Fall 2012

Sandip Royfrom KolkataNow Wednesdays in Morning Edition and All Things Considered(see p. 5)

The Moth Radio HourNew season begins October 2

(see p. 5)

Local Public Radio’s next generation(see p. 4)

Roman Mars on 99% Invisible’s

Kickstarter breakthrough

(see p. 7)

Live, Local & PublicYour Call from the Diego Rivera Theatre: Can we save CCSF?

Election Night at the Freight & Salvage • Litquake 2012

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KALW program guide edited by Matt Martin and David Latulippe, designed by Georgette Petropoulos, Howard Quinn Company

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KALW: By and for the community . . . COMMUNITY BROADCAST PARTNERSAIA, San Francisco • Association for Continuing Education • Berkeley Symphony Orchestra • Burton High School • East Bay Express • Global Exchange • INFORUM at The Commonwealth Club • Jewish Community Center of San Francisco • LitQuake • Mills College • New America Media • Oakland Asian Cultural Center • Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UC Berkeley • Other Minds • outLoud Radio • Radio Ambulante • San Francisco Conservatory of Music • San Quentin Prison Radio • SF Performances • StoryCorps • Youth Radio

KALW VOLUNTEER PRODUCERSIsabel Angell, Wendy Baker, Sarag Bernard, Zoe Brezsny, Susie Britton, Sarah Cahill, Bob Campbell, Leila Day, Lisa Denenmark, Maya de Paula Hanika, Julia Dewitt, Matt Fidler, Chuck Finney, Richard Friedman, Emily Gadek, Ninna Gaensler-Debs, Eric Jansen, Carol Kocivar, Artjoms Konohovs, Ashleyanne Krigbaum, David Latulippe, JoAnn Mar, Martin MacClain, Lauren Meltzer, Charlie Mintz, Sandy Miranda, Emmanuel Nado, Mark Naftalin, Marty Nemko, Nina Nicole, Edwin Okong’o, Kevin Oliver, Joseph Pace, Marilyn Pittman, Mary Rees, Dana Rodriguez, Steven Short, Judy Silber, Antoinette Siu, Dore Stein, Devon Strolovitch, Katie Styer, Niels Swinkels, Peter Thompson, Victoria Thorp, Kevin Vance, Chloe Veltman

KALW VOLUNTEERSDaniel Aarons, Susan Aberg, Frank Adam, Bud Alderson, Jody Ames, Jean Amos, Leon Bayer, Laura Bernabei, Bruce Bernstein, Karl Bouldin, Marc Branco, Robbie Brandwynne, Diane Brett, Carolyn Broadus, Andrew Broderick, Joshua Brody, Ceinwen Carney, Ronald Chase, Valeri Clarke, Linda Clever, Ellen Cohan, Peter Conheim, Carolyn Deacy, James Coy Driscoll, Doug Dyment, Jim & Joy Esser, Steve Fankuchen, Peter Fortune, Janet Lee Frankel, Nina Frankel, Suzy Gastrein, Dave Gomberg, Ashley Gould, Jo Gray, Terence Groepner, Paula Groves, Stefan Gruenwedel, Ted Guggenheim, Dan Gunning, Roger Hall, Ian Hardcastle, Dianna Hartmann, Jeffrey Hayden, Donna Heatherington, Eliza Hersh, Kent Howard, Judge Eugene Hyman, Lynn Jefferson, Jenny Jens, Kathleen Kaplan, Alyssa Kapnik, Brenda Kett, Lou Kipilman, Sarah Kulberg, Claire LaVaute, Joseph Lepera, Fred Lipshultz, Toni Lozica, Diana Lum, Jennifer Mahoney, Jack Major, Horace Marks, Tom Mason, Colleen McAvoy, Michael McGinley, Yasmine Mehmet, Fred & Cheryl Merrick, Brian Moran, Linda Morine, John Navas, Antonio Nierras, Tim Olson, Alice O’Sullivan, Art Persyko, Catherine Raye-Wong, Peter Robinson, Ronald Rohde, Rick Rose, Marti Roush, Maureen Russell, Bryan Schwartz, Marc Seidenfeld, Mo Shooer, R. J. Sloan, Eva Soncin, Kevin Stamm, Anna Sterling, Rai Sue Sussman, Bian Tan, Ann Temple, Yuyu Thein, Sal Timpano, Coban Tun, David Vartanoff, Sheila Walsh, Charlie Wegerle, Harry Weller, Patrick Wheeler, Steve Wilcott, David Wilshire, Greg Wynn

OUR LICENSEE, THE SAN FRANCISCO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICTSuperintendent: Richard Carranza • Board of Commissioners: Sandra Lee Fewer, Kim-Shree Maufus, Hydra Mendoza, Emily Murase, Rachel Norton, Jill Wynns, Norman Yee • Director, Office of Public Outreach and Communications: Gentle Blythe

ABOUT KALWKALW 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) 841-4121500 Mansell Street Fax: (415) 841-4125San Francisco, CA 94134 Studio Line: (415) 841-4134

© Contents KALW

KALW PERSONNELMatt Martin, General ManagerWilliam Helgeson,

Operations ManagerDavid Latulippe, AdministrationPhil Hartman, Engineering Annette Bistrup, MembershipEmily Algire, MembershipJoe Burke, AnnouncerAlan Farley, Senior AnnouncerJoAnn Mar, AnnouncerHolly Kernan, News DirectorBen Trefny, Executive News Editor

Martina Castro, Managing News Editor

Audrey Dilling, ProducerChris Hoff, News EngineerErica Mu, News Tech SupportSeth Samuel, News EngineerHana Baba, Host/ReporterCasey Miner, Reporter/EditorJulie Caine, ReporterJennifer Chien, ReporterNicole Jones, ReporterKyung-Jin Lee, Reporter

Nancy Mullane, ReporterRose Aguilar, HostMalihe Razazan, ProducerAli Budner, Producer

Part-time announcersEric JansenDebi KennedyDavid LatulippeBob SommerKevin VanceEric Wayne

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Reasons To Be CheerfulWhen I was a producer

for Your Call, Laura Flanders introduced me to a great song by Ian Dury & the Blockheads called “Reasons to Be Cheer-ful, Part 3.”

