Today On KRPS For Thursday June 29, 2023
5 AM - 9 AM -
Morning Edition from NPR News
9 AM - 10 AM -
Host: Dessa (in for Jenn White)
The not-so-sweet story of ‘Big Sugar’.
The average American consumes more than a hundred pounds of sugar in a year, according to the U.S.D.A.
The long-term impacts of eating too much of the sweet white stuff are well documented, from contributing to risks for diabetes, heart disease, and fatty liver disease.
10 AM to 11 AM -
Pitmaster Ryan Mitchell On America’s Complicated History With Barbeque And The Art Of Cooking Whole Hog
Pitmaster Ryan Mitchell talks about how the whole hog barbeque is the original style of American barbeque and its deep roots in indigenous and Black history.
11 AM to 1 PM -
Performance Today
Host - Fred Child
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
Hosts - Noel King and Sean Rameswaram
4 PM - 6 PM
All Things Considered from NPR News
42 years ago, RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK introduced audiences to a bullwhip-snapping archaeologist played by Harrison Ford.
Now, Indiana Jones is back for his fifth - and maybe final - adventure.
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.
On All Things Considered from NPR News.
6 PM - 6:30 PM
Marketplace with Kai Ryssdal
In California compost is a hot new commodity.
Why are your table scraps worth 1.6 billion dollars? That's next time on Marketplace.
6:30 PM to 7 PM
The Daily from the newsroom of the New York Times
Host - Michael Barbaro
The Federal Trade Commission is trying to stop Microsoft, which makes the Xbox video game console, from buying Activision Blizzard, which publishes some of the biggest video games in the world.
And right now in San Francisco, a judge is deciding whether or not the FTC's case is good enough that they should temporarily block this deal from closing so that this big challenge to this acquisition can go forward.
7 PM - 8 PM -
HOST: DAVE DAVIES
Guest: Filmmaker SAM POLLARD. His new documentary "The League" tells the story of the Negro Leagues, for decades the only place Black athletes could play in the segregated world of professional baseball.
The film tells the story not just of players, but of owners and fans and the social changes that eventually led to integration of major league baseball and the decline of the Negro Leagues.
Also, Jazz critic KEVIN WHITEHEAD reviews Charles Mingus: Changes: The Complete 1970s Atlantic Studio Recordings.
8 PM - 9 PM -
Atomic Age Cocktail Party with Jason Croft
The Eyes Have It
9 PM - 11 PM
11 PM - 5 AM Friday
BBC World Service
