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NPR's Deb Amos remembers covering the aftermath of Tiananmen Square on All Things Considered from NPR News.

All Things Considered from NPR News, airs weekday afternoons from 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm on KRCB-FM Radio 91 / streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org / Listen on the go - download the FREE KRCB mobile app from the App Store & Google Play!

Why does an invisible, life-threatening virus prompt a nationwide emergency, but invisible, life-threatening gases don’t? Experts have been emphasizing the dangers of unchecked climate change for years, underscoring the need for rapid, bold action early-on to avoid the worst impacts. Now health experts are pushing the same level of global mobilization to quell the spread of the novel coronavirus. Why are humans wired to respond to some fears and emergencies more than others? Can the reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic teach us anything about how humans respond to other invisible, global threats? 

Guests:
Peter Atwater, Adjunct Professor of Economics, College of William & Mary
Susan Clayton, Whitmore-Williams Professor of Psychology, College of Wooster
Robert H. Frank, Henrietta Johnson Louis Professor of Management, Cornell SC Johnson College of Business

Climate One at the Commonwealth Club can be heard Sunday mornings at 8:00 am on KRCB-FM Radio 91 / streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org / Listen on-air, online, or on the go with our FREE KRCB Mobile App from iTunes & Google Play!

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Coronavirus outbreaks in food markets, food plants, and farmworker communities have impacted food access and put a spotlight on food insecurity. Farmers are hurting as supply chains for fresh, perishable foods shrivel, while food banks have seen a surge in demand that has required distribution support from the National Guard. “Farmers saw a lot of increased demand direct to consumer, which requires extra labor, extra packaging -- just so much time essentially creating a whole new business model,” says Lisa Held, Senior Reporter with Civil Eats. Will COVID-19 change our food system for good?

Guests:
Lisa Held, Senior Policy Reporter, Civil Eats
Karen Ross, Secretary, California Department of Food and Agriculture
Helene York, Professor, Food Business School, Culinary Institute of America

Additional Guests:|
Shay Myers, CEO, Owyhee Produce
Gabriel Morales, Program Director, Brandworkers

Additional interview: Jack Mulliken, farmer in Northeast Nebraska

Climate One at the Commonwealth Club can be heard Sunday mornings at 8:00 am on KRCB-FM Radio 91 / streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org / Listen on-air, online, or on the go with our FREE KRCB Mobile App from iTunes & Google Play!

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What can the spread of coronavirus teach us about the spread of climate change? Both crises have a global reach, invisible perpetrators, and require aggressive, early action for containment. But while an infectious disease is acute and deeply personal, the impacts of a changing climate are systemic and vague. Scientists point out that the coronavirus family — which includes COVID-19 and SARS — originated as an animal disease that can be passed along to humans. With increased human development encroaching into wildlife areas, should communities be preparing for more pandemics?

Guests:
Brian Allan, Associate Entomology Professor, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Aaron Bernstein, Interim Director, The Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (Harvard C-CHANGE)
Barbara Gottlieb, Director of Environment and Health, Physicians for Social Responsibility

Climate One at the Commonwealth Club can be heard Sunday mornings at 8:00 am on KRCB-FM Radio 91 / streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org / Listen on-air, online, or on the go with our FREE KRCB Mobile App from iTunes & Google Play!

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After decades of relying on imported oil, the U.S. achieved the unthinkable and became the world’s largest producer. Production has doubled over the past decade, and in February reached its highest level ever - thirteen million barrels a day. But as it turns out, all of that overabundance has led to a different kind of oil crisis. “We’re producing more oil and gas than ever, and this industry’s stocks are tanking,” says Amy Harder, energy reporter for Axios. Meanwhile, renewables are experiencing unprecedented growth. What will be the lasting impact of the COVID-19 recession? What is the future of energy in a post-pandemic world?