It’s a funky paean to all kinds of things Dury loves, from Buddy Holly to the Bolshoi Ballet, Stephen Biko to Adriano Celentano, cheddar cheese and pickle to “being in my nuddy” (check your British slang dictionary for that one).

Although Dury’s list of rea-sons is his alone, the song gets you thinking about the people and things you love that, small and large, keep you going.

So, I thought I’d share a few of the things that have been making me cheerful – and confirming my belief in the potential of homegrown public radio here in the Bay Area:

Roman Mars & 99% Invisible. A simple idea hatched at KALW and developed by a passionate and creative producer has gone global. Amazing.

Buffy, Lupe and Ryan. This summer, our youth training program brought three students from Burton High into the station. Their seriousness of purpose and the way they truly became part of the team gives me hope for the future for public radio (and everything else).

Life without market research. I’m so glad we get to make decisions based on what we hear from listeners, and our gut sense about what makes great radio. That’s why we’re bringing Sandip Roy back on KALW, and why

I’m looking forward to talking with you this Fall about what we should air on Saturday mornings at 9, now that Tom & Ray are retiring from Car Talk.

Radio serendipity. On July 17th, 10 year-old Lita Hernandez came to her neighborhood public library in East Oakland and talked to our Hear Here producers about her dreams of becom-ing a chef and a pharmacist. On August 2nd, her story aired on Crosscurrents, and a

few days later we were contacted by Sharon Youmans, a Dean at UCSF who’s a trained pharmacist . . . and enthusiastic chef. Now they’re planning to meet and talk about Lita’s future.

Lord knows there are plenty of things to be concerned and even alarmed about in our world, and it’s part of KALW’s mission to keep you aware of them. But how to contend with it all without souring on reality?

Cue the Ian Dury:

“A bit of grin and bear it, a bit of come and share itYou’re welcome, we can spare it”

Thanks for being with us in this endeavor to create a different kind of media – and for your generosity and humor as we keep moving forward. Definitely reasons to be cheerful.

Sincerely,

Matt Martin, General Managermatt@kalw.org

Ian Dury

KALW Revenues FY12

Underwriting and events 2.6%

Listeners 77.4%

Foundations 12.2%

CPB grant 7.8%

Listeners make everything at KALW

possible.Please give today and make our no-interruption Fall Campaign

– our last membership drive until May 2013 – a success.

Thanks!

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Listening to the Next GenerationAs part of our partnership with the Association for Continuing

Education, KALW hosted three students from San Francisco’s Burton High School for the summer. They made great contributions to the

station — here’s what they had to say about their experiences:

Buffy Almendares: This summer at KALW has been phenom-enal! After learning some background of Crosscurrents and how successful it is, I was expecting it to be sort of “uptight.” But it’s not! People are very flexible, and everyone is so nice and always ready to give extremely helpful constructive criti-cism. There are things all over the place (especially food!!!!), but everyone seems to know where everything is. It’s like a household, you just have to be part of the family to know things will work out.

My favorite part of this whole experience has been to shadow various people from the newsroom. Being able to hear of their experiences, I have a better sense of how I want to approach the coming years of my own life. I’ve learned to go ahead and do things, to not hold back due to not knowing what you exactly want. In the future, I’m looking at being an audio engineer and a filmmaker. But I also hope to one day open my own nonprofit organization in third-world countries, giving the voice-less confidence to use their voices.

Lupe Hernandez: In my time at KALW News, I’ve worked on a commentary about the changing culture in the Mission district, a feature about graffiti, and a profile of Old Skool Cafe, a restaurant in the Bayview district that hires and is run by at-risk youth.

To get a better idea of what sounds good in a radio piece I listened to tons of radio stories from Radio Lab, Love and Radio, This American Life, The Kitchen Sisters, etc. which have amazing structure, sounds and energy in telling stories. All those things make the listener understand the feeling of a piece without even noticing.

While working on the pieces for the radio I’ve learned a lot of the things that go into mak-ing things sound good, little tricks that make sure you don’t have sounds that are too loud and you can hear the person you are interviewing clearly, what ambient sound is, and how to use Pro-Tools. Story structure in radio is almost completely different than the kind of writing I’m doing in school, but working on these pieces has helped me organize my writing. For the future I want to focus more on information technology like radio, film and graphic design.

Ryan Ramos: In my internship, I worked with Matt Martin, the General Manager of KALW. I organized files, made Excel spreadsheets about audience research, and assisted in account management. The weekly meetings helped me get a lot more comfortable with public speaking, and helping Matt get orga-nized also helped me.

I also wanted to help promote KALW and I took the oppor-tunity to volunteer for the station at Sunday Streets, an event in San Francisco when we close some streets. KALW’s show Hear Here was doing interviews, asking people to tell their sto-ries about topics such as food, your work, your projects, what you worship — basically for people to share what’s important in their life. I helped help them set up big letters that said HEAR HERE, and I passed out KALW bike stickers and made buttons and helped them with cleaning up after the event was done.

I learned something new everyday and I like what KALW is doing for the community so I feel now that I have contributed to the radio station and I’ve also contributed to the community.

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My first year back in Kolkata has been a revelation. A lot has been written about the changing India. But reporting about a changing India is one thing. Living in it and dealing with a country where newspapers are still being launched instead of folding, internet rumours spark mass exoduses, and cricketers advertise skin whit-ening creams called Fair and Handsome is another thing.

After ten years of hosting New America Now, I’ll be back on KALW, bringing you a little bit of the story of the new India every week. Eric Wayne, New America Now’s technical producer since way back when we started in 2001 will be my partner in crime again (he says I should call it Outsourced from India). But I am just thinking of it as my weekly postcard from Kolkata to the Bay Area — a letter home from my other home.

