It's Black History Month!
Here's what's on at WAMC!
Monday 2/9 – 11am -- Witness History: Black History Month
A special hour-long edition of Witness History from the BBC World Service, bringing together some incredible interviews looking at the African-American experience. Told by people who were there, we hear stories that are fascinating, harrowing, and inspiring.
Thursday 2/26 – 11am - Rhapsody in Black: Black History Month Special
Join us for this hour long special as we turn up the voices of Black artists in the world of classical music, with host Vernon Neal.
For President's Day, here's what you can look forward too!
9am - NPR Special: Beyond the Headlines - NPR Correspondents on the Craft of Reporting Stories
Host Scott Detrow talks with NPR Correspondents, going "beyond the headlines" to explore the craft of reporting Stories. Reporters open their notebooks and share the ways they find stories and bring them to the audience. Topics include riding a migrant train across Mexico in the dead of night, how to get Elon Musk’s attention and what it was like to cover the Sean Combs trial. Derived from the year’s best conversations.
10am - Collaborative for the Earth (C4E)
The debate over advancing nuclear technology in the United States is promising safe, reliable, and carbon-free energy to power data centers, cryptocurrency, and AI demands. The Collaborative for the Earth explores how the political, social and economic optics have shifted toward nuclear as one possible off ramp to an impending energy crisis in the U.S.
11am - BBC World Service: Digital Dolittles: Talking to the animals?
Humans have always dreamed of talking to other animals. Some hold out the promise that AI and new technologies could help us to communicate with elephants, bats or whales in their own sonic terms. We listen in and ask, Is that really possible? And if so, what would we say?
2pm – Building Tomorrow
Marketplace and This Old House Radio Hour are collaborating on Building Tomorrow, a one-hour national radio special that explores how American homes are being reimagined for the next century. Co-hosted by Marketplace’s David Brancaccio and This Old House Radio Hour’s Jenn Largesse, Building Tomorrow blends personal narrative, design reporting, and economic insight into a sweeping look at what the next hundred years of American housing might hold. Throughout the hour, listeners will meet the architects, builders, and homeowners redefining the American dream from the ground up. Each act of construction becomes an act of imagination—proof that resilience begins not with what we can build, but with what we can envision.
3:30pm – New York Minute In History
We kick off America’s birthday year with the harrowing story of the capture of British spymaster Major John André, who was caught attempting to bring vital information on the American garrison at West Point to the British army command. The documents hidden in André’s boot made it clear that American General Benedict Arnold was involved in the conspiracy and a traitor to the cause.
Interviewees: Brian Keough, New York State Archivist and Aaron Noble, guest host and Senior Historian and Curator of Political and Military History at the New York State Museum.