The Slowdown U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith brings poetry back to KALW’s airwaves. p. 8

Gloria Steinem In conversation with Inflection Point’s Lauren Schiller at the Castro Theatre p. 5

Winter 2019 KALW: By and for the community . . . COMMUNITY PARTNERS America Scores Bay Area • Association for Continuing Education • Bay Area Book Festival • Berkeleyside• Berkeley Symphony Orchestra • Burton High School • Cabrillo Festival • East Oakland Youth Development Center • El Timpano • Renaissance Journalism • Global Exchange • INFORUM at The Commonwealth Club Jewish Community Center of San Francisco • Oakland Voices • Other Minds • outLoud Radio • Radio Ambulante • Reimagine End of Life • San Quentin Radio • SF Performances • Stanford Storytelling Project • StoryCorps • Uncuffed • Youth Radio COMMUNITY PRODUCERS Dan Becker, David Boyer, Susie Britton, Sarah Cahill, Bob Campbell, Kristi Coale, Sarah Craig, Muna Danish, Julie Dewitt, Asal Ehsanipour, Ethan Elkind, Greg Eskridge, Zoe Ferrigno, Richard Friedman, Janos Gereben, Sadie Gribbon, Dawn Gross, Anne Harper, Sara Harrison, Nikolas Harter, Jeffrey Hayden, Mary Franklin Harvin, Luis Hernandez, Wendy Holcombe, Shingo Kamada, Dianne Keogh, Kendra Klang, Carol Kocivar, Martin MacClain, JoAnn Mar, Matt Martin, Emma McAvoy, Kristin McCandless, Amber Miles, Sandy Miranda, Natasha Muse, Mira Nabulsi, Emmanuel Nado, Zeina Nasr, Marty Nemko, Erik Neumann, Christine Nguyen, Chris Nooney, Edwin Okong’o, Kevin Oliver, Steve O’Neill, Joseph Pace, Peter Robinson, Dana Rodriguez, Selene Ross, Tommy Shakur Ross, Louis A. Scott, Dean Schmidt, Marissa Shieh, Marco Siler-Gonzales, Cari Spivack, Dore Stein, Claire Stremple, Devon Strolovitch, Niels Swinkels, Peter Thompson, Kevin Vance, Lilia Vega, Bo Walsh, Grace Won, Priscilla Yuki Wilson KALW VOLUNTEERS Susan Aberg, Frank Adam, Bud Alderson, Jody Ames, Jean Amos, Tamara Artman, Judy Aune, Leon Bayer, Brenda Beebe, Susan Bergman, Laura Bernabei, Michael Brant, Nathan Brennan, Diane Brett, Joshua Brody, Lisa Burleigh, Peter Caldwell, Marie Camp, Steven Campi, Walter Castillo, Jessica Chylik, Linda Clever, Susan Colowick, Tally Craig, Keith Dabney, Carolyn Deacy, Pacia Dewald, Roger Donaldson, Louis Dorsey, Arabella Dorth, James Coy Driscoll, Laura Drossman, Kai Dwyer, Linda Eby, Eleanor Eliott, Jim & Joy Esser, Peter Fairfield, Peter Fortune, Nina Frankel, Michael Gabel, Mike Gaylord, Helen Gilliland, Andrei Glase, Dave Gomberg, Jo Gray, Paul Griffiths, Terence Groeper, Paula Groves, Ted Guggenheim, Jim Haber, Ian Hardcastle, Barbro Haves, Eliza Hersh, Phil Heymann, Paul Hocker, Kent Howard, Clara Hsu, Susan Hughes, Judge Eugene Hyman, Didi Iseyama, Jenny Jens, Brenda Kett, Franzi Latko, Claire LaVaute, Tom Lawless, Jason Lee, Joseph Lepera, Fred Lipschultz, Andrew Louie, Toni Lozica, Diana Lum, William Maggs, Jennifer Mahoney, Jack Major, Ann Maley, Jeffrey Malick, Horace Marks, Tom Mason, John MacDevitt, Michael McGinley, Matt Miller, Susan Miller, Linda Morine, Reba Myall-Martin, Brian Neilson, Antonio Nierras, Laura Niespolo, Nils Nilsson, Tim Olson, Alice O’Sullivan, Emily Quiero, Art Persyko, Dale Pitman, Elise Phillips, Maria Politzer, Caterine Raye-Wong, David Rogers, Ronald Rohde, Marti Roush, John Roybal, Jaimie Sanford, Jean Schnall, Deb Schneider, Bill Schwalb, Ron Scudder, Marc Seidenfeld, Lezak Shallat, Anna Sojourner, Angelo Sphere, Kevin Stamm, Karin Stenberg, Tim Sullivan, Flora Summers, Linnea Sweet, Bian Tan, Howard Tharsing, Madelon Thompson, Sal Timpano, David Vartanoff, Gail Wechsler, Charlie Wegerle, Harry Weller, Patrick Wheeler, Steve Wilcott OUR LICENSEE, THE SAN FRANCISCO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT Superintendent: Vincent Matthews • Board of Commissioners: Alison Collins, Stevon Cook, Gabriela Lopez, Faauuga Moliga, Rachel Norton, Mark Sanchez• Director, Office of Public Outreach and Communications: Gentle Blythe KALW PERSONNEL Tina Pamintuan, Laura Wenus, Producer Liza Veale, Producer General Manager Ben Trefny, News Director Ryan Nicole Peters, Producer William Helgeson, Hana Baba, Host/Reporter Bo Walsh, Producer Operations Manager Angela Johnston, Producer Holly McDede, Reporter Phil Hartman, Engineering Jenee Darden, Producer Eli Wirtschafter, Reporter Annette Bistrup, Judy Silber, Producer Lee Romney, Reporter Development Director Lisa Morehouse, Editor Truc Nguyen, Membership Jeanne Marie Acceturo, Andrew Stelzer, Editor Olga Volodina, Membership Announcer Shipra Shukla, Program Manager Raquel Maria Dillon, Editor Debi Kennedy, Announcer David Latulippe, Announcer Shereen Adel, Content Manager Damien Minor, Announcer JoAnn Mar, Announcer James Rowlands, News Engineer Bob Sommer, Announcer Rose Aguilar, Host Gabe Grabin, News Engineer Kevin Vance, Announcer Malihe Razazan, Sr. Producer Tarek Fouda, Engineer Eric Wayne, Announcer ABOUT KALW KALW is a pioneer educational station licensed to the San Francisco Unified School District, broadcasting since September 1, 1941 — the oldest FM signal west of the Mississippi. Mailing address: KALW Radio Offices: (415) 841-4121 500 Mansell Street Fax: (415) 841-4125 San Francisco, CA 94134 Studio Line: (415) 841-4134 KALW program guide edited by Tina Pamintuan and Shipra Shukla, designed by Georgette Petropoulos. © Contents KALW

