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Today on KRPS for Tuesday June 20, 2023

Show highlights today on KRPS include hour 1 (11 am) of Performance Today. Cellist Leland Ko is one of PT’s 2023 Young Artists in Residence. Leland and pianist Adria Ye join Fred Child for music and conversation at APM studios in St. Paul, Minnesota.

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Join us for The Daily from the New York Times this evening at 6:30. Inflation is down, have you noticed? Has this been a result of US government intervention or just by luck?

Today On KRPS For Tuesday June 20

5 AM - 9 AM - 

Morning Edition from NPR News

9 AM - 10 AM - 

1A

Host - Jenn White

Topic -Next time on 1-A we hear from Tulsa Oklahoma. There – a more complete picture is starting to emerge from a race massacre that took place more than a century ago. DNA sequencing is being used to match unidentified human remains with local descendants who’ve spent decades looking for their own answers.

10 AM to 11 AM - 

On Point 

Host: Host: Meghna Chakrabarti

Topic - Why did the nation's largest Protestant denomination vote to oust women from church leadership?

The Southern Baptist Convention – the nation's largest Protestant denomination – overwhelmingly voted to oust women from church leadership. What’s driving this crackdown and what impact will it have on the church’s already declining population?

11 AM to 1 PM - 

Performance Today

Host - Fred Child

Hour 1 and hour 2 playlists

1 PM to 3 PM - Classical Music from the KRPS Library

3 PM - 3:30 PM 

BBC World Service Newshour

3:30 PM - 4 PM

Today, Explained from Vox News

Host - Sean Rameswaram

Topic - Blocking pornography online.

4 PM - 6 PM

All Things Considered from NPR News

Promoted Story - Violence against US election officials and workers.

6 PM - 6:30 PM

Marketplace with Kai Ryssdal

Promoted story - The Mississippi River is having a moment. Tourism is booming, but there's a problem. It tends to flood.

6:30 PM to 7 PM

The Daily from the New York Times

Hosts - Sabrina Tavernise and Michael Barbaro

Topic - Inflation is Way Down. Is It By Design or Just Luck?

Description - Rapid inflation has been a problem in the United States for more than two years, but the tide appears to be turning. Monthly inflation is now less than half of what it was last summer.

7 PM - 8 PM - 

Fresh Air

Host - HOST: DAVE DAVIES

Guest - EVAN THOMAS is a veteran magazine writer and editor, and author of ten books. In a new book he takes a close look at the final weeks of World War II, when Japan’s military was largely defeated, but its leaders were determined to keep fighting and inflict heavy casualties on US and allied forces as they advanced toward the Japanese mainland.

Also, JOHN POWERS reviews Kairos, the new novel from Jenny Erpenbeck set in East Berlin before the fall of the Berlin Wall.

8 PM - 9 PM - 

Sound Ideas with Clay Ryder 

Sound Ideas #360 A - Thelonious Sphere Monk

In this hour, we will listen to the music of Thelonious Monk as performed by a variety of musicians. Apologies in advance that we will only able to scratch the surface of works from this musical genius.

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.