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From
Calcutta to
California
and back
again
Sandip Roy
turns novelist
(p.4)
Neil deGrasse
Tyson
In San Francisco:
February 11th
(p.3)
“I get to
DJ radio
stories!”
Ashleyanne
Krigbaum on
The Spot
(p.6)
Your Call special series: Policing, community, and justice (p.3)
Music From Other Minds’ 10 years at KALW (p.13)
Liner Notes returns Wednesday nights at 11 (p.12)
CBC Fun Facts! (p.7)
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2Manager’s Note
Since Novem- est cleavages in
ber, when grand our communities,
juries in Ferguson, a collaborative ap-
Missouri and New proach is critical.
York City decided The more voices
not to indict police and hearts and
officers involved minds that inform
in the deaths of what we put on
unarmed black the air, the better.
men, the Bay Area We certainly wel-
has seen a wave of come you to help
protest. us design this series – if you have ideas
Wherever you stand on the particular or suggestions or questions we should
tactics of the demonstrators or the re- explore, please send them to kalw@kalw.
sponse of police and city officials, there’s org.
no question this movement has required I’m inspired by this project because
all of us to ask: Is business as usual ac- it resonates with a theme that has
ceptable? Can we go on with a system emerged from the station’s current
of policing and criminal justice we know strategic planning process: KALW’s po-
is unjust? And if we want fundamental tential to create media that is joyful and
change, where do we start? informative, and that engages people
We’ve certainly been discussing those across the divides in our community.
questions at KALW, asking ourselves That’s a huge challenge but it’s also
how we can play an active role in creat- tremendously exciting, and in 2015, we
ing constructive dialogue at a moment will be focused on making that potential
when we have the opportunity to change real across our diverse programming.
our society for the better. I invite you to stay tuned and stay
That’s why, in January and February, involved – and thank you for your sup-
Wednesdays on Your Call will be de- port, which makes everything at KALW
voted to community conversations about possible.
police, community, race and justice. Sincerely,
The idea for the series came from the
Crosscurrents team – and we’ve decided
to make it a collaborative production Matt Martin
between KALW News and Your Call. General Manager
Given that these issues go to the deep- matt@kalw.org
KALW is proud to sponsor an evening with Dr.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson, award-winning astrophysicist,
author, and host of Cosmos as he presents an eve-
ning of engaging conversation on science, explora-
tion, and the world as we know it.
Dr. Tyson will appear at The Orpheum Theater
in San Francisco on Wednesday, February 11th at
7:30pm.
KALW listeners have a special opportunity to
have the best seats in the house and meet Dr. Tyson
at a post-show reception for KALW members only.
Details at kalw.org.
3“I stole liberally from my life but
it’s not autobiographical”
Sandip Roy on his first novel
After living in the Bay Area for more than a decade, Sandip Roy returned to India
three years ago and is now Senior Editor for Firstpost.com, one of India’s leading
English-language news website. He also began his weekly “Dispatches from Kolkata,”
heard Wednesdays at 7:45am and 4:45pm on KALW.
His debut novel, Don’t Let Him Know, is being published by Bloomsbury in both the
US and India, and Sandip will be back in the Bay Area for a number of appearances in
February. We spoke to him at his home in Kolkata.
Many people associate you with Students’ Association assigned another
San Francisco and Kolkata, but Indian roommate for you, and after a few
this book spends a good amount months I decided to actually move out
of time in another city from your on my own and get a studio apartment.
life: Carbondale, Illinois. How did Many people thought that was criminally
you end up there? wasteful – it was $140 or
I came to Carbondale something a month – but
like many Indian engineers to me, it was part of that
of my generation did – growing up I’d never had a
basically, Southern Illinois chance to do in India.
was a school where I came Whose story is at
to do my Master’s. At that the center of Don’t
time, you researched your Let Him Know?
schools by going to the US
It’s a family, really – it
educational center in Cal-
follows the stories of a
cutta, rummaging through
young woman who comes
the Peterson’s Guide to
to Carbondale as the wife
Colleges and that was
of a man who is complet-
about all you had.
ing his Ph.D. Then, much
Honestly, I’d gotten in later, it also follows the
to a couple other schools story of their son, who
U.S. edition
in the Midwest, but they also comes to America to
were from states in the US where I didn’t study. That son has become an engi-
know of any big cities and Carbondale neer, moves to San Francisco and in the
was at least in Illinois, where I knew a big process finds an old letter in his mother’s
city called Chicago existed. So I felt a things that dates back to her time in
little safer as opposed to coming to Kan- Carbondale. In that letter, he thinks he’s
sas. Of course, as it turned out, Chicago discovered a family secret – but he’s re-
was three hundred miles away, so I never ally only discovered part of the secret.