Sandip Roy’s dispatches from Kolkata can now be heard Wednesdays at 7:35am and 4:45pm during KALW’s

presentation of Morning Edition and All Things Considered.

The Moth Radio HourTuesday at 9pm

Few new programs on KALW have got-ten as powerful a response from lis-teners as The Moth Radio Hour. It’s only available on an oc-casional basis, but when we do air it, we always hear from people who say they love it. The Moth’s new season of true stories told live begins on October 2nd, and we’ll be bringing them to you Tuesday nights at 9pm.

“The Moth Radio Hour is elemental, even primitive in its simplicity: one person stands up and tells a story to a crowd of eager listeners. The only thing missing is the cave and the fire, and the only thing we add is a microphone.”

— Jay AllisonProducer, The Moth

Live, Local and PublicYour Call special:

How do we save City College?Monday, September 10th from 10am-Noon

The Diego Rivera Theatre on the CCSF Ocean Campus

Election Night Live!Tuesday, November 6th beginning at 6pmRose Aguilar hosts a full night of election

returns and reactions, with long-time political analyst Larry Bensky and a live

audience at the Freight & Salvage.Produced in partnership with the Osher Lifelong Learning

Institute at UC Berkeley.

From the Green FestivalSaturday, November 10th from Noon to 2

KALW’s annual broadcast from San Francisco’s premiere event

focused on social justice and sustainable economies.

Crosscurrents Live!Saturday, December 8th at 7pmOakland Museum of California’s

James Moore Theater

Reports from the New India

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Litquake & Local Public Radio!KALW is proud to sponsor Litquake 2012, featuring 163 events with more than 480 authors.

The full schedule is now at litquake.org Here are a few events of particular interest to KALW listeners:

October 7th – 8:00pmReckless Rambling Hobo: A Woody Guthrie Tribute

Join Litquake for this singular evening of music, words, and multimedia celebrating the 100th birthday of America’s

“Oklahoma Cowboy.” With Guthrie biographer Ed Cray, host Country Joe McDonald, and many surprise guests!

Z Space — 450 Florida St. — $15 advance / $20 at door

October 9th – 7:00pmRadio Ambulante Live: Stories from the Americas

Novelist Daniel Alarcón and the Radio Ambulante team join us for a special night of live bilingual radio, featuring stories from Latin America and the US. Moderated by Oscar Villalon, ZYZZYVA’s managing editor.Mission Cultural Center — 2868 Mission St. — $12 advance / $15 at door

October 10th – 7:00pmPhilosophy Talk Live: Things To Do With Fiction

Philosophy Talk is a radio show that celebrates the value of the examined life. Join John Perry and Ken Taylor as they

talk to Joshua Landy, co-director of Stanford’s Literature and Philosophy Initiative. Do stories teach us or train us?

Z Space — 450 Florida St. — $15 advance / $20 at door

October 13th – 6:00pmHear Here at Lit Crawl

Lit Crawl is the world’s largest free literary crawl (full listings at litcrawl.org), and Hear Here: A Pop-Up Radio Project will kick off its opening

session with a live storytelling event. Performers include Nato Green, a humorist and writer for the FX show “Totally Biased with W. Kamau

Bell”; former New York Times columnist Evelyn Nieves; and Hear Here’s own discovery, up-and-coming storyteller Xiao Juan Shu.

Public Works — 161 Erie St. — Free

Special thanks to these LOCAL eateries who are keeping KALW volunteers and staff fed and caffeinated during our

Fall Membership Drive. Thank them when you visit!Arizmendi Bakery • Avedano’s Holly Park Market • BiRite Market • Bolani • Destination

Baking Company • Dianda’s Bakery • Doctor’s Lounge • Gabriele Muselli Catering • Goat Hill Pizza • Gott’s Roadside • House of Bagels • Just for You Café • La Boulange •

La Mediterranee • La Palma Mexicatessen • l’Avenida • LeadBetter’s Bake Shop • Let’s Be Frank Dogs • Lucca Ravioli Company • Mission Chinese - Lung Shan Restaurant • Mitchell’s

Ice Cream • Mr and Mrs Miscellaneous • Noe Valley Bakery • Nopalito • PANoRAMA Bakery • Peasant Pies • Peet’s Coffee and Tea • Pizzeria Delfina • Rainbow Grocery •

Real Food Grocery • Rhea’s Deli • RoliRoti • Specialty’s Café • Stelline • Tcho Chocolates • Trader Joe’s • Zante’s Indian Pizza & Curry Restaurant • Zanze’s Cheesecakes

Joshua Landy

Woody Guthrie

Daniel Alarcón

Xiao Juan Shu

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99% Invisible Rocks KickstarterRoman Mars on crowdfunding, public radio and a different kind of ambition

Less than two years ago, Roman Mars produced the first episode of 99% Invisible for KALW. Since then, more than 4 million episodes of the “tiny radio show about design” have been downloaded by listeners worldwide. And in August, the show partnered with PRX to conduct the most successful campaign for a journalism project ever on the crowdfunding site Kickstart-er, raising over $170,000. We asked Roman to talk about what went into the campaign — and what its success means for public radio.

How long was this campaign in the works?

I’d originally thought about doing a Kickstarter campaign about a year ago, right after the first set of pilots. This was the first project I’d ever been involved in where people would contact me directly and ask me how they could donate to the show, without me asking for it. So in January of this year I started to make the preparations — to get a poster made, getting t-shirts designed — and that took months.

Did you consult with people who’d done Kickstarter campaigns before?

Not very much. But I did study other campaigns, like Radio Ambulante’s — I looked at their page 50 times because it was a suc-cessful campaign, and they hadn’t produced much content yet. They had a really good video, as did Jesse Thorn’s “Put This On” series.

How did your video get made?Colin McAuliffe, from a local company

named ZeroOne Productions, wrote me last December and said we’re big fans of the show and we’d like to talk about doing a video version of one of your episodes. I said if there was something I couldn’t do in audio only, I’d love to work on something together.