ON THE COVER: Tracy K Smith photo by Shawn Miller, Library of Congress. Gloria Steinem photo by Carly Romeo

2 Charting our course for 2019 and beyond As we look toward the future organization under the San Francisco at KALW, we’re excited about Unified School District (with all transformative changes that will usher donations tax-deductible) and will this community into its next phase. remain so. Adding 501(c)(3) status, will Last year, over profoundly increase our eligibility for charitable 11,000 active members funding. contributed almost 70% of KALW’s revenue. With I invite you to connect support from listeners us to like-minded at an all-time high, it’s no foundations and family secret that we depend charitable trusts whose on this community to work resonates with continue our work as the ours. Also, if you know Bay Area’s independent, a lawyer specializing in people-powered radio nonprofit law who can station. offer in-kind services, please send your referral We are at a pivotal to [email protected] with moment in KALW’s the subject line “pro bono lawyer.” history and I invite you to help us make changes that will impact this media We are the village that makes the outlet’s viability for years to come. difference. By prioritizing the right kind of business structure for KALW, we can To date, we have built a track safeguard this important community record of receiving funds to expand resource, while maintaining the culture, our newsroom. Grants like these are dynamism, and beauty, at its core. instrumental in sustaining many of Look out next spring for big changes our reporting projects, including San to the format of this program guide. Quentin Radio and Uncuffed from Solano A number of you have suggested that State Prison, The Spiritual Edge, Audio KALW minimize its “paper footprint”— Academy, and Your Call’s Japanese and we agree that it’s time to make this American internment history project. change which so clearly aligns with our It is, however, critical for KALW to values. develop stronger relationships with philanthropic foundations that offer Thank you for your faith in us. We operational support—funds that can be couldn’t do it without you. used to strengthen daily operations and Sincerely, our growing membership, digital, and Tina Pamintuan studio engineering projects. General Manager As we look for more foundational support in 2019 and beyond, we will P.S. If you are not signed up for our undertake the important work of email newsletters, please make sure to forming our own 501(c)(3) nonprofit. do so at kalw.org. It will help us stay in KALW is already a tax-exempt touch as we leap forward!

3 Uncuffed Radio storytelling from Solano State Prison

Each week, KALW instructors, Jes- “We’re not trying to produce media sica Placzek, Andrew Stelzer, and Eli Wirtschafter, travel to Solano State where people in marginalized Prison in Vacaville, California to teach communities are the subjects. As audio production to students in the much as possible, KALW gives 4000-person facility. The resulting radio people who are not writing and feature and podcast is Uncuffed, a series producing the content the tools to conceived and created entirely by incar- do it themselves,” says Wirtschafter. cerated people. Each segment consists of a profes- are,” says Andrew Stelzer, a KALW editor sionally produced conversation between and instructor on the project. two prisoners, and all of the production During the class, instructors play —from conceptualizing the story idea stories from the widely known NPR to recording and editing the interview, StoryCorps series. Steltzer explains this is done by imprisoned individuals. This practice helps the budding radio pro- fall’s class includes Damon L. Cooke, ducers “realize that things happening in Steve Drown, Spoon Jackson, Joe Kirk, their lives are of interest, and it reminds Bryan Mazza, Julian Glenn Padgett, and them of their self worth.” Brian Thames. Uncuffed stories share the In one conversation, Aaron Daria human side of incarceration, reflecting talks about his dream of starting a ranch. what’s meaningful to the storytellers. Daria, who was tried as an adult when he was 16, says he wants to give back to kids in juvenile detention centers: “… being able to be connected to the land and just not all of this concrete and steel would help show people what life it about,” explains Daria to interviewer Joe Kirk. Each class is four hours long, but the group of seven spend time outside of class working on their projects. The Keith Kitagawa discusses the so- class involves a combination of lecture bering reality of being in prison as his and hands-on time with Mac computers, parents age in one recent episode: “My using the same industry standard soft- Dad just had triple bypass surgery and I ware and broadcast quality recording couldn’t be there for him. My promise to equipment used in KALW’s newsroom. my father was that I’d take care of him Interviews are conducted in a radio lab and I broke that promise.” in a small 11 by 15-foot room that serves “One interesting thing that happens as a radio booth. over and over is they don’t realize how While many of the imprisoned men interesting the small details of their lives in the class are involved in other en-

4 richment programs such as acting in not writing and producing the content Shakespeare plays, writing poetry, or the tools to do it themselves,” says Eli working on newspapers, KALW’s radio Wirtschafter. production class is different because stu- dents reach a wide audience outside the prison’s walls when their stories air. The Northern California Society of Professional Journalists recently Each week students have a chance to awarded San Quentin Radio and work individually with a KALW instructor KALW an Excellence in Radio to get the needed support to produce a Journalism award for their collabo- 5-10 minute piece. And Uncuffed produc- ration in producing a series of audio ers go through the same story pitching features. KALW has been working process as students in the Audio Acad- inside San Quentin for over five emy or reporters for Crosscurrents. years and gaining entry into the “We’re not trying to produce media Solano prison was the direct result where people in marginalized com- of the station’s track record at San munities are the subjects. As much as Quentin. possible, KALW gives people who are

The Very Latest Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions Gloria Steinem in conversation with Inflection Point’s Lauren Schiller Iconic feminist leader Gloria Steinem will speak at the Castro Theater in San Francisco on February 21, 2019. In collaboration with the Bay Area Book Festival Women Lit series, Lauren Schiller, host of KALW’s Inflection Point, interviews Steinem along with a surprise guest. What is Steinem thinking about in the era of #MeToo and intersectionality? She’ll talk about what today’s feminists can learn from our foremothers, and vice versa. Steinem will also discuss her updated third edition of Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions. Thursday, February 21st at 7pm Castro Theater in San Francisco Tickets and information at womenlit.org