Guests:
Amy Harder - Energy Reporter, Axios
Jason Bordoff - Founding Director, Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University
Scott Jacobs - CEO and Co-founder, Generate Capital
Julia Pyper - Host and Producer, Political Climate Podcast

Climate One at the Commonwealth Club can be heard Sunday mornings at 8:00 am on KRCB-FM Radio 91 / streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org / Listen on-air, online, or on the go with our FREE KRCB Mobile App from iTunes & Google Play!

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For more than two centuries, scientists have tried to make machines produce speech. Inside the quest to recreate the human voice on All Things Considered from NPR News.

All Things Considered from NPR News, airs weekday afternoons from 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm on KRCB-FM Radio 91 / streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org / Listen on the go - download the FREE KRCB mobile app from the App Store & Google Play!

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Creedence Clearwater Revival performed at Woodstock on August 16, 1969 but the band’s leader, John Fogerty, blocked the release of the performances for more than 50 years and wanted the group excluded from the popular 1970 Woodstock film. The quartet’s full performance is finally available in the form a live album. Listen for selections from it as well as selections from jazz guitarist John Scolfield’s take on country music, Country For Old Men. 

Strange Currency can be heard Fridays at 8:00 pm on KRCB-FM / streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org / Listen on the FREE KRCB Mobile App which you can download from the App Store & Google Play.

(Photo: Creedence Clearwater Revival - Fantasy Records [Public domain])

On the next Fresh Air, Dave talks with David Fajgenbaum, a doctor who is working on treatments for Covid19.  He’s best known for his research into the rare disorder he’s suffered from, Castleman disease.  Fajgenbaum created a network of doctors, patients and scientists to crowd-source the most promising research for the disease --with startling results.  His new memoir is called Chasing my Cure.  Join us.

Fresh Air can be heard weekdays at 4:00 pm on KRCB-FM (and again at 12:00 am Tuesday through Friday)! / streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org / Listen on the FREE KRCB Mobile App which you can download for your favorite mobile device.

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(Photo: David, his wife Caitlin, and baby Amelia – Courtesy of David Faigenbaum)

This week on Art of the Song our guest is singer-songwriter-music educator, Crys Matthews. A North Carolina native who now calls Herndon, Virginia home, she blends Americana, folk, jazz, blues, bluegrass and funk into a bold, complex performance steeped in traditional melodies and punctuated by honest, original lyrics.

A prolific lyricist and composer, Crys Matthews has found inspiration in her surroundings. Thoughtful, realistic, and emotional, her songs speak to the voice of our times and remind us why music indeed soothes the soul. Coming up in the second half of the show, Viv Nesbitt offers an essay on “Balance” for the Creativity Corner.

Art of the Song can be heard Thursday nights at 11:00 pm on KRCB FM Radio 91 / streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org / Listen on the go - download the FREE KRCB mobile app from the App Store & Google Play!

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Climate is the tripwire for every other foundational ecological and biological system – as well as the basis for human civilization. As we face the long climate emergency, fortunately, skillful pathfinders are banding together to transform our ways of living and bring resilience from the ground up into widespread practice. With Berkeley’s Chief Resilience Officer, Timothy Burroughs, Professor David W. Orr, and financial adviser Tom Van Dyck. 

Ralph Nader points out the term climate change is a vast understatement and does not convey the gravity of what we are facing. He says, climate disruption is more accurate. Study after study, report after report make it clear that human activity is transforming our planet. With heat waves, droughts, wildfires, floods, melting ice sheets and rising sea levels, millions of people will be at risk. But the fossil-fuel industry with its insatiable hunger for profits continues its assault on the Earth. It has an ally in the president who claims to “have a natural instinct for science,” and asserts: “Any and all weather events are used by global warming hoaxsters to justify higher taxes.” Note that he asked for and obtained approval to build two sea barriers to protect his golf resort in Ireland from rising water.

Dahr Jamail is an award-winning independent journalist who went to Iraq to report on the war and occupation. He is the author of Beyond the Green Zone, The Will to Resist and The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption. His articles appear in Truthout.