A little while later Colin wrote again and said I really want to do this, please keep us in mind. I said I don’t have an episode, but I do have to make this video for this campaign, which might not be so exciting as an episode, but it may put me in a position to pay you to do an episode if everything works out. So they made it for free. They took it seriously, added all these animations and things. It was amazing, and so effective.

What did you learn from the experience? Any advice for would-be crowdfunders?

For a long time I thought I was just doing this for fans of the show. What I didn’t realize until it started is that there are people out waiting looking for projects to fund — Kick-

starter trollers — and they want to know what the project is. That blew my mind.

The other thing to know is that it’s a cam-paign. It’s a job. Block off that month if you’re going to do something like this. Normal operations kind of cease.

99% Invisible got a lot of press from this campaign, including reports in Wired and The Economist, some of which talked about how crowdfunding could disrupt public radio. Now that the dust has settled, what do you think?

If you’re a media project, you have to have an audience already to be successful in Kickstarter. And to have an audience, you have to be piloted and out there in the world and that actually takes a leap of faith from someone to fund it, and in my experience, that means a station like KALW.

I think it just gives a good avenue to put together a proposal at say, KUOW in Seattle, so a person could say “I want to create this little show and I want it to be a KUOW show, and in year two we’re going to fund it through a Kickstarter campaign.”

If I can get more of those things greenlit, that will make me very happy. I hope more projects are kind of personal and smaller, that there can be a different kind of ambi-tion for a public radio show that’s not about market research and million-dollar outlays and being on 800 stations. It can be small and good and if you connect with the right audience, it will be fine.

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SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY

Midnight– 5 am

Public Radio Remix PRX BBC World Service Overnight — For detailed listings, visit: bbc.co.uk/worldservice Midnight– 

5 amThe Forum BBC

6 am HumankindNPR’s Morning Edition from National Public Radio (starts at 5 am)

KALW host: Joe Burke

Includes BBC World News live from London on the hour, a Daily Almanac at 5:49 & 8:49, SF school lunch menus at 6:49, and Jim Hightower commentary at 7:49.

On Wednesdays at 7:34: Sandip Roy from Kolkata • On Fridays at 7:34: 99% Invisible, with Roman Mars.

NPR’s Weekend Edition

with Scott Simon

6 amTUC Radio

7 am New Dimensions 7 am

8 amTo The Best

Of Our Knowledge

8 am

9 am Fresh Air with Terry Gross with Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac at 9:01 am Car Talk 9 am

10 am Philosophy Talk Your Call with host Rose Aguilar. Join the conversation at 415-841-4134 or 866-798-TALK Rebroadcast Mon-Thurs at 11pm, Friday at 5pm West Coast Live

with Sedge Thomson

10 am

11 am Work with Marty Nemko BBC’s World Have Your Say 11 am

noon Harry Shearer’s Le Show

The State We’re In (Radio Netherlands)

Philosophy Talk (Rebroadcast)

This American Life (Rebroadcast) Binah The Tavis Smiley Show

Michael Feldman’s Whad’Ya Know?

noon

1 pm This American Life Alternative Radio Big Picture Science Snap Judgment Open Air with Alan Farley Smiley & West 1 pm

2 pm Sound Opinions BBC’s Newshour Thistle & Shamrock with Fiona Ritchie 2 pm

3 pm Snap Judgment NPR’s All Things ConsideredKALW Host: Alan Farley

BBC News update at 4:01, and Roman Mars’ 99% Invisible on Fridays at 4:45.

Folk Music & Beyond

with JoAnn Mar, Bob Campbell, &

Sandy Miranda

3 pm

4 pm Bullseye 4 pm

5 pm Selected ShortsCrosscurrents from KALW News Your Call

Media Roundtable (Rebroadcast)

A Patchwork Quilt

with Kevin Vance

5 pmBBC Business Daily

6 pm New Letters on the AirFresh Air S.F. School Board meetings

(10/9, 10/23, 11/13, 12/11) Fresh Air with Terry Gross CBC’s Day 6 with Brent Bambury 6 pmBook Talk Bluegrass Signal

with Peter Thompson 7 pm Minds Over Matter City Visions INFORUM from the

Commonwealth ClubYour Legal Rights

with Chuck Finney OUT in the Bay Left, Right & Center 7 pmThis Way Out CounterSpin

8 pm Then & Now

with Sarah Cahill

CBC’s As It Happens with Carol Off and Jeff Douglas Includes the Marketplace Tech Report at 8:30

My Word!

Tangents

with Dore Stein

8 pmMy Music

9 pm Ch. Music Lincoln Ctr. Explorations in Music The Moth Radio Hour

Fog City Blues

with Devon Strolovitch

Africa Mix

with Emmanuel Nado & Edwin Okong'o

Fascinatin’ Rhythm 9 pm

10 pmMusic From The Hearts of Space

Record Shelf with Jim Svejda Radiolab

VoiceBox

with Chloe Veltman 10 pm

11 pm Your Call (Rebroadcast of 10am show)

Music From Other Minds 11 pm

=new program or time

10 Available on KALW’s Local Music Player KALW podcast available at www.kalw.org

programming A to ZAFRICA MIX Musical gems from Africa and the African diaspora that will stimulate your senses. Alternating hosts Emmanuel Nado and Edwin Okong’o offer vintage and contemporary sounds from Abidjan to Zimbabwe, the Caribbean, Latin America and beyond! Interviews with local artists, touring African entertainers and in studio live performances are also part of the mix. www.kalwafricamix.blogspot.com (Thursday 9pm-11pm)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED NPR’s sig-nature afternoon news program features the biggest stories of the day, thoughtful com-mentaries, insightful features on both the quirky and the mainstream in arts and life, music and entertainment. Includes BBC news headlines at 4:01pm, a Report from the New India on Wednesdays at 4:45 and Roman Mars’ 99% Invisible on Fridays at 4:45. (Weekdays from 3-5pm)

