Arts & Culture
Pacifica Radio Archives’ “From the Vault”
Each week the Pacifica Radio Archives chooses a program "From the Vault" of broadcasts in a half-hour program.
Each week the Pacifica Radio Archives chooses a program “From the Vault” of broadcasts in a half-hour program.
Upcoming Episodes
July 17, 2019 Arts & Culture
The Final Frontier
This week we listen to two visionary thinkers, both writers of the future who have guided humanity by daring us to exercise our imagination - Ray Bradbury and Gene Roddenberry - as they address the 1968 World Science Fiction Convention held at the Hotel Claremont in Berkeley California.
Read MoreJuly 24, 2019 Arts & Culture
Pacifica Radio Archives • July 24, 2019
This week the Pacifica Radio Archives celebrates Gay Pride Month. The Pacifica Radio Archives is proud to have recordings of many key moments in the LGBT struggle for Equal Rights going back to early discussions in the 1950 s.
Today we revisit Pacifica s coverage of the 1979 National March on Washington for Gay and Lesbian Rights.
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July 10, 2019 Arts & Culture
Amy Goodman
Amy Goodman�s career to date has included risking her life to cover the massacre in East Timor, turning the tables on Bill Clinton in a public relations interview that was supposed to be a pre-election �cakewalk� for him, as well as focusing the spotlight of world attention on the U.S. �coup-and-kidnapping� of Haiti�s duly elected president, Jean Bertrand Aristide� In her own words, Goodman �goes where the silence is,� and reveals the ignored, the co-opted and the often unreported state of world affairs.
ListenJuly 3, 2019 Arts & Culture
Independence Day
This week we explore the ritual of Independence Day by presenting a Pacifica National program
Entitled, �Star Spangled Independence�.
this program takes an irreverent survey of the the official symbols and personal rituals of American patriotism.
June 26, 2019 Arts & Culture
National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights
This week the Pacifica Radio Archives celebrates Gay Pride Month. The Pacifica Radio Archives is proud to have recordings of many key moments in the LGBT struggle for Equal Rights going back to early discussions in the 1950 s.
Today we revisit Pacifica s coverage of the 1979 National March on Washington for Gay and Lesbian Rights.
Read MoreJune 19, 2019 Arts & Culture
Gay Pride Month – Christopher Isherwood
In this program, you will hear a number of rare recordings of Christopher Isherwood, including a recording of the play "The Ascent of F-6," written by Isherwood and W.H. Auden in 1937 (adapted, produced and performed in 1962 at Pacifica station KPFK-Los Angeles by Isherwood and Auden themselves, among others), and an address by Isherwood called "A Personal Statement," given at the University of California- Berkeley as part of the series The Writer at Mid-Century: The Moral Crisis (1962).
Read MoreMay 29, 2019 Arts & Culture
Dr. Wangari Maathai
On this edition of From the Vault we salute the tireless and visionary work of the late Nobel Peace Prize recipient Wangari Maathai, who led an environmental and peace movement that touched lives around the world.
Read MoreMay 15, 2019 Arts & Culture
South African: A Lesson Of Freedom
For Africa Month, From the Vault explores the stories of three heroic South African leaders, woven together by the songs of Mama Afrique, Miriam Makeba, and the recollections of Pacifica's own Eva Georgia and Bridgette Ramasodi of South Africa.
Read MoreMay 1, 2019 Arts & Culture
May Day!
The Pacifica Labor Teach-in was intended to stimulate dialogue on important labor issues such as unions and membership, working conditions and employee rights, and wage disparity between the rich and the working class. Using a mix of historic recordings from Pacifica Radio's broadcast legacy, this episode of From the Vault brings a historical context into the labor discussion.
Read MoreApril 24, 2019 Arts & Culture
Donald Byrd 1987
This week on From the Vault we present an informal and educational conversation about the life and career of one of the most prolific trumpet players of our time, Donaldson Toussaint L'Ouverture Byrd II, known to the music world as Donald Byrd.
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