AUGUSTJANUARY 2019 2020 Jane Austen’s Final Novel, Sanditon, Comes to Life PAGE 6 Explore Immigrant Food Traditions with Marcus Samuelsson on No PassportAncient Mysteries A Heartwarming Required, SeasonRevealed 2 on New Season of PAGE 16 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 The Political Mind of Jerry Brown Live Monday, January 13, at 7pm Herbst Theater 410 Van Ness Avenue San Francisco Join former California Governor Jerry Brown and Political Breakdown co-host Scott Shafer as they kick off KQED’s new radio and podcast series, The Political Mind of Jerry Brown. Hear Brown discuss lessons learned from his unparalleled career in California politics. The man who ran for president three times will also offer his take on the 2020 election. Get tickets at kqed.org/events. Capitol Steps: The Lyin’ Kings Saturday, April 4 Herbst Theater San Francisco KQED members get first access to tickets to see Capitol Steps’ PERK The Lyin’ Kings, the once-in- a-lifetime election tour. The Night of Ideas “Steps” put the “mock” in Saturday, February 1, 7pm-2am democracy. Originally made up San Francisco Public Library of congressional staffers, the KQED.ORG Main Branch Steps now use the talents of 100 Larkin Street musical theater professionals San Francisco nationwide. The Lyin’ Kings draws Participate in an all-night marathon its humor from today’s headlines of discussions, creative workshops, and Twitter feeds, which will • performances and more with top be updated until the show JANUARY 2020 JANUARY thinkers and artists from San Francisco opens. Tickets are available at and beyond. KQED, SFMOMA, San cityboxoffice.com. Use the code Francisco Public Library and the French “GRINS” for 10% off your ticket. Consulate join forces to explore the For special access to the post- ways we're living on the edge today. show wine and cheese event and kqed.org/events to meet the cast, use KQED2020. 2 Photo courtesy of SFPL Media Cover Sanditon photo © Red Planet Pictures / ITV 2019 NEWS + NOTES Photos courtesy of Office of Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. Jerry Brown Dishes Out Political Wisdom in New Series As presidential hopefuls race toward the 2020 the Oral History Center at The Bancroft Library at election, Jerry Brown is watching it all from his the University of California, Berkeley. With those Northern California ranch. Even though he’s retired, conversations and interviews with dozens of others, the political lifer has strong feelings about the the series takes listeners through the lessons Brown candidates and what’s needed for Democrats to win learned from a political career unparalleled in back the White House. For five decades, Brown had California history. a front row seat to the world of California and U.S. politics. Now, KQED brings you The Political Mind The Political Mind of Jerry Brown premieres on of Jerry Brown, a new limited-run radio and podcast January 8 with hour-long episodes on KQED 88.5 FM series hosted by KQED Senior Editor for Politics on Wednesdays at 8pm through January 29. Podcast and Government Scott Shafer that gives listeners an listeners can binge the entire series for free on intimate look at Brown’s keen political eye. Apple Podcasts, NPR One or wherever you get your podcasts beginning January 11. As a four-term California governor, mayor of Oakland and California attorney general, Brown pioneered Also, you can join Brown and Shafer on January 13 at efforts to reduce the influence of money in politics, the Herbst Theater in San Francisco as they kick off championed far-sighted environmental policies, and the series. More information and tickets are available JANUARY 2020 JANUARY elevated diverse voices to the judiciary and in his at kqed.org/events. • administrations. Along the way, Brown also faced a humiliating defeat on the presidential campaign trail This project was made possible with support from and spent years in “the wilderness” after a stinging California Humanities, a nonprofit partner of the loss for the U.S. Senate in 1982. National Endowment for the Humanities. Visit www.calhum.org. KQED.ORG Shafer spent more than 40 hours interviewing 3 Brown at his ranch as part of a partnership with 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 KQED.ORG How I Built This 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/ JANUARY 2020 JANUARY American Life KQED Newsroom 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 Desert Island Discs: White Lies: Lin-Manuel Miranda A Seven-Part Airs Thursday, January 16, at 8pm Investigation If you could listen to only one song for the rest of your life, what would it be? Desert Island Discs, a popular radio program and from NPR podcast from the BBC, takes this question to the next level by asking their guests to share which book, luxury item and eight Airs Thursdays beginning January 23, at 8pm songs they would take with them if they were stranded on a In 1965, in the midst of the Civil Rights desert island. The results reveal fascinating insights into their Movement, activist and white ally Reverend lives. KQED brings you James Reeb was brutally murdered by white the episode featuring supremacists. Three men were tried and Lin-Manuel Miranda: acquitted for his murder by an all-white composer, lyricist, singer, jury. The case resulted in a national outcry playwright and creator and remains a significant unsolved murder and original lead actor exemplifying the denials of justice under in the musical Hamilton. racism. Fifty years later, journalists Andrew Tune in and listen to Beck Grace and Chip Brantley return to the special soundtrack Alabama to expose the lies that kept the murder of Miranda’s life. from being solved and uncover a story about guilt and memory that says as much about America today as it does about our past. Photo courtesy of Katie Jones PODCASTS What are the best podcasts to listen to right now? We asked Suzie Racho, the producer/director of The California Report, what she recommends. Here are her picks. STARTER EPISODE “This Is the Coachella Most Californians Don’t See” The California Report Magazine is KQED's weekly show that tells the unique stories of people who live in the Golden State. In this episode, host Sasha Khokha teams up with Coachella Unincorporated producer Bryan Mendez to explore the economic, environmental and artistic realities of living in the real Coachella, a place now in the shadow of a famous music festival. STARTER EPISODE “My Mind Says Prepare to Fight” Prince: The Story of 1999 is a podcast from Minnesota Public Radio's The Current, which looks at the people and events that shaped the artist’s groundbreaking 1999 album. Through interviews from his bandmates, music and archival sound, this episode tells the story of a pre-fame Prince and how a disastrous stint opening for the Rolling Stones influenced his work to come. STARTER EPISODE “Running” JANUARY 2020 JANUARY Moonface is an intimate, cinematic and adults-only fiction podcast from producer James Kim. In six • episodes, Paul, a second-generation Korean American, grapples with navigating sexuality, identity and class issues in his hometown of Downey, California. The underlying story is the language barrier and Paul’s struggle to connect with his immigrant mother, who doesn’t know he’s gay. KQED.ORG Listen via Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, the NPR One app or wherever you get your podcasts.