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.
Air windows are listed below and on individual program pages. Specific download times are listed in ContentDepot. If you would like to request an air window extension, please contact your Station Relations Representative. Extensions are considered on a case-by-case basis and may be granted subject to rights.
Docs and Specials from the BBC can be found here.
If you'd like to submit an idea or program for national distribution, please fill out this request form.
APM Presents: News & Talk
Timely news programming tackling the biggest questions of our time
-
How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong
One hour
Broadcast Window: August 8, 2023 - June 30, 2024
There's an idea about how children learn to read that's held sway in schools for more than a generation — even though it was proven wrong by cognitive scientists decades ago. Host Emily Hanford investigates the influential authors who promote this idea and the company that sells their work. It's an exposé of how educators came to believe in something that isn't true and are now reckoning with the consequences
Read more -
Community Science Unifies Us Around Climate Change
One hour
Broadcast Window: January 19, 2024 - April 30, 2024
Climate change can feel apocalyptic and unsolvable. Yet, communities across the U.S. are finding ways to adapt and build resilience to its impacts. Higher Ground tells the stories of people engaging in community science to take control and find understanding in changes to their environment. Empowered with information, these communities are able to keep cool heads in the face of global warming. Hope and progress in the eye of the storm.
Read more -
Call to Mind: Mental Health Awareness Series
Five, one hour specials
Broadcast Window: April 5, 2024 - August 31, 2024
Five new Call to Mind Specials coming for May, Mental Health Awareness Month. Each hour explores emerging research and informed perspectives on vital issues. Each features 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.
Read more -
The Poetry Café
One hour
Broadcast Window: April 1, 2024 - June 30, 2024
The Poetry Café is poetry, live music and artist interviews around creating community through the arts. It is place where voices and ideas are valued and amplified to feed your mind, your body and your soul. This one-hour special features interviews with poet, playwright, filmaker and educator Ebony Payne-English and with poet and rapper Moses West, along with live poetry performances from various artists.
Read more -
California Love: K-Pop Dreaming - Moon Night
One hour
Broadcast Window: April 1, 2024 - May 31, 2024
K-Pop Dreaming host Vivian Yoon takes us to an American military neighborhood in Seoul in the late 1980s. Tucked in an alleyway was a little grimy club that blasted American hip-hop, the place was for African American GIs to cut loose, but it pulled in an unexpected crowd – young Koreans who would become the pioneers of modern K-pop. Itaewon was also the setting for the beginning of another story – it was the place where Vivian’s parents met and fell in love. Features Kang Won Rae, one of K-pop's legends that came out of the Moon Night scene.
Read more -
Witness History: The Environment
One hour
Broadcast Window: April 1, 2024 - April 30, 2024
An all-new collection of stories from the BBC’s Witness History program, with new stories of environmentalism and conservation. We’ll meet people who have been instrumental in protecting the Amazon rainforest, elephants, and the Russian arctic.
Read more -
How We Survive: The Worth of Water
One hour
Broadcast Window: April 1, 2024 - June 30, 2024
In a station special adapted from Marketplace’s award-winning podcast “How We Survive,” host Amy Scott visits places across the West that must fundamentally rethink how water is divided up and used. Over the course of an hour, we’ll meet a couple scrambling to find an affordable water supply amidst a worsening drought and making the most of every drop. We’ll look at some of the tech innovations that could help us find a way out of the water crisis—which include looking to the ocean, the sewer and even the sky to produce drinking water. And finally, we’ll look at a growing movement, rooted in Indigenous values, to give nature—rivers, fish, crops and trees—the same rights as people, and what that might mean for the future of the Colorado River.
Read more -
How Does the Russian Propaganda Machine Work? Are There Lessons for the United States?
One hour
Broadcast Window: May 1, 2024 - July 31, 2024
When Ukrainian soldiers liberated the town of Bucha, Ukraine in March, 2022, news reports showed scenes of bodies lying in the streets. Human Rights Watch documented cases of summary executions. But on Russian state television, the news was presented as “fake,” a staged event. Objective reporting about the war in Ukraine is now against the law in Russia and journalists can’t even use the word “war” in their stories. But it wasn’t always like this. Two veteran Russian journalists, who’ve experienced the changes firsthand, explain what’s happened and how “fake news” has helped solidify authoritarian rule in Russia.
Read more -
Early Risers: Breaking Silence
One hour
Broadcast Window: May 22, 2024 - September 4, 2024
In this hour, early childhood experts from around the country talk about the reasons many caregivers are not venturing into conversations about race, racism and cultural diversity and we look at the impact that has on our children, other BIPOC adults, and our early childhood programs. Finally, we explore ways to break down those barriers for the benefit of our children. We will answer the question- what is needed in our early childhood spaces to encourage the vulnerability and exploration caregivers need to enter into these essential conversations with young children?
Read more -
Witness History: Pride Month
One hour
Broadcast Window: June 1, 2024 - June 30, 2024
An all-new special edition of Witness History from the BBC World Service. Remarkable stories of LGBT+ rights, told by the people who were there.
Read more -
Selected Shorts: Wishful Thinking
One hour
Broadcast Window: June 1, 2024 - August 31, 2024
Summertime, and the living is easy, and if it isn’t, all you need is a charming trio of works curated by the producers of Selected Shorts about summer wishes and wishful thinking. Hear works from Zadie Smith (performed by the author), Carys Davies, and Ray Bradbury performed by Jane Kaczmarek and Sean Astin.
Read more
APM Presents: Musical
Timely musical programming to delight and engage your audiences.
Classical
-
A Passion for Bach and Coltrane with Imani Winds
Two hours
Broadcast Window: March 29 - June 30, 2024
Jeff Scott’s new Grammy winning oratorio is full of inspiration from two giants of music - Johann Sebastian Bach and John Coltrane. Passion for Bach and Coltrane with Imani Winds is an innovative and surprising confluence of classical and jazz. Scott is the founding horn player of Imani Winds, and along with the Harlem Jazz Quartet, jazz soloists, and spoken word by AB Spellman, Passion for Bach and Coltrane offers an intimate perspective on Imani Wind’s most personal recording in their 25 year history.
**This air window has been extended until June 30, 2024**
Read more -
Folk Classics Across the Globe from YourClassical
One hour
Broadcast Window: May 1 - May 31, 2024
An hour special featuring never-before recorded folk tunes from three contrasting countries and cultures: Iran, Venezuela and Ukraine/Russia. These tunes have been composed and/or arranged by composers from these locations, two of which are currently living. They will also be performed by professional musicians from the respective countries/cultures. Exploring the intersection of folk and classical music, while also placing the spotlight on present-day communities.
Read more -
Fur, Feathers and Flutes
One hour
Broadcast Window: May 1 - May 31, 2024
We all know that Classical music can calm us - and our pets! We also know that there's a special connection we have with our pets. Do our pets have a special connection with Classical music? We think so! On Fur, Feathers and Flutes, you'll hear stories of composers who loved their pets along with music inspired by their furry friends. You'll also meet an opera-loving parrot, curious Classical-loving cats, and you'll hear how Classical music helps train canines, as we celebrate the love we have for our special companions and their connection to music on Fur, Feathers and Flutes!
Read more -
Proud to Be
One hour
Broadcast Window: May 31 - June 30, 2024
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.
Read more -
Take Me to the Water
One hour
Broadcast Window: May 31, 2024 - June 30, 2024
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 February 2024
Read more
Questions about APM Presents programming or your affiliation?