really got there very much. But coming
from a big city like Calcutta, it was reas- The secret is the father’s
suring knowing there was another big sexual identity?
city in the state. The father, Avinash, is actually some-
The biggest thing about being in Car- one who had a gay lover before and
bondale was it was the first time in my eventually succumbed to family pressure
life I was living on my own. I remember and got married, something the son has
after the first semester when the Indian no idea about. So that’s part of the fam-
4ily secret – the book is about family and graphical, I stole liberally from my life, so
the secrets we keep from each other. vices like my attraction to Diet Coke ac-
And it’s not just secrets of a gay life. The tually do have a cameo. The McDonald’s
mother has her own secrets the son has story, which is right at the beginning, is
been shielded from. also stolen from a small anecdote that
You do see a young Avinash, dealing amused me. When my parents first came
with his first glimmers of sexuality and to visit me and I was being both dutiful
not knowing what to do. At that time, I son and show-off, I wanted to take them
think figuring out if you were gay, and to all kinds of family restaurants you
how you meet another gay person in don’t get in India. I wanted them to try
India figuring was probably as difficult as Japanese food and Korean food. I had
figuring out which college in the United a busy restaurant schedule drawn up,
States would be a good fit for you. Find- and at some point my mother asked me:
ing the college might have been slightly “Can we go to McDonald’s?” The golden
easier because at least there was a dog- arches hadn’t reached India at that time.
eared Peterson’s Guide, whereas if you When you come back to the Bay
were gay, you were pretty much on your Area, what do you seek out?
own in trying to figure it
There’s always an
out.
automatic craving for a
But then, over the quesadilla as soon as I
course of the book, you land in the Bay Area . . .
see him later in life as well, but, jokes aside, there are
where in India the Internet just certain things you feel
has arrived and gays are in the Bay Area, coming
meeting each other and from Calcutta. Suddenly,
there are gay parties, and you draw a breath and you
Avinash surreptitiously feel the air is different. It’s
tries to experience that cleaner, it’s fresher. Even
life which was totally un- in San Francisco, you’re
available to him as a young conscious of how much
man coming out. quieter it is as a city. And
When you became a US more than anything else,
citizen in 2007, you did I’ve realized moving back
a commentary about and forth that the biggest
celebrating the occasion Indian edition thing you miss isn’t the
by drinking a Diet Coke – which, for food – you miss friends. You can’t pack
you, symbolized your Americanization. those and take them with you. That was
And now this book includes the true when I moved to Carbondale, and
allure of a trip to McDonald’s? it was true when I moved to Calcutta as
Although the book is not autobio- well.
Sandip Roy’s Bay Area appearances
2/4 Kepler’s in Menlo Park, 7:30 pm
2/11 Booksmith in San Francisco, 7:30 pm
2/18 Book Passage in Corte Madera, 7 pm
2/25 City Lights in San Francisco, 7 pm
5On “The Spot”
Ashleyanne Krigbaum on curating
“the podcast moment”
In October, KALW News producer Ashleyanne Krigbaum took over hosting and
producing The Spot, KALW’s weekly showcase for the best in public radio podcasts,
which now airs Thursdays at 5:30pm and 11:30pm.
What made you Spot is the ability to
interested in recontextualize podcast
this project? content made in other
When The Spot began, parts of the world for a
I was curious because I Bay Area audience. For
had all these radio pro- example, in the latest
ducer friends who would episode, which featured a
be like, “Who do I talk to Canadian reporter talking
at KALW to get my story about his experiences
on the air or my podcast reporting from Ferguson,
on the air?” And I’d say, Missouri, I start by root-
“I don’t know where that ing the audience in the
photo credit: Alyssa Kapnik
would fit in” and told them protests and demonstra-
it would probably be a lot of work for no tions that have been happening here in
payoff. San Francisco and Oakland, using tape
The Spot gives those producers, from KALW reporters who have been at
who have never expected to be on the the frontlines, and then open the scope
radio, the opportunity to have their work of the episode wider, to Ferguson and
distributed beyond the “you have to find beyond.
out about it” podcast realm. And it gives
What have you gotten to
people who happen to be listening to
discover since you’ve started
the radio the chance to randomly hear
producing The Spot?
something they wouldn’t have heard
I’m always listening for things that
before. I’ve always been a radio person,
could potentially be used on The Spot – I
so I want more of that – and I get to DJ
discovered This Land Radio, which is
radio stories!
made by producers in Oklahoma. They
How do you approach the curation? do these short, but really well-made
I don’t just air “stuff I like” – I think vignettes of everyday life – it’s not so
about what the audience would respond much about life in this particular town in
to, stories that are really well-produced Oklahoma, but about human experience.
