530 Podcast Hour (1pm and sometimes 5pm)
KFOI assembles our podcast series of independent journalists from around the nation. We rotate selections on Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 1 pm from Jeremy Scahill, Abby Martin, Derrick Jenson, Into the Wild, James Corbett, Naomi Klein and Vandana Shiva to name a few. Airs Wednesdays and Thursdays at 1 pm.
Afro Pop
Afropop Worldwide is a Peabody award-winning radio program, podcast and online magazine dedicated to music from Africa and the African diaspora. KFOI’s Good Morning World hour on Tuesday mornings at 7 am.
Alan Watts Hour
Alan Wilson Watts (6 January 1915 – 16 November 1973) was a British writer and speaker known for interpreting and popularizing Buddhism, Taoism, and Hinduism for a Western audience. Born in Chislehurst, England, he moved to the United States in 1938 and began Zen training in New York. His teachings have been credited by many as life-changing. Airs Sundays at 9 am.
All Creatures Podcast
All Creatures Podcast’s mission is to educate listeners on the diverse animals that share our planet. We are in the midst of the Earth’s Sixth Mass Extinction and many animals need our help if they are to survive. Hosts Chris and Angie cover a different species each week sharing their knowledge about them and issues they face trying to survive. Airs Monday at 1 pm.
ALTERNATIVE RADIO
Alternative Radio, established in 1986, is an award-winning weekly public affairs program airing on 200 public radio stations in the U.S., Canada, Europe and beyond. AR and lead host, David Barsamian, provide information, analysis, and views that are frequently ignored or distorted in corporate media. Alternative Radio, is based in Boulder, Colorado. Airs Sundays at 6 pm.
Bald Head Reggae
Bald Head Reggae with Doug Kelley, plays two hours of irie tunes every Friday night. Reggae is music for Rastas and Baldheads alike. From ska to dub, from roots to dancehall, let us show you that there is a whole world of reggae beyond just Bob Marley. Learn about many great artists from Jamaica and around the world who have given us the gift of some of the most distinctive, enlightening, political, mellow and spiritual music today. Airs Fridays from 9 – 11 pm.
Big Picture Science
Produced at the SETI Institute, Big Picture Science engages listeners with modern and cutting edge science through smart and humorous storytelling. The hosts and their guests have fun drawing surprising connections between the latest science and technology research to give you the Big Picture. Leading researchers, techies, and journalists join astronomer Seth Shostak and science journalist Molly Bentley each week to provide a smart and humorous take on emerging scientific research. A regular segment is “Skeptic Check” which casts a critical eye on pseudoscience. Airs Sundays at 3:00 pm.
Bioneers
organization that highlights breakthrough solutions for restoring people and planet. Founded in 1990 in Santa Fe, New Mexico by social entrepreneurs Kenny Ausubel and Nina Simons, Bioneers has acted as a fertile hub of social and scientific innovators with practical and visionary solutions for the world’s most pressing environmental and social challenges. A celebration of the genius of nature and human ingenuity, Bioneers connects people to each other and to breakthrough solutions. Their acclaimed annual national and local conferences are complemented by extensive media outreach including an award-winning radio series, book series, and roles in media projects such as Leonardo DiCaprio’s film The 11th Hour. Their programs further focus on Women’s Leadership, Indigenous Wisdom, Community Resilience Networks, Leadership Development and Youth. Airs Fridays at 2:30.
BradCast
Investigative journalist, blogger, and broadcaster Brad Friedman’s interviews, analysis and commentary, are ripped from the pages of The BRAD BLOG (BradBlog.com), current events (if they matter) and the rest of the stuff we have to live with. The Bradblog is now celebrating over 15 years of publishing and is popular on Pacifica stations for its timely dissection of daily events. Airs Monday – Friday from 7-8 pm.
Breaking Through
Breaking Through covers the top topics facing our nation from a perspective that corporate media too often ignores: The perspective of real people and real experts. Host Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner takes an in-depth look at how the issues that matter impact you, your neighborhood, and your community and what you can do to make a difference. Listen, learn, grow, change the world.
