Weekly Program Highlights
Friday 2/27
1:00 – 2:00 PM
Science Friday… This week on Science Friday, the show talks with a playwright who made cognitive decline the core of his latest show and also speaks with a neurologist about their advice in lowering one's chances of developing dementia.
2:00 – 3:00 PM
Hidden Brain… What does it do to a person to feel overlooked? This week, Hidden Brain explores how the absence of “mattering” can fuel loneliness, depression, and even violence. It turns out that simple gestures can rebuild a sense of meaning in ourselves and others.
3:00 – 4:00 PM
Fresh Air… This week on Fresh Air, hear an interview with the voice of Spongebob, Tom Kenny, as he discusses his career as Spongebob for 26 years.
6:30 – 7:30 PM
The Club McKenzie… The Profession: The life of a professional jazz musician in 1920s and early 1930s America was marked by artistic excitement alongside profound hardships, shaped by race, economics, and the precarious nature of the entertainment industry.
Saturday 2/28
10:00 – 11:00 AM
Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me!… This week on Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me, the show is diving into Bloomington, Indiana where panelists Alonzo Bodden, Faith Salie, and Josh Gondleman bring the heat. And Lilly King, who won gold and silver medals in past Olympic swim competitions, takes the plunge to play Not My Job.
11:00 – NOON
Radiolab… This week, Radiolab examines three very different kinds of black boxes—those peculiar spaces where it’s clear what’s going in, we know what’s coming out, but what happens in-between is a mystery. From the darkest parts of metamorphosis to a sixty year-old secret among magicians, we confront the stubborn gaps in our understanding.
3:00 – 4:00 PM
American Routes… This week on American Routes, the show goes live in concert and conversation with two New Orleans artists each of whom bring their family heritage forward into contemporary music. Singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Leyla McCalla has called New Orleans home for many years, but her family ties are to Haiti. She draws on French Creole roots for inspiration, as well as from the poetry of Langston Hughes. Then jazz saxophonist Big Chief Donald Harrison, whose musical journey includes time in New York with drummer Art Blakey’s band, talks about “Afro-New Orleans culture” and demonstrates how to bring soul, funk, and Black carnival traditions into modern jazz.
Sunday 3/1
10:00 – 11:00 AM
Reveal… An elementary school in Ohio has some of the best young readers in the nation. How they did it—and how a new law put it all at risk.
11:00 – NOON
This American Life… This week on This American Life, stories of high drama from our nation's workplaces. They turn out to be surprising, emotional places, with all the greed, jealousy, and ambition of real politics.
NOON – 3:00 PM
Sunday Baroque… This week on Sunday Baroque, John Philip Sousa may have earned the nickname of “March King” – writing rousing military marches in the early 1900s -- but musicians long before Sousa’s time paved the way with their own marching music dating back centuries.
3:00 – 4:00 PM
Code Switch & Life Kit… This week on Code Switch, a show about crime rates and immigrant emergency guardianship. Then on Life Kit, a show about retirement accounts and taxes.
6:00 – 7:00 PM
The Moth Radio Hour… This week on The Moth Radio Hour, the people we've loved and lost, their memories preserved in these stories. Mothers, partners, and the colorful residents of a nursing home, with special excerpts from the Moth's audio book.
Monday 3/2
1:00 – 2:00 PM
Climate One… Rising electricity rates across the country are adding pressure to families and businesses already dealing with inflation in other aspects of their lives. Most Americans get their power from a utility that needs to turn a profit for its investors. And people are fed up with the status quo. “Across the country, the utilities have just gotten greedy and are asking for more than they need,” says Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes. Some communities are considering cutting out the profit motive for utilities, taking on the complicated and expensive prospect of moving to public power. But switching from an investor-owned utility to public power is an uphill battle. What are other strategies for reining in corporate greed and making electricity more affordable?
2:00 – 3:00 PM
The Splendid Table… This week on The Splendid Table, the show is spending the hour with renowned British chef, restaurateur and cookbook author Jamie Oliver. He rocketed to fame in England in 1999 with a BBC Two series, The Naked Chef and has been changing the way Britain eats ever since. His latest book is Eat Yourself Healthy.
Tuesday 3/3
1:00 – 2:00 PM
TED Radio Hour… MLK Jr., Malcolm X and James Baldwin are household names. But what about their mothers, Alberta King, Berdis Baldwin... and Louise Little? This week on Ted Radio Hour, host Manoush Zomorodi speaks with author Anna Malaika Tubbs, who spent years researching these mothers who shaped and raised American history.
2:00 – 3:00 PM
The Reluctant Therapist…
Wednesday 3/4
1:00 – 1:30 PM
Bioneers… This week on Bioneers, Corrina Gould is a celebrated activist of the First Peoples of the Bay Area and a leader in the LandBack Movement. She has helped forge a model for returning stolen land to Native American Tribes and restoring sacred sites in a defiant act of remembrance and resistance against cultural erasure.
1:30 – 2:00 PM
California Report Magazine… This week on California Report Magazine, learn about how some Silicon Valley tech workers are helping their home country of Ukraine in their war effort against Russia.
2:00 – 3:00 PM
Freakonomics Radio…
6:30 – 8:00 PM
KCBX in Concert… This week on KCBX in Concert, with host Lisa Nauful, celebrate the March 4 birthdays of Antonio Vivaldi and Miriam Hyde. Starting with Vivaldi’s shimmering Concerto in B Minor for four guitars and cello, then adding a bit of drama with Juditha Triumphans, finish the Vivaldi salute with sparkling bassoon and mandolin concertos. Next, they’ll turn to Miriam Hyde’s lyrical miniatures, chamber works, and her luminous Sunlit Waterfall for solo harp. The show closes with Beethoven’s playful and brilliant Symphony No. 4 in B-flat Major, performed by the Berlin Philharmonic under Herbert von Karajan. Baroque sparkle, Romantic warmth, and symphonic fire — all in one unforgettable hour.
Thursday 3/5
1:00 – 2:00 PM
Central Coast Voices…
2:00 – 3:00 PM
Latino USA…
Friday 3/6
1:00 – 2:00 PM
Science Friday…
6:30 – 7:30 PM
The Club McKenzie…