and sound-rich. I’ll usually go for a I found The Hackney Podcast, all
longer episode or a more established recordings produced in the Hackney
podcast to anchor the show. Then it’s neighborhood of London, based on an
really fun to think about the littler stories audio walking tour. In one episode, you
I’ve heard that will round it out – recently might get people talking about what
I played a Life of the Law episode about they experience when they get on a bus,
wolves and the Endangered Species Act, intimate little things only they notice,
and followed it with a story about some- but then it will go into the story of one
one who keeps a jellyfish alive. Sounds of those people and their day. It’s very
random, but it’s interesting to hear law sonic, very beautiful.
and policy followed by the step-by-step Another podcast I was exposed to
of how to keep an exotic animal alive. was Radiotonic, which is based at the
One of the things I love about The Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
6Julie Shapiro from Third Coast is the radio to air our content, when we’re
head of ABC’s creative unit and Radio- each curating our own audio listening
tonic is one of the shows under that experiences? Lea Thau, who makes the
umbrella. It’s a weekly hour, with a lot of podcast Strangers, said it’s the sponta-
original content they’ve created work- neity – turning on the radio and finding a
ing with producers around the world. story you wouldn’t have heard any other
There’s one you’ll hear on The Spot that’s way. We lose that in podcasting, where
about a woman and her commute in the you have to be really focused on who
Arctic, going through all the sounds of your audience is, whereas on the radio
being on the ship and the relationships you have to be open to everyone who’s
she forms along the way. turning on that dial.
These podcasts are out there for
people find anyhow – what do you If there’s a podcast you love
think a show like The Spot adds? (or make!) that you think should be
There was a conversation about the featured on The Spot,
“podcast moment” on KQED’s Forum drop Ashleyanne a line at
recently where the question came up: thespot@kalw.org.
What are we losing by not having the
CBC Fun Facts!
KALW host David Latulippe stopped in to CBC Headquarters in Toronto to
meet the teams responsible for As It Happens and Day 6. Here are a few things he
learned…
●● CBC/Radio-Canada was created in the 1920s, when the need arose for a
Canadian presence on the radio to counter the American influence and protect
Canadian culture.
●● In 1970, a “minimum 60 per cent” Canadian content rule was established for all
television broadcasters in Canada. The following year, Canadian content regula-
tions for radio were introduced – a minimum of
35 per cent is now required.
●● The CBC is government-funded and receives
no money from the general public or private
philanthropy. They are therefore at the mercy of
the government in power.
●● The opening of the 13-story headquarters on
Wellington Street West in Toronto in 1993 con- David Latulippe with As It
solidated both television and radio operations Happens hosts Jeff Douglas
that were spread throughout the city in more and Carol Off.
than 20 locations.
●● In addition to broadcasting in English and French, the CBC offers program-
ming in eight different Aboriginal languages (Tlicho, Inuktitut, Inuvialuktun,
Chipewyan, North Slavey, South Slavey, Gwich’in, and Cree) via CBC North, as
well as Mandarin, Arabic, and Spanish via the online RCI International, across 6
time zones.
●● Paid ads are a large source of revenue for CBC-TV (no ads are allowed on
radio). Until recently, CBC-TV had exclusive NHL broadcast rights, including
the hugely-popular Hockey Night in Canada. With the loss of ad revenue from
hockey, more than 1000 jobs have been cut in the past year alone.
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7 am New Dimensions BBC World News live from London on the hour, a Daily Almanac at 5:49 & 8:49,
SF school lunch menus at 6:49, and Jim Hightower commentary at 7:30.
Weekend Edition
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7 am
8 am To The Best
On Wednesdays at 7:44: Sandip Roy’s “Dispatch from Kolkata” On Fridays at 7:44: 99% Invisible, with Roman Mars
8 am
Of Our Knowledge
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with Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac at 9:01 am
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Sedge Thomson
11 am
noon Harry Shearer’s
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(Rebroadcast)
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(Rebroadcast)
Binah The Tavis Smiley Show
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noon
Whad’Ya Know?