ALTERNATIVE RADIO Progressive scholars and thinkers share their views, produced by David Barsamian. www.alternativeradio.org (Monday at 1pm)

AS IT HAPPENS The international news magazine from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that probes the major stories of the day, mixing interviews with coverage in an informative and often irreverent style. Includes the Marketplace Tech Report at 5:30. Hosted by Carol Off and Jeff Douglas. www.cbc.ca/asithappens (Mon-Thurs at 8pm)

BBC NEWS Current news from London and BBC programming. (Mon-Sat Midnight-5am, Weekdays at 2pm, Mon-Thurs at 5:30pm)

BERKELEY SYMPHONY KALW con-tinues its exclusive broadcast partner-ship with the Berkeley Symphony for a broadcast of the opening concert of their 2012-13 season, recorded in Zellerbach Hall on October 4. Music Director Joana Carneiro leads a program entitled “The Innovators” featuring the World Premiere of the BSO-commissioned “Concerto for Quadrachord” by Paul Dresher, who is featured soloist on an instrument he invented. Plus Charles Ives’ “The Unanswered Question” and Beethoven’s “Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92. David Latulippe is guest host, with inter-mission interview features. (Sunday, December 2 at 4pm)

BINAH The best of arts & ideas, authors & personalities, produced in collabora-tion with the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco. 10/4 Dan Ariely; 10/11 William Gibson with Ken Goldberg; 10/18 Salman Rushdie; 10/25 Naomi Wolf; 10/15 Steven Johnson with Bill Wasik; 11/8 Roya Hakakian; 11/15 Biz Stone with Laura Sydell; 11/22 Randy Cohen; 11/29 Vince Gilligan with Tim Goodman; 12/6 Richard Dawkins; 12/13 Bernie Krause; 12/20 Lucky Peach Live! with Danny Bowien; 12/27 Michael Ondaatje with Dr. Abraham Verghese. (Thursday at Noon.)

BIG PICTURE SCIENCE From amoe-bas to zebras, the science of what makes life possible. Produced at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California. (Tuesday at 1pm)

BLUEGRASS SIGNAL Host Peter Thompson presents traditional and con-temporary bluegrass music in thematical-ly-based programs that also include the area’s most complete calendar of events: 9/1 Previews of the annual Berkeley Old Time Music Convention 9/8 Membership Drive Special! 9/15 Pre-empted for an extended edition of A Patchwork Quilt; 9/22 Across the Tracks: catching up with new releases and reissues; 9/29 Sitting On Top Of the World: multiple versions of this iconic song; 10/6 & 13 Track By Track: The Kathy Kallick Band’s “Time”; 10/20 A survey of classic Bluegrass Singer-Songwriters: Bill Monroe, Carter Stanley, Hazel Dickens, and Dave Evans; 10/27: Happy Birthday, Joe Mullins — 11/3 KALW’s On-Air Folk Festival 11/10 Musical Previews from Kate Brislin & Jody Stecher, Chris Brashear & Peter McLaughlin, and Banjo Extravaganza with Bill Keith, Alan Munde, and Bill Evans; 11/17 All Aboard! — a few bluegrass train songs; 11/24 Bluegrass food songs for a Thanksgiving weekend; 12/1 Across the Tracks: 12/8 Celebrating the 50th anni-versary of Flatt & Scruggs at Carnegie Hall; 12/15 Let It Snow! — bluegrass songs about snow!; 12/22 Christmas Is Near: songs and tunes of the season; 12/29 The annual IBMA Awards Show, recorded live in Nashville. (Saturday 6:30-8pm)

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BLUES POWER HOUR: Now available on the Local Music Player at kalw.org. Keep up with Mark through the Blues Power Hour program page on kalw.org, and at bluespower.com.

BOOK TALK Alan Farley talks with authors of our time. Recent guests have included novelists Lesley Tenorio, Mac Barnett and John Irving, mystery writers Cara Black and Anne Perry, and science journalist Jonah Lehrer. (Sunday at 6:30pm)

BULLSEYE Host Jesse Thorn mixes it up with personalities from the world of enter-tainment & the arts. www.maximumfun.org (Sunday at 4pm)

CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER Fine chamber music spanning three centuries, hosted by Elliott Forrest with commentary by CMS Co-Artistic Director David Finckel and musi-cians. (Monday at 9pm in September.)

CITY VISIONS Hosts Lauren Meltzer and Joseph Pace explore Bay Area issues. To participate, call (415) 841-4134 or email feedback@cityvisionsradio.com www.cityvisionsradio.com. (Monday at 7pm)

COUNTERSPIN An examination of the week’s news and that which masquerades as news. www.fair.org (Friday at 7:30pm)

CROSSCURRENTS The evening newsmagazine from KALW News featuring in-depth reporting that provides context, culture, and connections to communities around the Bay Area. www.kalwnews.org (Monday-Thursday at 5pm)

DAY 6 From the CBC in Toronto, host Brent Bambury offers a different perspective on the biggest stories of the week, and some you might have missed: technology, politics, arts, pop culture, and big ideas. www.cbc.ca/day6. (Friday at 6pm)

EXPLORATIONS IN MUSIC In this seventh series of explorations, Robert Greenberg and the Alexander String Quartet investigate the colorful and tragic life of one of the most prolific composers in

the history of western music, Franz Schubert. Dr. Greenberg will illuminate the life of Franz Schubert, while the Alexander String Quartet inspires us with performances of the composers string quartets, including the monumental String Quintet in C. KALW’s David Latulippe hosts. (Monday at 9pm, beginning October 1st)

FASCINATIN’ RHYTHM Songs from the Great American Songbook, hosted by Michael Lasser. www.wxxi.org/rhythm (Friday at 9pm)

FOG CITY BLUES Host Devon Strolovitch brings you blues from the Bay Area and beyond www.fogcityblues.com (Wednesday 9-11pm)