5 Hang on to that Recording: How a progressive audio archive inspired a show By Shipra Shukla She enjoyed learning engineering and DIY produced radio shows and being out in the field and was routinely podcasts may seem de rigueur these asked to go out and record someone days. But, in 1992 when Maria Gilardin who was speaking at a podium in an launched Time of Useful Consciousness auditorium. The experience allowed her (TUC) Radio, to meet activists and leaders who were a one-person critiquing the es- radio show was tablished global rare. For over 25 structure, and she years, Gilardin was often able to produced TUC form a connection Radio on her own that lasted for in an off-the-grid, years to come. solar powered, “In the late straw bale house 1980s, I met Mi- in the Mendocino chael Parenti and mountains. The recorded when- show airs on ever he spoke. KALW and sta- I usually ended tions in over 106 Maria Gilardin up with the best countries, including South Africa and recording because I was pretty ruthless Italy. about my recording,” Gilardin remem- Born in Oakland and raised by her bers, “I always went close, and I’ve been grandmother in Switzerland, Gilardin known to exchange microphones on the discovered shortwave as a child “I would podium, after talking to people in the drag a tube type radio into bed and audio booth of course.” listen to it under my blanket. I used to Her tenacity and resourcefulness listen to the amazing spoken word and aided Gilardin in building a reputation music on the American Forces Network.” for obtaining the highest quality record- she recalls. In her mid-twenties, Gilar- ings of speakers, like Noble Peace Prize din worked alongside student activist nominee Helen Caldicott. She was asked teachers and engineers in North Africa, to record speakers at the Bioneers trying to re-build after the impact of annual conferences, an organization French colonialism. Ironically, she was dedicated to nurturing solutions for also supporting herself with the only job environmental and social challenges. Her she could get at the time, as a secretary recordings inspired the organization to for a large global corporation. “Early on produce their own podcast that’s still go- I developed a belief that multi-national ing strong today. During the same time, corporations and governments needed the International Forum on Globalization to be kept in check and I’ve always held (IFG) would regularly ask her to record that,” says Gilardin. their board meetings. “After recording a Motivated by the 1979 Pennsylvania board meeting for the organization, I’d Three Mile Island incident—the worst pull people aside during the break and commercial nuclear accident in U.S. interview them,” Gilardin remembers. history—Gilardin wanted to make more She always made sure to ask for permis- people aware of the dangers of nucleur sion from the speakers to hang-on to power. By then, she had returned to these recordings for archival purposes Northern California and was beginning and possible future use. By the early to volunteer at KPFA in Berkeley. 1990s Gilardin had a growing archive of continued on page 19

6 Chamber Music Society Lincoln Center Mondays at 9pm

Live recorded performances of the 2018-2019 season from Alice Tully Hall. Hosted by Elliott Forrest, with commentary from Co-Artistic Director David Finckel and performers. Highlights this season include Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, and Debussy. January 14: Russian Three: Scriabin Five Preludes for Piano, Op. 16 and Taneyev Quintet in G minor Cello, Op. 30 January 21: Different Moods: Sibelius Suite in A major and Cello Hommage David Finckel à Robert Schumann Op. 15d photo/LisaMarie Mazzucco January 28: Homage: Harbison Six American Painters, Kurtag Hommage à Robert Schumann Op. 15d and Schumann Trio No. 3 in G minor Op. 110 February 4: Dance: Debussy Danse sacrée et Danse profane and Dvorak Quintet in G major February 11: Osvaldo Golijov: Yiddishbuk Inscriptions for String Quartet St. Lawrence String Quartet and The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind February 18: Major to Minor Haydn Quartet in E-flat major Hob. III:71, Op. 71, No. 3 MirÓ Quartet and Mendelssohn Trio No. 2 in c The Miró Quartet: William Fedkenheuer, John Largess, minor Op. 66 Daniel Ching, Joshua Gindele. February 25: Korngold: Four Pieces from the Incidental Music to Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, Op. 11 and a Suite Op. 23 March 4: American Diversity: Davidovsky Septet and Smith Vignettes - Ellis Island (Tr. 2–24) March 11: Hungarian Origins: Ligeti Six Bagatelles (1953) and Bartók Quartet No. 3 BB 93 (1927), Dohnányi Serenade in C major (1902), and Bartók Romanian Folk Dances for Strings, BB 76 (1915, arr. 1917) March 18: Musically Inspired: Ravel Le tombeau de Couperin for Wind Quintet and Schubert Quartet in A minor for Strings, D. 804, Op. 29, No. 1, “Rosamunde” Escher String Quartet March 25: French III the 1870s: Saint-Saëns Sonata No. 1 in C minor Op. 32 and Fauré Quartet No. 1 in C minor Op. 15

7 The Slowdown: Tracy K. Smith invites listeners to pause for poetry By Jeneé Darden U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith is a Northern California native and author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning collection Life on Mars. Her latest literary project, however, can be heard on the airwaves. In The Slowdown, which broadcasts on KALW Monday thru Friday at 6:01pm before Fresh Air and On the Media, Smith reads a poem and reflects on the author’s words. Tracy K. Smith PHOTO/RACHEL ELIZA GRIFFITHS I recently spoke with her about the power of poetry.

What can listeners expect so moving. They would clap or moan in from The Slowdown? the way of, “I hear something here. I feel It’s a five-minute dose of poetry to something here.” help make sense of the stuff that runs Do we take poetry through our lives. I feel like the speed seriously as a society? at which we live, we’re not stopping to A lot of times people have this mis- ask ourselves what is going on inside. It’s conception that poems are about taking unhealthy and it gets us out of the habit real experiences and fancying them up of listening to other people’s lives and so it sounds frilly. That couldn’t be more feelings. Poems about other people’s wrong. Poetry helps us to demystify the experience can help enlarge our vocabu- strangeness of what is most powerful lary for what we feel. and meaningful in our lives It’s not that you want to say the sky is blue in this As U.S. Poet Laureate you’ve really fancy way. It’s because pain is so focused on bringing more indescribable, unless we move beyond poetry to rural areas. Have you the appropriate context. That’s where witnessed poetry’s humanizing metaphor comes in. I can only tell you power in these communities? what my loss is like if I move it to the We’ve visited a women’s prison in context of war. Poetry is about solving a Maine, as well as retired veterans in problem by making language do what it Alaska. Sometimes in those settings, it’s shouldn’t be capable of doing. not the whole self that’s being attended to. Going into these places and reading People often say they are poems, we hear people’s walls break intimidated by poetry? Is it possible down a little bit. People say, “Oh this to make it more accessible? poem reminds me of who I was before I think a huge part of the intimida- I was incarcerated and it reminds me of tion is thinking there’s a single way the person I’m trying to not lose hold of that you’re supposed to understand or while I’m here.” receive a poem. That’s wrong. You’re not In the retirement center, there’s a going to get every single thing once, but group [receiving] Alzheimer’s treatment that’s why poems are things that we can and they don’t have a lot of verbal capac- return to. ity. Hearing them wake up to poems was continued on page 19