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with David Latulippe Latino USA 1 pm
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Thistle & Shamrock
with Fiona Ritchie 2 pm
3 pm Sound Opinions NPR’s All Things Considered Folk Music & Beyond 3 pm
with JoAnn Mar &
BBC News update at 4:01, Sandip Roy’s “Dispatch from Kolkata” on Wednesdays at 4:45
4 pm Bullseye and Roman Mars’ 99% Invisible on Fridays at 4:45. Bob Campbell
4 pm
Your Call
5 pm 5 pm
Crosscurrents from KALW News
Selected Shorts Media Roundtable A Patchwork Quilt
BBC Business Daily The Spot (Rebroadcast) with
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S.F. School Board
6 pm The Moth
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7 pm 7 pm
INFORUM from the Your Legal Rights OUT in the Bay
Minds Over Matter City Visions Peter Thompson
Commonwealth Club with Chuck Finney This Way Out CounterSpin
8 pm Revolutions Per Minute
CBC’s As It Happens with Carol Off and Jeff Douglas
Includes the Marketplace Tech Report at 8:01
Fascinatin’ Rhythm 8 pm
with
9 pm Sarah Cahill Chamber Music
Lincoln Center
TED Radio Hour
Fog City Blues
Africamix
L. A. Tangents
9 pm
with
with Theatre Works with
Emmanuel Nado &
10 pm Music From The
Record Shelf
with Jim Svejda
Radiolab Devon Strolovitch
Edwin Okong'o
Dore Stein
10 pm
Hearts of Space
11 pm Your Call
(Rebroadcast of 10am show)
Liner Notes
With Max Jacobs
Alt.Latino +
The Spot
Music From
Other Minds 11 pm
8 =new program or time KALW podcast available Available on KALW Local Music Player 9programming A to Z
99% INVISIBLE A tiny radio show BACKSTORY Historians Ed Ayers, Peter
about design, architecture & the 99% Onuf, and Brian Balogh tear a topic from the
invisible activity that shapes our world. headlines and plumb its historical depths.
Created and hosted by Roman Mars, Ira Over the course of the program, they are
Glass calls the show “completely wonder- joined by fellow historians, people in the
ful and entertaining and beautifully pro- news, and callers, bringing historical per-
duced”. 99percentinvisible.org spective to the events happening around us
(Fridays at 7:34am & 4:45pm) today. backstoryradio.org (Monday at Noon.)
AFRICAMIX Musical gems from BIG PICTURE SCIENCE From amoebas
Africa and the African diaspora that to zebras, the science of what makes life
will stimulate your senses. Alternating possible. Produced at the SETI Institute in
hosts Emmanuel Nado and Edwin Mountain View, California. (Tuesday at 1pm)
Okong’o offer vintage and contemporary
sounds from Abidjan to Zimbabwe, the BINAH The best of arts & ideas, authors
Caribbean, Latin America and beyond! & personalities, produced in collaboration
Interviews with local artists, touring with the Jewish Community Center of San
African entertainers and in studio live Francisco. 1/1 Steven Pinker; 1/8 Robert
performances are also part of the mix. Baer; 1/15 Bob Odenkirk; 1/22 Philip
www.kalwafricamix.blogspot.com Hook; 1/29 Amanda Palmer; 2/5 Lawrence
(Thursday 9pm–11pm) Lessig; 2/12 Dianne von Furstenberg; 2/19
Veterinarian Vint Virga; 2/26 Lesley Stahl;
ALL THINGS CONSIDERED NPR’s sig- 3/5 Michael Gazziniga; 3/12 Issa Rae;
nature afternoon news program features the 3/19 David Axelrod; 3/26 Kim Gordon.
biggest stories of the day, thoughtful com- (Thursday at Noon.)
mentaries, insightful features on both the
quirky and the mainstream in arts and life, BLUEGRASS SIGNAL 1/3 Musical
music and entertainment. Includes BBC news Previews; 1/10 Happy Birthday, Curly Ray
headlines at 4:01pm, Sandip Roy’s Dispatch Cline (1923–1997); 1/17 Guest host Jose
from Kolkata on Wednesdays at 4:45, and Segue; 1/24 New releases and reissues;
Roman Mars’ 99% Invisible on Fridays at 1/31 Gearing Up For Grass Valley; 2/7
4:45. (Weekdays from 3–5pm.) Guest host Sully Roddy; 2/14 Matters of
ALTERNATIVE RADIO Progressive schol- the Heart; 2/21 Guest co-host Allegra
ars and thinkers share their views, produced Thompson; 2/28 Guest co-host Jacob
by David Barsamian. alternativeradio.org Groopman; 3/7 New releases and musi-
(Monday at 1pm) cal previews; 3/14 Happy Birthday, Bob
Paisley (1931–2004); 3/21 Guest co-host
ALT.LATINO NPR’s weekly leap into Latin Todd Gracyk; 3/28 New releases and reis-
alternative music and rock en Español, host- sues. (Saturday 6:30–8pm)
ed by Felix Contreras and Jasmin Garsd. npr.
org/blogs/altlatino (Thursday at 11pm)
BLUES POWER HOUR: Now available
AS IT HAPPENS The international news on the Local Music Player at kalw.org, and,
magazine from the Canadian Broadcasting on occasion in place of Fog City Blues on
Corporation that probes the major stories Wednesday evenings. Keep up with Mark
of the day, mixing interviews with cover- through the Blues Power Hour program page
age in an informative and often irreverent on kalw.org, and at bluespower.com.
style. Hosted by Carol Off and Jeff Douglas.
