AUGUSTAPRIL 2019 2020 World War II DID YOU KNOW? PAGE 6 World on Fire: Epic Drama Spans Five Countries at the Start of World War ll PAGE 6 He’s Back! Father Brown:Ancient Mysteries A Heartwarming Season 8Revealed Premiere on New Season of PAGE 11 Secrets of the Dead Call the Midwife PAGE XX PAGE X CONTENTS 2 3 4 5 7 22 PERKS + EVENTS NEWS + NOTES RADIO SCHEDULE RADIO SPECIALS + TV LISTINGS PASSPORT PODCASTS Special events Highlights of What’s airing Your monthly guide What’s new and and member what’s happening when New and what’s going away benefits recommended PERKS + EVENTS Some events may be cancelled or rescheduled due to the evolving Coronavirus (COVID-19) situation. Please check our online listings at kqed.org/events for updates. Taste & Sip 2020 Monday, June 15, at 6:30pm San Francisco Design Center Galleria Join Leslie Sbrocco for this annual affair and sample gourmet food from more than fifty restaurants featured on her show Check, Please! Bay Area. Also, taste local wines and see the stars of the hit tour of Hamilton make a special appearance. kqed.org/events KQED's President and CEO Michael Isip with Leslie Sbrocco KQED.ORG • APRIL 2020 PHOTOS: ALAIN MCLAUGHLIN ALAIN MCLAUGHLIN PHOTOS: 2 Cover: World on Fire photo courtesy of Mammoth Screen NEWS + NOTES KQED’s New Headquarters Takes Shape Demolition and structural steel framing at the site of KQED’s headquarters is substantially complete. Mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems installation is well underway. In the next several months, work on the external and interior walls will commence. (Photo by Kirsten Voss/KQED) For the past nine months, your favorite KQED edit suites, state-of-the-art technical infrastructure programs have been coming to you from our temporary and new community convening spaces, including The studios in downtown San Francisco while our Mission Commons, dedicated to enabling civic — and civil — District headquarters undergoes a major renovation dialogue and to celebrating our cultural vitality. to modernize how we produce and distribute our programming and engage with audiences. We look forward to welcoming you into our new home in mid-2021. In the meantime, you can take a With a growing team of journalists and digital staff, virtual tour of the building at kqed.org/campaign21. plus changing technology, we’re renovating to ensure KQED’s transformation is being supported by that the KQED you value remains relevant in a rapidly Campaign 21 — a multiyear strategic investment changing media landscape. The headquarters will in KQED’s future. To learn more about the project feature a modern multidisciplinary newsroom to house and how you can participate, contact the team at our journalists, new digital production spaces and 415.553.8497. Don’t Miss KQED’s Special 50th Anniversary Earth Day Coverage “When the first Earth Day happened in 1970, the U.S. had no Clean Water Act and people worried about the growing hole in the ozone layer,” says Kat Snow, KQED’s senior science editor. “Today, climate change is the biggest environmental threat people face. And it seems overwhelming. But humans have solved global environmental problems before.” APRIL 2020 • KQED takes a look at where we were and where we're going on the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day with special on-air and online coverage the week of April 20. KQED.ORG KQED.org/science The unofficial Earth Day flag created by John McConnell includes the "blue marble" photograph taken by the Apollo 17 crew. 3 (Photo courtesy of NASA) AUDIO For the most current schedule information, check kqed.org/radio. Programming changes are highlighted in blue. MON TUES WED THURS FRI SAT SUN Mid BBC World Service Mid The TED World Affairs City Arts & Commonwealth Science Friday 1:00 Evening Specials Reveal 1:00 Radio Hour Council Lectures Club (Hour 2) World Affairs Freakonomics 2:00 Council 2:00 3:00 Inside Europe Radiolab 3:00 Morning Edition 2-9am Marketplace Morning Report 4:51 & 7:51am KQED Newsroom Hidden Brain 4:00 4:00 The California Report 5:51, 6:51 & 8:51am Washington Week KQED News 6:04, 6:21, 7:04, 7:31, 8:04 & 8:31am 5:00 Science Mondays, 6:21 & 8:21am Weekend Edition 5:00 The Do List Fridays, 6:21 & 8:21am Perspectives 7:36 & 8:36am (Sat & Sun) 6:00 Perspectives 6:42am & 8:42am Rightnowish 7:35 & 9:35am (Sun) 6:00 KQED News: (Sat) 7:04am, 7:35am, 8:04am, 8:35am, 7:00 7:00 9:04am, 9:35am, 10:04am, 11:04am, 1:04pm, 2:04pm, 4:04pm, 5:04pm 8:00 (Sun) 7:04am, 8:04am, 9:04am, 10:04am, 8:00 11:04am, 12:04pm, 1:04pm, 