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AUGUSTFEBRUARY 2019 2020 DID YOU KNOW? Polar Extremes PAGE 16 Looking at Earth’s Polar Past —Ancient and Its MysteriesRomance! Jealousy!A Heartwarming Possible Polar Future Betrayal! NOVA: PolarRevealed Extremes on Sanditon: TheNew Season Season Finale of PAGE 6 Secrets of the DeadPAGE 6 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 On Common Ground: Disinformation & Democracy Thursday, February 20, at 6pm The Computer History Museum San Jose Digital disinformation poses a clear threat to our electoral process in 2020. How have we made ourselves vulnerable to these tactics and what can we do to combat them? KQED and the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University convene an urgent discussion. Hosted by KQED Silicon Valley Bureau Chief Rachael Myrow, we’ll explore how bad actors seek to exploit our modern information infrastructure for political gain and how we can shore up the democratic foundations they threaten to undermine. See kqed.org/events for more info. KQED Member Days: Free Admission to Magnificent Magnolias PERK Friday, February 7 San Francisco Botanical Garden Join KQED at the San Francisco Botanical Garden (SFBG) and be amazed by one of the city’s great annual natural spectacles Cinequest Film & when the most significant KQED.ORG Creativity Festival conservation collection of March 3 – 15 magnolias in the United States Downtown San Jose: CaliforniaTheatre, erupts with beautiful, fragrant Hammer Theatre and 3 Below Theatres blooms. Admission is free on • Redwood City: Century Downtown 20 Friday, February 7, for KQED FEBRUARY FEBRUARY Don’t miss the Cinequest Film & Creativity Festival members (up to two admissions in San Jose and Redwood City. This year’s theme total) who present a current is elation, which promises it will be a celebratory KQED MemberCard and valid ID event. The festival features 900 visiting artists, in person at the ticket booth. 50 parties and 600 experiences including 130 On this day, you’ll also find 2020 film premieres. The KQED member discount: special discounts on SFBG $50 off the VIP All Access Pass. Code: KQED2020. Memberships in the Bookstore More details about the lineup, plus tickets and and at the Plant Arbor. sfbg.org passes are now available at cinequest.org. Photo of a Magnolia campbellii ‘Darjeeling’ 2 Photo by Mike Gendimenico by Ryan Johns Cover photo: NOVA: Polar Extremes Photo courtesy of NOVA/WGBH NEWS + NOTES Left to right: Erika Aguilar, Erin Baldassari and Molly Solomon KQED Opens a New Housing News Desk To cover the Bay Area’s affordability crisis, KQED has and discriminatory practices in our state’s land-use created a dedicated news desk staffed by journalists and political history that have contributed to our Erika Aguilar, Erin Baldassari and Molly Solomon. affordability crisis.” Together, the team provides ongoing coverage of housing and affordability issues in the Bay Area for Joining Aguilar is three-time national Edward R. multiple KQED platforms, including radio and online, Murrow Award winner Molly Solomon as housing and will develop a podcast series about the roots of reporter for the desk. Solomon arrives at KQED from the crisis. “Everywhere you go you see the effects of Oregon Public Broadcasting, where she was the the Bay Area’s housing crisis,” notes Holly Kernan, Southwest Washington bureau chief. Her coverage KQED’s chief content officer, adding: “This desk gives included rural communities, environmental issues us the opportunity to start conversations with our along the Columbia River, and an investigation into audiences about how the housing crisis is affecting equity and diversity strugles at a local community them and how we come together to begin to solve college. Molly's latest reporting includes a deep dive these challenging issues.” into Moms for Housing, a big national story taking place in Oakland, and explores what housing as a Coming from KQED’s The Bay podcast, Erika Aguilar human right means and could look like in policy. 