Includes the Marketplace Tech Report at BULLSEYE Host Jesse Thorn mixes it
8:30.cbc.ca/asithappens (Mon–Thurs at 8pm) up with personalities from the world of
entertainment & the arts. maximumfun.org
BBC NEWS Current news and BBC (Sunday at 4pm)
programming from London. (Mon–Sat
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at 5:30pm.) Car Talk, brothers Tom & Ray Magliozzi
provide car repair info, weekly puzzlers, and
general mayhem. (Saturday at 9am.)
10 Available on KALW’s Local Music Player KALW podcast available at www.kalw.orgCHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF FASCINATIN’ RHYTHM Songs from
LINCOLN CENTER Fine chamber music the Great American Songbook, hosted by
spanning three centuries, hosted by Elliott Michael Lasser. wxxi.org/rhythm
Forrest with commentary by CMS co- (Friday at 10pm)
artistic director David Finckel and musicians.
(Monday at 9pm.) FOG CITY BLUES Host Devon
Strolovitch brings you blues from the Bay
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David Onek explore Bay Area issues. (Wednesday 9–11pm)
To participate, call (415) 841-4134 or
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COUNTERSPIN An examination of the the best in live and recorded contempo-
week’s news and that which masquerades as rary folk, traditional, and original music
news. fair.org (Friday at 7:30pm) from America, England, Ireland, Scotland,
and other parts of the world. Upcoming
CROSSCURRENTS The evening news- highlights: 1/3 Deep Winter – Songs of
magazine from KALW News featuring emergence from winter solstice; 1/10 John
in-depth reporting that provides context, McCutcheon Live; 1/17 John Gorka Live;
culture, and connections to communities 1/24 Psych Folk Then and Now – Music
around the Bay Area. kalw.org by some of psych folk’s pioneers such as
(Monday–Thursday at 5pm) Kathy Smith and the late Barbara Mauritz,
contemporary songwriters Ayla Nereo,
Martha Tilston, and Johanna Warren;
1/31 Wayfaring Strangers – with Thistle
& Shamrock host Fiona Ritchie and
live music from Julee Glaub and Mark
Weems; 2/7 Explorations in English Music,
Mostly; 2/21 Points East – Music from the
Czech Republic, Bosnia, Greece, Tibetans
in exile or born abroad, and more; 2/28
Music and Conversation with Bruce
Cockburn; 3/7 Biographical vignettes
in song, from June Tabor, Bill Caddick,
Steve Tilston, David Olney, others; 3/14
St. Patrick’s Day Special; 3/21 Songs for
spring by Roy Harper, Martha Tilston,
Johnsmith, the Watersons; 3/28 Newport
Folk Festival Highlights – The Milk Carton
Kids and Tift Merritt in concert at the
Day 6 Host Brent Bambury 2013 festival. kalwfolk.org
DAY 6 From the CBC in Toronto, host (Saturday 3–5pm)
Brent Bambury offers a different perspec-
tive on the biggest stories of the week, and FRESH AIR Terry Gross hosts this weekday
some you might have missed: technology, magazine of contemporary arts and issues.
politics, arts, pop culture, and big ideas. Day freshair.com (Weekdays at 9am & 6pm)
6 will give you something to think about,
talk about, and maybe even to laugh about. HUMANKIND Voices of hope and human-
ity, produced by David Freudberg. From
www.cbc.ca/day6. (Friday at 6pm.)
following an urban naturalist in Oregon to
learning how to age gracefully, Humankind
DISPATCH FROM KOLKATA Writer offers sound portraits of people making
Sandip Roy, offers commentary and a a difference in their communities and the
weekly audio postcard “from the new world. (Sunday at 6am)
India”. (See related article, p.4)
(Wednesdays at 7:34am & 4:45pm)
shaded boxes indicate locally-produced programming 11programming A to Z
INFORUM From the Commonwealth Crimes of the Heart by Beth Henley: Three
Club, programs recorded exclusively for eccentric sisters from a small southern town
KALW that provide a forum for young are rocked by scandal when Babe, the young-
people to access the best informed, most est, shoots her husband; 2/13 Relativity by
involved, and brightest minds — be they Cassandra Medley; 2/20 Cyrano de Bergerac
politicians, business gurus, thought lead- by Edmond Rostand; 2/27 The Caine Mutiny
ers, trendsetters or culture-jammers. Court-Martial by Herman Wouk. (Friday at
(Tuesday at 7pm) 9pm, detailed synopses at kalw.org)
LATINO USA Host Maria Hinojosa
brings depth of experience, on-the-
ground connections, and knowledge of
current and emerging issues impacting
Latinos and other people of color.
latinousa.org (Friday at 1pm)
LEFT, RIGHT & CENTER A weekly con-
frontation over politics, policy and popular
culture hosted by Matthew Miller panelists
from various political perspectives, including
Robert Scheer on the left. kcrw.com
(Friday at 7pm)
Invisibilia creators Alix Spiegel & Lulu Miller.