FOLK MUSIC AND BEYOND Hosts JoAnn Mar, Bob Campbell, and Sandy Miranda present the best in live and recorded contemporary folk, traditional, and original music from America, England, Ireland, Scotland, and other parts of the world. Upcoming highlights: 10/6 Fall Colors; 10/13 SF Jazz Highlights: Marshall Lamm joins Sandy Miranda in the studio to talk about the new SF Jazz perfor-mance center and spin some tunes; 10/20 Next Generation: music by Vienna Teng, Meklit Hadero, Ramon & Jessica, Con Brio, Faun Fables, BeatBeat Whisper, the Decemberists, and more; 10/27 Halloween Spirited songs and excursions into the places that scare us; 11/3 KALW’s On-Air Folk Festival; 11/10 Cheryl McEnaney joins Sandy Miranda in the studio to play music from the recently reissued Real World solid gold series, including music by Drummers of Burundi, Papa Wemba, Blind Boys of Alabama and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan; 11/17 Music & Conversation with Mary Black: an encore broadcast of an interview with renowned Irish singer Mary Black. 11/24 Thanksgiving Offerings: music from English zither player Andrew Cronshaw, Swedish multi-instrumentalist Ale Möller, Turkish saz wizard Erdal Erzincan, and more; 12/1 Songs of Leonard Cohen: performed by Peter Mulvey, Jeff Buckley, the Austin Lounge Lizards, and Leonard Cohen him-self. Plus, The Conspiracy of Beards, the Bay Area Leonard Cohen tribute choir, will perform live; 12/8 Winter Solstice — a

12 Available on KALW’s Local Music Player KALW podcast available at www.kalw.org

programming A to Zbeautiful meditative work by Jennifer Berezan, in honor of the Winter Solstice; 12/15 Midwinter Music: for the long nights, music from Herdman, Hills, and Mangsen; the late Freyda Epstein and Sandy Denny, and more; 12/22 Songs For The Holidays — seasonal music celebrating win-ter solstice and the end of the year.www.kalwfolk.org (Saturday 3–5pm)

FRESH AIR Terry Gross hosts this weekday magazine of contemporary arts and issues. www.freshair.com (Weekdays at 9am & 6pm)

HUMANKIND Voices of hope and human-ity, produced by David Freudberg. From following an urban naturalist in Oregon to learning how to age gracefully, Humankind offers sound portraits of people making a difference in their communities and the world. (Sunday at 6am)

INFORUM From the Commonwealth Club, programs recorded exclusively for KALW that provide a forum for young people to access the best informed, most involved, and brightest minds — be they politicians, business gurus, thought lead-ers, trendsetters or culture-jammers. (Tuesday at 7pm)

JIM HIGHTOWER A two minute shot across the bow aimed at corporate and political corruption, heard exclusively in San Francisco on KALW. (Weekdays at 7:49am)

LANGUAGE BITES Enjoy this new fea-turette during Morning Edition: One-minute programs explaining the origins of popular phrases in the English language, presented by Colette Kinsella with sound design by Lochlainn Harte, from RTÉ Radio 1 Extra. (New on KALW! Weekdays at 5:49am)

LEFT, RIGHT & CENTER A weekly con-frontation over politics, policy and popular culture hosted by Matthew Miller panelists from various political perspectives, including Robert Scheer on the left. www.kcrw.com (Friday at 7pm)

LE SHOW A weekly, hour-long romp through the worlds of media, politics, sports and show business, leavened with an eclectic mix of mysterious music, hosted by Harry Shearer. www.harryshearer.com (Sunday at Noon)

MINDS OVER MATTER Dana Rodriguez, author Gerry Nachman, and guests challenge each other and KALW’s audience on the Bay Area’s favorite quiz show. Call-in phone: (415) 841-4134. (Sunday at 7pm)

MORNING EDITION NPR’s signature morning show, with news updates from the BBC at the top of each hour. Local host Joe Burke offers today’s school lunch menu at 6:49, and a daily almanac at 5:49 and 8:49. Plus daily commentaries from Jim Hightower at 7:49, KALW News’ Morning Reports Tues.–Fri. at 8:51, 99% Invisible with Roman Mars on Fridays at 7:34 and Sandip Roy from Kolkata on Wednesdays at 7:34. www.npr.org (Weekdays 5–9am)

THE MOTH RADIO HOUR Unscripted stories told live onstage, without props or notes — a celebration of both the raconteur, who breathes fire into true tales of ordinary life, and the storytelling novice, who has lived through something extraordinary and yearns to share it. Listeners are drawn to the stories, like moths to a flame. (Tuesday at 9pm)

MUSIC FROM OTHER MINDS New and unusual music produced by Other Minds in San Francisco. Program details at otherminds.org/mfom (Friday at 11pm)

MUSIC FROM THE HEARTS OF SPACE Slow music for fast times hosted by Stephen Hill, bringing you the timeless world of space, ambient and contemplative music. www.hos.com (Sunday 10pm–Midnight)

MY WORD! & MY MUSIC From the BBC archives, panelists explore the English language as it is written, spoken, and sung. Between “Word” and “Music” KALW’s Alan Farley presents a weekly Noël Coward musi-cal Entr’acte. (Friday at 8pm)

NEW DIMENSIONS A weekly dialogue that gives reasons for embracing hopeful-ness regarding contemporary problems, with perspectives relative to physical, mental, and spiritual well being of humanity and the plan-et. www.newdimensions.org (Sunday at 7am)

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NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR Angela Elam hosts this series of conversations with great established and emerging writers of poetry, fiction, drama and creative non-fic-tion. www.newletters.org (Sunday at 6pm)

OPEN AIR Host Alan Farley presents the performing artists and writers who create our contemporary culture and arts. Recent guests have included humorist Will Durst, conductors Stephane Deneve, Jane Glover, and David Robertson, baritones Brian Mulligan and Nathan Gunn, com-poser Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, and violinist Hilary Hahn. (Thursday at 1pm)

