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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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 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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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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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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Americans Reconnect: Talking Across the Political Divide
One hour
Broadcast Window: April 1, 2025 - July 31, 2025
At a time of stark polarization, Americans Reconnect: Talking Across the Political Divide offers an antidote to our national malaise: stories of people who model the listening skills and humanity necessary to bridge political differences, showing that Americans are still capable of civility and compassion when they disagree over hot button issues.
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The Way We Live
One hour
Broadcast Window: April 1, 2025 - June 30, 2025
Whether it’s to save money, build community or combat loneliness, many older singles are setting up non-traditional housing arrangements. Meanwhile, a growing number of romantic partners of a certain age are finding their happily ever after by maintaining separate households. In this Dating While Gray special, host Laura Stassi explores co-housing communities, platonic house-shares, and the Live Apart Together (LAT) trend.
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Witness History: The Environment
One hour
Broadcast Window: April 1, 2025 - April 30, 2025
An all-new collection of stories from the BBC’s Witness History program, with new stories of environmentalism and conservation.
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Call to Mind: Mental Health Awareness Month Series
5, One hour specials
Broadcast Window: April 4, 2025 - August 31, 2025
Call to Mind is bringing you five new hour-long specials for May Mental Health Awareness Month. Each hour explores emerging research and informed perspectives on vital issues along with thought-provoking interviews with top experts, the voices of people living with mental illness, and sound-rich stories from across the country. The hourlong programs are hosted by Kimberly Adams, a host and senior correspondent for APM’s Marketplace.
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Selected Shorts: Tangled Lives
One hour
Broadcast Window: June 1, 2025 - September 6, 2025
SELECTED SHORTS host Meg Wolitzer presents three stories about those moments, those situations, those people that pull you in and won’t let you go. These works focus on unexpected encounters that end up affecting a character's life in some unusual or enduring way.
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The Poetry Café: Juneteenth
One hour
Broadcast Window: June 1, 2025 - August 31, 2025
Join us as we feed your mind, your body and your soul. Tune in to our open mic over the airwaves showcasing artists from our live shows across the country! Don't miss our special Juneteenth edition of The Poetry Café.
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APM Presents: Musical
Timely musical programming to delight and engage your audiences.
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
One hour
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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Words and Music of Black America
One hour
Broadcast Window: April 1, 2025 - April 30, 2025
Join Andrea Blain as we celebrate National Poetry Month with Words and Music of Black America. This special will pair music with texts by Black poets that raise issues of civil rights, social justice, racial divides and freedom in diverse and sometimes surprising ways.
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Lunar Reflections: A Classical Journey Through the Phases of the Moon
One hour
Broadcast Window: May 1, 2025 - May 31, 2025
Lunar Reflections: A Classical Journey Through the Phases of the Moon is a unique blend of classical music and mindfulness, designed to engage listeners in a deeply immersive musical experience. Each lunar phase is paired with evocative classical works, which help guide listeners through moments of introspection, creativity, and renewal. With a rich narrative and a thoughtfully curated soundtrack, this program offers a fresh way to connect with music, nature, and emotional wellness.
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Valor and Victory
One hour
Broadcast Window: May 1, 2025 - May 31, 2025
This year marks the 80th anniversary of World War II. This special program will look at the anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe through the lens of classical music, which was a significant and sometimes surprising part of life during the war years and after. The war and its aftermath inspired composers to reflect feelings and events of the time. This special will emphasize music that honors the sacrifices of WW II as well as celebrating victory and the spirit of that era.
Updated from 2020
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Proud to Be
One hour
Broadcast Window: May 30, 2025 - July 1, 2025
Pride Month is a wonderful time to celebrate our unique identities and to reflect on how pride and authenticity show up in our lives. We asked classical musicians in the LGBTQIA community about their thoughts on Pride. The answers we got were incredibly diverse and thought-provoking. This one-hour special brings all of those thoughts to you punctuated with music performed, conducted or composed by these featured artists.
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