LE SHOW A weekly, hour-long romp
INVISIBILIA (Latin for “invisible things”) through the worlds of media, politics,
is a program about the unseen forces sports and show business, leavened with
that control human behavior – things like an eclectic mix of mysterious music, host-
ideas, beliefs, assumptions, and thoughts. ed by Harry Shearer. harryshearer.com
Co-hosted by Lulu Miller and Alix Spiegel (Sunday at Noon)
(who helped create Radiolab and This
American Life), the program interweaves
narrative storytelling and fascinating new
psychological and brain science in a way that
ultimately makes you see your own life dif-
ferently. Invisibilia begins with a six-episode
weekly pilot season. (Fridays at 11am, begin-
ning 1/9 – new on KALW!)
JIM HIGHTOWER A two minute shot
across the bow aimed at corporate and
political corruption, heard exclusively in San
Francisco on KALW. (Weekdays at 7:49am)
L. A. THEATRE WORKS Compelling
Stories. Inspiring Playwrights. Headline Goodnight, Texas
Actors. 1/2 Racing Demon by David Hare;
Hare’s bold and moving revelations on gay LINER NOTES Host Max Jacobs invites
ordination and the doctrine of the priest- today’s musicians to explore the inspira-
hood; 1/9 End Days by Debra Zoe Laufer: tions behind their work. Whether it’s the
Spiritual crisis following the September first song they heard their grandmother
11th attacks; 1/16 Pack of Lies by Hugh sing or an unexpected guilty pleasure,
Whitemore: A Cold War thriller in London you’ll hear the stories of the music that
suburb; 1/23 The Physicists by Friedrich matters to them and how it has shaped
Dürrenmatt: Johann Mobius, the world’s them. 1/7 Bells Atlas; 1/14 Sean Rowe;
greatest physicist, is locked away in a mad- 1/21 Goodnight, Texas. (New on KALW!
house along with two other scientists; 1/30 Wednesday at 11pm. Additional show
Man of the Moment by Alan Ayckbourn: A descriptions forthcoming, at kalw.org.)
comedy about a famous bank robber and
the clerk who foiled his biggest heist; 2/6
12 Available on KALW’s Local Music Player KALW podcast available at www.kalw.orgMINDS OVER MATTER Dana NEW DIMENSIONS A weekly dialogue
Rodriguez, and a rotating crew of pan- that gives reasons for embracing hopeful-
elists that includes The San Francisco ness regarding contemporary problems, with
Chronicle’s Leah Garchik, and writer perspectives relative to physical, mental,
Gerry Nachman challenge each other and spiritual well being of humanity and the
and KALW’s audience on the Bay Area’s planet. newdimensions.org (Sunday at 7am)
favorite quiz show. Celebrating its 20th
year on KALW. Call-in phone: (415) 841- OPEN AIR KALW’s weekly radio
4134. (Sunday at 7pm) magazine of “most things (culturally)
considered” hosted by David Latulippe.
MORNING EDITION NPR’s signa- Interviews and live musical performances
ture morning show, with news updates from those involved in the Bay Area
from the BBC at the top of each hour. performing arts scene. Recent guests
Local host Joe Burke offers today’s have included composers Mason Bates
school lunch menu at 6:49, and a daily and Paul Dresher; conductors Alasdair
almanac at 5:49 and 8:49. Plus daily com- Neale, Herbert Blomstedt, and Ragnar
mentaries from Jim Hightower at 7:30, Bohlin; entertainers Geoff Hoyle and
Crosscurrents Morning Report Tues.–Fri. Peter Gallagher, and chemist/playwright
at 8:51, Sandip Roy’s Report from Kolkata Carl Djerassi. On the first Thursday of the
on Wednesdays at 7:44, and Roman Mars’ month, critic Joshua Kosman offers his
99% Invisible on Fridays at 7:44. npr.org classical music picks for the month ahead,
(Weekdays 5–9am) and regular contributors Peter Robinson
and Dianne Keogh offer reviews and rec-
THE MOTH RADIO HOUR Unscripted ommendations. All shows are archived at
stories told live onstage, without props or kalw.org (Thursday at 1pm)
notes — listeners are drawn to the stories,
like moths to a flame. (Sunday at 6pm)
OUT IN THE BAY Gay radio for San
Francisco and beyond, hosted by Eric
MUSIC FROM OTHER MINDS is Jansen and Marilyn Pittman.