Alternative Radio can be heard Sunday mornings at 10 am on KRCB-FM Radio 91 / streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org / Listen on the go - download the FREE KRCB App from iTunes & Google Play!

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"Dakar Muse" takes us to one of the most exciting musical cities in Africa. We'll meet young stars on the Mbalax scene, Senegal's national music. And we'll hear rappers making their mark in the huge Hip Hop scene. Finally, we pay tribute to the brilliant Mbalax pioneer Thione Seck, who recently died of Covid-19.

Afropop Worldwide can be heard Sunday nights at 9:00 pm on KRCB-FM Radio 91 / streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org / Listen on the go - download the FREE KRCB mobile app from the App Store & Google Play!

This week on Beale Street Caravan we have country bad boy Dale Watson. Watson is fresh off the release of February’s “Call Me Lucky,” an album he cut for Red House Records. Rolling Stone commended album cut “The Dumb Song,” an ode to all the dumb things we shouldn’t do. Listen to Watson at his performance at Old Dominick Distillery in Downtown Memphis, TN.

Beale Street Caravan can be heard Wednesday nights at 11 pm on KRCB-FM Radio 91 / streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org / Listen on the go - download the FREE KRCB App from iTunes & Google Play!

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This week on Beale Street Caravan we have country bad boy Dale Watson. Watson is fresh off the release of February’s “Call Me Lucky,” an album he cut for Red House Records. Rolling Stone commended album cut “The Dumb Song,” an ode to all the dumb things we shouldn’t do. Listen to Watson at his performance at Old Dominick Distillery in Downtown Memphis, TN.

Beale Street Caravan can be heard Wednesday nights at 11 pm on KRCB-FM Radio 91 / streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org / Listen on the go - download the FREE KRCB App from iTunes & Google Play!

(Photo: Dale Watson – Courtesy of Beale Street Caravan)

Two ethereal singer/songwriters from the great Northwest join us this week: Damien Jurado, native to Seattle, Washington, but more recently relocated to Los Angeles, returns to eTown for his second visit; and Laura Gibson, who grew up in Coquille, Oregon, a small logging town and now lives in Portland (a bit of trivia: Laura was the first performer on NPR’s Tiny Desk Series). And our eChievement Award winner is a man who founded a nonprofit to provide medically tailored meals to critically ill people, providing ease, care, much-needed nutrition and, in many cases, saving lives.

eTown airs Wednesday nights at 10 pm on KRCB-FM Radio 91 / streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org / Listen on the go - download the FREE KRCB App @ iTunes & Google Play.

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We’re hitting the streets this week to celebrate – what else? – Mardi Gras! Even though we can’t celebrate as we usually do, we can still enjoy the sounds of Carnival seasons in years past. In this archive edition of American Routes, we meet parade float builders, visit the Backstreet Cultural Museum in Treme, discover a skull and bone gang and baby dolls, follow Mardi Gras Indians and learn why flamingos flock to Baton Rouge this time of year.

American Routes airs Saturdays at 2:00 pm on KRCB-FM Radio 91 / streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org / Download the FREE KRCB App @ iTunes & Google Play!

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Our guest this week on Art of the Song is Canadian songwriter and producer extraordinaire, Daniel Lanois. Whether crafting ambient records with Brian Eno, making rock and roll history with U2 and Peter Gabriel, digging into American roots with Bob Dylan and Emmylou Harris, or composing his own solo music, the 11-time Grammy winner has always seemed to reinvent himself with chameleon-like ease.

Art of the Song can be heard Thursday nights at 11:00 pm on KRCB FM Radio 91 / streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org / Listen on the go - download the FREE KRCB mobile app from the App Store & Google Play!

