APM Presents - News & Talk Specials
Inside the Movement to Teach Kids About Money
If you’re an adult, chances are you didn’t learn much about how to handle your personal finances in school. But today, schools across the country are increasingly folding financial literacy into the curriculum, covering topics like budgeting, managing debt and even gambling. Thirty-five states require students to take a class to graduate. In this hour-long special from Marketplace, we visit schools and explore how effective these classes are at helping students deal with debt, avoid scams and increase credit scores.
One hour
Broadcast Window: January 29, 2025 - June 30, 2025
Unlocking the Gates:
How the North led Housing Discrimination in America
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.
One hour
Broadcast Window: January 29, 2025 - June 30, 2025
Americans Reconnect: Talking Across the Political Divide
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.
This radio program stands out amidst a firehouse of media stories that not only seem to accept polarization as an inalterable truth but, at times, even stoke it. By contrast, this program focuses on solutions to polarization. The production team spent more than a year researching and reporting on how people can maintain relationships despite stark political differences, offering hope for a divided electorate that Americans can still come together.
A partnership with the national nonprofit organization Braver Angels is central to the reporting. The group uses family and marriage therapy techniques to help people bridge political divisions. The insights of Braver Angels co-founder Bill Doherty deeply inform the radio special and are woven throughout.
Reported by award-winning journalist Catharine Richert and produced and edited by Annie Baxter and Lorna Benson. The team has led a year-long reporting project examining polarization – and how to overcome it.
One hour
Broadcast Window: April 1, 2025 - July 31, 2025
The Way We Live
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
Includes interviews with journalist Vicki Larson, author of “LAT-itude: How You Can Make a Live Apart Together Relationship Work,” Matt Thornhill, founder of the Cozy Home Community concept, for middle-income older adults; residents of Village Hearth, the first LGBTQ senior housing community in the U.S. (near Durham, NC)
One hour
Broadcast Window: April 1, 2025 - June 30, 2025
Witness History: The Environment
An all-new collection of stories from the BBC’s Witness History program, with new stories of environmentalism and conservation.
One hour
Broadcast Window: April 1, 2025 - April 30, 2025
Call to Mind: Mental Health Awareness Month Series
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.
Five, one-hour specials
Broadcast Window: April 4, 2025 - August 31, 2025
Selected Shorts: Tangled Lives
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:
“Missed Connection—M4W” by Raphael Bob-Waksberg takes the idea of “chance encounter” to its limits. It’s performed by Richard Kind.
“My Years of Living Dangerously” by Danielle Henderson explores the idea of sin and redemption. It’s performed by Karen Pittman.
And in Melissa Banks’ ruefully comic “Run Run Run Run Run Run Run Away,” performed by Julianna Margulies, one sibling makes a bad choice the other has to live with.
One hour
Broadcast Window: June 1, 2025 - September 6, 2025
The Poetry Cafe: Juneteenth
Tune in to our open mic over the airwaves for a collection of live performances about overcoming, freedom and perseverance . We’ll also be talking to singer and songwriter Tanya Ross about her music, the power of art, and coming back strong after a life-changing stroke. Join us for a special Juneteenth edition of The Poetry Café as we feed your mind, your body, and your soul.
One hour
Broadcast Window: June 1, 2025 - August 31, 2025