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A Musical Offering
Explorations deep into the language of music.  There's a lot that's Bach, and a lot that's not.
About Health
Our program is designed to give our listeners an opportunity to talk directly with experts in the field of both traditional and non-traditional health. If you have suggestions for programs or questions about KPFA, please contact Dr. LeNoir at 510.834.4897 or by e-mail at drlenoir@drlenoir.com.
Across the Great Divide
Act One Radio Drama
Radio drama and readings from world literature, including performances from L.A. Theater Works (for cassettes or CDs: http://www.latw.org/catalog/ ), the Afro-Solo and Solo Mio one-act play festivals, Pagliacci's Fools, Performing Artists for Literacy in the Schools, and BARD (Bay Area Radio Drama).
Africa Today
Africa Today, with Walter Turner, is a weekly news program providing information and analysis about Africa and the African Diaspora.
Against the Grain
A program about politics, society, and ideas.
America's Back 40
APEX Express
Send comments, questions, events to: Apex: 510-848-6767x464 or check out APEX Express on http://myspace.com.
Bay Native Circle
Blues By The Bay
A lively mix of jump raw edged gutsy soulful blues, it’s also your first place for event announcements.

About Tom
For over 25 years, this Chicago native has hosted this popular blues radio show highlighting this Afro-American roots art form from its rural country roots to the urban manifestations and regional flavors that encompass the genre. Also founder and head cat of the internationally recognized San Francisco Blues Festival, Tom was awarded the WC Handy Award in Memphis, Tennessee for Concert Producer of the Year.
Brazilian Music
Con Sabor

Luis Medina hosts this program focusing on the finest in Salsa, Latin Jazz, Afro Cuban, Afro Caribbean music from the classics to the latest! Interviews with local and visiting artists, music news, ticket giveaways and the community music calendar are also featured on Con Sabor.

About Luis
Raised in the San Francisco Mission District, Luis has maintained his community links working with such community events as the yearly San Francisco Carnaval, the San Francisco Jazz Festival, SF Jazz Spring Season and the Stern Grove Festival. Luis has been honored with the 1999 Espiritu De La Musica Latina award and the Lifetime Achievement award for radio excellence by the 2002 San Francisco Salsa Congress.

"Longtime Bay Area broadcaster Luis Medina has become a very respected producer, public relations person, promoter, and master of ceremonies; an incredible asset to the scene." Latin Beat Magazine, May 1994
Countdown 2006!
Counterspin
Provides a critical examination of the major stories every week, and exposes what the mainstream media may have missed in their own coverage. Combines lively discussion and thoughtful critique. Produced by the national media watch group FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting).
Cover to Cover - Open Book
Cover to Cover with Denny Smithson
Booktalk, readings, unique spins on the zeiitgeist, and interviews with authors, poets, and others about all manner of things covering the written word.
Cover to Cover with Jack Foley
Booktalk, readings, unique spins on the zeiitgeist, and interviews with authors, poets, and others about all manner of things covering the written word.
Cover to Cover with Jennifer Stone
Booktalk, readings, unique spins on the zeiitgeist, and interviews with authors, poets, and others about all manner of things covering the written word.
Cover to Cover with Richard Wolinsky
Booktalk, readings, unique spins on the zeiitgeist, and interviews with authors, poets, and others about all manner of things covering the written word.
Crack O'Dawn
With Barbara Golden
Dead To The World
Democracy Now!
Hosted by award winning reporter Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! is one of the hottest national daily radio programs on the air today. Started as an election year show in 1996, Democracy Now! expanded into a hard-hitting investigative news magazine.
Democracy Now!
Discreet Music
Ear Thyme
Early Morning Jazz
Early Morning Music
Early Morning Music
Early Morning Music
Early Morning Music
Early Morning Music
Eclectic musical choices, free of genre boundaries with jazz accents and spoken word, a collaboration of Lewis Sawyer & Chuck Scurich, two listeners whose lives have been completely absorbed by the KPFA Experience.
Education Today
Emergency Circus
Explorations
Exploration is an hour long science program heard nationally on the KU national radio satellite band. Exploration covers the world of science, war and peace, and the environment. In the first half, we have commentary and interviews with top scientists and environmentalists. In the second half, we take listener phone calls from the greater New York audience. If you want to be a guest on his show, email him a question or a comment to mkaku@aol.com. Be sure to include a telephone number and time so WBAI's engineers can call you back. Then they can tape a conversation with you and put you on his show.
Flashpoints
Forms And Feelings
Timeless music "sometimes conveniently described as jazz." Miles, Mingus, Monk, Duke, Sun Ra, Coltrane and beyond.
Free Speech Radio News
Friday Night Vibe
Full Circle
Guns and Butter
"Guns & Butter" investigates the relationships among capitalism, militarism and politics. Maintaining a radical perspective in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks, "Guns & Butter: The Economics of Politics" reports on who wins and who loses when the economic resources of civil society are diverted toward global corporatization, war, and the furtherance of a national security state.
Hard Knock Radio
Hard Knock Radio is 94.1 FM KPFA's daily drivetime Hip Hop Talk Show. It features hosts Davey D, Weyland Southon, and Anita Johnson who hit the air everyday at 4pm offering news, views, breaks, and beats.
In Your Ear
A cool fusion of jazz and Latin music, giving voice to musicians deserving wider recognition, and showing that jazz and Afro-Caribbean music are separate, but "branches of the same tree" as the late Afro-jazz pioneer Mario Bauza used to stress. Interviews with artists like John Gilmore of the Sun Ra Arkestra, Leroy Jenkins, Billy Bang, and Andy and Jerry Gonzalez are highpoints of Art’s radio career thus far.
Informed Dissent
Joe Frank
Tales from the darker side of the urban jungle.
KPFA Local Station Board Report to the Listener
KPFA Music Special
La Onda Bajita
Lowrider soul. This long running lowrider cruising show continues to creep along with a mix of barrio oldies and raza knowledge. Founded by Miguel Molina and a collective of students from Sonoma State at KBBF, the program relocated to KPFA in the early '80s at the urging of then Public Affairs Director Don Foster. A community show, La Onda encourages Latino youth to steer away from destructive behavior and to instill a positive self-image through pride in our Chicano/Mexicano/Latino/Indijena heritage. Features include: "Refleciones Del Pasado - Chicano Historical Highlights" and "El Comentario - Que Hable La Gente Cruzando Las Calles" with El Gavilan. "La Palabra" with Mr. Chuch. Musica by El Tecolote. paz nomas.
La Raza Chronicles
Live From Aztlan
A funk oriented musical serving of hip hop, oldies, soul and Latino sounds deeply fried in East Bay grease. In previous programs, the G-Spot ‘s featured presentations have included interviews with War, Rick James, the Commodores, Morris Day, George Clinton, Joe Battan, Li’l Willie G, Pete Escovedo, Angela Bofill, and Roger & Zapp.
Living Room
A daily program about politics, society and culture
Making Contact
Music Department Showcase
Music of the World with Avotcja
Music of the World with David McBurnie
A layered mix that is unpredictable and cutting edge with innovative dance textures.