Rowe-Finkbeiner is the Executive Director/CEO and Co-Founder of MomsRising and an award-winning author of books, including Keep Marching: How Every Woman Can Take Action and Change Our World, The F-Word: Feminism in Jeopardy, and The Motherhood Manifesto, which she co-authored with MomsRising co-founder and board President Joan Blades. Kristin has also written articles on a variety of topics, including women and families, public policy, motherhood, economic security, equality, health, civic engagement, and new feminism.
Her awards for writing include the Society of Professional Journalists’ Excellence in Journalism award for magazine writing. She’s been deeply involved in grassroots engagement and policy analysis for more than two decades, is a regular contributor to the Huffington Post, and has been interviewed by numerous international, national and local news outlets, including, CNN, New York Times, Washington Post, Today Show, MSNBC, Good Morning America, NOW with David Brancaccio, To the Contrary, and BBC World Service, and more. Airs Sundays at 1:00 pm.
Center Stage Spotlight
Center Stage Spotlight is hosted by Carly Jean May, who highlights local and regional musicians, artists and other creative folk. Some shows are a solid hour with one artist and other shows highlight upcoming events and performances at local venues. It is not uncommon to have three different performers on a Spotlight show. Previous guests include: Joachim Hartung, Mathew Bingham, Love To Bleed, Robin Montgomery, and Claudia Cordorola. Since inception, more than 100 musicians have been interviewed. Airs Wednesday from 8 – 10 pm.
Chenango Session
Hosted by Andru Bemis, this weekly, nationally syndicated radio program features world-class musicians playing in intimate spaces—living rooms, galleries, and listening rooms—for small, enthusiastic audiences, mostly around Binghamton, New York. Audiences and artists are encouraged to interact, and the spirit of the live show is preserved in the radio program and recordings. Airs Mondays at 7:00 a.m. as part of KFOI’s Good Morning World
Classical Tones
Remarkable classics from all over the world. Airs Saturdays from 3 – 5 pm.
Children’s Hour
The Children’s Hour is hosted by Katie Stone and produced out of the University of New Mexico. Each show includes a segment where a team of kids asks intuitive questions which guests clearly enjoy answering or postulating about.
Guests range from astronauts on the International Space Lab to scientists on the ground as well as artists and storytellers. Airing Mondays through Friday at 11 am.
Corbett Report
This show is part of KFOI’s “530 Podcast series.” The Corbett Report is an independent, listener-supported alternative news source. It operates on the principle of open source intelligence and provides podcasts, interviews, articles and videos about breaking news and important issues from 9/11 Truth and false flag terror to the Big Brother police state, eugenics, geopolitics, the central banking fraud and much, much more. The Corbett Report is edited, webmastered, written, produced and hosted by James Corbett since 2007 as an outlet for independent critical analysis of politics, society, history, and economics. Since then he has written, recorded and edited thousands of hours of audio and video media. He is the lead editorial writer for The International Forecaster, the e-newsletter created by the late Bob Chapman. His work has been carried online by a wide variety of websites and his videos have garnered over 40,000,000 views on YouTube alone.
Dead Air
Cory Daniels shares quality selections from official releases of The Grateful Dead: legendary live concerts, fine studio releases, rare highlights, & current releases from the vault. Plus, news about surviving members of the band, celebrations of historical milestones, and some insightful interviews. Airs Thursday evenings at 10 pm.
Democracy Now!
Democracy Now! is a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. Pioneering the largest public media collaboration in the U.S., Democracy Now! is broadcast on Pacifica, NPR, community, and college radio stations; on public access, PBS, satellite television (DISH network: Free Speech TV ch. 9415 and Link TV ch. 9410; DIRECTV: Free Speech TV ch. 348 and Link TV ch. 375); and on the internet. DN!’s podcast is one of the most popular on the web.
Democracy Now!’s War and Peace Report provides access to people and perspectives rarely heard in the U.S.corporate-sponsored media, including independent and international journalists, ordinary people from around the world who are directly affected by U.S. foreign policy, grassroots leaders and peace activists, artists, academics and independent analysts. In addition, Democracy Now! hosts real debates–debates between people who substantially disagree, such as between the White House or the Pentagon spokespeople on the one hand, and grassroots activists on the other. Airs Monday – Friday at 8 am.
Dodging the Static
Hosted by Devon Hastings. Dodging the Static is an eclectic mix of different styles and genres of music. Each show’s music selections have a thread of connection creating a 360 degree experience. Airs Tuesday evenings from 8 to 11 pm.
