AUGUSTMARCH 2019 2021 New ‘Midsomer Murders’: DID YOU KNOW? Season 18 Starts! British and PAGE 7 American English Ancient MysteriesThe BestA of Heartwarming PAGE 7 Revealed on ‘The CarolNew Burnett Season Show’ of Secrets of the Dead– CuratedCall by the Carol Midwife PAGE XX PAGE X PAGE 17 CONTENTS 2 3 4 5 6 8 VIRTUAL + NEWS + NOTES RADIO SCHEDULE RADIO SPECIALS + PASSPORT TV LISTINGS IN-PERSON EVENTS PODCASTS Your guide Meet up with us in What’s happening Your guide to What’s new and Watch more with to broadcast person and online. at KQED? radio shows. recommended? KQED Passport. television. VIRTUAL + IN-PERSON EVENTS Heirloom with La Guerrera’s Kitchen // Herencia con La Guerrera’s Kitchen Wednesday, March 24, at 6:30pm Family is our first lesson in food and our first introduction to culture. Join us as we look at local stories of the things we inherit in the kitchen. KQED en Español reporter Carols Cabrera-Lomeli hosts the first in our series of intergenerational conversations about the cultural meanings and handed-down techniques behind family recipes. Featuring mother-daughter chefs Ofelia Barajas and Reyna Maldonado of La Guerrera’s Kitchen in Oakland. Presented in partnership with La Cocina. kqed.org/events PHOTO BY EMILY BARRESI EMILY BY PHOTO KQED Member Discount! Bay Area Book Festival Presents Dan Rather with KQED’s Priya Clemens March 9, 6pm live virtual event In this time of deep national divisions, Dan Rather offers a stunning vision for KQED.ORG true patriotism, a “tonic for disaffected millennials and conservative grandpas alike.” Always innovative, Rather now shares these ideas in graphic novel form. KQED members can get limited-availability discounts on • this live virtual event. For a 25% discount MARCH 2021 MARCH on the admission-only ticket (saving $5), use code KQEDRather or use KQEDRatherBook for a 25% admission discount on the ticket-with-book package. baybookfest.org/session/what_unites_us 2 Cover: Midsomer Murders. Photo courtesy of American Public Television. NEWS + NOTES Photo by KQED KQED’s ‘Deep Look’ Nature Series Springs into a New Season Deep Look, KQED’s award-winning nature and science series, kicks off its eighth season with an extraordinary mix of short videos featuring a new batch of unusual small animals. They include caterpillars that eat oak leaves, persimilis mites that rain down from drones and beach hoppers that devour seaweed. Launched in October 2014, the series is presented on the PBS Digital Studios YouTube channel and has more than 1.65 million subscribers and close to 280 million lifetime views, making it KQED’s most successful web video production. Deep Look’s videos are shot in ultra-HD (4K) and use macro cinematography and video microscopy to reveal small, hidden worlds in nature that humans rarely get to see or experience. Deep Look releases its videos about twice a month and will produce 20 new videos this year. Upcoming videos include: March 9: Aphids The bane of gardeners and farmers alike, aphids show up suddenly and take over, sucking the sap out of plants’ leaves. Female aphids clone themselves and give birth to live babies, who are already pregnant with the next generation. Oh, and they pay ants off for protection. But don’t worry, aphids do have a few choice enemies. March 23: Mexican Jumping Beans Often sold as novelty items, these beans are actually the seed capsules of a shrub that has been taken over by the tiny larvae of a gray moth. As they grow, the larvae shimmy around inside the capsule to stay in the shade and keep cool in the hot Mexican forests where they live. MARCH 2021 MARCH • Deep Look is produced by KQED’s award-winning science team. The team recently won a Society of Professional Journalists Northern California Excellence in Journalism Award for Science, Environment and Health Reporting in the television/video category for videos about kidnapper ants, zombie flies, webspinners, tsetse flies and California floater mussels KQED.ORG You can view (and subscribe to) the Deep Look YouTube channel at youtube.com/KQEDDeepLook, 3 and also see the full video collection on our website: kqed.org/DeepLook. Please note: Coronavirus and late-breaking AUDIO news may affect the schedule below. 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 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 Fresh Air The Splendid 7:00 Live Wire 7:00 KQED.ORG 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 • MARCH 2021 MARCH 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 Show Spotlight: ‘It’s Been a Minute’ with Sam Sanders If you’re a weekend KQED listener, It’s Been a Minute may already be part of your Saturday morning. Each week, host Sam Sanders interviews journalists, actors, musicians and listeners to get a deeper understanding of the news and popular culture. Recent shows include “The Lasting Power of Whitney Houston’s National Anthem,” “The Future of Fashion” and “After Trump, What’s Next for Fox News?” Sanders arrived on the KQED airwaves in May 2020, providing much- needed levity and insight and bringing his charm and wit to conversations about politics, arts, culture and everything in between. Show topics range from the impact of the coronavirus on the fashion industry to the history of insurrections in the United States. As Sanders told Into, “I try to host a show that listeners can depend on for great conversation, quality entertainment, moving stories, and hopefully they walk away with a slightly clearer path forward.” Tune in to KQED Public Radio 88.5 FM on Saturdays at 10am to catch this sharp and incisive show. PODCASTS What are the best podcasts to listen to right now? We asked Kelly Heigert, lead designer on KQED’s Creative team, what she recommends. Here are her picks. STARTER EPISODE “Princess Diana Part 1: The Courtship” In You’re Wrong About, journalists Sarah Marshall and Michael Hobbes do deep dives into phenomena and events from recent history to uncover what’s been miscast in the public’s imagination. And they do it with empathy, solid research and delightfully witty banter. The Princess Diana series paints an honest portrait of her life, including the impact of marrying into the royal family. STARTER EPISODE “Breena Nuñez on Zines and Feeling Seen as an Afro-Latinx Comic Artist” In KQED’s Rightnowish, host Pendarvis Harshaw digs into life in the Bay Area now ... ish. In this episode, he has an inspiring and enlightening chat with cartoonist and self-publisher Breena Nuñez. They reflect on how her work has been informed by her Afro-Latinx heritage, her everyday struggles and joys (including having a partner who’s also an artist) and her deep affinity with Garfield. STARTER EPISODE “Dolores, Not Lolita” In Lolita Podcast, writer/comedian and illustrator Jamie Loftus examines one of the most famous and MARCH 2021 MARCH • controversial pieces of literature with a critical feminist lens ­­­— from Nabokov’s original intention of a dark and disturbing cautionary tale into the various (mis)interpretations over the years. The intro episode reflects on the character Dolores Haze whose humanity is often overlooked when archetyped as “Lolita.” KQED.ORG 5 DIGITAL Activate Your Sustaining members and donors at the $60/year level can Passport Benefit choose from more than 2,000 exclusive KQED and PBS shows in our on-demand library with KQED Passport.