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AUGUSTDECEMBER 2019 2020 Josephine Baker: An Awakening Spend a Sunday with Explore HerAncient Journey Mysteries from Superstar NatureA Heartwarming and NOVA to Spy to CivilRevealed Rights on Activist PAGENew 9Season of PAGE 7 Secrets of the Dead Call the Midwife PAGE XX PAGE X CONTENTS 2 3 4 5 6 8 VIRTUAL EVENTS NEWS + NOTES RADIO SCHEDULE RADIO SPECIALS + PASSPORT TV HIGHLIGHTS + PODCASTS LISTINGS Our virtual events What’s happening Your guide to What's new and Watch more with Your guide come to you. at KQED? radio shows. recommended? KQED Passport. to broadcast television. VIRTUAL EVENTS The California Report: 25 Years Tuesday, December 8, at 6:00pm For the last 25 years, The California Report has knit together this vast and varied state, bringing you news stories and culture that define California’s role in American life. Join KQED for a livestream event celebrating our on-air chronicle of California’s daily concerns, evolving culture and ongoing heart. It features beloved show alums such as NPR’s Ailsa Chang and Tamara Keith, KQED’s own Scott Shafer, and performances by California musicians Anaí Adina and Megan Keely. kqed.org/events The California Report Magazine host Sasha Khokha interviews sisters Evelyn and Jessica Kheo at Camp Pendleton, the site of a makeshift refugee camp where they arrived after fleeing the fall of South Vietnam. Photo by Suzie Racho Arab Film Fest Collab December 3–13 The country’s largest and oldest festival of Arab films just got bigger. In response to the pandemic, the Arab Film and Media Institute invited three Arab film and cultural KQED.ORG organizations to produce the Arab Film Fest Collab. The virtual festival will run from December 3–13, 2020, and open nationally. It includes everything we've come to expect • from the Arab Film Festival, from international DECEMBER 2020 DECEMBER premieres and retrospectives to films that challenge stereotypes and highlight the beauty and diversity of the Arab world. The event will particularly highlight Afro-Arab and Black SWANA voices and narratives. arabfilminstitute.org Between Heaven and Earth by Najwa Najjar 2 Cover: Josephine Baker, photo from Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain NEWS + NOTES From Deep Look's This Killer Fungus Turns Flies into Zombies; photo by Josh Cassidy/KQED. KQED and Collaborators Win Two Distinguished Awards Deep Look Honored with a KQED and Collaborators Jackson Wild Media Award Receive a Murrow Award Deep Look, KQED’s science and nature series, has won The Radio Television Digital News Association honored a 2020 Jackson Wild Media Award, the Oscars® of KQED journalists Farida Jhabvala Romero and Vanessa wildlife filmmaking, in the Animal Behavior Short Form Rancaño and the collaborative team responsible for category. The winning episode is "This Killer Fungus “Graying California” with a 2020 National Edward R. Turns Flies into Zombies." The four-and-a-half-minute Murrow award. The awards recognize the best electronic film is about a fungus that invades and kills flies, journalism produced by radio, television and digital forcing them into a gruesome death pose so that it can news organizations worldwide. “Graying California” is an shoot out its reproductive spores. The episode was extensive reporting series that examines how seniors are produced by Gabriela Quirós. Josh Cassidy is the series becoming California’s fastest-growing age group and how cinematographer. Carolyn Elya, a Harvard researcher, this demographic may be reshaping the California Dream. studied how the fungus invades and kills fruit flies, and provided the team with access to the infected fruit flies. The series is part of the California Dream project, a statewide public media collaboration produced by KQED, Deep Look is presented on the PBS Digital Studios CALmatters, KPBS, KPCC and Capital Public Radio. In YouTube network and has over 1.5 million subscribers, addition to Romero and Rancaño, the “Graying California” in addition to more than 180 million total views. team includes Sammy Caiola (Capital Public Radio); Matt DECEMBER 2020 DECEMBER Deep Look’s videos are shot in ultra-HD and use Levin (CALmatters); Meghan