8 Living American Composers New Music from Bowling Green Hosts Brad Cresswell & Jennifer Higdon Mondays at 11pm A radio series devoted to living composers and their works. Produced by WGTE Pub- lic Media. Designed with the adventurous classical listener in mind, the radio series offers a look at what’s new in American music. January 14: Festival at the Forefront: Steven Mackey, Neil Rolnick, Gabriela Lena Frank, Kevin Puts January 21: Fresh Tracks: Laura Steenberge, Mary Kouyoumdjian, Gabriella Smith, Scott Wollschleger January 29: Dead White Man Music: Evan Williams, Meredith Mon Kevin Puts February 5: BGSU Roundup: Baljinder Sekhon, Mikel Kuehn, Stefania de Kenesse, Franco Donaton, February 11: Focus on Karl Larson: Robert Honstein, Anthony Vine, Shelley Washington, Vivian Fung, Scott Wollschleger, Ken Thomson February 18: In Concert: Latitude 49 (Part One): Gabriella Smith, Sarah Kirkland Snider, Roshanne Etezady, Mark Kilstofte February 25: In Concert: Latitude 49 (Part Two): Christopher Cerrone, Sarah Kirkland Snider, Missy Mazzoli, Steven Mackey, March 4: In Memorium Matt Marks: All pieces by Matt Marks March 11: Focus on Conspirare: Kevin Puts, Julia Wolfe, Craig Hella Johnson March 18: NMBG Live Part 1: Kristen Kuster, David T. Little, Cindy McTee, Mikel Kuehn March 25: NMBG Live Part 2: Aaron Jay Kernis, Nick Zoulek, Joan Towe, Christopher Dietz

New Music from Bowling Green – Room Full of Teeth photo/Bonica Ayala of Bonica Ayala Photography

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Public Radio Remix Midnight– BBC World Service Overnight — For detailed listings, visit: bbc.co.uk/worldservice Midnight– 5 am PRX 5 am Counterspin 6 am TUC Radio NPR’s Morning Edition from National Public Radio (starts at 5 am) 6 am NPR’s On Being with BBC World News live from London on the hour, a Daily Almanac at 5:49 & 8:49, and the school lunch menu at 6:49 Weekend Edition 7 am Krista Tippett Crosscurrents Morning Report at 6:51 & 8:51, Monday-Thursday, and 99% Invisible with Roman Mars on Friday at 6:51 & 8:51 7 am Jim Hightower’s commentaries at 7:30 on Monday and Tuesday, and World According to Sound on Friday at 7:30. with Scott Simon Hidden Brain with Sandip Roy’s “Dispatch from Kolkata” Wednesday at 7:44, Sights & Sounds Thursday at 7:44 8 am Shankar Vedantam 8 am

Fresh Air with Terry Gross Wait Wait… 9 am with BirdNote at 9:04am Don’t Tell Me 9 am To The Best Of Our Knowledge Your Call with Rose Aguilar Bullseye 10 am Join the conversation at 415-841-4134 or 866-798-TALK  10 am

1A with Joshua Johnson Philosophy Talk  Snap Judgment 11 am 855-236-1212 • 1A@wamu.org • @1A on Twitter 11 am

Harry Shearer’s Philosophy Talk This American Life Reveal Binah  Inflection Point CBC’s Day 6 noon Le Show (Rebroadcast) (Rebroadcast) noon

Open Air 1 pm This American Life Alternative Radio Big Picture Science Snap Judgment with David Latulippe  Latino USA KALW Presents… 1 pm

BBC Cultural Frontline Thistle & Shamrock BBC’s Newshour BBC The Real Story 2 pm Alt.Latino with Fiona Ritchie 2 pm

Sound Opinions NPR’s All Things Considered 3 pm Folk Music & Beyond 3 pm BBC News update at 4:01, with JoAnn Mar & Open Source with Bob Campbell 4:45pm features: Wednesday/Sandip Roy’s “Dispatch from Kolkata,” Thursday/Sights & Sounds/The Slowdown 6:01 4 pm Christopher Lydon 4 pm Crosscurrents from KALW News  Your Call pm Selected Shorts Media Roundtable  A Patchwork Quilt pm 5 The Daily (Rebroadcast) with 5 Kevin Vance  Fresh Air with Terry Gross 6 pm The Moth Radio Hour S.F. School Board meetings on Tuesdays 1/15, 1/29, 2/5, 2/19, 3/12 On The Media 6 pm Bluegrass Signal INFORUM from the Work with with Minds Over Matter City Visions  Your Legal Rights  Left, Right & Center 7 pm Commonwealth Club Marty Nemko  Peter Thompson  7 pm

As it Happens from the CBC Fascinatin’ Rhythm 8 pm Revolutions Per Minute Marketplace Tech Report at 8:01 pm 8 pm with Sarah Cahill  Chamber Music Society In Deep with Africamix 9 pm Lincoln Center Angie Coiro Fog City Blues Tangents 9 pm with L. A. with with Emmanuel Nado & Theatre Works Devon Strolovitch  Dore Stein  10 pm Record Shelf Radiolab Edwin Okong'o  10 pm Music From The Hearts of Space New Music BBC Cultural Frontline Music From Sound Opinions Afropop Worldwide 11 pm Bowling Green This Way Out Other Minds  11 pm

=new program or time  KALW podcast available  Available on KALW Local Music Player 10 11 programming A to Z 1A Host Joshua Johnson convenes a daily ALL THINGS CONSIDERED NPR’s sig- conversation about the most important nature afternoon news program features the issues of our time. Leave a voice message biggest stories of the day, thoughtful com- with comments or show ideas at (855) 236- mentaries, insightful features on both the 1212, or email [email protected]. quirky and the mainstream in arts and life, (Monday-Friday at 11am) music and entertainment. npr.org (Weekdays from 3–5pm) 99% INVISIBLE A tiny radio show about design, architecture & the 99% ALTERNATIVE RADIO Progressive schol- invisible activity that shapes our world. ars and thinkers share their views. Created and hosted by Roman Mars, alternativeradio.org (Monday at 1pm) Ira Glass calls the show “completely wonderful and entertaining and NPR’s weekly leap into Latin beautifully produced”. 99pi.org ALT.LATINO alternative music and rock en Español, (Friday at 6:51am & 8:51am) hosted by Felix Contreras. npr.org/blogs/altlatino (Sunday at 2:30pm) AFRICAMIX Musical gems from Africa and the African diaspora that will stimu- AS IT HAPPENS The international news late your senses. Hosts Emmanuel Nado magazine from the Canadian Broadcasting and Edwin Okong’o offer vintage and Corporation that probes the major stories contemporary sounds from Abidjan to of the day, mixing interviews with cover- Zimbabwe, the Caribbean, Latin America age in an informative and often irreverent and beyond! Interviews with local art- style. Hosted by Carol Off and Jeff Douglas. ists, touring African entertainers and in Includes the Marketplace Tech Report at the studio live performances are also part of top of the hour. cbc.ca/asithappens the mix. (Monday-Thursday at 8pm) www.kalwafricamix.blogspot.com (Thursday 9pm–11pm) BBC NEWS Current news and BBC pro- gramming from London. bbc.co.uk (Sunday–Friday Midnight – 5am, Weekdays AFROPOP WORLDWIDE The Peabody at 2pm) Award-winning program dedicated to music from Africa and the African diaspora, hosted BBC NEWSHOUR The BBC World by Georges Collinet. Afropop.org Service’s flagship international news and (Thursday at 11pm) current affairs radio program. The one hour program consists of news bulletins, inter- national interviews, and in-depth reports of world news. (Monday–Thursday at 2pm)

