Friday, February 14, through Friday, February 21
FRIDAY 2/14
1:00-1:30 PM
CounterSpin…Drawing on an international network of experts, analysts, activists, and artists, CounterSpin provides a critical examination of the major stories every week—combining lively discussion with a thoughtful media critique.
1:30-2:00 PM
Making Contact… How do we talk about race and racism in this country? Not as deeply as we should, according to filmmaker and educator Dr. Shakti Butler. On this edition, we hear excerpts from Dr. Butler's film "Cracking the Codes", and speak with her about using the medium of film to start conversations around the thorny issues of racial inequity.
2:00-3:00 PM
The Dinner Party Download…The Dinner Party Download is an hour-long celebration of culture, food, and conversation designed to help you dazzle your friends at this weekend's get-together. In every episode you'll learn a joke, bone up on an odd bit of history, and then wash it down with a themed cocktail, meet an artist of note, learn the answers to your burning etiquette questions, savor an emerging food trend, and hear your new favorite song.
6:30 - 7:30 PM
the Club McKenzie…features the early work of Stephane Grappelli and Django Reinhardt with the Hot Club of France.
SATURDAY 2/15
11:00 AM – NOON
Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me…Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me! is NPR’s weekly quiz program. Host, Peter Sagal, and official judge and scorekeeper, Carl Kasell, lead a rotating panel of comedians, humorists, journalists, and celebrity guests through a comic review of the week’s news. Test your knowledge against some of the best and brightest in news and entertainment while figuring out what’s real news and what’s made up.
5:00-7:00 PM
A Prairie Home Companion…This week on A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor, it’s a rebroadcast a show from April 2013 at the Bass Concert Hall in Austin, Texas. Asleep at the Wheel performs "Miles and Miles of Texas," Kat Edmonson sings "Lucky," and the Texas Tornados play "Mendocino." In Lake Wobegon, Pastor Liz makes house calls to hear the town's complaints.
SUNDAY 2/16
6:00-8:00 AM
Bob Edwards Weekend…
· MIT American history professor Craig Steven Wilder has documented a shocking history of Ivy League universities. Not only were they funded and sometimes founded by slave owners and built by slave labor, many actually had slaves working on the campus. Most of the schools have gone to great lengths to cover up this history that is just now being fully understood. Wilder’s book is titled Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities.
· Mathematics PhD candidate Anjan Sundaram decided to leave Yale University for the Congo and journalism after being offered a freelance gig from the Associated Press. Sundaram's debut book is titled Stringer: A Reporter's Journey in the Congo.
· Actress, playwright, and screenwriter ZOE KAZAN stars in the new film, The Pretty One, directed by Jenee Lamarque. Kazan plays identical twins Laurel and Audrey. After one dies in a car crash and a mix up at the hospital she plays Laurel Playing Audrey. In pretending to be her more attractive, more popular twin sister, Laurel slowly learns to be herself. The Pretty One is now in theaters.
10:00-11:00 AM
Radiolab…Peering through his microscope at the seeds of human life, the discoverer of sperm thought he was seeing the smallest incarnation of a human soul. If that was the case, why so many wasted souls? Radiolab turns to the animal kingdom to answer that question, which launches a tour of flying pig sperm, promiscuous whippoorwills, and sperm battles in ducks.
11:00-NOON
This American Life…Mike Anderson was 36 years old, married, a suburban father of four. He owned a contracting business and built his family’s modest, three-bedroom house in St. Louis from the ground up. He volunteered at church on the weekends and coaches his son’s football team. All pretty normal, right? Except for one thing … which surfaced one day last summer.
NOON-1:00 PM
Sunday Baroque…You’ve probably seen those personal ads that describe the ideal match by their appearance, hobbies, and personal traits. Well, Francois Couperin composed a musical suite that reads like one of those ads. His Portrait of Love describes an imaginary love’s impeccable charms: grace, wit, and beauty. French Baroque composer seeks passionate 21st century listener this weekend on Sunday Baroque.
6:00-7:00 PM
Selected Shorts…Guest host Jane Kaczmarek presents two stories about women looking for something to change in their lives. Hope Davis reads The Lone Pilgrim, by Laurie Colwin, and Christina Pickles reads The Night Bookmobile, by Audrey Niffenegger.
MONDAY 2/17
1:00-1:30 PM
Bioneers…Local, organic food is growing in popularity by leaps and bounds. Beyond the benefits to the growers, our health and the land, could it become a matter of survival? Author and farmer Michael Ableman shares his cross-country journey celebrating the reverent reconnection with food and the land that is transforming how we will produce our future food.
1:30-2:00 PM
IdeaSphere… Restoring Opportunity: Economists Greg Duncan and Richard Murnane lay out a meticulously researched case showing how intervention and support can help improve education for low-income children.
2:00 -3:00 PM
The Splendid Table…This week Lynne Rossetto-Kasper, takes a look at legendary gourmand and politician Winston Churchill, with Cita Stelzer, author of Dinner with Churchill, Policy-Making at the Dinner Table. Dorie Greenspan, author of Around My French Table, introduces us to the very French Beef-on-a String, and Jane and Michael Stern take us to Stockholm Pie Company in Stockholm, WI.