Eco Shock
Alex Smith is the host of the syndicated weekly Radio Ecoshock Show – the cutting edge with top scientists, authors and activists presenting the latest science, authors, issues – from climate change, oceans, forests, pollution, Peak Oil, the economy, and peace heard on over 90 radio stations. Smith was previously a researcher for a global environment group, a print journalist, homesteader, world-traveler and private investigator. Airs Mondays at noon.
Exploration
Dr. Michio Kaku is an internationally recognized authority in theoretical physics and also the environment. Exploration is a weekly hour-long radio program on science on several stations around the country and his commentaries on science can be heard on 60 radio stations nationwide.
Dr. Kaku holds the Henry Semat Professorship in Theoretical Physics at the City College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His goal is to help complete Einstein’s dream of a “theory of everything,” a single equation, perhaps no more than one inch long, which will unify all the fundamental forces in the universe. He has lectured around the world and his Ph.D. level textbooks are required reading at many of the top physics laboratories. He has written 9 books; his last two books, Hyperspace and Visions, became international bestsellers, and have been widely translated into different languages. Tuesdays noon.
First Voices Radio
With more than 1 million online hits annually, this program has become known for bringing to the airwaves the experiences, perspectives and struggles of Indigenous peoples worldwide. The program’s Host, Executive Producer and Founder Tiokasin Ghosthorse is from the Cheyenne River Lakota Nation in South Dakota and the bands of Itazipco/Mnicoujou and Oglala. Tiokasin has been described as “a spiritual agitator, natural rights organizer, Indigenous thinking process educator and a community activator.” One reviewer called him “a cultural resonator in the key of life.”
Politics for the Lakota is spiritual and is not separate from the rest of life.
With nearly 70% of the Mother Earth’s remaining natural sources (resources) on Indigenous lands, traditional Indigenous practices of biodiversity preservation have, ironically, made these lands targets for political juggling, rationalized “Green” movements, global corporations seeking the last forests, genetic and plant materials, oil, and minerals to feed unsustainable growth. But Native peoples refuse to be victims. Their stories of resilience and growing success an inspirational model for future sustainability. Wednesdays 5pm.
Food Sleuth
Join Melinda Hemmelgarn, a registered dietitian and investigative nutritionist, for dynamic interviews with national experts in food, health and agriculture. From physicians to film makers, writers, farmers, scientists and chefs, Food Sleuth Radio navigates our complicated food system. You’ll discover how farm and food policies impact our environment and public health, and learn the secrets to eating well: for yourself, your community and your planet. Provocative, practical and personal, Food Sleuth Radio helps us think beyond our plates to find “food truth.” Award-winning Food Sleuth Radio ranks among the top national “green food radio shows.” If you care about what you eat, tune in! Thursdays at 12:30 pm.
From The Vault
From the Vault presents programs aired many years ago which still have great relevance today. Pacifica Radio combs through their archives for the most compelling programs giving new listeners access to important voices and stories.
From the Vault is part of the Pacifica Radio Archives Preservation and Access Project, and has been funded in part by the GRAMMY Foundation, the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ford Foundation along with the generous support of Pacifica Radio listeners.
Good Morning World
KFOI presents a daily one hour “wake up and go” show at 7:00 am featuring shows and artists from around the world. We rotate cultural productions that are or have aired on the global radio airwaves. We welcome suggestions to this series so that throughout the year the rich musical colors of humanity will live in KFOI’s signal. Email suggestions to mauro@kfoiradio.org
Monday: CHENANGO SESSIONS.
Tuesday: AFROPOP.
Wednesday: RAGAS.
Thursday: TRANS-FORMATIONAL.
Friday: CELTIC.
Harry Shearer – Le Show
Actor…author…director…comedian…musician…philosopher…political satirist…record-company owner… Harry Shearer is a comic personality and modern day renaissance man. Vogue magazine describes Le Show as, “a wildly clever, iconoclastic stew of talk, music, political commentary, readings of inadvertently funny public documents or trade magazines, and scripted skits.” Harry Shearer throws our society into clear focus. Always amusing and often hilarious, Shearer’s pointed satire calls out people in power’s impact on society and our environment often using their own breathtakingly incriminating words. Mondays 3 pm.
