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Today on KRPS for Monday August 28

Today's show highlights on KRPS include:

  • On Point this morning at 10, a conversation about the implications of the coup in the West African country of Niger for the continent and the globe.



  • Tonight at 6 on Marketplace, a look at how the transition to electric vehicles will impact diesel trucks, with Kai and the MP crew.

Today on KRPS for Monday August 28

5 AM - 9 AM - 

Morning Edition from NPR News

9 AM - 10 AM - 

1A

Host: Jenn White

What is cultivated meat?

Cultivated meat in the U.S. got the green light. But what is it? It’s meat — grown in a lab.

Instead of sending animals to the slaughterhouse, meats are grown from animal stem cells.

10 AM to 11 AM - 

On Point 

HOST: Meghna Chakrabarti

VOICEMAIL NUMBER: 617-353-0683

MAIN TOPIC: The Coup In Niger And What It Means For The Region And The World

The West African country of Niger has been a bright spot of democratization and key to US efforts against jihadi terrorist groups across sub-Saharan Africa.

Now, a coup threatens to destabilize the region.

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

4 PM - 6 PM

All Things Considered from NPR News

6 PM - 6:30 PM

Marketplace with Kai Ryssdal

Trucks move about three-quarters of all domestic freight in this economy.

Diesel trucks. Electric big rigs, anyone?

That story, next time on Marketplace.

6:30 PM - 7 PM

Today, Explained from Vox News

Hosts - Noel King and Sean Rameswaram

China’s 9 am to 9 am six day a week work schedule and why people are checking out.

7 PM - 8 PM - 

Fresh Air

HOST: TONYA MOSLEY

INTERVIEW BY: TERRY GROSS

We listen to Terry’s 2002 Interview with DAVID BOWIE. Fifty years ago he performed as Ziggy Stardust - his alter ego - for the last time. It was captured in the legendary concert film The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the spiders from Mars. That film and the soundtrack have been restored and reissued.

Classical music critic LLOYD SCHWARTZ has a review of a new album devoted to Verdi’s opera choruses. The album is called Verdi Choruses and is conducted by Riccardo Chailly on the Decca label.

JUSTIN CHANG reviews the new film Bottoms. It’s about two longtime best friends who start a girls’ fight club as a ruse to hook up with cheerleaders. Bottoms is the latest movie directed by Emma Seligman after their feature debut, Shiva Baby, and it stars that film’s lead, Rachel Sennott, and Ayo Edebiri from The Bear.

8 PM - 9 PM - 

Jazz at 100 - Episode 100 out of 100 - All Jazz Is Local - The Final Broadcast of Jazz at 100 on KRPS. Jazz Night in America will take it's place Monday 9/4.

So far, we have broadcast ninety-nine one-hour programs to tell the story of the first 100 years of recorded jazz.

We have heard the creative work of hundreds of players, composers, arrangers, and bandleaders - famous and obscure.

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.