BBC THE CULTURAL FRONTLINE The world seen through the eyes of artists, with a peek into what’s hot on the international pop culture scene. Hosted by Tina Daheley. (Sunday at 2pm and Tuesday at 11:00pm)

BBC THE REAL STORY The Real Story features global experts and decision makers going in-depth on one subject. With discus- sion, debate, and analysis to help listeners better understand key news stories. (Friday at 2pm)

BIG PICTURE SCIENCE From amoebas Afropo dancer Yinka Esi to zebras, the science of what makes life possible. Produced at the SETI Institute in

12 Available on KALW’s Local Music Player  KALW podcast available at www.kalw.org/subscribe Mountain View, California. bigpicturescience.org (Tuesday at 1pm)

BINAH The best of arts & ideas, authors & personalities, produced in collabora- tion with the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco. 1/10 Marita Grudzen, deputy director of the Stanford Geriatric Education Center, describes ways to foster meaningful connections and heal- ing rituals with those who are terminally ill; 1/24 Magnus Nilsson, Swedish chef and photographer, shares his explora- tions of the rich food traditions and landscapes of the Nordic region; 1/31 Steve Pinker defends the idea that the principles of science and humanism directly enhance quality of life for every- Allegra Thompson one; 2/7 Rabbi Anne Brener sees grief as a Grief is a spiritual journey through BLUEGRASS SIGNAL Peter a wilderness, in which we learn, she uses Thompson, Leah Wollenberg, and Allegra both Kabbalistic and psychotherapeutic Thompson present music from the true concepts to reframe the stages of grief; vine in thematically-based programs plus 2/14 Tracy K. Smith, the current U.S. Poet a calendar of events. 1/12 Allegra Picks Laureate talks about bringing poetry to ’Em & Plays ’Em; 1/19 Across the Tracks: rural America and her memoir Ordinary catching up with the new releases with Light, as well as her most recent book of Peter Thompson; 1/26 Leah Picks ’Em & poetry Wade in the Water; 2/21 Robert Plays ’Em; 2/2 Eight Days A Week: Songs Reich talks about how societies undergo about all the days of the week with Peter both virtuous and vicious cycles in his Thompson; 2/9 Allegra Picks ’Em & Plays new book The Common Good; 2/28 ’Em; 2/16: Been All Around This World: Young Jean Lee shares insight into how Songs about our lonely planet with Peter her plays deconstruct topics like race, Thompson; 2/23 Leah Picks ’Em & Plays feminism, class, and religion through ’Em; Across the Tracks: catching up with storytelli ng approaches that defy and the new releases with Peter Thompson; subvert tradition and expectations; 3/14 3/9 More Deep Catalog From the ’60s Marky Ramone, the only living member & ’70s with host Todd Gracyk; 3/16 Leah of the Ramones, shares stories of his life Picks ’Em & Plays ’Em; 3/23 Be Proud Of and career, as well as the tales behind the Grey In Your Hair: Bluegrass and old many of the Ramones most iconic and time takes on aging, including multiple popular songs; 3/21 Eddie Huang best- songs with title variants of “Old (and selling author of Fresh Off the Boat in Grey) and (Only) In the Way” with Peter conversation with chef and Viceland host Thompson; 3/30 Allegra Picks ’Em & David Lavin, talk about a trip to China to Plays ’Em. bgsignal.com find out how his food rates; 3/28 Deborah (Saturday at 6:30pm) Lipstadt and John Efron examine the hate against Jews in this country that will not BLUES POWER HOUR: Now avail- die and what can be done about it, ask- able on the Local Music Player at kalw. ing if there’s any significant difference org, and, on occasion in place of Fog City between left-wing and right-wing anti- Blues on Wednesday evenings. Keep up Semitism and what role the anti-Zionist with Mark at bluespower.com. movement plays. All programs archived at kalw.org. (Thursday at Noon) BULLSEYE Host Jesse Thorn mixes it up with personalities from the world of enter- tainment & the arts. maximumfun.org (Saturday at 10am)

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CHAMBER MUSIC LINCOLN CENTER FOG CITY BLUES Host Devon Live recorded performances of the 2018- Strolovitch brings you blues from the Bay 2019 season from Alice Tully Hall. hosted Area and beyond. fogcityblues.com by Elliott Forrest, with commentary from (Wednesday 9–11pm) Co-Artistic Director David Finckel who the discusses works being performed. Highlights this season include Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, and Debussy. (Sunday at 9pm)

CITY VISIONS Hosts Ethan Elkind and Joseph Pace explore Bay Area issues. To participate, call (415) 841-4134 or email [email protected] or tweet @cityvisionsKALW. (Monday at 7pm)

COUNTERSPIN An examination of the week’s news and that which masquerades as news. fair.org (Sunday at 6am)