Hearts of Space
Hearts of Space grew out of former architect Stephen Hill’s fascination with space-creating, ambient and contemplative music. Beginning in 1973, Hill hosted a weekly late-night radio program on KPFA-FM in the San Francisco Bay area. What began purely as a labor of love eventually became the most popular contemporary music program on public radio. Over the intervening quarter century, Hearts of Space evolved into a multifaceted music and broadcast producer encompassing radio syndication, a record company, and now an Internet music service. Sunday evenings at 8:00 pm.
Homoground
Homoground, ‘Same Ground, Different Sound,’ is a music podcast that has become a lighthouse for bands, events and organizations that fly under the radar of the mainstream—a tactic that’s made it a formative incubator for queer talent. More than 1,000 bands across the LGBTQIA spectrum have found a home on Homoground’s airwaves.” – Out Magazine
”Homoground is a poignant and timely podcast unearthing some of the best underground and undiscovered queer and trans musicians. Run by Lynn Casper and based out of Brooklyn, it has quickly become a favorite of the queer community. “The dream is to become the Queer version of MTV,” Casper says. And they aren’t too far off from their goal. The podcast reaches people all over the globe who are looking for a connection to fellow queer music lovers. And many of the bands featured on the show share raw and honest truths about their struggles in wanting to get their music out there.” – Go Magazine
This podcast run by a volunteer community of creators and musicians who understand the importance of creating economies and support networks across the LGBTQIA and friends spectrum.
”Homoground is such an important project, not only because sharing is caring and everyone needs great music in their lives, but because for queer kids who feel alone, confused or abandoned, the website fosters inclusion and builds community.” – AfterEllen.com Airs Wednesdays at 10:30 pm.
Intermountain Classics
Intermountain Classics – Tom Diskin hosts a weekly classical music program bringing together a wide variety of the world’s most beautiful classical music. Each week, a new program features music from all periods of classical music as well as modern musical styles which they have directly influenced. From time to time the show presents special live broadcasts and interviews with local musicians, conductors and local performing groups promoting local concert venues. A special feature of Tom’s show is “Boundaries and Crossovers,” highlighting how classical music has influenced the more modern composers and genres of contemporary music styles such as jazz, rock, Celtic, and world music. Included in each broadcast is a calendar of concerts, plays and other cultural attractions taking place in and around the north state. Tom came to the Redding area 12 years ago after having a successful teaching career in the San Francisco Bay area. He had a lifelong dream of being a classical music “disc jockey” and Intermountain Classics is the realization of that dream. As a musician, he began playing the cello at the age of nine and has been playing continuously since. He is member of the Shasta Symphony Orchestra and occasionally plays chamber music with local musicians. Mondays 8-10:00 pm, encore airing Saturdays 1-3 pm.
Irish and Celtic
The Irish & Celtic Music Podcast is an award-winning free Celtic radio show of independent Irish & Celtic music. The show won “Best Podsafe Music” in 2009 and 2010 in the People’s Choice Podcast Awards.
Irish & Celtic Music Podcast is one of the Top 40 music podcasts on Apple Podcasts and receives over 20,000 downloads of each show. It is hosted by Marc Gunn, known as The Celtfather for his incredible network of promotion for Celtic music. Each hour-long show features a mix of indie Celtic music with a variety of styles from traditional Celtic tunes, Irish drinking songs, Scottish folk songs, bagpipes, music from Ireland, Scotland, Canada, Australia, the United States, and around the world. It is also syndicated on a number of internet and terrestrial radio stations. We help you celebrate Celtic culture through music! Airs Fridays at 7 am
Jazz Influences
Jazz Influences – host Daniel Be presents a show that is grounded in jazz, “America’s classical music,” from the bebop of Charlie Parker and Thelonious Monk, back through the formative influences of Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald and Duke Ellington, forward into the experimental works of Miles Davis and John Coltrane, and on through to the present day with artists like Brad Mehldau and Bill Frisell. His show also explores crossover music with jazz-influenced pop, blues, R&B and rock. Dan is an avid music listener, a student of the history of American music, and sometimes musician. He is a former host of NSPR’s Evening Jazz. For his day job he teaches Geography and Geospatial Technologies at Shasta College. Airs Thursday evenings from 8 – 10:00 pm.