McCarty Carino (KPCC); • macro cinematography and microscopy to reveal Julia Mitric (Capital Public Radio); Amita Sharma (KPBS); small, hidden worlds in nature. To watch Deep Look David Wagner (KPCC) and California Dream editors episodes and subscribe to its YouTube channel, go to Adriane Hill and Bob Nishizaki. You can see the series at youtube.com/kqedDeepLook grayingcalifornia.org. KQED.ORG 3 Please note: Coronavirus and late-breaking AUDIO news may affect the schedule below. MON TUES WED THURS FRI SAT SUN Mid BBC World Service Mid World City Arts Evening Commonwealth Science Friday Evening 1:00 Reveal 1:00 Council & Lectures Specials Club (Hour 2) Specials 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 4:00 Hidden Brain 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 KQED Science, 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 11:00 Don’t Tell Me The Moth Here & Now (Hour 1) KQED News: 11:04am & 12:04pm The New Yorker Noon This Noon American Life Radio Hour The Takeaway Snap City Arts 1:00 1:00 KQED News: 1:04pm Judgment & Lectures 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 Magazine 5:00 All Things Considered All Things Considered 5:00 KQED News: 4:32 (except Fri.), 5:04, 5:30, & 6:04pm 6:00 Radio Specials Latino USA 6:00 Political The California Marketplace Breakdown Report Magazine KQED.ORG Fresh Air The Splendid 7:00 Live Wire 7:00 KQED News: 7:04pm Table World Affairs City Arts Evening Commonwealth Science Friday 8:00 Hidden Brain 8:00 • Council & Lectures Specials Club (Hour 2) Selected Shorts DECEMBER 2020 DECEMBER 9:00 1A The Moth Planet Money/ 9:00 How I Built This 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 4 Service RADIO Happy New Year, KQED Radio Listeners We’ve made it to the end of a very difficult year. So much has changed and the news This New Year’s Eve, we’ll continue a KQED cycle has been relentless. While we’ve faced and NPR tradition and break format for the final unprecedented challenges and global tragedy, hours of 2020 to bring you some celebratory we’ve also witnessed the power of community music. Toast of the Nation airs from 8:00pm and immense outpourings of compassion and to midnight. We hope you can spend the end solidarity. As we reflect on 2020, we want to of the year enjoying a well-deserved break, thank you for being a KQED radio listener. whether it’s a Zoom rager, a quiet night of rest You make all the work we do possible and in or a socially distant celebration with loved ones. the wake of so much struggle, you keep us grounded in our mission to inform and support Cheers, our community. Jonathan Blakley Executive Director, Radio Programming Thanks to your input, we ramped up our coronavirus coverage and worked to answer community questions and concerns. We also amplified our election coverage to support local need. And we continue to work toward bringing more diverse perspectives and voices to our airwaves. Your participation in public media makes us better, and we look forward to continuing to provide “essential” services to you in the years to come as the resilience and strength of the Bay Area community continues to shine. PODCASTS What are the best podcasts to listen to right now? We asked Molly Solomon, KQED’s housing affordability reporter, what she recommends. Here are her picks. STARTER EPISODE “Housing as Reparations” The housing crisis is a huge problem that affects us all. KQED’s SOLD OUT: Rethinking Housing in America podcast focuses on solutions and what it takes to implement them. This episode looks at an affluent Southern California beach town, which was once a thriving Black community and is now the center of a growing movement for reparations. STARTER EPISODE “Kobe” The California Love podcast series is a true love letter to Los Angeles. See the city through the eyes of hometown writer and former New York Times reporter Walter Thompson-Hernández. Full of heart, the series pulses with Thompson-Hernández’s memories of growing up in L.A. In this episode, dedicated to Kobe Bryant, he brings together sports, identity and loss. STARTER EPISODE “Guess What? Chicken Butt Is Delicious (with Yo-Yo Ma)” One of the silver linings of the pandemic has been upping my cooking game.