CROSSCURRENTS The evening news- magazine from KALW News featuring in-depth reporting that provides context, Aki Kumar culture, and connections to communities around the Bay Area. kalw.org (Monday–Thursday at 5pm)  FOLK MUSIC & BEYOND JoAnn Mar and Bob Campbell present the best in live and recorded contemporary CROSSCURRENTS MORNING folk, traditional, and original music from REPORT From KALW News. America, England, Ireland, Scotland, and (Monday–Thursday at 6:51am & 8:51am) other parts of the world. 1/12 Migrations: Songs of past and present immigrations from Moira Smiley, Maria Moctezuma, THE DAILY Drawing on the New York Lila Downs, Night Tree, Keith Christmas, Times’ global team of journalists, The Daily and more; 1/19 Peter Paul & Mary Tribute: gives listeners a deep analysis of one or two Music and conversation with Peter of the day’s news stories. Hosted by Michael Yarrow and Noel Paul Stookey, reminisc- Barbaro. (Monday-Thursday at 5:30pm) ing on their important role in the 60’s folk revival and how their music remains rel- DAY 6 From the CBC in Toronto, host Brent evant today; 1/26 England and Scotland: Bambury offers a different perspective on Including balladeers, singer-songwriter the biggest stories of the week, and some music, and instrumentals Shirley Collins, you might have missed: technology, politics, Karine Polwart, Josienne Clarke and arts, pop culture, and big ideas. Ben Walker, Kathryn Roberts and Sean www.cbc.ca/day6. (Saturday at noon) Lakeman, Feast of Fiddles; 2/2 New and Recent Releases: A sampling of notewor- DISPATCH FROM KOLKATA Writer thy recordings that have been released in Sandip Roy offers commentary and a the last six months; 2/9 Heart Medicine: weekly audio postcard “from the new Medicine songs from Native Americans, India”. (Wednesday at 7:44am & 4:45pm) Latin America, and elsewhere; 2/16 Valentine’s: Murder ballads and “He Sone Her Wrong” songs: Pretty Polly, Omie FASCINATIN’ RHYTHM Songs from the Wise, Barbara Allen, and other bloody Great American Songbook, interwoven with ballads by Mary Chapin Carpenter, Bert commentary from host Michael Lasser. Jansch, Martin Carthy, Dolly Parton; 2/23 wxxi.org/rhythm (Friday at 8pm) More Ballads and Stories: Child ballads, Sephardic ballads, Scandinavian bal-

14 Available on KALW’s Local Music Player  KALW podcast available at www.kalw.org/subscribe lads, and other narratives; 3/2 Michele’s INFORUM From the Commonwealth Favorites: Guest host Michele Flannery Club, programs recorded exclusively for shares some of her favorite picks; 3/9 KALW that provide a forum for people to Potpourri: A cosmopolitan blend, includ- access the best informed, most involved, ing recent finds Kitty MacFarlane, Marian and brightest minds young minds. Fall McLaughlin, Curawaka, Sandrayati Fay, programs include: DeRay Mckesson talk- David Berkeley, more; 3/16 St. Patrick’s ing about his new memoir, On the Other Celebration: Recent releases in Irish Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope; music by the Martin Hayes Quartet, Chef José Andrés, talks about how, with Usher’s Island, Lunasa, Altan, and The the help of local volunteers, he made 3 String Sisters. We’ll also shine the spot- million hot meals following Hurricane light on young, up-and-coming talent Maria; Airbnb’s Chip Conley and Brian like Aoife Scott, Connla, Runa, and Daori Chesky on modern elders and millenni- Farrell; 3/23 Songs for Early Spring: als at work; Rebecca Traister and Alicia Music for the vernal equinox, from Garza place women’s anger and rage at Lorraine Duisit, Kathleen Tracy, Linda the center of major cultural shifts. Waterfall, and more. kalwfolk.org commonwealthclub.org/inforum (Saturday at 3pm) (Tuesday at 7pm)

FRESH AIR Terry Gross hosts this weekday magazine of contemporary arts and issues. JIM HIGHTOWER A two minute shot freshair.com (Weekdays at 9am and across the bow aimed at corporate and Monday–Thursday at 6pm) political corruption, heard exclusively in San Francisco on KALW. HIDDEN BRAIN NPR Science (Monday and Tuesday at 7:30am) Correspondent Shankar Vedantam uses science and storytelling to reveal the uncon- L.A. THEATRE WORKS Compelling scious patterns that drive human behavior, stories, inspiring playwrights, and headline the biases that shape our choices, and the actors. Compelling stories, inspiring play- triggers that direct the course of our rela- wrights, and headline actors. 1/18 Going tionships. (Sunday at 8am) to St. Eves by Lee Blessing: The dignified mother of a ruthless African dictator trav- IN DEEP WITH ANGIE COIRO els to England to seek treatment for her Angie Coiro is one of the Bay Area’s most failed eyes from a renowned ophthalmolo- engaged and skillful interviewers. Angie gist, where she faces a profound moral and and her guests dive into conversations political dilemma; 2/1 The Whipping Man by that matter, casting a sharp, inquisitive Matthew Lopez: Tensions run high as Caleb eye on America’s cultural underpinnings: de Leon, a young Jewish Confederate sol- politics, art, and society. indeepradio.com dier, celebrates Passover with his family’s (Tuesday at 9pm) newly-freed slaves; 2/8 Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey: Based on poems, the play is a eulogy to Trethewey’s mother and a INFLECTION POINT Stories of how journey into Mississippi’s Civil War history; women rise up. Host Lauren Schiller talks 2/15 In the Heat of the Night John Ball: A with women who rose to a particular chal- visiting black detective from California is lenge and stepped up to create change. pit against a small Alabama town simmer- Every episode offers experiences and ing with anger over desegregation; 2/22 Mr. ideas you can apply to your own life. Rickey Calls a Meeting by Ed Schmidt: The This fall: The rise of ‘all-women’ and ‘all manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers summons girl’ spaces; Does empowerment lead to heavyweight champion Joe Louis, tap star power?; How artificial intelligence can Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson, and actor Paul perpetuate human bias; And Rebecca Robeson to his hotel room in Manhattan Traister on female anger as a catalyst for where a power struggle ensues over inte- change. Inflectionpoint.org grating white baseball. LATW.org (Friday at noon) (Friday at 9pm)

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LATINO USA Host Maria Hinojosa brings ON BEING A public radio conversation depth of experience, on-the-ground con- that takes up the big questions of meaning nections, and knowledge of current and with scientists and theologians, artists and emerging issues impacting Latinos and other teachers. Hosted by Krista Tippett. people of color. latinousa.org (Friday at 1pm) onbeing.org (Sunday at 7am)