Last Train To Skaville
Last Train to Skaville combines all the hits from the original Jamaican ska of the 60’s to the 2 Tone rebirth of ska from the 70’s and 80’s including the music of: The Skatalites, Desmond Dekker, Jimmy Cliff, The Paragons, The Upsetters, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Toots and the Maytals, Johnny Nash, Prince Buster, Madness, The Specials, The Selecter, The Beat and Bad Manners.
Laura Flanders
The Laura Flanders Show expands our sense of what’s possible. Flanders explores actionable models for creating a better world by reporting on the people and movements driving systemic change. The show spotlights the solutions of tomorrow, today. Airing Sundays at 2:00 pm.
Letters To Washington
Letters to Washington sets out to cover stories of the day that include some aspect of the executive, legislative or judicial branch of the federal government in a clear, informative and accurate manner. Daily coverage of the White House, Congress & the Supreme Court is often presented in a historical context and perspective. Airs Tuesday – Friday 3 pm.
Making Contact
Making Contact produces media that analyzes critical issues and showcases grassroots solutions in order to inform and inspire audiences to action. Their work heightens public consciousness, broadens debate on critical social issues and encourages civic participation by giving voice to diverse perspectives and opinions underrepresented in the mass media. Their goal is to produce media that informs, inspires, and moves people to take action. Airs Fridays at 2 pm.
Moccasin Tracks
Moccasin Tracks explores indigenous knowledge with Deborah Reger on WGDR, Goddard College’s Community Radio station broadcasting from Vermont. KFOI plays this show during our Native-Wide Radio slot, alternating with other indigenous podcasts every Saturday at 8:00 am.
Naked Scientists
Based at Cambridge University’s Institute of Continuing Education (ICE), the Naked Scientists are a team of scientists, doctors and communicators whose passion is to help the general public to understand and engage with the worlds of science, technology and medicine. Mission accomplished! Airs Fridays at noon.
Native Music
KFOI honors our Native community with music as diverse as the hundreds of Native nations that are rooted in “Turtle Island” (now known as USA). Our Native music hour furthers the spirit of Indigenous cultures by presenting Native music that spans the planet. Native Music is heard in the good morning music hour.
Non-Violence Radio
Nonviolence Radio is a 60-minute program featuring news about nonviolence culture and movements around the world. The show also includes inspiring discussions with nonviolence practitioners and movement-builders. Hosted by the Metta Center’s Stephanie Van Hook and Michael Nagler, Nonviolence Radio airs every other Friday at 9:00 am PST, broadcasting live from community radio station KWMR, at 90.5 Point Reyes and syndicated via the Pacifica Network, iTunes, Spotify, and beyond. Listeners tune in from around the world. Airs Saturdays mornings at 9 am.
Nuclear Hotseat
Welcome to Nuclear Hotseat, the weekly international news magazine on all things anti-nuclear. Each week features news, interviews, humor, commentary and perspective on all aspects of the nuclear issue. In continuous production since three months after the Fukushima disaster began in 2011, Nuclear Hotseat is downloaded in 58 countries on six continents and has received as many as half a million downloads on a single episode. You can search or browse their archive, click on links for back-up material and share what you find with others. Airs Wednesdays at 2:00 pm.
Old Time Radio Drama
Old-Time Radio Drama is a collection of older radio recordings collected by KFOI aficionados. Always something different, from Orson Wells to Gunsmoke and many other favorites of yester-year.
Airs Sunday evenings at 7 pm.
On Being
On Being takes up the big questions of meaning with leading scientists and theologians, artists and teachers — some you know and others you’ll love to meet. Each week brings a new discovery about the immensity of our lives. Hosted by Krista Tippett, you can discover more at onbeing.org. On Being Studios is the producer of On Being, Becoming Wise, This Movie Changed Me, Creating Our Own Lives, and more. Airs Sundays at 8:00 am.
OUTCASTING
OutCasting Media produces public radio’s LGBTQ+ youth programs and related content. It presents a look at issues pertaining to the LGBTQ+ community as seen through the eyes of young LGBTQ+ people and allies and provides insight into the broad dimensions of the LGBTQ+ youth experience. OutCasting goes far beyond mainstream media coverage, which tends to be limited and sensationalist. And just as important as the issues OC covers is their outlet for young voices — a population still marginalized, potentially victimized, and rarely heard. Airs Wednesdays at 10:00 pm.