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Daniel Lanois is one of the most important producers of the last 50 years – He worked on albums including U2’s The Joshua Tree and Achtung Baby, Bob Dylan’s Time Out Of Mind, and So from Peter Gabriel. But not only is he a producer, he’s also an artist in his own right. His latest solo release is called Heavy Sun, and it focuses on his love of gospel music. Lanois joins host Stephen Kallao to share stories from throughout his career, plus a live performance. That’s coming up, on the next World Cafe.

World Cafe airs weekdays at 2:00 pm on KRCB-FM Radio 91 / streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org / Listen live on-the-go with the FREE KRCB Mobile App! Download it today for your favorite mobile device.

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From pipelines to clean power, the world’s biggest economies are brokering developments in oil, gas, and renewables that will shape climate and politics for years to come. But the arrival of COVID, plummeting oil prices, and renewed expectations for addressing diversity and sustainability are changing the way successful industries must do business.  Will the pursuit of energy and economic efficiency help solve our global dependence on fossil fuels — or leave many societies behind? Are the days of shareholder capitalism and profit-first decision-making behind us?

Featured Guests:
Daniel Yergin - Author, The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations

Roger Martin - Author, When More is Not Better: Overcoming America’s Obsession with Economic Efficiency

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This week on Art of the Song our guest is singer-songwriter Danny O’Keefe. Probably best known for his 1970s hit Good Time Charlie’s Got the Blues, his songs have been covered by numerous artists including Elvis Presley, Allison Krause, Jackson Browne, Judy Collins and Willie Nelson.

We spoke with Danny about his concept album, Looking Glass and The Dreamers, to be released in the Fall of 2020. The album began as a dream Danny had in 1968 that after many years has now manifested as a musical history of the Nez Perse Indians of the Pacific Northwest.

Art of the Song can be heard Thursday nights at 11:00 pm on KRCB FM Radio 91 / streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org / Listen on the go - download the FREE KRCB mobile app from the App Store & Google Play!

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The seasoned and the new meet this week on eTown: veteran songwriter, guitarist, and singer extraordinaire Darrell Scott pairs up with our other musical guest, the bright, young, up-and-coming Canadian singer/songwriter Kaia Kater. Plus, we’ll share an eChievement Award story about a woman who has helped hundreds of women transitioning from prison into the every day world, a daunting task made easier by the support our winner provides.

eTown airs Wednesday nights at 10 pm on KRCB-FM Radio 91 / streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org / Listen on the go - download the FREE KRCB App @ iTunes & Google Play.

(Photo: Darrell Scott – Courtesy of the artist/via eTown)

The seasoned and the new meet this week on eTown: veteran songwriter, guitarist, and singer extraordinaire Darrell Scott shares the stage with our other musical guest, the bright, young, up-and-coming Canadian singer-songwriter Kaia Kater. Plus we’ll share an eChievement Award story about a woman who has helped hundreds of women transitioning from prison back to the everyday world.

eTown airs Wednesday nights at 10 pm on KRCB-FM Radio 91 / streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org / Listen on the go - download the FREE KRCB App @ iTunes & Google Play.

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This week, Darrell Scott, Kathy Mattea, Suzzy Roche & Lucy Wainwright Roche, and Todd Burge.

Mountain Stage with Larry Groce can be heard every Monday night at 10:00 pm on KRCB-FM Radio 91 / streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org / Download our free KRCB Mobile App for your iOS or Android device from the App Store & Google Play!

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On the next Fresh Air, Dave Davies remembers Bob Gibson, one of the most dominating pitchers in baseball. He died last week at the age of 84. Gibson was an eight-time All-Star who won two World Series rings. We’ll hear part of an interview with Gibson and Hall of Fame Outfielder Reggie Jackson about the battle between hitters and pitchers. Join us.

Fresh Air can be heard weekdays at 4:00 pm on KRCB-FM (and again at 12:00 am Tuesday through Friday)! / streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org / Listen on the FREE KRCB Mobile App which you can download for your favorite mobile device.

