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Today On KRPS For Thursday August 10, 2023

Show highlights today:
  • On Point at 10 AM, a conversation about America's struggling rural universities and colleges. Guests include a senior and former professor at Emporia State University in Kansas.
  • Tonight at 6 PM on Marketplace, financial planners are already using AI to help them decide how to best invest our money. Just how far will that go?


    Tune in for more!

5 AM - 9 AM - 

Morning Edition from NPR News

9 AM - 10 AM - 

1A

Host: Jenn White.

The 1A Record Club commemorates 50 years of hip-hop.

It’s hard to remember a time where hip-hop wasn’t a mainstay of American music.

Nowadays, hip-hop is many things – unapologetic, lyrical, rhythmic, and above all, ubiquitous.

Since its nebulous “creation” at a party in the Bronx in 1973, hip-hop has become one of the world’s most popular genres and cultural expressions.

10 AM to 11 AM - 

On Point 

Rural colleges in America are struggling. Due to enrollment and funding shortages - many have had to close or slash core majors to stay afloat.

The impact of losing rural higher ed, on local students, and the nation.

Guests include Adia Witherspoon, a senior at Emporia State University in Kansas.

Max McCoy, a former journalism professor at Emporia State University.

11 AM to 1 PM - 

Performance Today

Host - Fred Child

Hour 1 and hour 2 playlists

1 PM to 3 PM - A Musical Offering with Alan Chapman

3 PM - 4 PM 

The World with host Marco Werman

Next time on The World, a message in a bottle. A fisherman and his wife began dropping bottled messages into the Atlantic two decades ago.

They're STILL getting replies from beachcombers in the Caribbean.

Their story on The World.

4 PM - 6 PM

All Things Considered from NPR News

The art of casting in Hollywood has a rich but, at times, troubling history.

A new podcast looks at the history and the art of casting.

6 PM - 6:30 PM

Marketplace with Kai Ryssdal

Some financial planners are already using A-I .to decide where to put your money.

How far will A-I go in this space, and can we trust it?

That story, next time on Marketplace...

6:30 PM to 7 PM

Today, Explained from Vox News

Hosts - Noel King and Sean Rameswaram

The biggest city in the United States might have the worst jail complex.

Rikers Island has been plagued by problems of the worst kind for years now.

Next time on Today, Explained: The federal government might step in and take control of Rikers from New York City.

7 PM - 8 PM - 

Fresh Air

INTERVIEW BY TONYA MOSLEY

JENNIFER SENIOR is a staff writer at The Atlantic and winner of the 2022 Pulitzer for Feature Writing.

She’s written a new piece called “The Ones We Sent Away” which is a personal portrait of grief -- with Senior learning about the life of her developmentally disabled Aunt Adele, who spent most of her life in an institution.

8 PM - 9 PM - 

Atomic Age Cocktail Party with Jason Croft

Day In Day Out

9 PM - 11 PM

Jazz with David Basse

11 PM - 5 AM Friday

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.