About David
For 18 years, David McBurnie has been hosting music programs here at KPFA with his unique global perspective. Born in NYC and raised in Port of Spain, Trinidad, in the Caribbean, he’s absorbed diverse musical influences that he has shared on the long-running “Spirit of Carnival,” “Rhythm Drive,” and now “Music of the World.”

Music of the World with Doug Edwards
Music of the World with Kutay
Contemporary traditions of world music, with an emphasis on acoustic folk and classical traditions are presented with information about the land, culture and history of the people. Kutay Derin Kugay brings music and culture from distant lands to Bay Area audiences, including occasional live musicians and guest scholars in KPFA's studios. A broad spectrum of world music is honored in this program, from Asia to Africa to Eastern Europe, Southwest Asia, the Mediterranean and everywhere inbetween.

About Kutay
Kutay is a graduate of Art and Film studies at San Jose State University. He started with composing music for his films, worked in Germany and Turkey in films and has been collecting music for over 40 years. He has taught at San Jose Community College and worked at Stanford University.

First at KUSF, then at KPFA in 1987-88, Kutay began with a monthly program called Music of Afro-Asia, then a weekly program, Music of the World, on Mondays. Being of Laz national descent he loves the furious rhythms of Caucasus, Arabic lullabies, Persian and Indian classical, Greek blues and Turkish/Kurdish/Armenian/Balkan chants. Kutay Derin Kugay is the co-founder and program director of the San Francisco World Music Festival and is owner of 7/8 Music Productions, a San Francisco based record label and international concert production company.

Music of the World with Stephen Kent
About Stephen
In a musical journey that began in England in the late 1970's, composer, performer, multi-instrumentalist and radio DJ Stephen Kent has blazed a trail across five continents, living at various times in the UK, Spain, Australia and the USA. His musical scores, composed for theatre, circus and dance companies, have received international acclaim and his work as a performer and recording artist has established him as a unique talent in the global music scene. He is one of the foremost exponents of the Australian Aboriginal Didjeridu in contemporary music. Both as a solo artist and in group collaborations with Trance Mission, Beasts of Paradise and Lights in a Fat City, his ground-breaking work has helped to redefine the sound of one of the world's most ancient instruments.
Music of the World with Victoria
Tuesday's Music of the World features a mixed bag of selections from different genres, including Roc en Espanol/ Latin Alternative and Electronic Music. The program has been described as mix of folkloric, electronic, urban, and spiritual.

About Victoria
Victoria came to KPFA in 1997 through the Apprenticeship Program as part of the first and only apprentice group to focus on music production. Victoria has always had an ear for music, a pulse on the beat of contemporary sub culture, and a passion for innovation. From her early urban immigrant upbringing to her formal academic training in cultural studies at Berkeley, Victoria has remained committed to the arts as an essential form of cultural expression. Beyond music, her interests include spoken word, pots and pans, pop clutter, and design. She enjoys bringing hybrid sounds to you every Tuesday morning.