LEFT, RIGHT & CENTER A weekly con- ON THE MEDIA While maintaining the frontation over politics, policy and popular civility and fairness that are the hallmarks culture with panelists from various political of public radio, On The Media tackles sticky perspectives, moderated by Josh Barro. issues with frankness and transparency. kcrw.com (Friday at 7pm) (Friday at 6pm) LE SHOW A weekly, hour-long romp through the worlds of media, politics, sports OPEN AIR KALW’s weekly radio and show business, leavened with an eclec- magazine of “most things (culturally) tic mix of mysterious music, hosted by Harry considered” hosted by David Latulippe. Shearer. harryshearer.com (Sunday at Noon) Interviews and live musical performances from those involved in the Bay Area per- MINDS OVER MATTER Dana forming arts scene. Recent guests have Rodriguez and a rotating crew of panel- included Michael Feinstein, Ben Vereen, ists challenge each other and KALW’s Frank Sinatra, Jr., and a panoply of local audience on the Bay Area’s favorite quiz musicians, actors, and choreographers, show. Call in with your answers and your with frequent in-studio performances. questions. (415) 841-4134. (Sunday at 7pm) Regular contributor Peter Robinson offers suggestions and reviews of Bay MORNING EDITION NPR’s signature Area cultural happenings. All shows are morning show, with news updates from the archived at kalw.org. (Thursday at 1pm) BBC at the top of each hour. The SFUSD school lunch menu at 6:49, and a daily alma- OPEN SOURCE Arts, ideas and politics nac at 5:49 and 8:49. Plus commentaries with Christopher Lydon. radiopensource.org from Jim Hightower on Monday and Tuesday (Sunday at 4pm) at 7:30, Crosscurrents Morning Report daily at 8:51, Sandip Roy’s Report from Kolkata A PATCHWORK QUILT Acoustic, on Wednesday at 7:44, World According to Celtic, singer-songwriter, American tra- Sound Friday at 7:30 and Roman Mars’ 99% ditional, world musics, and a little bit of Invisible on Friday at 6:51 and 8:51. npr.org everything else. Some of the week’s news (Weekdays 5–9am) in song. New recordings. Old friends. THE MOTH RADIO HOUR Unscripted Folks playing in town, some live in the stories told live onstage, without props or studio. Kevin Vance is host. notes — listeners are drawn to the stories, (Saturday at 5pm) like moths to a flame. themoth.org (Sunday at 6pm) PHILOSOPHY TALK Stanford MUSIC FROM OTHER MINDS New Philosophers Ken Taylor, Debra Satz, and unusual music by innovative compos- and Josh Landy, along with John Perry, ers and performers around the world, interview guest experts and respond brought to you by the staff at Other to listener questions. 1/13 Affirmative Minds in San Francisco. Action, Too Little or Too Much: Race- otherminds.org/mfom (Friday at 11pm) based affirmative action is usually thought of as one way to address our nation’s history of racial injustice, and col- MUSIC FROM THE HEARTS OF leges and universities often use it in their SPACE Slow music for fast times hosted admissions process. However, affirmative by Stephen Hill, bringing you the timeless action does seem to lower standards for world of space, ambient and contempla- certain under-represented minorities like tive music. www.hos.com Blacks and Hispanics. Should we think of (Sunday 10pm–Midnight) affirmative action as patronizing those

16 Available on KALW’s Local Music Player  KALW podcast available at www.kalw.org/subscribe minorities, or rectifying the injustices Street in San Francisco. While the Board they face? 1/20 One Child Too Many: The is in closed session, educator Carol United Nations predicts human popu- Kocivar presents an interview feature, lation growth will surpass nine billion “Looking at Education.” around 2050. Limiting the number of www.sfusd.edu (Tuesday at 6pm 1/15, 1/29, children we have seems like one obvious 2/5, 2/19, 3/12) way to tackle the problem, but is there a moral imperative to limit reproduction? SELECTED SHORTS Celebrity read- 1/27 Envy: Bertrand Russell said envy was ers from stage and screen, recorded at one of the most potent causes of unhap- Symphony Space in New York City. 1/13 piness, but is envy always a bad thing? Is Moving On: The Gold Lunch, by Ron it simply a petty emotion we should try to Carlson; The Women, by Tom Barbash; The avoid, or could envy help us understand Other Wife, by Colette, 1/20 Dangerously ourselves more; 2/3 What Do We Owe Funny, George Saunders & Carrie Future Generations: We talk about owing Brownstein: Hunger Makes Me a Modern future generations a better world, but is Girl (excerpt), by Carrie Brownstein; My it possible to have obligations to people Chivalric Fiasco, by George Saunders,; who aren’t yet born? And if we do, what Sticks, by George Saunders; 1/27 Growing do we do if our rights and theirs conflict; Pains: Nairobi, by Joyce Carol Oates; The 2/10 Who needs the Oscars? We hear Most Girl Part of You, by Amy Hempel; Boys, from philosophers, film critics, and listen- by Rick Moody; 2/3 No Place Like Home: ers in presenting the sixth (mostly) annual Suburbia! by Amy Silverberg; Everything Dionysus Awards for the most philosophi- Is Far From Here, by Cristina Henríquez; cally compelling movies of the past year. 2/10 Overcome, a Valentine’s Day Special: (Sunday at 11am and Tuesday at Noon) Chainsaw Apple, by Arthur Bradford; First Love, by Vladimir Nabokov; The Getaway, RADIOLAB The curious minds of Jad by Dorothy Thomas; 2/17 Not Quite Human: Abumrad and Robert Krulwich explore the Moses and Gaspar, by Amparo Dávila; The boundaries that blur science, philosophy, Pitch, by Dennis Etchison; 2/24 Against and human experience. radiolab.org. the Odds: At the Round Earth’s Imagined (Tuesday at 10pm) Corners, by Lauren Groff; How To Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America: A RECORD SHELF Jim Svejda reviews com- Remembrance, by Kiese Laymon; 3/3 pact discs and explores classical music. Longing and Secrets: American Dreams, by kusc.org. (Monday at 10pm) Peter Carey; Night Calls, by Lisa Fugard; 3/10 Rituals with host Hope Davis: The REVEAL The Peabody Award-winning Luncheon, by Jeffrey Archer; Love Is Not A investigative journalism program for Pie, by Amy Bloom; 3/17 Twice Told, Stories: public radio, produced by The Center for The Luncheon, by Jeffrey Archer; Love Is Not Investigative Reporting and PRX. A Pie, by Amy Bloom. SelectedShorts.org. revealradio.org. (Monday at 12pm) (Sunday at 5pm)

REVOLUTIONS PER MINUTE SIGHTS & SOUNDS Your weekly Sarah Cahill’s weekly program of new guide to the Bay Area arts scene through and classical music. Interviews and the eyes and ears of local artists. Every music from a broad range of internation- week, host Jeneé Darden speaks with ally acclaimed and local contemporary a different local artist about upcoming composers and musicians, with previews local arts events. of Bay Area concerts. sarahcahill.com (Thursday at 7:44am & 4:45pm) (Sunday 8–10pm)