OUT IN THE BAY Gay radio for San Francisco and beyond, hosted by Eric Jansen and Marilyn Pittman. www.outinthebay.com (Thursday at 7pm)

A PATCHWORK QUILT Kevin Vance presents a program of Celtic and other traditional music, American roots, singers and songwriters, interpreters, and instru-mentalists. kevin_vance@yahoo.com (Saturday 5–6:30pm)

PHILOSOPHY TALK Stanford phi-losophers John Perry and Ken Taylor interview guest experts and respond to questions from listeners. Philosophy Talk questions everything...except your intelligence. Upcoming highlights: 9/9 & 11 Loyalty; 9/16 & 18 Why Be Moral?; 9/23 & 25 Economics: Cult or Science?; 9/30 & 10/2 Regulating Bodies. Plus, join us for a Philosophy Talk live taping at Z Space on Florida Street on 10/10 (see p.6) www.philosophytalk.org (Sunday at 10am, rebroadcast Tuesday at Noon)

RADIOLAB The curious minds of Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich continue their sonic explorations, where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between sci-ence, philosophy, and human experience. 10/2 Help — What do you do when your own worst enemy is...you?; 10/9 (So-Called) Life — What is natural in a world where biology and engineering intersect; 10/16 Diagnosis; 10/23 New Normal — reframing our ideas about normalcy; 10/30 War of the Worlds — An examination of the power of mass media to create panic; 11/6 (pre-empted for Election Day coverage); 11/13 Memory and

Forgetting; 11/20 Time; 11/27 Cities; 12/4 The Soul Patch;12/11 Pop Music; 12/18 Yellow Fluff; 12/25 Numbers. www.radiolab.com(Tuesday at 9pm)

RECORD SHELF Jim Svejda reviews compact discs and explores classical music. Upcoming highlights: 10/1 Early acoustic recordings by cellist Emmanuel Feuermann; 10/8 A Buyer’s Guide to the Guitar Concerto; 10/15 & 22 Oscar-winning actor Sir Anthony Hopkins discusses the music he loves; 10/29 Celebrated recordings of Siblelius’ Fifth Symphony and Tapiola led by the composer’s favorite interpreter, Robert Kajanus; 11/5 A Buyer’s Guide to Scary Music; 11/12 A comparative survey of the best recordings of the Mozart Horn Concertos; 11/19 Rare television recordings featuring violinist Jascha Heifetz; 11/26 A study of the art of the great Japanese conductor Takashi Asahina; 12/3 The art of the great Russian tenor of the Soviet era, Ivan Koslovsky; 12/10 The Record Shelf Guide to Gift Recordings; 12/17 A conversation with the Music Director of the Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vanska; 12/24 A Golden Age Christmas, featuring Christmas music performed by the great singers of the past; 12/31 Hallelujah, Take 1 — early recordings of excerpts from Handel’s Messiah. www.kusc.org (Monday at 10pm)

SAN FRANCISCO SCHOOL BOARD MEETINGS Live gavel-to-gavel broad-cast of the San Francisco Unified School District board meetings from 555 Franklin Street in San Francisco. While the Board is in closed session, educator Carol Kocivar presents an interview feature, “Looking at Education.” www.sfusd.edu (Tuesdays, 10/9, 10/23, 11/13, 12/11 at 6pm)

SELECTED SHORTS Celebrity read-ers from stage and screen, recorded at Symphony Space in NYC. 10/7 Vaclav the Magnificent – Haley Tanner (Sarah Steele), Swept Away – T.C. Boyle (Rene Auberjonois); 10/14 Where the Money Went – Kevin Canty (Jack Davidson), One Day I Will Write About This Place – Binyavanga Wainaina (Teagle Bougere), My Flamboyant Grandson – George Saunders (Harris Yulin); 10/21 A Bookshop of My Own and Setting Up Shop – Sylvia Beach (Martha Plimpton), No Name in the Street – James Baldwin (Gbenga Akinnagbe), Hunger Was Good Discipline –

14 Available on KALW’s Local Music Player KALW podcast available at www.kalw.org

programming A to ZErnest Hemingway (John Shea), The Messy Joy of the Final Throes of the Dinner Party – Helen Phillips (Kaneza Schaal); 10/28 Tales of Terror from Edgar Allan Poe: The Tell-Tale Heart (Terrence Mann), The Black Cat (Rene Auberjonois), The Raven (Rene Auberjonois, Fionnula Flanagan, Isaiah Sheffer, & Harris Yulin); 11/4 The Twenty-Seventh Man – Nathan Englander (Michael Stuhlbarg); 11/11 Counting the Ways – Susan Perabo (Robert Sean Leonard), The Pony Problem – Sloane Crosley (Kirsten Vangsness), Love Poems – Lon Otto (Isaiah Sheffer); 11/18 Healthy Start – Etgar Keret (Michael Tucker), Hoodie in Xanadu – Ann Beattie (Jill Eikenberry), Best Worst American – Juan Martinez (Cristin Milioti); 11/25 Nephilim – Annette Binder (Colby Minifie), Balloon Night – Tom Barbash (Tom Cavanagh), Cretan Love Song – Jim Shepard (Joe Morton); 12/2 The Empty Room – Jonathan Lethem (Tate Donovan), Why Don’t You Dance? – Raymond Carver (Corey Stoll), Neighbors – Raymond Carver (Jefferson Mays); 12/9 Hanwell in Hell – Zadie Smith (Richard Easton); 12/16 A Priest in the Family – Colm Toibin (Lois Smith), Dusk – James Salter (Amy Ryan), The Bureau – J. Robert Lennon (Kirsten Vangsness); 12/23 The Colossus of New York – Colson Whitehead (Leonard Nimoy), Bad Boy – Walter Dean Myers (Eric Poindexter), My Little Bit of Country – Susan Cheever (Debra Monk), The Green Fields of the Mind – Bartlett Giamatti. (Sunday at 5pm)

