You need a computer and an internet connection. (No, you don't need an iPod!)
Basically, almost any computer with speakers and an internet connection can download and play podcasts.
You need some free Podcast software, such as iTunes or Juice.
A podcast reader (sometimes called an 'aggregator' or a 'podcatcher') is a program that will look for new shows that you have subscribed to and automatically download the latest ones. Much of the available podcast software is free:
Copy and paste the URL (i.e. http://www.kpfa.org/podcast/pod.php?show=abouthealth) shown below the podcast you want to listen to.
That's it! When a new KPFA show is available, your podcast program will automatically download it! You can then play the shows from your computer, put them on your portable mp3 player, or burn them to a CD!
Live on KPFA at 02:00 PM Pacific Time:
Mondays See the KFPA Program Grid for more details.
Our program is designed to give our listeners an opportunity to talk directly with experts in the field of both traditional and non-traditional health. If you have suggestions for programs or questions about KPFA, please contact Dr. Lenoir at 510.834.4897 or by e-mail at drlenoir@drlenoir.com.
Live on KPFA at 07:00 PM Pacific Time:
Mondays See the KFPA Program Grid for more details.
Africa Today with Walter Turner Mondays 7 pm - 8 pm
A weekly news program providing information and analysis about Africa and the African Diaspora. Africa Today seeks to update listeners on contemporary developments in Africa, the Caribbean, South America, and the United States. The program utilizes an interview and discussion format to explore political, social, economic, and cultural themes relative to the African experience.
About Walter He is a Professor of History and Chairperson of the Social Sciences Department at the College of Marin in Kentfield, California, instructing courses in United States History, African History, and African American History. Walter is also President of the Board of Directors of Global Exchange, and is an African News analyst for Pacifica Radio Station KPFA.
Live on KPFA at 12:00 PM (Noon) Pacific Time:
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays See the KFPA Program Grid for more details.
Against the Grain is a radio and web media project whose aim is to provide in-depth analysis and commentary on a variety of matters -- political, economic, social and cultural -- important to progressive and radical thinking and activism. Against the Grain is co-hosted and co-produced by Sasha Lilley and C.S. Soong.
Live on KPFA at 10:00 AM Pacific Time:
Saturdays See the KFPA Program Grid for more details.
Behind the News covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. Shows typically consist of some opening comments by host Doug Henwood on the recent news, followed by two or three interviews with authors, activists, academics, and other knowledgeable sorts. Since mystification is one of the tricks that power uses to maintain itself, emphasis is always placed on clarifying the complex.
Topics covered include the broad economy and the financial markets, trade and globalization, income distribution and poverty, political candidates (with an emphasis on their general bogosity), Latin American resistance to neoliberalism, crime and imprisonment, financing health care, environmental economics, and the culture of money. Of course, that list will evolve as circumstances warrant.
Host/producer profile
Doug Henwood has been hosting Behind the News since 1996; his radio career began in 1989, with commentaries delivered on the late and deeply missed Samori Marksman's show. His day job is as a writer and editor. He edits Left Business Observer, a newsletter he founded in 1986, and is a contributing editor of The Nation. He is the author of three books - The State of the USA Atlas (1994), Wall Street (1997), and After the New Economy (2004). He's at work on a study of the American ruling class, whoever that might be.
Live on KPFA at 03:00 PM Pacific Time:
Mondays See the KFPA Program Grid for more details.
Booktalk, readings, unique spins on the zeitgeist, and interviews with authors, poets, and others about all manner of things covering the written word.
Live on KPFA at 09:00 AM Pacific Time:
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays
Hosted by award winning reporter Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! is one of the hottest national daily radio programs on the air today. Started as an election year show in 1996, Democracy Now! expanded into a hard-hitting investigative news magazine.
Live on KPFA at 01:00 PM Pacific Time:
Wednesdays See the KFPA Program Grid for more details.
"Guns & Butter" investigates the relationships among capitalism, militarism and politics. Maintaining a radical perspective in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks, "Guns & Butter: The Economics of Politics" reports on who wins and who loses when the economic resources of civil society are diverted toward global corporatization, war, and the furtherance of a national security state.
Live on KPFA at 10:00 AM Pacific Time:
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays See the KFPA Program Grid for more details.
Pacifica's Mitch Jeserich hosts “Letters & Politics,” a look at burning political issues and debates, and their historical context, within the US and worldwide.
Deranged "edits" segue into a cascade of echoing glossolaliac madness, the voicing of lyric ruminations from the free-falling brains of disintegrating personalities.
Live on KPFA at 01:00 PM Pacific Time:
Fridays See the KFPA Program Grid for more details.
A live public affairs program focusing on investigating and analyzing environmental issues from a global perspective. Our hope is both to bring key international perspectives to listeners, as well as make the issues relevant to northern California listeners.
Live on KPFA at 01:00 PM Pacific Time:
Thursdays See the KFPA Program Grid for more details.
The Herbal Highway, hosted and produced by Karyn Sanders, enhances the community's knowledge of herbal medicines and alternative choices to standard medical practices for healing.
Live on KPFA at 07:00 PM Pacific Time:
Sundays See the KFPA Program Grid for more details.
A new entertainment program featuring a cast of improvisational comic actors and an online writing staff of listener humorists aka Twit Wits. A live Twitter feed lets listeners post much of the script performed by the cast, live,in real time, in the studio.
Show host regulars include Kurt Reinhardt, Lorrie Holt, Mantra Plonsey, Galen Corr and MiddleFingazUp. Online Twit Wits include SF International Comedy Competition finalist Tim Wiggins and bay area musicians Michael Hauser and Dan Plonsey.
Listeners will be invited to "Tweet Truth To Power With Humor and Wit" on a range of topics listed at the show website, See for yourself here - kpfa.twitwitradio.com.
Producer director George Coates describes the show as a disruptive challenge to mainstream media, "When consumers of media entertainment become its producers, on air personalities can serve as the peoples sock puppets for a change."
Live on KPFA at 11:00 AM Pacific Time:
Saturdays See the KFPA Program Grid for more details.
Uprising is a digest of independent news analysis, investigation, education, artistic expression, activism in the public interest. Hosted by Sonali Kolhatkar.
Live on KPFA at 01:00 PM Pacific Time:
Mondays See the KFPA Program Grid for more details.
The Women's Magazine is an hour long radio program that airs on KPFA radio that presents and discusses women's lives and issues globally and locally from a radical, multiracial, feminist, mujerist, womanist perspective.