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AUGUSTJUNE 2019 2020 Mae West on Binge All Six Seasons AmericanAncient Masters Mysteries of DowntonA Heartwarming Abbey There’s MoreRevealed to Her on Activate YourNew Season of Than YouSecrets May Know of the DeadKQED PassportCall the Midwife PAGE 7 PAGE XX PAGE 6 PAGE X CONTENTS 2 3 4 5/6 8 23 VIRTUAL EVENTS RADIO SCHEDULE RADIO SPECIALS + KQED PASSPORT + TV LISTINGS NEWS + NOTES PODCASTS STAFF PICKS Special online What’s airing Your monthly guide Add your story to events when? New and Watch more with to broadcast TV American Portrait recommended KQED Passport VIRTUAL EVENTS + PERKS See You Online! Although we can’t meet up with you in person right now, KQED is offering thought-provoking and fun events. Sink into your sofa and enjoy a virtual screening or a listen or watch party with us. For the most current list of June KQED events, please visit kqed.org/events. SFJAZZ Fridays at Five Every Friday at 5pm sfjazz.org SFJAZZ, in partnership with KQED, presents Fridays at Five, a digital concert experience where you can get closer than ever to the music while providing an online platform that will help directly support artists. Enjoy exclusive hour-long SFJAZZ concerts every Friday at 5pm. Featured artists in June include: 6/5: Marcus Shelby with Angela Davis: Blues Legacies & Black Feminism 6/12: Rhiannon Giddens & Francesco Turrisi 6/19: Paris Combo 6/26: Wayne Shorter Celebration, part 2, featuring Herbie Hancock, Terence Blanchard, Terrace Martin, Danilo Pérez, John Patitucci and Brian Blade Learn more at sfjazz.org; live link sfjazz.org/watch HERBIE HANCOCK; PHOTO BY GRASON LITTLES GRASON BY PHOTO HERBIE HANCOCK; Bay Area Book Festival #UNBOUND Virtual Series Every Tuesday, Wednesday (Young Adult) and Thursday evening Children’s programming on Saturdays The popular annual Bay Area Book Festival has gone virtual. Bay Area Book Festival #UNBOUND, in partnership with KQED, presents dozens of free online events featuring top authors in exciting conversations: Carol Anderson with Congresswoman Barbara Lee and others discussing voting; David Talbot, Louise Aronson and Tiffany Shlain on wellness; Scandinavia’s number one crime novelist Lars Kepler, Adam Hochschild, favorite young adult authors, and Pulitzer Prize winners Anthony Doerr and Viet Thanh Nguyen with bestselling author R.O. Kwon (pictured here). And every weekend, there will be uplifting children’s programs. For more information, go to baybookfest.org. KQED.ORG The Asian Art Museum Museum from Home asianart.org/museumfromhome • JUNE 2020 Engage with art at a distance through digital experiences that will keep your spirits up and the inspiration flowing. Bring the Asian Art Museum into your home. Visit asianart.org/museumfromhome. 2 MAHANTI. SMEETA BY KWAN R.O OF AUTHOR PHOTO LEFT: FRANCISCO. MUSEUM OF SAN ART ASIAN 2020, IN THE GALLERIES, VISITOR RIGHT: BELOW FRANCISCO. MUSEUM OF SAN ART © ASIAN PHOTOGRAPH Cover: Mae West in I’m No Angel, 1933, courtesy of Alamy Stock Photo. Changes to our radio schedule, first noted in the April issue, have now AUDIO been made (see below). We hope you enjoy them and welcome your input. Please feel free to leave a comment by reaching out to [email protected]. M O N T U E S W E D T H U R S F R I S A T S U N Mid BBC World Service Mid World Affairs 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 The Moth 11:00 Here & Now (Hour 1) Don’t Tell Me 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 Latino USA 6:00 Political The California Marketplace Breakdown Report Magazine Live from Here Fresh Air The Splendid 7:00 7:00 KQED News: 7:04pm Table PLEASE WNOTE:orld A fDuefairs to theCi COVID-19ty Arts virus Elockdown,vening we wereCommonwealth unable to makeScience the changes Friday to our radio programming highlighted 8:00 Selected Shorts Hidden Brain 8:00 in our AprilCouncil issue. We expect& Lectu tor makees thoseSpecials changes soon.Club (Hour 2) 9:00 1A Evening Specials Planet Money/ 9:00 How I Built This JUNE 2020 • This 10:00 Forum (a repeat of one hour of the morning broadcast) Tech Nation 10:00 American Life BBC World KQED.ORG 11:00 BBC World Service Snap Judgment 11:00 Service 3 RADIO SPECIALS American Waste Management: In Search of the What Can Be Done? Quarter-Life Crisis Airs Wednesday, June 3, at 8pm on KQED 88.5 FM Airs Wednesday, June 17, at 8pm on KQED 88.5 FM When China banned importing foreign recyclables, many Whether you’re a millennial or Gen Z-er, or you have one in Americans learned that recycling is not a tidy, closed your life, you know that these generations are constantly process. The overabundance of waste is a global problem questioning society’s expectations. “Because that’s the and waste management requires everyone’s efforts. way it is” just doesn’t satisfy their inquiring minds. Could We’ll visit one of the biggest landfills in the U.S. to discuss this be why the “quarter-life crisis” has become a global how our country handles waste. We’ll also look at creative phenomenon? We’ll hear young people’s perspectives solutions for waste management, highlighting The Landfill worldwide about conflicting expectations and pressures, Orchestra in Paraguay that performs concerts on musical and their experiences during their quarter-life crises. instruments made We’ll also hear from from plastic waste to experts researching raise awareness of the phenomenon, the global problem. ask whether today’s And we’ll examine millennials are more successful waste vulnerable to it than past management in generations and hear Sweden, where they some words of wisdom handle most of their on how to handle own waste and also the turmoil. import it from other countries. PODCASTS What are the best podcasts to listen to right now? We asked Amanda Font, KQED’s The California Report Magazine producer, what she recommends. Here are her picks. STARTER EPISODE “These Five People Challenge the Notion of Blindness as a Deficit” At The California Report Magazine, we take people on an audio road trip of California through the lens of interesting people and places. This episode explores the auditory world of some visually impaired people. STARTER EPISODE “Call Russ Ewing” Criminal, from Radiotopia, is not your average true crime podcast. Beyond the act of crime itself, they explore forensics, justice, policing and often very odd circumstances. This episode tells the story of a reporter-turned-negotiator who became an intermediary for suspects afraid they’d be killed by police. STARTER EPISODE “Dr. Muller” In each episode of Heavyweight, Jonathan Goldstein, using his sarcastic Canadian wit, explores JUNE 2020 • a past bad memory with someone hoping to get clarity or closure. In this episode, the past he returns to is his own, in search of a therapist who long ago concluded, “This isn’t working . because of you.” KQED.ORG Listen via Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, the NPR One app, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. 4 NOVA Baking with Julia Masterpiece Your Passport Is Waiting for YouWith KQED Passport, members have access to more than 2,000 With KQED Passport, members have on-demand KQED and PBS access to more than 2,000 on-demand videos to explore, binge a new KQED and PBS videos to explore, season, or rediscover.If you’re a binge a new season, or rediscover. sustaining member or donor at the $60/year level, your KQED Great Performances Check, Please! Nature Bay Area If you're a sustaining member or donor at the $60/year level, your KQED Passport benefit is waiting for you. To activate it, please go to kqed.org/passporthelp, where you'll find everything you need to start streaming. 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