entering its 11th year on KALW, and there outinthebay.com (Thursday at 7pm)
will be some changes. After produc-
ing over 400 programs for this series,
Richard Friedman is stepping aside and A PATCHWORK QUILT Acoustic,
handing the controls over to Dennis Celtic, singer-songwriter, American tra-
Aman and Dan Becker. Richard, who ditional, world musics, and a little bit of
started doing new music programs for everything else. Some of the week’s news
KPFA in 1969, will continue to do the in song. New recordings. Old friends.
occasional program. Dennis, who has co- Folks playing in town, some live in the stu-
produced many MFOM programs over dio. Kevin Vance is host.
the past year, will be working with Bay (Saturday at 5pm)
Area composer and teacher Dan Becker
to present concert music by living com-
posers from around the world. MFOM PHILOSOPHY TALK Stanford phi-
is produced in conjunction with Other losophers John Perry and Ken Taylor
Minds, the SF based new music organiza- interview guest experts and respond
tion. The Other Minds Festival celebrates to questions from listeners. Philosophy
its 20th anniversary in March. http:// Talk questions everything...except your
otherminds.org/mfom (Friday at 11pm) intelligence. Upcoming highlights: 1/4,
1/6 The Examined Year: 2014; 1/11, 1/13
What’s Next? Death and Afterlife – with
MUSIC FROM THE HEARTS OF Richard Swinburne; 1/18, 1/20 Why Be
SPACE Slow music for fast times hosted by Moral? – with James Sterba; 1/25, 1/27
Stephen Hill, bringing you the timeless world Anarchy: Dream or Nightmare? – with
of space, ambient and contemplative music. James Martel; 2/1, 2/3 Food Justice – with
www.hos.com (Sunday 10pm–Midnight) Tim Benton; 2/8, 2/10 Regulating Bodies
– with Cécile Fabre; 2/15, 2/17 Cyber-
Activism – with Lucy Bernolz; 2/22,
shaded boxes indicate locally-produced programming 13programming A to Z
2/24 The Evolution of Storytelling – with SELECTED SHORTS Celebrity read-
Jonathan Gottschall; 3/1, 3/3 Camus ers from stage and screen, recorded at
and the Absurd – with Robert Zaretsky; Symphony Space in NYC. “The Dead” by
3/8, 3/10 The Philosophy of Psychiatry: James Joyce. Part 2 performed by Cynthia
Diseases of the Mind – with Jerome Nixon and Colum McCann; 1/11 Stories of
Wakefield; 3/15, 3/17 Forbidden Words – BJ Novak; 1/18 Amy Hempel’s “The Dog of
with Chris Hom; 3/22, 3/24 Morality in a the Marriage” (read by Joan Allen; Veronica
Godless World – with John Figdor; 3/29, Geng’s “Partners” (Michael Cerveris,
3/31 Democracy in Crisis – with Francis Patricia Kalember, and Isaiah Sheffer);
Fukuyama. philosophytalk.org (Sunday at Tobias Wolff’s “Nightingale” (William Hurt);
10am, rebroadcast Tuesday at Noon) 1/25 Amy Hempel’s “In the Cemetery Where
Al Jolson is Buried” (Mary Beth Hurt);
Tobias Wolff’s “The Night in Question” (Lou
RADIOLAB The curious minds of Jad Antonio); Frank Gannon’s “I Know What I’m
Abumrad and Robert Krulwich explore the Doing About All the Attention I’ve Been
boundaries that blur science, philosophy, Getting”(David Sedaris); 2/1 Joyce Carol
and human experience. radiolab.org Oates’ “Where are You Going, Where Have
(Tuesday at 10pm) You Been?” (Christine Baranski); Belle
Boggs’ “Havahart” (Merritt Wever); George
RECORD SHELF Jim Svejda reviews Saunders’ “Sticks” (Anthony Rapp); 2/8 A
compact discs and explores classical music. Tribute to David Rakoff: Leonard Michaels’
kusc.org (Monday at 10pm) “Cryptology” and Roberto Bolaño’s “Gomez
Palacio” read by Rakoff; 2/15 Patricia Marx’s
REVEAL The Peabody Award-winning “Starting from Happy” (Kirsten Vangsness)
investigative journalism program for pub- and “Audio Tour” (Anna Chlumsky); Simon
lic radio. Produced by The Center for Rich’s “Occupy Jen Street” (Wyatt Cenac);
Investigative Reporting and PRX, Reveal will Miranda July’s “The Swim Team” (Parker
present original work from CIR’s team along Posey); Aimee Bender’s “The Meeting” (Kate
with various partners: stations, producers, Burton) (Sunday at 5pm)
web sites, journalism centers and report-
ers from around the world. revealradio.org.
