AUGUSTAPRIL 2019 2021 Catch Atlantic Crossing, an Epic New Masterpiece Series About FDR, WWll and a Princess PAGE 7 DID YOU KNOW? Get a New View of Ancient Mysteries A Heartwarming FDR Hemingway in a Burns PAGE 7 Revealed on New Season of Secrets of the Deadand NovickCall theDocuseries Midwife PAGE 23 PAGE XX PAGE X CONTENTS 2 3 4 5 6 8 VIRTUAL EVENTS NEWS + NOTES RADIO SCHEDULE RADIO SPECIALS + PASSPORT TV LISTINGS PODCASTS Your guide Meet up with What’s happening Your guide to What’s new and Watch more with to broadcast us online at KQED? radio shows. recommended? KQED Passport. television. VIRTUAL EVENTS The Future of Campus Policing Wednesday, April 21, at 6pm Join KQED and CalMatters for a wide-ranging discussion with students and administrators about how we rethink the role of law enforcement officers on college and university campuses. After a year marked by protest over police brutality, racism and unaccountability, how should campus safety be reformed? kqed.org/events á PHOTO BY PAX AHIMSA GETHEN. GETHEN. AHIMSA PAX BY PHOTO ¿Dónde Está Mi Gente? Wednesday, April 28, at 7pm Hosted by Baruch Porras-Hernández and Raina León, ¿Dónde Está Mi Gente? is a virtual cabaret exploring the poetry, comedy and music of Latinx artists in the Bay Area. Organizado por Baruch Porras-Hernández y Raina León, ¿Dónde Está Mi Gente? es un cabaret virtual que celebra la poesía, la comedia y la música de artistas Latinx en el Área de la Bahía. kqed.org/events KQED.ORG • APRIL 2021 2 Cover: Atlantic Crossings. Photo courtesy of MASTERPIECE. Ship illustration by Uswatun Hasanah from the Noun Project. NEWS + NOTES Photo by Kirsten Voss/KQED. Meet Forum’s Mina Kim Over the past decade, Mina Kim has become one of KQED’s most familiar and beloved radio voices. A native of Canada, Mina grew up in St. John’s in Newfoundland. She started at KQED as an intern. When the station began expanding its local news coverage in 2010, she became a general assignment news reporter, then health reporter for The California Report before becoming Forum’s Friday host at the end of 2014. Over this past summer, she took over daily hosting duties of the statewide 10am hour of Forum, which now is carried by other public radio stations statewide. Mina and the Forum team are building the show to help create a space for Californians to have a daily conversation about current affairs and the state’s experience by centering on race, justice and equality. —Peter Cavagnaro With the recent format change to the second hour of Forum, you’re no longer speaking just to a Bay Area audience, but to Californians up and down the state. How has that changed the conversations for you? Having people from more regions of the state join our daily Forum conversation has made me feel more connected to the “nation of California” and made my world feel bigger at a time when the pandemic forced it to shrink. One of the themes for the second hour of Forum is to look at current events through the lens of race, justice and equality. How has your lived experience prepared you for the conversations? My producers and I are often surprised at how personally connected we are to our show topics. I’m the daughter of Korean immigrants and lost my dad to a heart attack at the age of 8. My teen years saw a lot of emotional and financial struggles. And, of course, the recent increase in the number of anti-Asian hate incidents has been no less painful for being expected. The format of the show is not the only major change to Forum. Shelter-in-place has required you to APRIL 2021 • host from your home for the past year. How has that gone for you — both as host and as a mother? I haven’t had any “BBC Dad” moments yet though a few close calls! All three of my kids have been home with me and my spouse throughout the pandemic, so yeah, it’s been hectic. He likes to joke we’re running a radio station, law firm and childcare center out of our house. (continued on page 21) KQED.ORG 3 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 News: 7:04pm Table KQED.ORG World Affairs City Arts Evening Commonwealth Science Friday 8:00 Hidden Brain 8:00 Council & Lectures Specials Club (Hour 2) Selected Shorts • Planet Money/ APRIL 2021 9:00 1A The Moth 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 SPECIAL SERIES Living on the Edge: East Palo Alto’s Climate Threats and Solutions East Palo Alto is one of the places in California most vulnerable to sea-level rise in the bay, and one of those least able to fund protective measures for its residents. The small city sits along the bay at a location where the dynamics of bay currents point wave action right to its shoreline. Mapping by the Bay Conservation and Development Commission shows a swath of East Palo Alto neighborhoods inundated by 2050 from sea- level rise and storm surges. “We want this series to be useful to the residents of East Palo Alto so we will be asking questions about what issues they care most Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images. about and want to know more about from our reporters — whether it's about sea-level rise, climate change in general, solutions or Community advocates are organizing the majority Latino other topics. We’ll also look at structural issues of environmental population, along with Blacks, Native Americans and whites. racism, which is often at the heart of why some communities are Meanwhile, the largely low-income community sits in the shadow more vulnerable to climate impacts than others. And, of course, of some of the world’s most powerful tech companies. we’ll also ask who could be doing something about the problems,” says KQED Science Senior Editor Kat Snow. KQED investigates East Palo Alto’s climate threats, solutions and Some 30,000 people live there, including residents who fled lessons to learn for California's adaption to sea-level rise in a series on other countries because of climate change and now face the Morning Edition on KQED Public Radio on April 19–23, at 6:22am same threat here. and 8:22am. You’ll find the stories online at kqed.org/climate. PODCASTS What are the best podcasts to listen to right now? We asked Alexander Gonzalez, local news features editor for KQED News. Here are his picks. STARTER EPISODE “Partying During COVID, and Why Can’t I Get the Shot? The California Report Magazine produces a weekly sonic tapestry of the people, places and ideas that shape the Golden State. One of the show’s specialties is intimate portraits, and this episode delivers. A KQED reporter shares a moving first-person account about living with a difficult roommate during the COVID-19 pandemic. STARTER EPISODE “We (Still) Don’t Say That” Since the pandemic has limited international travel, I’ve been turning back to my favorite episodes of NPR’s Rough Translation.