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(Photo: Bob Gibson - Johnmaxmena2/CC BY-SA 4.0)

On the next Fresh Air, Dave Davies talks with Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who leaked documents to journalists revealing the U.S. government’s domestic surveillance program.  He’ll talk about why he did it, why he now lives in Russia, and what his life is like there.  He has a new memoir. Join us.

Fresh Air can be heard weekdays at 4:00 pm on KRCB-FM (and again at 12:00 am Tuesday through Friday)! / streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org / Listen on the FREE KRCB Mobile App which you can download from the App Store & Google Play.

(Photo: Edward Snowden - The Guardian/Getty Images/via NPR)

In the 1890s Wilmington, North Carolina had a thriving black middle class, a large black electorate, and black representatives in local government. But that ended in 1898, with a bloody campaign of violence and intimidation by white supremacists. On the next Fresh air, Dave Davies talks with journalist David Zucchino. His new book is titled Wilmington’s Lie.  Join us.

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On the next Fresh Air, Terry Gross talks with David Chang, chef, restaurateur, and host of the Netflix series Ugly Delicious. He’s closed some of his restaurants because of the pandemic. His parents are from North Korea--and his first restaurant, Momofuku Noodle bar was influenced by Korean food. He has bipolar disorder and thinks cooking and restaurants saved his life. Join us.

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(Photo: David Chang – by Andrew Bezek)

There may not be a musician alive with more stories than David Crosby. His life and career have been so interesting, Cameron Crowe made a documentary about him last year. The Croz joins host Raina Douris today to talk about that film, and to discuss his musical projects past and present, including his recent work with his Lighthouse bandmates, Becca Stevens and Michael League. Plus, we’ll find out what he really thinks of Jim Morrison and The Doors. It’s David Crosby, on the next World Cafe.

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(Photo: David Crosby On World Cafe - Django Crosby)

On the next Fresh Air, actor David Harbour of the Netflix series Stranger Things. He plays the police chief of a sleepy town besieged by supernatural events. And we remember New Yorker cartoonist Gahan Wilson who died November 21st. His loopy, often bizarre cartoons were published in The New Yorker and Playboy magazine for decades. Join us.

Fresh Air can be heard weekdays at 4:00 pm on KRCB-FM (and again at 12:00 am Tuesday through Friday)! / streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org / Listen on the FREE KRCB Mobile App which you can download for your favorite mobile device.

(Photo: David Harbour plays the cantankerous police chief Jim Hopper on the Netflix series Stranger Things - Courtesy of Netflix)

The global health and economic crises are points of opportunity. Arundhati Roy, the great Indian intellectual and writer says, “Whatever it is, coronavirus has made the mighty kneel and brought the world to a halt like nothing else could. And in the midst of this terrible despair, it offers us a chance to rethink the doomsday machine we have built for ourselves. Nothing could be worse than a return to normality. Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. It is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next. We can choose to walk through it, dragging the carcasses of our prejudice and hatred, our avarice, our data banks and dead ideas, our dead rivers and smoky skies behind us. Or we can walk through lightly, with little luggage, ready to imagine another world. And ready to fight for it.”

David Harvey is a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author of many books including The Ways of the World and The Anti-Capitalist Chronicles.

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The contemporary capitalist economic system has an extraordinary component to it. That is the connection between the government, and the financial sector, the big banks. What banks? The Big 5 are JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs, and Citigroup. Their assets are in the trillions of dollars. The economic and political implications of capital resources of that magnitude are enormous. Regulations have been relaxed creating the way for another financial meltdown. But if the banks do get into trouble the state is there to bail them out as it did in the crash of 2007-2008. Some are calling for the breakup of the big banks. That will be a tough task as the state/finance nexus is so tight, but it is an issue that must be addressed. There is also an alternative model, publicly-owned banks as in the case of North Dakota.

David Harvey is the Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author of many books, including The Limits to Capital, A Brief History of Neoliberalism, Spaces of Global Capitalism, A Companion to Marx’s Capital, Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism and The Ways of the World. He is among the top twenty most-cited authors in the humanities and is the world’s most cited academic geographer.

