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Cover to Cover Bookwaves with Richard Wolinsky

Live on KPFA at 03:00 PM Pacific Time: Thursdays
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On the Air Thursdays at 3:00pm

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Cover to Cover Open Book

Live on KPFA at 03:00 PM Pacific Time: Fridays
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First Friday: Poet to Poet, features poets & writers reading and discussing their own works with poet/host/producer Nina Serrano and technical direction by Jill Montgomery.

Second Friday: Theatre and More. Interviews with directors, playwrights, actors and others in the Bay Area theatre scene, as well as forays into literature and film, produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky.

Third Friday: Storytellers Features. Storytellers of various genres sharing their work with performance artist/host/producer/Jovelyn Richards.

Fourth Friday: Frame to Frame, hosted by film critic Reyna Cowan, features interviews with filmmakers and reviews of films, media and art installations.

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Cover to Cover with Denny Smithson

Live on KPFA at 03:00 PM Pacific Time: Mondays
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Booktalk, readings, unique spins on the zeitgeist, and interviews with authors, poets, and others about all manner of things covering the written word.

Denny Smithson (510) 528-9937

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Cover to Cover with Jack Foley

Live on KPFA at 03:00 PM Pacific Time: Wednesdays
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Hosted by Jack Foley

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Cover to Cover with Jennifer Stone

Live on KPFA at 03:00 PM Pacific Time: Tuesdays
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Reviews and discussions with authors on literature, poetry, and passion.

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Full Circle

Live on KPFA at 07:00 PM Pacific Time: Fridays
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Full Circle features the work by KPFA Apprentices. Interviews, commentaries, live in studio bands and more. Each week Full Circle highlights dynamic stories from very diverse community perspectives.

Over the Edge

Live on KPFA at 12:00 AM (Midnight) Pacific Time: Fridays
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With Don Joyce.

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Puzzling Evidence

Live on KPFA at 03:00 AM Pacific Time: Fridays

Deranged "edits" segue into a cascade of echoing glossolaliac madness, the voicing of lyric ruminations from the free-falling brains of disintegrating personalities.

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Radio Chronicles

Live on KPFA at 06:30 PM Pacific Time: Sundays
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Oral histories: Ordinary folks, extraordinary circumstances.

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Suspense

Live on KPFA at 06:30 PM Pacific Time: Sundays

Suspense is a new version of the classic radio anthology series by the same name; the original ran on CBS Radio from 1942-1962, and featured a who's-who of Hollywood talent. The scripts are an equal mix of originals and adaptations, performed by a growing company of Hollywood actors that include Adrienne Wilkinson ('Xena'); Tucker Smallwood ('Contact'); Elizabeth Gracen ('Highlander'); and master voiceover artist Daamen Krall, who’s also the show’s host.

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Twit Wit Radio

Live on KPFA at 07:00 PM Pacific Time: Sundays
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A new entertainment program featuring a cast of improvisational comic actors and an online writing staff of listener humorists aka Twit Wits. A live Twitter feed lets listeners post much of the script performed by the cast, live,in real time, in the studio.

Show host regulars include Kurt Reinhardt, Lorrie Holt, Mantra Plonsey, Galen Corr and MiddleFingazUp. Online Twit Wits include SF International Comedy Competition finalist Tim Wiggins and bay area musicians Michael Hauser and Dan Plonsey.

Listeners will be invited to "Tweet Truth To Power With Humor and Wit" on a range of topics listed at the show website, See for yourself here - kpfa.twitwitradio.com.

Producer director George Coates describes the show as a disruptive challenge to mainstream media, "When consumers of media entertainment become its producers, on air personalities can serve as the peoples sock puppets for a change."

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