6:30 – 7:30 PM
Song Travels…Grammy-winning singer/songwriter Rosanne Cash is the daughter of Country music icon Johnny Cash and is one of the preeminent artists of her time, with 11 number one Country singles. On this week’s Song Travels, Cash and her husband and co-writer John Leventhal join Michael Feinstein to perform a set of music from their latest album, The River & The Thread.
TUESDAY 2/18
1:00 - 2:00 PM
TED Radio Hour…In this hour, finding happiness may be simpler than you think.
2:00-3:00 PM
A Conversation With The Reluctant Therapist…It's almost impossible to reach our full potential if we are constantly at war with our bodies and self-image. Although we stress the importance of loving ourselves just the way we are, self-loathing is so common in our culture it is considered a normative discontent. Tune in Tuesday from 2-3 pm for A Conversation with the Reluctant Therapist, Elizabeth Barrett about our collective body image crisis, as it is no longer just a "girl-thing." Your calls with questions and concerns are always welcomed and encouraged, or can be emailed to elizabeth@
WEDNESDAY 2/19
1:00-2:00 PM
Issues & Ideas…Starting in March, KCBX will be offering local news to its listeners for the first time in its nearly 39 year history. And this week's host, Larry Rutter, introduces the person who will be leading that effort, Randol White, KCBX's News Director.
Other features include a story about two women on a motorcycle adventure in the wilds of Baja, Mexico, a peek at the newest offering of the Pewter Plough Playhouse, and a conversation with the leaders of an effort to train the next generation of cyber security experts at Cal Poly.
2:00-3:00 PM
On Being…Visual artist Ann Hamilton talks with Krista Tippett about her visionary installations which transport the spaces they inhabit, surround the senses and bring modern people alone, together.
6:30-8:00 PM
KCBX in Concert...Host Craig Russell plays music by -- and visits with -- some talented local musicians. We'll hear from organ virtuoso Katya Gotsdiner McMahan and soprano Sarah Jackson who have a concert of Handel’s German songs coming up March 1st. We'll also hear from choral conductor Tom Davies and ethnomusicologist Ken Habib who will lead a concert at the PAC on February 22nd of choral music gems from around the world. The broadcast also includes performances of three beautiful songs by Osvaldo Golijov, performed by the San Luis Obispo Symphony, conducted by Michael Nowak.
THURSDAY 2/20
1:00-2:00 PM
Central Coast Voices…It’s no secret that there is social pressure in grade school to look good and to fit in, but what if a family has little or no ability to provide appropriate clothing so that a child can attend school? With 14,000 children in our county living below poverty level, many kids literally wear the same pieces of clothing to school every single day. The Assistance League works to provide needy school aged children with new clothes so that they can focus on schoolwork and not be ashamed of how they look.
Host Kris Kington Barker will be joined by guests Gail Stoneburg, Chalene Ables, and Bonnie Long from the Assistance League to discuss this topic. You are invited to listen and learn on Thursday between 1-2 pm.
Central Coast Voices is sponsored by ACTION for Healthy Communities in collaboration with KCBX. The show addresses the many ramifications of change and how today’s choices will affect tomorrow’s community. Suggestions for future show topics may be sent to voices@kcbx.
2:00-3:00 PM
This American Life…Mike Anderson was 36 years old, married, a suburban father of four. He owned a contracting business and built his family’s modest, three-bedroom house in St. Louis from the ground up. He volunteered at church on the weekends and coaches his son’s football team. All pretty normal, right? Except for one thing … which surfaced one day last summer.
FRIDAY 2/21
1:00-1:30 PM
CounterSpin…Drawing on an international network of experts, analysts, activists, and artists, CounterSpin provides a critical examination of the major stories every week—combining lively discussion with a thoughtful media critique.
1:30-2:00 PM
Making Contact…School's Out: Decimation of Public Education On this edition of Making Contact we’ll explore how the privatization of public education is playing out across the country and how students and teachers are fighting back. We’ll start in Philadelphia and see how students are faring after 23 schools were shut down. We’ll learn about Teach for America and how sending thousands of young, idealistic teachers into classrooms may be doing more harm than good. Then we’ll go to California, where community colleges are under threat.
2:00-3:00 PM
The Dinner Party Download…The Dinner Party Download is an hour-long celebration of culture, food, and conversation designed to help you dazzle your friends at this weekend's get-together. In every episode you'll learn a joke, bone up on an odd bit of history, and then wash it down with a themed cocktail, meet an artist of note (say, Spike Lee or Willie Nelson), learn the answers to your burning etiquette questions, savor an emerging food trend, and hear your new favorite song.
6:30 - 7:30 PM
the Club McKenzie…Rarities: This is a cross section of exciting jazz bands that were living in the shadows of the stars like Armstrong and Waller. Nevertheless, they had immeasurable talent.