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Why make one album when you can have 5 EPs? David Longstreth, leader of Dirty Projectors, will explain the ambitious new project that features band members each taking turns as the lead vocalist in a series of EPs that are being released throughout 2020. We’ll hear performances recorded live for the show, including some from their latest, Flight Tower, on the next World Cafe.

World Cafe airs weekdays at 2:00 pm on KRCB-FM Radio 91 / streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org / Listen live on-the-go with the FREE KRCB Mobile App! Download it today for your favorite mobile device.

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(Photo: Dirty Projectors, from 2018 - Cameron Pollack / NPR)

In the midst of the pandemic, you may not be aware that the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists

In March a tornado hit Nashville and David Rawlings and Gillian Welch found themselves rescuing boxes of 20-year-old archived tapes from their studio. Then, they wondered, should they release these saved songs? The answer was a resounding YES and thus 3 volume set called Boots Number 2—The Lost Songs was born. Hear all about it on the next World Cafe.

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(Photo: Gillian Welch And David Rawlings - Henry Diltz/Courtesy of the artist)

After college, David Shaw got serious about music, moved to New Orleans, and formed the band The Revivalists. They toured the world, opened for The Rolling Stones, and had hits like “Wish I Knew You.” Now, Shaw is set to release his first solo album. Get a special sneak preview as he joins New Orleans Correspondent, Gwen Thompkins, on the next World Cafe.

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David Stebenne unwraps how the middle class was created but then could not hold in his book Promised Land, How the Rise of the Middle Class Transformed America, 1929-1968. Stebenne details the social, economic, and political realities that picked us up from the Great Depression, especially if you were white and male, and by the 1950’s had hoisted the country into prosperity with a burgeoning middle class; by 1968 the cracks were too wide to ignore, and the country has been yearning and grumbling ever since. David is a specialist in modern American political and legal history, is widely published, teaches at Ohio State University, and joins Suzanne M. Lang in conversation, Sunday, November 1st at 10am on KRCB’s A Novel Idea.

A Novel Idea airs on the first and fifth Sundays of every month at 10:00 am on KRCB-FM Radio 91 / streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org /Download the FREE KRCB mobile app @ iTunes & Google Play!

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David Wax Museum is led by husband and wife duo, David Wax and Suz Slezak. Their new album is called Line of Light, and it was born out of the 2017 Unite the Right rally and counter protests that took place in their hometown of Charlottesville, Virginia. They join host Stephen Kallao today to discuss how that backdrop influenced the record, along with a more personal experience – Suz had a relapse of bipolar disorder while they were writing the new music. We’ll hear their story, and David Wax Museum performs live. On the next World Cafe.

World Cafe airs weekdays at 2:00 pm on KRCB-FM Radio 91 /  streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org  / Listen live on-the-go with the FREE KRCB Mobile App! Download it today for your favorite mobile device.

(Photo: Boston musicians David Wax and Suz Slezak make up The David Wax Museum - Courtesy of the artist/via NPR)

Election officials in yet-to-be-called states say every vote for president will be counted no matter how long it takes. States like Michigan have already announced Joe Biden as the winner. That has not prevented President Trump's campaign from filing lawsuits there and in other states. We will stick to the facts of the presidential election on the next Morning Edition from NPR News.

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This week on This American Life, the country of Greece has this problem. Their cemeteries are too crowded. What that means is that three or four years after your grandma dies, you have to dig her up, get her bones to make room for somebody else. Unearthing your family’s bones. That’s this week on This American Life.

This American Life is heard every Friday night at 7:00 pm; repeating every Saturday morning at 9:00 am on KRCB-FM Radio 91 / Streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org /  On-demand with the FREE KRCB App @ iTunes App Store & Google Play!

