “Into the Bright Sunshine,” this documentary features compelling interviews and archival audio to recall pivotal moments in American history that remain relevant and revealing today.
Encore from 2024
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Witness History: Women's History Month
One hour
Broadcast Window: March 1, 2025 - March 31, 2025
A new 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.
Atlanta's King Celebration Concert
One hour
Broadcast Window: January 18, 2025 - February 28, 2025
Celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. with a joyful concert by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Chorus and the Ebenezer Baptist Church Chorus and Band, featuring music from the classical and gospel traditions.Read more
Classical
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Take Me to the Water
One hour
Broadcast Window: January 30, 2025 - April 11, 2025
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
Encore from 2024
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New Day: A Choral Anthem for a New Era
Two hours
Broadcast Window: February 26, 2025 - March 31, 2025
This special will feature Jocelyn Hagen’s acclaimed work, Here I Am, performed with chamber orchestra, members of the nationally recognized Angelica Cantanti Youth Choirs – Treble Singers under the direction of Philip Brown, and Grammy Award-winning soprano soloist, Sarah Brailey. Hagen’s work seeks the feminine, bringing to light the love and power God has bestowed on women throughout history and in our lives today. This piece will be paired with movements from Dixit Dominus by Mariana von Martines, an under sung, yet brilliant, Classical-era composer.
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Distinguished Rebels
11, Two-minute segments
Broadcast Window: February 26, 2025 - March 31, 2025
We're celebrating women who have changed the face of classical music with Distinguished Rebels, a series of two minute features each highlighting the life of a woman who has contributed to classical music either as a composer, performer, conductor or educator.
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