Program Episodes

Miguel Tinker Salas on Venezuela, Ali Abunimah on Palestine

Download MP3 (right click) This week on CounterSpin: Venezuela's violent demonstrations, which began a month ago, have begun to wind down. Has anything been resolved between the largely middle- and upper-class opposition, and the democratically elected government they want to leave? We'll talk with Pomona College professor Miguel Tinker Salas. Also this...

“Photograph 51”

On this edition of L.A. Theatre Works, we present Photograph 51 by  Anna Ziegler, starring Miriam Margolyes, Matthew Arkin, and Maxwell Caufield. About the play: Rosalind Franklin was a gifted research scientist who was part of the race to uncover the secrets of DNA in the 1950’s. Her more famous contemporaries Watson...

Los Lobos

On Beale Street Caravan this week we feature legendary rockers, Los Lobos, live and in concert. The band has been on the road celebrating their 40th anniversary and they bring a monster performance of blues, traditional Mexican, and psychedelic rock to the program today. This is definitely a "don't miss"...

Psychoanalysis and Superheroines: Fictional Migures Mess With Your Mind

On this installment of WINGS: Shortly before appearing dressed up as Batgirl for a public discussion titled Psychoanalyzing Superheroes, Hilda Fernandez took time to explain how superheroines interact with our identities. Featured speakers/guests: Hilda Fernandez, psychoanalyst, co-founder of the Lacan Salon, and Associate of Simon Fraser University Institute for the Humanities. Credits: Interview by Frieda...

Into Eternity (Encore Edition)

Our world is generating more and more nuclear waste, but have no permanent place to dispose of it. But the nation of Finland has a plan. They're building an underground cave, to hold thousands of tonnes of nuclear waste, for at least 100 thousand years. On this edition of Making...

Who Stole the American Dream?

This is the first of three interviews featured on Sprouts, with former NY Times editor, Frontline Producer and author Hedrick Smith. After a journalism career that spans 50 years and includes Pulitzers and Emmys, Smith has channeled his pent up concern and outrage to write Who Stole the American Dream, a...