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Today On KRPS For Monday August 14

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Today's KRPS show highlights include:
  • The premiere of a new classical show, Modern Notebook with Tyler Kline, at 1pm.
  • Film director Christopher Nolan will be interviewed by Terry Gross on Fresh Air at 7pm.

5 AM - 9 AM - 

Morning Edition from NPR News

9 AM - 10 AM - 

1A

Host: Jenn White

How the IRA is changing America.

It’s been nearly a year since the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 was narrowly passed.

President Biden’s sweeping climate bill has high hopes for fighting climate change, including a pledge to cut the U.S. emissions in half by 2030. And some initiatives are working.

Solar and wind energy have gotten cheaper, and the IRA is also providing tax credits to promote the use of electric vehicles.

But how far does the IRA go?

And what other laws need to be passed to progress the fight against climate change?

10 AM to 11 AM - 

On Point 

HOST: Deborah Becker (in for Meghna Chakrabarti)

VOICEMAIL NUMBER: 617-353-0683

Rethinking Policing And Mental Health: The Advocates And Police Officers Offering A New Approach To Crisis Intervention

When police respond to someone having a behavioral health crisis it can have tragic consequences.

Some advocates and police officers are trying to change that.

Rethinking policing and mental health.

11 AM to 12 PM - 

Performance Today

Host - Fred Child

Hour 1 and hour 2 playlists

1 PM to 3 PM - Modern Notebook with Tyler Kline

3 PM - 4:00 PM 

The World with host Marco Werman

Next time on The World, homeowners in parts of Australia face fires and floods.

And now a NEW threat. Insurance premiums through the roof.

How extreme weather may be making Australia uninsurable.

4 PM - 6 PM

All Things Considered from NPR News

The war in Yemen seems to be winding down, but hunger and food shortages are still widespread.

Millions of people are in need, and there isn't enough humanitarian aid coming into the country to help

them all.

6 PM - 6:30 PM

Marketplace with Kai Ryssdal

After a tropical storm hit Vermont the government bought out homes that were swamped.

But as storms intensify everywhere buyouts like these could become widespread.

That's next time on Marketplace...

6:30 PM - 7 PM

Today, Explained from Vox News

Hosts - Noel King and Sean Rameswaram

Today, Explained examines the new pill to treat postpartum depression, zuranolone.

7 PM - 8 PM - 

Fresh Air

HOST: TERRY GROSS

Filmmaker CHRISTOPHER NOLAN. He wrote and directed the new film Oppenheimer.

And made the films Dunkirk, Tenet, the Batman trilogy, Inception, Insomnia and Memento.

8 PM - 9 PM - 

Jazz at 100 - Episode 98 -Highlights of Jazz in the Late 2000s

This is the 98th of 100 programs in the Jazz at 100 series. The programs have chronologically followed the history of recorded jazz and, as we approach the present, the question of historical perspective becomes relevant. Just how well can we predict what will endure? What will have lasting importance? We are in the midst of a five-program series featuring one selection per year, starting in 1990, in an attempt to forecast the answers to these questions. Our methodology owes much to a 2001 Gary Giddins essay, “Postwar Jazz: An Arbitrary Roadmap (1945 – 2001).” Jazz in the late 2000s, in this hour of Jazz at 100

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.