Pacifica Evening News
The Evening News on Pacifica broadcasts each weeknight from the studios of KPFA-FM in Berkeley, the nation’s first listener-supported radio station. The Evening News is a collaboration of KPFA and its sister stations KPFK-Los Angeles and KFCF-Fresno. This hour-long broadcast seeks to bring unreported and under-reported stories of interest to Californians, with a focus peace, and social & economic justice. Monday – Friday 6 pm.
Project Censored
Project Censored educates about the importance of a truly free press for democratic self-government. They expose and oppose news censorship and promote independent investigative journalism, media literacy, and critical thinking. An informed public is crucial to democracy in at least two basic ways. First, without access to relevant news and opinion, people cannot fully participate in government. Second, without media literacy, people cannot evaluate for themselves the quality or significance of the news they receive. Censorship undermines democracy. Project Censored’s work—including their annual book, weekly radio broadcasts, campus affiliates program, and additional community events—highlights the important links among a free press, media literacy and democratic self-government. Saturday at noon.
Quality Living
Maximum Health Radio “Quality Living” with Dr. Ken Grey, holistic physician, is an informative global, lifestyle, health & wellness radio show featuring a different influential and innovative guest every week. The focus is on where society, environment, emotional, physical, mental, spiritual and financial health resources and advancements meet. With over two decades in the health field, Dr. Grey enjoys being a physician and an educator. His unique approach to Holistic Healing and Integrative Medicine in hospitals and operating rooms has taken him to Germany, Hawaii & France. Airs Thursdays at noon
RAGAS
As part of our wake-up and good morning music hour, one day a week we present raga music. To South Asian musicians, raga is the most important concept in music-making, and the classification of ragas plays a major role in Indian music theory. In northern India, ragas are classified according to such characteristics as mood, season, and time; in southern India, ragas are grouped by the technical traits of their scales. Wednesday mornings at 7 am.
Ralph Nader
Ralph Nader is an American political activist of Lebanese origin, as well as an author, lecturer, and attorney. Nader brings his decades of perspective and international contacts together each week in this program presenting the need for and providing a showcase for individual and collective activism. Areas of particular concern to Nader include consumer protection, humanitarianism, environmentalism, and democratic government. Nader came to prominence in 1965 with the publication of his book Unsafe at Any Speed, a critique of the safety record of American automobile manufacturers in general, and particularly the first-generation Chevrolet Corvair. In 1999, a New York University panel of journalists ranked Unsafe at Any Speed 38th among the top 100 pieces of journalism of the 20th century. Nader is a five-time candidate for President of the United States. Airs Tuesdays at 1:00 pm.
Rhino Rock
Rhino Rock – hosted by Richard Clapp and Bill Dixon, Rhino Rock captures our airwaves from midnight to dawn every night filling your soul with selections of classic Rock & Roll which you don’t usually hear on other stations. Airs nightly 11 pm to 7 am.
Rising Up with Sonali
An all-women run radio and television show that brings progressive news coverage and interviews rooted in gender and racial justice to a wide audience, Sonali Kolhatkar, Host and Executive Producer, built on the foundation of her earlier show, Uprising, which became the longest running drive-time radio show on KPFK in Los Angeles hosted by a woman. She has won numerous awards including Best TV Anchor from the LA Press Club. She is a weekly columnist for Truthdig.com, and an op-ed writer for teleSUR English. She is the author of Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords, and the Propaganda of Silence, and the co-Director of the non-profit group, Afghan Women’s Mission. She has a Masters in Astronomy and two undergraduate degrees in Physics and Astronomy. Originally from India and born and raised in the United Arab Emirates, she is also an artist and chef and lives in Pasadena. Airs Monday – Friday 4 pm.
Sea Change Radio
Sea Change Radio is a weekly radio show whose mission is to advance the shift toward environmental sustainability. The show is nationally syndicated and podcast globally. Launched in January 2009, the show evolved from Corporate Watchdog Radio, founded by Bill Baue and Sanford Lewis in 2005. Francesca Rheannon joined the CWR team in 2007 as Lewis phased out. Alex Wise took over as host and producer in May 2010. Airs Saturday mornings at 11 am.