THE SLOWDOWN Host Tracy K Smith SAN FRANCISCO SCHOOL BOARD brings you a daily dose of poetry in this Live gavel-to-gavel broad- MEETINGS 5-minute feature where she reads poems cast of the San Francisco Unified School by various authors. (Weekdays at 6:01pm) District board meetings from 555 Franklin

shaded boxes indicate locally-produced programming 17 SNAP JUDGMENT Host Glynn WAIT WAIT ... DON’T TELL ME NPR’s Washington explores decisions that weekly hour-long quiz program, hosted define lives, taking listeners on an addic- Peter Sagal. Test your knowledge against tive narrative that walks a mile in some- some of the best and brightest in news and one else’s shoes — a rhythmic blend of entertainment while figuring out what’s real drama, humor, music, and personality. news and what’s made up. (Saturday at 9am) Produced in Oakland, distributed nation- wide by WNYC. snapjudgment.org WEEKEND EDITION Scott Simon and (Saturday at 11am and Wednesday at 1pm) NPR wrap up the week’s events — plus arts and newsmakers interviews. npr.org (Saturday 6–9am) SOUND OPINIONS Smart and spirited discussions about a wide range of popular WORK WITH MARTY NEMKO music, from cutting-edge underground rock Career coach Marty Nemko talks with and hip-hop, to classic rock, R&B, electron- listeners about work issues, from find- ica, and worldbeat. Hosted by music critics ing the perfect job to networking, and Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot from the regularly offers “3-minute workovers.” studios of WBEZ in Chicago. (Thursday at 7pm) soundopinions.org (Sunday at 3pm & Wednesday at 11pm) WORLD ACCORDING TO SOUND The miniature radio show that tells the TANGENTS An unusually diverse, stories of rare and remarkable sounds. genre-bending program hosted by Dore Produced by Sam Harnett and Chris Hoff Stein that explores the bridges connect- at the studios of KALW. theworld ing various styles of music, from world accordingtosound.org (Friday at 7:30am) and roots to creative jazz hybrids. tangents.com (Saturday 8pm–Midnight) YOUR CALL Politics and culture, dialogue and debate, hosted by Rose Aguilar. Starting this spring, Your Call will THISTLE & SHAMROCK Fiona Ritchie host a series of shows on the history of with well-established and emerging artists Japanese American exclusion and deten- that explore Celtic roots in Europe and tion. To participate, call (866) 798-8255, North America. thistleradio.org email [email protected] or (Saturday at 2pm) tweet @yourcallradio. yourcallradio.org (Weekdays at 10am and Friday at 5pm) THIS AMERICAN LIFE A different theme each week with contributions from a vari- ety of writers and performers, hosted by Ira Glass. thislife.org (Sunday at 1pm and Wednesday at Noon)

THIS WAY OUT LGBT stories and news from around the corner and around the world, produced by Greg Gordon in Los Angeles. thiswayout.org (Tuesday at 11:30pm)

TO THE BEST OF OUR KNOWLEDGE An audio magazine that offers a fresh per- Photo credit: The Ansel Adams Manzanar War Relocation Center collection at the U.S. spective on the cultural topics that shape Library of Congress. today’s headlines. ttbook.org (Sunday at 9am) YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS Answers to TUC RADIO (Time of Useful your legal and consumer questions from Consciousness) Probing reports on the Bay Area legal professionals. With host impact of big corporations on society. Jeff Hayden. (415) 841-4134. tucradio.org (Sunday at 6:30am) (Wednesday at 7pm)

18 Hang on to that Recording continued from page 6 high quality recordings of speeches and between what’s happening now, with talks by people in the anti-globalization a speaker she recorded many years movement. ago who can offer insight. “You’d be Eventually she wanted to be able to surprised, sometimes it makes sense to record speakers outside the Bay Area, so bring up Michael Parenti’s talk on some- she wrote a grant and applied for fund- thing like the Spanish American War, like ing to buy a small RV that would function when President Obama visited Cuba.” as a mobile recording studio and micro- Over the years Gilardin has devel- powered radio station, with an on-board oped and maintained relationships with radio transmitter. It allowed her to travel radio stations all over the world. As a to Indian reservations and remotely result, her weekly show often features broadcast the meetings of the Indig- current talks. “Friends like Dale Lehman enous Environmental Network. She also at WZRD in Chicago and Mike Mc- covered the 1999 ‘battle for Seattle’ from Cormick at KEXP Seattle do excellent the streets under the protective press recordings and they share their record- pass of Indy Media, an open publishing ings,” said Gilardin. Recently recorded network of journalists that originated speakers on TUC Radio include Jeremy at the anti-World Trade Organization Corbyn in conversation with Yanis Va- (WTO) Protests in Seattle. roufakis recorded in Edinburgh Scotland, In 1992, Gilardin had the idea for a Vandana Shiva, and the controversial Ilan 30-minute radio program that would Pape recorded in Cleveland. feature a speaker’s talk, with a short in- Gilardin’s fierce independence, com- troduction from her. She created a series mitment to living off the grid, and DIY of six episodes, put them on tapes, and ethos has never waned. She feels con- mailed them out with a pitch letter to nected to the community where she lives over 60 stations all over the world. She and remarks, “It’s great that technology was surprised when she received about lets me produce and distribute my show 20 responses, including one from KALW. from my house, where the closest paved Gilardin says, “It’s amazing how timely road is 30-minutes away.” and relevant archival speeches can feel.” TUC Radio can be heard on KALW She often tries to draw a connection every Sunday at 6:30 a.m.

The Slowdown continued from page 8 What was it like growing mind, thinking about drought and that up in Fairfield, CA? sense of things dying. The ways that I grew up in the 70s and 80s in a we’re vulnerable to the natural world is diverse community near an Air Force part of my imagination too. Base. That wasn’t always the experience The Slowdown just launched… I had in my classrooms. Growing up with Any hopes for its impact? a sense of multiple perspectives and I hope it invites people to acknowl- languages has made me curious about edge this private place of feeling, of cu- other people’s stories. Particularly the riosity and create a sense of community. stories of people who are not part of the I know it’s one voice talking into one mainstream story. pair of ears, but there’s so many poets California is a place that has changed whose work is really doing the talk- a lot. That sense of change and loss is ing on the show. I hope The Slowdown something that I have always noticed. It helps someone who has been fearful of drives some of what I’m thinking about poetry to understand there’s nothing to when I think about place. The landscape fear. Poems are safe and friendly. They of California is so vividly etched in my mean well.

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