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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Selected Shorts: Holiday Hitches
One hour
Broadcast Window: December 1, 2024 - January 1, 2025
We love the holidays, but sometimes things don’t go as planned. This seasonal special from SELECTED SHORTS, hosted by Meg Wolitzer, offers three tales about uncommon roads travelled by the celebrants. Writers, inlcuding Andy Borowitz, mesh tradition, humor, and family dynamics for the perfect seasonal package.
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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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Inside the Movement to Teach Kids About Money
One hour
Broadcast Window: January 22, 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 Star State Pioneered Structural Housing Discrimination in America
One hour
Broadcast Window: January 29, 2025 - March 31, 2025
In this limited Marketplace series, 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.
2024 Remembered from the Current
Two hours
Broadcast Window: December 16, 2024 - January 17, 2025
Join The Current in honoring the life, music, and legacy of artists we lost this year with 2024 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.Read more
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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All is Bright
One hour
Broadcast Window: November 15, 2024 - December 31, 2024
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. Featured artists include Cantus, Chanticleer, Cambridge Singers, Bryn Terfel, Emma Kirkby, Jessye Norman, and a variety of choirs. Encore from 2023
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A Chanticleer Christmas
One hour
Broadcast Window: November 29, 2024 - December 31, 2024
The beloved, Grammy-winning men’s chorus brings its “rich, intricately blended sound” (The Washington Post) to its signature holiday celebration. The centuries-spanning program ranges from Renaissance masterworks to roof-raising spirituals.
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Carols as Home with the Imani Winds
One hour
Broadcast Window: November 29, 2024 - December 31, 2024
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. Encore from 2023
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St. Olaf Christmas Festival 2024: Celebrating 150 Years of St. Olaf College
Two hours
Broadcast Window: December 9, 2024 - December 31, 2024
For one and a half centuries, St. Olaf has been a hub of connections, knowledge, and growth. And for more than a century, the St. Olaf Christmas festival has been a cherished part of that history. Join us as we celebrate their legacy.
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Three Tales of Christmas with Cantus
One hour
Broadcast Window: November 29, 2024 - December 31, 2024
In Christmas with Cantus, Cantus weaves together three holiday stories with time-honored carols and new classics. Blending narration and song, the program features Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol and Christine Lê’s The Hawai’i Snowman, alongside Mark Twain’s “A Letter from Santa Claus,” offering an opportunity to reflect on the meaning and joy of the holiday season.
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Welcome Christmas
One hour
Broadcast Window: November 29, 2024 - December 31, 2024
Welcome Christmas is a perennial Christmas favorite from VocalEssence, one of the world's premier choral ensembles, conducted by Philip Brunelle and G. Phillip Shoultz. Join host Bonnie North for an hour of traditional carols and new discoveries, including including the world premiere of three beloved Latvian carols by composer Ēriks Ešenvalds.
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Carols, Customs and Candlelight: a Celtic Christmas Celebration
One hour
Broadcast Window: December 1, 2024 - December 31, 2024
Listen as host Andrea Blain explores music and customs that have roots in ancient winter celebrations and traditional Christmas festivals. The music features classical ensembles and soloists like Apollo’s Fire and Bryn Terfel, as well as traditional instruments like harp, fiddle and mandolin.
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In Winter's Glow
One hour
Broadcast Window: December 1, 2024 - December 31, 2024
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.
Encore from 2023
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Candles Burning Brightly
One hour
Broadcast Window: December 12, 2024 - January 5, 2025
A delightful hour for everyone to celebrate the Jewish Festival of Lights! Lots of music from Jewish communities around the world, plus a hilarious lesson on how to prepare a classic Chanukah dish, and a timeless and touching holiday story that brings light into every home.
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YourClassical Christmas Favorites
One hour
Broadcast Window: December 16, 2024 - December 31, 2024
Join us this holiday season as we count down the top christmas songs as voted by you in a new hour-long special.
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A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols
Two hours
Broadcast Window: December 24, 2024 - December 25, 2024
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: 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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National Lutheran Choir Special - Title TBC
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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