Program Highlights

Friday – 3/9
7 pm: FROM THE TOP
This week the program comes to you from Carnegie Music Hall in Pittsburgh, where you'll hear teenagers from the Philadelphia area perform from Schubert's monumental "Death and the Maiden" quartet and the Bartok Second Rhapsody performed by a 16-year-old violinist from Illinois. Also, an unusually dynamic young pianist/composer plays Chopin and an excerpt from one of his own pieces.

8 pm: SYMPHONYCAST
Highlighting part of their Mahler Project, this week we travel to Los Angeles for a beautiful performance of Mahler's Symphony No. 9 by Gustavo Dudamel and the LA Philharmonic.

10 pm: JAZZ SHACK
One of the celebrities of the swing era was pianist Jess Stacy who was in Benny Goodman's band and played in a famous 1938 Carnegie Hall concert with Goodman. We'll begin tonight with some 1939 Commodore sides which feature Stacy's solo playing. Also scheduled are solo blues piano sides from the 1920s as well as famous swing era big band sides.

Saturday – 3/10
12 pm: THE SPLENDID TABLE
This week were talking to Hal Herzog, author of Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat, about our sometimes puzzling relationship with meat. Diana Henry author of Plenty brings us a decidedly British take on leftovers, and The New York Times Getting Lost columnist Matt Gross explains why he has fallen in love with schnapps.

1 pm: MARKETPLACE MONEY
Coming up this weekend on Marketplace Money, we've all heard of parents that are way too involved in their children's lives. But this tough economy is pushing those "helicopter parents" to a new level. Guest Host Sarah Gardner talks to career counselor Lesley Mitler about parents who pay her thousands of dollars to find jobs for their post-college aged children. Marketplace's Bob Moon reports on the unregulated practice of selling unpaid accounts to third party collectors. It's called zombie debt and it could come to haunt you. Also, there are some folks out there who actually have NO DEBT. But is that a good thing? Jeff Tyler reports on the consequences of having a "thin credit file." Plus, in our weekly Getting Personal segment, guest host Sarah Gardner and personal finance expert Liz Weston answer listener questions.

3 pm: BURN - Particles: Nuclear Power After Fukushima
A one-year anniversary special for broadcast examining the future of nuclear power after the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan. Among many stories, Alex Chadwick conducts an interview with a deputy director of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission about behind-the-scenes goings-on during the early hours and days post-Fukushima — and next steps for nuclear plants in the United States. And Chadwick will profile Greg Hardy, a Los Angeles-based engineer who has spent much of his career examining the vulnerability of nuclear plants to earthquakes. The show also travels to Japan, where post-Fukushima, Japanese mothers’ concerns about radiation-contaminated food have turned them into activists. And in Germany, where the government plans to shut down its nuclear reactors by 2022, BURN will visit the site of a controversial radioactive waste disposal facility. Finally, Alex Chadwick conducts a first-time-ever interview with an American technical worker, on site at the Daiichi nuclear plant when the earthquake and tsunami struck. Throughout the show, Alex will provide a clear explanation of how nuclear energy works, why this is such a difficult technology to develop and manage, and what new nuclear tech is on the horizon.

4 pm: THIS AMERICAN LIFE –  “Slow to React”
This week we have stories where people's reactions move very slowly, including the story of a wedding 17 years in the making, and what it's like when you have a terminal illness that's supposed to kill you in a year or two, and it decides to take its time. Note: this episode includes a story not suitable for children.

6 pm: A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION
This week on A Prairie Home Companion a colorful mix of two shows we did from the historic Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee with Emmylou Harris and Sara Watkins as diner waitresses in an episode of The Lives of the Cowboys, Fred Newman as teenage heartthrob Justin LaFever, dueling fiddlers Sam Bush and Stuart Duncan, and the now (newly) Grammy-award winning Civil Wars sing "Barton Hollow." Plus, The Dave Rawlings Machine, and signs of spring in Lake Wobegon.

Sunday – 3/11
7 am: BEING – “The Ecstatic Faith of Rumi”
We enter the exuberant spiritual world of Rumi – the 13th century Sufi Muslim mystic and poet.

11 am: A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION 
This week on A Prairie Home Companion a colorful mix of two shows we did from the historic Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee with Emmylou Harris and Sara Watkins as diner waitresses in an episode of The Lives of the Cowboys, Fred Newman as teenage heartthrob Justin LaFever, dueling fiddlers Sam Bush and Stuart Duncan, and the now (newly) Grammy-award winning Civil Wars sing "Barton Hollow." Plus, The Dave Rawlings Machine, and signs of spring in Lake Wobegon.

2 pm: FROM THE TOP 
This week the program comes to you from Carnegie Music Hall in Pittsburgh, where you'll hear teenagers from the Philadelphia area perform from Schubert's monumental "Death and the Maiden" quartet and the Bartok Second Rhapsody performed by a 16-year-old violinist from Illinois. Also, an unusually dynamic young pianist/composer plays Chopin and an excerpt from one of his own pieces.

6 pm: BURN – Particles: Nuclear Power After Fukushima
A one-year anniversary special for broadcast examining the future of nuclear power after the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan. Among many stories, Alex Chadwick conducts an interview with a deputy director of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission about behind-the-scenes goings-on during the early hours and days post-Fukushima — and next steps for nuclear plants in the United States. And Chadwick will profile Greg Hardy, a Los Angeles-based engineer who has spent much of his career examining the vulnerability of nuclear plants to earthquakes. The show also travels to Japan, where post-Fukushima, Japanese mothers’ concerns about radiation-contaminated food have turned them into activists. And in Germany, where the government plans to shut down its nuclear reactors by 2022, BURN will visit the site of a controversial radioactive waste disposal facility. Finally, Alex Chadwick conducts a first-time-ever interview with an American technical worker, on site at the Daiichi nuclear plant when the earthquake and tsunami struck. Throughout the show, Alex will provide a clear explanation of how nuclear energy works, why this is such a difficult technology to develop and manage, and what new nuclear tech is on the horizon.

9 pm: THIS AMERICAN LIFE –  “Slow to React”
This week we have stories where people's reactions move very slowly, including the story of a wedding 17 years in the making, and what it's like when you have a terminal illness that's supposed to kill you in a year or two, and it decides to take its time. Note: this episode includes a story not suitable for children.