AUGUSTMARCH 2019 2020 Where in the World Is Rick Steves? DID YOU Follow Along on His Travels KNOW? Rick Steves PAGE 6 PAGE 6 Rise Up! Celebrate Women’sAncient History Mysteries Month A Heartwarming PAGE 20 Revealed on New Season of Secrets of the Dead 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 KQED Members Day: PERK Free Admission to the Exploratorium Sunday, March 8, 10am–5pm Pier 15 on San Francisco’s Embarcadero With more than 650 hands-on exhibits to tinker with, and zero “Don’t Touch” signs, visitors of all ages will always find fun at the Exploratorium! Since 1969, we have connected the public with scientists, artists, teachers, doers, thinkers and makers to create extraordinary experiences that upend perceptions and cultivate curiosity. Admission is free for KQED members plus one guest with a current KQED MemberCard or membership information on On KQED plus a valid ID. Tickets are based on day-of availability only. exploratorium.edu ©EXPLORATORIUM, EXPLORATORIUM.EDU ©EXPLORATORIUM, The Exploratorium is home to 650+ hands-on exhibits that ignite curiosity and cultivate confidence to think and learn. Meet the Makers Saturday, March 21, 2 to 5pm San Francisco Art Institute Chestnut Street Campus Get a taste of Oakland-made Den Sake’s sake and other makers from San Francisco’s craft food scene. Join KQED and tasteMAKERS’ Emmy-winning producer Cat Neville for Meet the Makers, a live program featuring segments from the Den Sake episode, plus live interviews and demos. Use code ”tastemakers50" for a 50 percent discount on tickets. watchtastemakers.com/meet-the-makers-sf Mobilizing Against Climate Change Tuesday, March 31, at 6:00pm KQED.ORG The Exploratorium Pier 15 on San Francisco’s Embarcadero The science is irrefutable, and the existential threat is accelerating, but the global response to our climate crisis remains fractured and • MARCH 2020 MARCH stagnant. How do we overcome social and political paralysis in the face of climate change? KQED’s On Common Ground event series presents a discussion about local Bay Area grassroots and community efforts that offer new models for galvanizing a response. kqed.org/events PHOTO COURTESY OF TASTEMAKERS. COURTESY PHOTO 2 Den Sake’s Yoshi Sako and Cat Neville. Cover Rick Steves in Italy. Photo courtesy of American Public Television. NEWS + NOTES KQED Collaborates to Amplify Students’ Election-Related Commentaries KQED, together with the National Writing Project and based audio or video commentary on an election- PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs, is launching related issue that matters to them. It also asks its first KQED Youth Media Challenge: Let’s Talk voters to consider young people’s opinions and lived About Election 2020. The challenge amplifies youth experiences as they head to the polls. voices and invites students to participate in the national conversation. Robin Mencher, executive director of Education at KQED, notes, “We are proud to help young people Although many of them can’t vote, young people know throughout the United States be heard.” Watch and that this election will have a major impact on their listen to these inspiring student perspectives on lives. This project gives students the opportunity the Election 2020 showcase at learn.kqed.org/ to persuade the voting public through an evidence- election2020. Meet the New Host of KQED Newsroom Nationally recognized veteran anchor and reporter Priya David Clemens has joined our esteemed team of broadcast journalists as the new host of KQED Newsroom. The long- running weekly television new series features engaging roundtable discussions, in-depth reporting and analysis and interviews with newsmakers and Bay Area innovators. Clemens may look familiar; she has more than 15 years of national and local television news experience working for CBS News, NBC News and KTVU. Her extensive broadcast journalism background had her crisscrossing the country covering some of the most important stories of the early part of the 2000s. As a national correspondent for CBS News, she reported for the CBS Evening News and The Early Show, anchored the CBS Weekend 2020 MARCH • Early Show news desk and filled in as host of the Saturday and Sunday CBS Evening News. As a general assignment reporter covering breaking news for Bay Area Fox affiliate KTVU, she covered a major Bay Area oil spill and the murder trial of journalist Chauncey Bailey. KQED Newsroom airs on Fridays at 7pm on KQED Public Television 9 and repeats over the weekend on both KQED 9 and KQED Plus. It also airs Sundays at 9:30pm on KQED Public KQED.ORG Radio 88.5 FM. Episodes are available online at kqed.org/newsroom. 3 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/ 7:00 Fresh Air How I Built This KQED.ORG Evening Evening World Affairs City Arts Commonwealth 8:00 Lectures/ Lectures/ Selected Shorts Hidden Brain Council & Lectures Club Specials Specials Political This 9:00 BBC World Service Breakdown/ • American Life KQED Newsroom MARCH 2020 MARCH 10:00 Forum (a repeat of one hour of the morning broadcast) The Moth Tech Nation California Report 1A BBC World 11:00 Snap Judgment KQED News: 11:04pm & 12:04am All Things Service Considered 4 RADIO SPECIALS Witness: Beats, Rhymes and Women’s History Month Justice: Hip-hop on Airs Wednesday, March 18, at 8pm Rikers Island This Women’s History Month, listen in on the latest special from Witness, which presents remarkable women’s stories told by A two-part series airing Wednesday, March 4 the people who were there. Return to 1963 when Betty Friedan and March 11, at 8pm released The Feminine Mystique, largely credited for sparking For incarcerated youth, access to cultural and second-wave feminism and paving the way for maternity pay and educational opportunities is impossible to come subsidized child care. Go to 1977, when Lisa Lindahl invented by. Columbia University’s Center for Justice the first modern sports bra, improving women’s access to and sought to change this. Columbia set its sights comfort during athletic activities. Later, an Iranian woman on Rikers Island, which is among the world’s recounts her experiences largest jail complexes and is known for its famous during the Islamic inmates and infamous stories of cruelty and Revolution. The series also abuse. Music production company owner Ryan visits a women’s activist in Burvick along with the Center for Justice launched South Africa, and recounts Beats, Rhymes and Justice, a hip-hop program the tragic 2006 murder of that teaches incarcerated youth to examine human rights activist Anna music and create their own. Not only does the Politkovskaya. Tune in to program build confidence and self-respect, it learn about progress we’ve improves communication and software skills and yet to make. encourages healthy creative writing. Students find avenues to express themselves, contributing to a healthier and safer prison culture and giving them LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. NEW YORK WORLD-TELEGRAM AND SUN COLLECTION. AND SUN COLLECTION. WORLD-TELEGRAM YORK NEW OF CONGRESS. LIBRARY hope for the future. PODCASTS What are the best podcasts to listen to right now? We asked Kyana Moghadam, KQED’s podcast engagement producer, what she recommends. Here are her picks. STARTER EPISODE “Why Are BART Escalators Nearly Always Broken? And How Did They Build Those Tunnels?” In this episode of Bay Curious, KQED’s podcast that explores audience questions about the Bay Area, we look at BART. The episode hits on many of the questions we have about the system and how we get around the place we all call home. STARTER EPISODE “Four Days in August” The first episode of NPR’s history podcast, Throughline, explores four days in August 1953 when the CIA was involved in the coup against Iran's elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh. It’s an important listen, especially for those looking to know more about the 1979 Iranian Revolution and current US-Iran relations.