2:04pm, 3:04pm, 9:00 4:04pm, 5:04pm 9:00 Forum (Live call-in line: 866.733.6786) KQED News 9:04 & 10:04am It’s Been a Wait Wait... 10:00 10:00 Minute Don’t Tell Me Science Friday Wait Wait... 11:00 The Moth 11:00 Here & Now (Hours 1 & 2) (Hour 1) Don’t Tell Me KQED News: 11:04am & 12:04pm New Yorker Noon This Noon American Life Radio Hour The Takeaway Snap 1:00 BBC News Hour 1:00 KQED News: 1:04pm Judgment The World 2:00 Radiolab On the Media 2:00 KQED News: 2:04pm PBS NewsHour Freakonomics The TED 3:00 3:00 KQED News: 3:57pm Radio Radio Hour Marketplace 4:00 Reveal Says You 4:00 The California Report All Things Considered 5:00 All Things Considered 5:00 KQED News: 4:32 (except Fri), 5:04, 5:30, & 6:04pm 6:00 Latino USA 6:00 Political The California Marketplace Breakdown Report Live from Here Fresh Air The Splendid 7:00 7:00 KQED News: 7:04pm Table KQED.ORG World Affairs City Arts Evening Commonwealth Science Friday City Arts 8:00 LoremHidden ipsum Brain 8:00 Council & Lectures Specials Club (Hour 2) & Lectures Planet Money/ • 9:00 1A Selected Shorts 9:00 How I Built This APRIL 2020 This 10:00 Forum (a repeat of one hour of the morning broadcast) Tech Nation 10:00 American Life BBC World 11:00 BBC World Service Snap Judgment 11:00 Service 4 RADIO SPECIALS New KQED Radio Lineup We’re updating our radio schedule in April to bring you the We’re adding It’s Been a Minute very best news and cultural programming that public radio with Sam Sanders on Saturdays at offers. We believe these updates make our lineup more 10am for a fresh recap of the week diverse, current and engaging. You can see the complete and an optimistic look ahead. new schedule on page 4. Here are some highlights. We’re airing The Splendid Table Morning Edition will start at 2am on weekends. Morning with Francis Lam. Some of the Edition changes every hour. The first hour is at 2am our best food is made in the Bay Area. time; that’s when we’ll start our broadcast. And you’re going to love making the food that Francis mentions. We’ll air both hours of Here and Now Monday through Thursday. With the addition of KQED’s Tonya Mosley, the The New Yorker Radio Hour will move to Sunday at noon. program is more relevant and timely than ever. We’ll air the second hour of Science Friday at 8pm on Fridays. We love Chris Thile and Live from Here on Saturday night at 6pm. We’re moving The Moth and The New Yorker Radio The Takeaway moves from noon to 1pm. Tanzina Vega has Hour to Sundays following the popular repeat of Wait, Wait breathed wonderful life intothe program with her stories Don’t Tell Me. and insights. Fresh Air will remain at 7pm. We hope you enjoy these changes and welcome your input. 1A is moving from 11pm to 9pm. We want more people Please feel free to leave a comment by reaching out to to hear important, timely conversations from a unique [email protected]. — Jonathan Blakley, KQED executive director perspective. of radio programming (in photo above) TOP RIGHT: PHOTO BY STEPH LISTER LISTER STEPH BY PHOTO RIGHT: TOP PODCASTS What are the podcasts to listen to right now? We asked Isabeth Mendoza, the engagement producer for KQED’s Truth Be Told podcast, what she recommends. Here are her picks. STARTER EPISODE “Family Ties” Truth Be Told is an advice column by and for people of color. In this episode, author Casey Gerald asks host Tonya Mosley: what would you do if you weren’t afraid? as she debates starting a relationship with her estranged father’s family. Deeply personal, the episode scrutinizes the roots of our fears that can be applied to all decisions we make. STARTER EPISODE “Claude Neal: A Strange and Bitter Crop” Code Switch always delivers in providing well-researched and carefully crafted episodes on race and identity. This episode, the retelling of Claude Neal’s lynching in Jackson County, Florida, raises the bar. Poet L. Lamar Wilson, who grew up there, keeps “one of the most … well-attended lynchings in U.S. history” from being forgotten. STARTER EPISODE “ICE is using therapy notes to deport young immigrants” The Washington Post’s Post Reports’ unique structure allows you to know the most pressing APRIL 2020 • issues of the day while deep diving into underreported stories. One of these stories is how the government has found a loophole in provider-patient confidentiality that has physically and psychologically impacted immigrants beyond our knowing. KQED.ORG Listen via Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, the NPR One app, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.