2020 leads the team as senior editor. Before arriving at KQED, Erika worked for KPCC public media in Los The team is rounded out by Erin Baldassari, who most Angeles, covering crime and public safety. She also recently worked as a transportation reporter for the served as the station’s Orange County bureau reporter East Bay Times and The Mercury News with a focus on FEBRUARY FEBRUARY on homelessness, policing and ethnic politics in how the Bay Area’s housing shortage has changed the • local government. way people move around the region. Baldassari served on the Times’ 2017 Pulitzer Prize–winning team that “Housing and the rising cost of living is top of mind covered the Ghost Ship fire. for everyone I meet,” says Aguilar. “It’s time to answer questions from our audience about how we got The formation of KQED’s housing desk is made KQED.ORG ourselves into this situation and how to navigate it. possible in part by a generous grant from the Chan 3 As a starting point, we’ll examine the unfair, inequitable Zuckerberg Initiative. AUDIO For the most current schedule information, check kqed.org/radio. MON TUES WED THURS FRI SAT SUN The New Yorker Mid On the Media All Things Considered Radio Hour KQED Newsroom 1:00 Latino USA BBC World Service Reveal Washington Week TED Radio World Affairs City Arts & Commonwealth 2:00 Evening Lectures Evening Lectures Hidden Brain Hour Council Lecture Club 3:00 Inside Europe Radiolab World Affairs 4:00 Morning Edition 3-9am Freakonomics Council Marketplace Morning Report 4:51 & 7:51am The California Report 5:51, 6:51 & 8:51am 5:00 KQED News 6:04, 6:21, 7:04, 7:31, 8:04 & 8:31am Science Mondays, 6:21 & 8:21am 6:00 The Do List Fridays, 6:21 & 8:21am Perspectives 6:42am, 8:42am & 11:29pm Weekend Edition 7:00 Perspectives 7:36 & 8:36am 8:00 9:00 Forum (Live call-in line: 866.733.6786) KQED News 9:04 & 10:04am The New Yorker Wait Wait... 10:00 Radio Hour Don’t Tell Me Here & Now Wait Wait... 11:00 KQED News: 11:04am Don’t Tell Me Science Friday Live from Here The Takeaway Noon This KQED News: 12:04pm American Life Fresh Air Snap City Arts 1:00 KQED News: 1:04pm Judgment & Lectures 2:00 The World Radiolab On the Media PBS NewsHour Freakonomics TED Radio 3:00 KQED News: 3:57pm Radio Hour Marketplace 4:00 Reveal Says You California Report All Things Considered 5:00 All Things Considered KQED News: 4:32 (except Fri), 5:04, 5:30, 6:04 & 7:04pm 6:00 Latino USA Political California Marketplace Breakdown Report Live from Here Planet Money/ KQED.ORG 7:00 Fresh Air How I Built This Evening Evening World Affairs City Arts Commonwealth 8:00 Lectures/ Lectures/ Selected Shorts Hidden Brain Council & Lectures Club Specials Specials • Political FEBRUARY FEBRUARY This 9:00 BBC World Service Breakdown/ American Life KQED Newsroom 10:00 Forum (a repeat of one hour of the morning broadcast) The Moth Tech Nation 2020 California Report 1A BBC World 11:00 Snap Judgment KQED News: 11:04pm & 12:04am All Things Service Considered 4 RADIO SPECIALS Witness: New Laws Protect Tenants, Black History Month Prevent Homelessness and Airs Wednesday, February 5, at 8pm Create Affordable Housing For Black History Month, tune in to this Witness special from the BBC and hear about history from people who were there. We start – Now What? just 65 years ago — the year that the Montgomery bus boycott began and 14-year-old Emmett Till was brutally kidnapped and lynched, Airs Wednesday, February 26, at 8pm a horrific tragedy that galvanized the Civil Rights Movement. Only On October 8, 2018, California Governor Gavin thirteen years later, American sprinters Tommie Smith and John Newsom signed into law some of the nation’s most Carlos stood on the winners’ podium at the Mexico City Olympics far-reaching housing bills designed to prevent and raised their gloved fists in the air to protest racism. That same homelessness, protect tenants from being evicted year, Martin Luther King, Jr. was and make it possible to create new homes for assassinated at age 39. And Moneta many thousands of Californians. The work was Sleet Jr. became the first African made possible by a collaboration of diverse allies American to win a Pulitzer Prize who are attempting to preserve existing affordable for journalism for his harrowing homes, protect the families in them and produce image of Coretta Scott King at her more housing at all income levels. Although the husband’s funeral. The first-person bills represent important strides, some say a lot of interviews captured in this Witness work still remains. This panel discussion from the special speak to the tumult, the Commonwealth Club examines the implications pain and the incredible power of the of the new legislation and what the future holds activists who put everything on the for addressing the challenge of homelessness and line to fight injustice. housing in the Bay Area. Photo from the New York World-Telegram and Sun collection at The Library of Congress PODCASTS What are the best podcasts to listen to right now? We asked Alan Montecillo, KQED’s editor for The Bay, what he recommends. Here are his picks. STARTER EPISODE “Let’s Talk About Race and the Orinda Shooting” At The Bay, we tell local Bay Area news stories, but we also want to critically consider with our audience how race and identity shape the way we think about the news.