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We go behind the scenes with Bren Smith, who lived the dangerous life of a fisherman on the Bering Sea. He talks about his transformation from chasing big fish on the high seas to growing sustainable sea greens. Plus, Ana Roš shares Slovenian cuisine from the Soča Valley; Martha Barnette and Grant Barrett decode the meaning of edible flower names; and we whip up silky Maple-Whiskey Pudding Cakes.

Milk Street Radio can be heard Sunday nights at 7:00 pm on KRCB-FM. / streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org / Download the FREE KRCB App @ iTunes & Google Play!

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From prehistoric cave art to today’s social media feeds, to design is to be human. This hour, designer Debbie Millman guides us through a world made and remade—and helps us design our own paths.

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From prehistoric cave art to today’s social media feeds, to design is to be human. In this week's show, designer Debbie Millman guides us through a world made and remade—and helps us design our own paths.

Hear TED Radio Hour Sunday mornings at 9:00 am on KRCB-FM. / streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org / Download the FREE KRCB App @ iTunes & Google Play!

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(Photo: Victoria Bar / iStock)

From prehistoric cave art to today’s social media feeds, to design is to be human. In this week's show, designer Debbie Millman guides us through a world made and remade—and helps us design our own paths.

Hear TED Radio Hour Sunday mornings at 9:00 am on KRCB-FM. / streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org / Download the FREE KRCB App @ iTunes & Google Play!

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(Photo: Victoria Bar / iStock)

Our guest this week on Art of the Song is Irish singer/songwriter, Declan O’Rourke. A latecomer to the Dublin music scene, in his mid-twenties he found himself in the mix with the likes of Paddy Casey, Gemma Hayes, Damian Rice, and many other Irish singer-songwriters. In 2004, Declan released his debut album, Since Kyabram. The single from that album, Galileo, has been covered by numerous artists including Josh Groban. In 2011, Declan O’Rourke joined a stellar line up of artists that included Alison Krauss, Jerry Douglas, and Amos Lee for Transatlantic Sessions, broadcast on the BBC. He was also a featured artist on the Transatlantic Sessions Live Tour 2012, encompassing the Royal Festival Hall in London, Birmingham Symphony Hall, and Glasgow Concert Hall. We spoke with Declan while on tour in the US.

Art of the Song is heard Thursday nights at 11 pm on KRCB-FM Radio 91 / streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org / Download the FREE KRCB App @ iTunes & Google Play!

(Photo: Declan O’Rourke - Courtesy of the artist)

On the next Fresh Air, Dave Davies talks with underwater explorer and photographer Jill Heinerth, who has dived into unmapped caves deep in the earth, and beneath a giant iceberg. She's seen hidden creatures old as dinosaurs and witnessed scenes of surreal beauty.  Her work is so dangerous, one hundred of her friends and colleagues have died in dives. She has a new book.  Join us. 

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(Photo: Underwater explorer and photographer Jill Heinerth – via Twitter)

Twitter is under pressure in India to block accounts their government claims incite violence.

The tech company did so, then reversed course – and is now stuck between defending free speech & keeping its employees out of Indian prisons.

That's on the next All Things Considered, from NPR News.

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Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest has soared since Brazil’s far-right president took office in January. A trip into the Amazon on All Things Considered from NPR News.

All Things Considered from NPR News, airs weekday afternoons from 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm on KRCB-FM Radio 91 / streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org / Listen on the go - download the FREE KRCB mobile app from the App Store & Google Play!

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Our first broadcast of 2020 features Grammy Award-winning blues multi-instrumentalist Delbert McClinton and blues and soul singer/songwriter and guitarist Robert Finley. Plus, Nick sits down with Chris Pallister, the founder of Gulf of Alaska Keeper to learn how his organization is protecting the waters and habitat of the Northern Gulf of Alaska. It’s another “back by popular demand” re-airing!

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Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang has a plan to save the U.S. economy through a universal basic income. That conversation on All Things Considered from NPR News

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