Musical Colors
A jazz world experience. Explores a variety of textures with a cross pollination of jazz, world and Latin influences.
Night Magic
No Other Radio Network
"The No Other Radio Network," has pioneered and provided a forum for underground, electronic, industrial, psycho acoustic, and technogrunge music. This weekly midnight program gives public access to musicians who would not be able to get their sounds heard because they do not conform to the commercial, conservative, censored, make-believe media mold in the USA. Listeners to the program can also send in their contributions, giving a true validity to the home taping music scene.
Off The Beaten Path
Over The Edge
Over the Edge is a live radio mix of all sorts of music, dialog, humor, and ideas. Each show is loosely based around a different theme or topic. It is often a group mix with several people operating various equipment. We specialize in “modern noise” with a heavily sampled or collage approach. This is a “found sound” show incorporating content from all other media, rearranged and cut up for our own purposes. We take calls throughout, “receptacle programming", which becomes part of our mix in progress.
Pacifica is 55!
Five decades and counting: the country’s oldest non-commercial network, originating with KPFA-FM, celebrates its profound archival history in this 5 hour special featuring such radio classics as comic Richard Pryor’s own KPFA radio show, playwright Bertholt Brecht testifying before HUAC, Tianenmen Square on that fateful summer day in 1989, plus music and spoken word treasures from the archives.
Pacifica Radio Archives Fund Drive
Panhandle Country

Traditional Country, Bluegrass, Cajun, Western Swing, Old Time Sting Band, Country Jazz. Recorded music, interviews, specials and live music.

Web site: http://www.panhandlecountry.com
email: tom[at]panhandlecountry.com
Pig In A Pen
Bluegrass and Old Time String Band Music. Recorded music, interviews, specials and live music.
Pitch A Fit
Free form style with doses of rock, techno, R&B, punk, soul, metal, standards, soundtracks, indie, spoken word, and things that haven't been invented yet.
Pushing Limits
Puzzling Evidence
Radio 2050
Latino Arts and Culture
radio2050@kpfa.org
Radio Chronicles
Report to the Listener
Ritmos De Las Americas
Music from the Americas, from Brazil to the Carribean to Latin America, with a little roots and some occasional Mariachi/Blues for the soul. Email la_chula68@hotmail.com for playlists. Gracias!
Rock en Rebelión

Rock en Rebelión es un programa de radio cuyo proposito es la difusion de musica y cultura alternativa. Nuestro objetivo es crear un espacio informativo y musical, que se aleje de los esquemas, estereotipos, y resulte dinamico!

Visit Rock en Rebelión en Myspace!
Roots Kommunikations
Saturday Morning Talkies
Settin the Standard
Sing Out!
Folk and not so acoustic music.
Special Broadcast
Sunday Salon
Sunday with Peter Laufer
Terra Verde
A live public affairs program focusing on investigating and analyzing environmental issues from a global perspective. Our hope is both to bring key international perspectives to listeners, as well as make the issues relevant to northern California listeners. When reviewing issues for show content and recruiting guests, we strive for a balance of both gender and social justice in every show, and look to provide opportunities for in depth dialogues with those whose perspectives are not always given a voice. We also enjoy bringing music and spoken word into segment breaks that are representative of the bioregions and political perspectives being explored on the show.
The Big Thang
The Bonnie Simmons Show
A mix of singer/songwriter, folk, rock, soul, country, and R&B.
The Gospel Experience
One of the longest running gospel music shows in the Bay Area.
The Hear & Now
"from singer-songwriters to avant-garde jazz; old faves, new voices, and live performances"
The Herbal Highway
Enhancing the community’s knowledge of herbal medicines and alternative choices to standard medical practices for healing.
The History Of Funk
Two hours of the strongest, stankiest, uncut fonk anywhere on the airwaves.
The Johnny Otis Show
Classic R&B.
The KPFA Evening News
With Mark Mericle and Sandra Lupien, daily at 6:00 pm.
The Late Night Hype
The Morning Show
The Morning Show is a locally produced public affairs program, covering Bay Area, California, National, and International news, as well as arts and culture. Regular features include travel, music, film, food and farming, and labor issues.

Theme Music: The Morning Show theme is "Maria Moita", written by Carlos Lyra, performed by Bossacucanova, off a CD entitled "Revisited Classics," on Six Degrees Records.
The Reggae Express
Go with the flow reggae music mix. Traditionally the program begins with the Bob Marley Roadblock, a live recording of Marley music because you know anywhere you went to see B.M. there was going to be a roadblock.
The Visionary Activist Show
The Visionary Activist show is the wedding of spiritual magic and compassionate social activism.
Transitions On Traditions
Jazz, Blues, Spoken Word, and then some.
Voices of the Middle East and North Africa
Co-hosted by Khalil and Malihe.
Women's Magazine
The Women's Magazine is an hour long radio program that airs on KPFA radio that presents and discusses women's lives and issues globally and locally from a radical multiracial feminist/mujerist/womanist perspective. We bring women's issues, lives, culture, music, struggles and achievements to the forefront and bring a feminist critique of issues important to the progressive community.

To learn more, including information about interning, visit: kpfa.org/womensmagazine.
Your Own Health and Fitness
Listen to the latest show, find out about upcoming shows, order CDs, and learn about other resources at
Youth Radio