SMILEY & WEST An energetic radio fusion of thought provoking, intelligent and stimulating dialogue on every subject from news and politics to entertainment and cul-ture, with Tavis Smiley and Dr. Cornel West. (Friday at 1pm)

SNAP JUDGMENT Host Glynn Washington explores decisions that define lives, taking listeners on an addic-tive narrative that walks a mile in some-one else’s shoes — a rhythmic blend of drama, humor, music, and personality. Produced in Oakland, distributed nation-wide by NPR and PRX. (Sunday at 3pm, Wednesday at 1pm)

SOUND OPINIONS Smart and spirited discussions about a wide range of popular music, from cutting-edge underground rock and hip-hop, to classic rock, R&B,

electronica, and worldbeat. Hosted by music critics Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot from the studios of WBEZ in Chicago. www.soundopinions.org (Sunday at 2pm)

THE STATE WE’RE IN Radio Netherlands host Jonathan Groubert presents stories from all over the world, with a special focus on human rights issues. www.radionetherlands.nl (Monday at Noon)

TANGENTS An unusually diverse, genre-bending program hosted by Dore Stein that explores the bridges con-necting various styles of music, from world and roots to creative jazz hybrids. www.tangents.com (Saturday 8pm–Midnight)

THE TAVIS SMILEY SHOWA weekly high-energy discussion of political, cultural, and global issues of par-ticular relevance to African Americans. www.tavistalks.org (Friday at Noon)

THEN AND NOW Host Sarah Cahill presents two hours of new and classi-cal music, with local composer inter-views and previews of upcoming con-certs. www.sarahcahill.com (Sunday 8–10pm)

THE THISTLE & SHAMROCKHost Fiona Ritchie with well-established and newly emerging artists that explore Celtic roots in Europe and North America. www.thistleradio.com (Saturday at 2pm)

THIS AMERICAN LIFE A different theme each week with contributions from a variety of writers and perform-ers, hosted by Ira Glass. www.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. www.qrd.org (Thursday at 7:30pm)

TO THE BEST OF OUR KNOWLEDGE An audio magazine that offers a fresh per-spective on the cultural topics that shape today’s headlines. www.ttbook.org (Sunday 8–10am)

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TUC RADIO (Time of Useful Consciousness) Probing reports on the impact of big corporations on society. www.tucradio.org (Sunday at 6:30am)

VOICEBOX The best of the vocal music scene from the Bay Area and beyond, hosted by Chloe Veltman. The art of singing is explored with musicians who love vocal music and provide focused, contextual reflection about their pas-sion. Upcoming hightlights: 10/5 What the fach? — SF Opera music director Nicola Luisotti, baritone Nathan Gunn, and SF Opera Center director Sheri Greenawald discuss fach, a method for classifying a classically trained singer’s vocal “type”; 10/12 Virtuoso whistler and music journalist Jason Victor Serenius; 10/19 Psychiatrist Jerome Oremland, vocal coach Mark Bosnian, journal-ist Michelle Holmes, and Beth Pinney, explore why so many of us are afraid to sing; 10/26 Transgendered vocalists Eli Conley and Ashey Moore; 11/2 Composer and arts blogger Brian Rosen explores election season songs and the history of presidential candidates’ singing skills; 11/9 Why singing competitions matter; 11/16 Prerna Gupta, a vocalist and the CEO of Khush, talks about how the lat-est apps for smartphones and tablets are changing the way singers approach their craft; 11/23 Songs of America with Thomas Hampson; 11/30 Creating jazz chemistry; 12/7 Ken Malucelli chats about how to write and perform heartwarming winter holiday songs; 12/14 Husband and wife vocal artists Nicki and Tim Bluhm explore the history of famous duetting couples; 12/21 Stanford Music Professor Stephen Hinton discusses the vocal music of Kurt Weill; 12/28 Barbra & Meryl — Streisand and Streep are the main focus of a discussion about great actors who also happen to be great singers. www.voicebox-media.org (Friday at 10pm)

WEEKEND EDITION Scott Simon and NPR wrap up the week’s events — plus arts and newsmakers interviews. www.npr.org (Saturday 6–9am)

WEST COAST LIVE! San Francisco’s “live radio program to the world” hosted by Sedge Thomson with pianist Mike Greensill. Two hours of conversation, per-formance, and play, broadcast live from locations around the Bay Area. Tickets online at www.wcl.org (Saturday 10am–Noon)

WHAD’YA KNOW? A two-hour comedy/quiz show hosted by Michael Feldman, “the sage of Wisconsin.” www.notmuch.org (Saturday Noon–2pm)

WORK WITH MARTY NEMKO Career coach Marty Nemko talks with listen-ers about work issues, from fi nding the perfect job to networking, and regularly offers “3 minute workovers.” Guests have included F. Lee Bailey, Studs Terkel, Noam Chomsky, Alan Dershowitz, Cokie Roberts, Jack Welch, Suze Orman, Willie Brown, and Robert Reich. And his wife, Barbara Nemko, comes in periodically to give him a hard time. www.martynemko.com (Sunday at 11am)

WORLD HAVE YOUR SAY An interac-tive program on key issues in the news with a worldwide audience, hosted by Ros Atkins. To participate in the live webcast at bbc.com at 10am, call 011 44 20 70 83 72 72 or email worldhaveyoursay@bbc.com. www.worldhaveyoursay.com (Weekdays at 11am, taped delayed)

WRITER’S ALMANAC Garrison Keillor’s daily digest of all things literary. www.writersalmanac.com (Weekdays at 9:01am)

YOUR CALL Politics and culture, dialogue and debate, hosted by Rose Aguilar. To participate, call (415) 841-4134. www.yourcallradio.org (Weekdays at 10am. Rebroadcast Monday–Thursday at 11pm, Friday at 5pm)

YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS San Mateo Deputy District Attorney Chuck Finney talks with listeners about legal and con-sumer problems. Call in your questions to Chuck and his team of guest attorneys: (415) 841-4134. (Wednesday at 7pm)

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