(Last Friday of each month at 11am – new on SNAP JUDGMENT Host Glynn
KALW!) Washington explores decisions that
define lives, taking listeners on an addic-
tive narrative that walks a mile in some-
REVOLUTIONS PER MINUTE
one else’s shoes — a rhythmic blend of
Sarah Cahill’s weekly program of new
drama, humor, music, and personality.
and classical music. Interviews and
Produced in Oakland, distributed nation-
music from a broad range of internation-
wide by NPR and PRX. snapjudgment.org
ally acclaimed and local contemporary
(Sunday at 2pm, Wednesday at 1pm)
composers and musicians, with previews
of Bay Area concerts. sarahcahill.com
(Sunday 8–10pm) SOUND OPINIONS Smart and spirited
discussions about a wide range of popular
music, from cutting-edge underground
SAN FRANCISCO SCHOOL BOARD rock and hip-hop, to classic rock, R&B,
MEETINGS Live gavel-to-gavel broad- electronica, and worldbeat. Hosted by
cast of the San Francisco Unified School music critics Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot
District board meetings from 555 Franklin from the studios of WBEZ in Chicago.
Street in San Francisco. While the Board soundopinions.org (Sunday at 3pm)
is in closed session, educator Carol Kocivar
presents an interview feature, “Looking
at Education.” www.sfusd.edu (Tuesdays, THE SPOT KALW’s curated half-hour
1/13, 1/27, 2/10, 2/24, 3/10, 3/24 at 6pm) bringing you some of the best pod-
casts from public radio’s most innova-
tive producers. Curated and hosted by
Ashleyanne Krigbaum.
(Thursday at 5:30pm & 11:30pm)
14 Available on KALW’s Local Music Player KALW podcast available at www.kalw.orgTANGENTS An unusually diverse, WEST COAST LIVE! San Francisco’s
genre-bending program hosted “live radio program to the world” hosted
by Dore Stein that explores the by Sedge Thomson with pianist Mike
bridges connecting various styles Greensill. Two hours of conversation,
of music, from world and roots to performance, and play, broadcast live
creative jazz hybrids. tangents.com from locations around the Bay Area.
(Saturday 8pm–Midnight) Tickets online at wcl.org
(Saturday 10am–Noon)
THE TAVIS SMILEY SHOW
A weekly high-energy discussion of political, WHAD’YA KNOW? A two-hour comedy/
cultural, and global issues of particular rel- quiz show hosted by Michael Feldman, “the
evance to African Americans. tavistalks.org sage of Wisconsin.” notmuch.org
(Friday at Noon) (Saturday Noon–2pm)
THE TED RADIO HOUR Each year, TED WORK WITH MARTY NEMKO
hosts the world’s most fascinating thinkers
Career coach Marty Nemko talks with
— convention-breaking mavericks, icons, and
listeners about work issues, from finding
geniuses — who give the talk of their lives
the perfect job to networking, and
in 18 minutes or less about the best ideas
regularly offers “3 minute workovers.”
in Technology, Entertainment, Design and
Guests have included Alan Dershowitz,
much more. (Tuesday at 9pm)
Cokie Roberts, Jack Welch, Suze Orman,
Robert Reich, and Obama strategist
THE THISTLE & SHAMROCK Robert Cialdini. And his wife, Barbara
Host Fiona Ritchie with well-established Nemko, comes in periodically to give him
and newly emerging artists that explore a hard time. martynemko.com
Celtic roots in Europe and North (Sunday at 11am)
America. thistleradio.com (Saturday at 2pm)
WORLD HAVE YOUR SAY An interac-
THIS AMERICAN LIFE A different theme tive program on key issues in the news
each week with contributions from a vari- with a worldwide audience, hosted by Ros
ety of writers and performers, hosted by Atkins. To participate in the live webcast
Ira Glass. thislife.org (Sunday at 1pm and at bbc.com at 10am, call 011 44 20 70 83 72
Wednesday at Noon) 72 or email worldhaveyoursay@bbc.com.
worldhaveyoursay.com
THIS WAY OUT LGBT stories and news (Weekdays at 11am, tape delayed)
from around the corner and around the
world, produced by Greg Gordon in Los
WRITER’S ALMANAC Garrison
Angeles. thiswayout.org
Keillor’s daily digest of all things literary.
(Thursday at 7:30pm)
writersalmanac.com (Weekdays at 9:01am)
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yourcallradio.org (Weekdays at 10am.
(Sunday 8–10am)
Rebroadcast Monday–Thursday at 11pm,
Friday at 5pm)
TUC RADIO (Time of Useful
Consciousness) Probing reports on the
impact of big corporations on society. YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS San Mateo
tucradio.org (Sunday at 6:30am) Deputy District Attorney Chuck Finney
talks with listeners about legal and con-
WEEKEND EDITION Scott Simon and sumer problems. Call in your questions to
NPR wrap up the week’s events — plus Chuck and his team of guest attorneys:
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