Smokestack Lightning Blues
Smokestack Lightnin’ Blues sets the worldwide standard in blues programming and has a strong international following. Carried by dozens of radio stations around the world, Smokestack Lightnin’ features the very best New Blues and newly reissued Classic Blues, Adult R&B, Adult Soul, Blues Rock, Zydeco Blues, and Gospel. Smokestack Lightnin’ differs greatly from many blues shows which tend to be mostly retrospective. Smokestack Lightnin’ features 80% or more brand new music. Each new show begins with their Top 10 New Blues CDs for the week and the last week of the month is always reserved for their Top 25 New Blues CDs for the Month. The show hosts receive music from every major blues label in the world along with independent blues artists. Smokestack previews then plays only the best of what they can truly claim as “The Best Blues In The World from all around the world.” Hosts Paul Newnum, Tommy Thompson, Marvin Rooks and Rob McKinney, love to fill their shows with information about the music and artists, bringing their unique perspective to the music. Airs Saturdays 8 – 11 pm.
Sojourner Truth
Sojourner Truth, hosted by Margaret Prescod is a public affairs program bringing news and views on local, national, and international policies and stories that affect us all. Prescod focuses on how those of us most impacted – women, communities of color and other communities are responding. She also discusses the inter-relationship between art and politics. She starts each show with the headlines of the day. This program is inspired and named for Sojourner Truth, an African American evangelist, abolitionist, women’s rights activist and author who lived a miserable life as a slave, serving several masters throughout New York before escaping to freedom in 1826. After gaining her freedom, Truth became a Christian and, at what she believed was God’s urging, preached about abolitionism and equal rights for all, highlighted in her stirring “Ain’t I a Woman?” speech, delivered at a women’s convention in Ohio in 1851. She continued her crusade for the rest of her life, earning an audience with President Abraham Lincoln and becoming one of the world’s best-known human rights crusaders.
Sounds From the Global Village
Part of KFOI’s “Good Morning World” series, Sounds From the Global Village is a weekly musical trip around the world. The program offers a mix of traditional and contemporary musical genres from every corner of the globe, along with in-depth background on the selections, artists, and countries of origin. You can tour the world without ever leaving the comfort of your own home by tuning in to Sounds From the Global Village.
Speak Deep
Speak Deep is a show that celebrates the subversive art of spoken word, poetry, and performance art through audio clips and interviews with guest creators. Artists are invited on the show to share their original work or inspirational pieces and the stories behind them. Each episode seeks a deeper meaning and greater understanding of a wide variety of subjects, curated by the host, producer, and creator Carly Jean May. The casual and conversational style of Speak Deep belies the truth-telling and raw emotions that come from being a part of the show. Listeners and guests are encouraged to closely consider their passions and mindsets, to look at patterns of behavior and the tools we use to form into societal roles, and question and then challenge those precepts that limit human potential. Airs Sunday mornings at 11 am.
Sprouts
Sprouts: Radio From the Grassroots is a half hour weekly program presented by the Pacifica Affiliates office and dedicated to showcasing radio content produced by community radio stations and independent production groups, Sprouts celebrates grassroots voices and is renowned for bringing diverse topics to national and international audiences. It is an open door for grassroots radio producers who wish to easily get widespread attention for a particular production, story, or issue. Airs Mondays at 5:30 pm.
StarTalk
The StarTalk® Radio podcast bridges the intersection between science, pop culture and comedy with clarity, humor and passion. The shows explore space travel, extra-terrestrial life, the Big Bang, and the everpresent role science plays in people’s lives: the future of our Earth and the environment, the science behind the most iconic sports plays in history, and breaking news from the universe. Or, as host Neil deGrasse Tyson says, “Everything under the sun; Or rather under the universe!” for an audience of “All the people who never knew how much they’d love learning about space and science.” Tyson is joined each week by comedian co-hosts, celebrities, and other special guests.
StarTalk Radio, from Curved Light Productions, was the first popular commercial radio program devoted to astronomy, physics, and everything else about life in the universe, now in its 11th season. The show is hosted by renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, the Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Airs Sundays, 4:00 pm.
