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Today on KRPS for Monday June 5, 2023

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Show highlights today on KRPS include the latest episode of Live From The Bicknell Center with host Shelby White at 1 PM.

Also, tonight at 7 on Fresh Air, Terry Gross speaks with Succession series creator Jesse Armstrong and executive producer Frank Rich.

Show highlights today on KRPS include the latest episode of Live From The Bicknell Center with host Shelby White at 1 PM.

Also, tonight at 7 on Fresh Air, Terry Gross speaks with Succession series creator JESSE ARMSTRONG and executive producer FRANK RICH.

Today On KRPS For Monday June 5, 2023

5 AM - 9 AM - 

Morning Edition from NPR News

9 AM - 10 AM - 

1A

Host - Jenn White

Topic - “Many of our islands will become uninhabitable.” Nations are reckoning a future with sea level rise.

The Republic of the Marshall Islands are on average dozens of feets across and just a few feet above sea level.

The United States Geological Survey projects that by the year 2035 some of the islands will be completely submerged.

10 AM to 11 AM - 

On Point 

HOST: Meghna Chakrabarti

Topic - Divide In The Texas GOP

Republicans in the Texas House voted overwhelmingly last week to impeach State Attorney General Ken Paxton. Charges include fraud, bribery and more. But it’s also revealed a divide in the Texas GOP itself.

11 AM to 12 PM - 

Performance Today

Host - Fred Child

Hour 1 and hour 2 playlists

1 PM to 2 PM - Live From The Bicknell Center

2 PM - 3 PM - 

Classical from the KPRS Library

3 PM - 3:30 PM 

BBC World Service Newshour

3:30 PM - 4 PM

Today, Explained from Vox News

Hosts - Noel King and Sean Rameswaram

Topic - The relationship between the US and China.

4 PM - 6 PM

All Things Considered from NPR News

6 PM - 6:30 PM

Marketplace with Kai Ryssdal

Promoted story - Farm auctions which you've heard but which I cannot do justice are like a form of entertainment in themselves Which... doesn't really translate... when they go virtual.

6:30 PM to 7 PM

The Daily from the New York Times

Host - Sabrina Tavernise

Topic - The New Afghanistan, Through the Eyes of Three Women

7 PM - 8 PM - 

Fresh Air

HOST: Terry Gross

INTERVIEW BY: Terry Gross

The final episode of HBO's “Succession” has aired – and we’ve got questions. We talk with series creator JESSE ARMSTRONG and executive producer FRANK RICH.

8 PM - 9 PM - 

Jazz at 100

Topic -   Hour 89: The Second Acts of Art Pepper, Dexter Gordon, & Johnny Griffin

9 PM - 11 PM

Jazz with David Basse

11 PM - 5 AM Tuesday

BBC World Service

Since 2017 Fred Fletcher-Fierro has driven up Highway 171 through thunderstorms, downpours, snow, and ice storms to host KRPS’s Morning Edition. He’s also a daily reporter for the station, covering city government, elections, public safety, arts, entertainment, culture, sports and more. Fred has also spearheaded and overseen a sea change in programming for KRPS from a legacy classical station to one that airs a balance of classical, news, jazz, and cultural programming that better reflects the diverse audience of the Four States. For over two months in the fall of 2022 he worked remotely with NPR staff to relaunch krps.org to an NPR style news and information website.

In the fall of 2023 Fred was promoted to Interim General Manager and was appointed GM in Feburary of 2024.