THIS WAY OUT
For a quarter of a century, the unfettered voices of LGBTQ+ people have been broadcast around the world on “This Way Out.” This internationally award-winning show is distributed weekly on over 200 local community radio and online stations around the world and can be heard via podcast and direct satellite. It is also available on CD by subscription. www.thiswayout.org and iTunes. Airs Sundays at 3:00 pm.
Thom Hartmann
KFOI is the only radio station in northern California to broadcast the Thom Hartmann Program in real time allowing listeners to participate in his call-in segments. More people listen daily to the Thom Hartmann Program than any other progressive talk show in the nation. For the past two years in a row, Talkers Magazine names Thom Hartmann as the 10th most important talk show host in America, and the #1 most important progressive host, in their “Heavy Hundred” ranking. He is also a four-time Project Censored-award-winning and New York Times best-selling author. Hartmann’s national daily progressive radio talk show, now in its tenth year, replaced Al Franken on the Air America Radio Network. Weekdays 9-11:00 am
Trance-Formational Listening
Hosted by Dennis Darrah, Tance-Formational Listening brings the audience into the realm of other cultures through music, hopefully expanding empathy for the “other”, and recognizing that “other” in ourselves. Trance-Formational Listening is part of our Good Morning World music hour.
TUC Radio
Time Of Useful Consciousness Radio explores the untold story – the impact of big corporations on society in the areas of globalization, ecology, war, peace, Native Nations and localization. TUC Radio is a regular weekly program on over 60 radio stations and can be heard in many rural communities as well as in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Chicago, Seattle, Cleveland, Houston, Taos, Buffalo, Philadelphia, Vancouver and many other cities – as far as Cape Town, South Africa and into North Africa via Milano, Italy. Wednesdays at noon.
Union of Concerned Scientists
Get your science on with the new podcast from the Union of Concerned Scientists. Program hosts take on technology, attacks on science, climate change, and more, as they channel the power of science to make the world a better place. Their scientists and engineers develop and implement innovative, practical solutions to some of our planet’s most pressing problems—from combating global warming and developing sustainable ways to feed, power, and transport ourselves, to fighting mis-information, advancing racial equity, and reducing the threat of nuclear war. Airs Tuesdays at 2:00 pm.
Unsound
Unsound is a weekly exploration of music made with machines: sequencers, synthesizers, tape recorder manipulation, drum machines keyboards, computers and even power tools. You’ll hear songs from experimental moog compositions of the 60s, industrial sounds of the 70s and 80s, electronica, rave, acid house, prog, 80s pop and more. Anything made with machines is fair game. Our local host, Doug Kelly, brings it to you Friday nights at 8:00.
UnSpun
UnSpun, An Experiment in Truth-telling – host Doug Bennett interviewed well-known authors and political commentators with a focus on Climate Change, and threats to Democracy, Truth and Justice. UnSpun shows were featured on PRX and aired by other great community radio stations like KMUD on the California coast. Doug was one of the founders of KFOI and passed away in 2019 after a life well lived, full of friends and family and good work. His activism included environmental, war resistance, deep state awareness and many other social justice issues. The show rotates with other activist / non-violence shows, Saturdays at 9am.
Vegan World Radio
Telling the story of the vegan revolution that is saving animals, the planet and health. VWR is produced by a group of volunteers who are organized as an equalitarian collective.
Veterans For Peace Radio
VOW tells the stories of women in our global communities, painting verbal portraits of their experiences. These women are activists, peace-makers, politicians, and members of marginalized populations. VOW creates an accessible, important platform for their voices, to educate, empower and enlighten us all. Mondays at 10pm.
Voices of Animals
Voices for the Animals is a monthly half hour program that tackles the issues around animal rights with interviews of front-line activists who are working to make a difference in the lives of animals around the world brought to you by hosts Noah Bristol, Julianne Schwartz, and Michele Coppola. Airs Thursdays 5:00 pm.
Voices of Women
iVOW tells the stories of women in our global communities and paints verbal portraits of their experiences. These women are activists, peacemakers, politicians, and members of marginalized populations. We’re creating an accessible and important platform for their voices, to educate, empower and enlighten all of us. Sundays at noon.
Wild Bill’s Musical Whimsies
Bill Dixon hosts this show bringing his love of all-genre music, knowledge and insights to listeners each week. Airs Saturdays evenings 6 to 8:00 pm