Programs

This is an alphabetical list of KPFK's programming. Some shows are online only and others may be on hiatus.
Click on the shows you are interested in for details.

• Afro~Dicia

  Hosted by Nnamdi Moweta, is a weekly experience into the world of African music from all across the Diaspora. With classic & modern tracks ranging from AfroBeat to Zouk, Afrodicia hits the mark and wets your appetite for African and Afro-Caribbean music.

• Alan Watts

  For more than forty years, Alan Watts has earned a reputation as one of the foremost interpreters of Eastern philosophies for the West. Beginning at age sixteen, when he wrote essays for the journal of the Buddhist Lodge in London, he developed an audienc

• All Of The Above

  Transmitting live from the West Coast of the Milky Way, our weekly radio show explores high quality music of every genre.  With no commercials and no playlist, All Of The Above is a non-stop journey through sound unlike any other found on today’s airwa

• Alternative Radio

  Alternative Radio, established in 1986, is an award-winning weekly one-hour public affairs program. AR provides information, analyses, and views that are frequently ignored or distorted in corporate media. Guests analyze national and international issues.

• American Indian Airwaves

  Giving indigenous peoples a voice about the continuous struggles against Colonialism and Imperialism

• Arts in Review

  Arts in Review celebrates the best in local live performance, including theatre, cabaret, music and dance. Hosted by arts journalist Julio Martinez, the weekly one-hour program features interviews and performances by a wide range of talented performers wh

• Awakenings

  Awakenings celebrates the music and legacy of John and Alice Coltrane, guided by their daughter Michelle Coltrane. Tune in for transcendent sounds, artist collaborations, and spiritual jazz to start your day with depth, beauty, and soul.

• Aware Show with Lisa Garr

  Aware is dedicated to communicating information to inspire positive growth and change

• Background Briefing

  Building a reality-based community in post-truth America

• Be a Better Relative

• Beautiful Struggle

  Beautiful Struggle is an open conversation focused on African American social and political issues, thought, history, inspiration, resistance, and social change. The program aims to educate and motivate the audience to work for justice and social change.

• Beneath The Surface with Suzi Weissman

  A weekly public affairs program

• Bibliocracy

  Bibliocracy Radio is a weekly half-hour books discussion and interview program hosted by writer and Santa Monica Review editor Andrew Tonkovich featuring writers of literary fiction and nonfiction, poetry, memoir, political and cultural criticism. Recent guests have included anti-fascist scholar Federico Finkelstein, So Cal novelist and editor David Ulin, writer Venita Blackburn, publisher and essayist Steve Wasserman, and short story writer Mary Jones. The show airs Thursdays at 2:30 PM as part of KPFK's literary arts and culture strip of programming M-F at 2 PM.

• Bike Talk

  Bike Talk! celebrates bike rides, collectives, activists, artists, commuters, enthusiasts, professional cyclists, inventors & repairers and of course, the bicycle itself as an alternative human-powered mode of transportation

• BradCast with Brad Friedman

  Investigative journalist, blogger, troublemaker and broadcaster. Investigative interviews, analysis and commentary, as ripped from the pages of The BRAD BLOG.

• Breakbeats and Rhymes

  Breakbreats and Rhymes Radio, bringing you the finest in Hip Hop music and more, broadcasting live late Friday nights from 10 p.m.-12 a.m.

• Cal State LA Community News Hour

  Local news and stories produced by the journalism department and students of Cal State LA

• California Solartopia

  Your frontline call to action in the fight for our planet’s future. Every week, hosts Harvey Wasserman, Myla Reson, and Tatanka Bricca break down California’s fiercest ecological battles.

• Caminando por Mesoamerica

• Canto Sin Fronteras

  with Tanya Mayahuel Torres. The best music from Latin- America and the World with a Political Edge. Dedicated to the diffusion of Latin American folk, trova, nuevo canto, and World music with social-political themes not allowed on other radio stations

• Canto Tropical

  "Canto Tropical" is a trilingual fast-paced music show focusing on Salsa, Mambo, Afro-Cuban, & Latin jazz from throughout the world. Exciting new selections each week, insightful interviews with local and visiting artists, and give-aways

• Capitalism, Race and Democracy

  features contributions from all five Pacifica stations and from affiliates and independent producers

• Car Show. The

  Everything about the automotive world including listener call-ins, event calender, industry news, racing news,new products, vehicle road tests,classic and collector vehicles, in-studio and call-in guests on all automotive and related subjects.

• Cary Harrison Files

  Award-winning raconteur Cary Harrison, cuts through the noise - revealing the murky agendas behind today's headlines through uncompromising journalism, unapologetic advocacy, independent voices, and a global audience with live listener call-ins shaping the conversation.

• Centroamerica Sin Censura con Francisco Marti­nez

• Chris Hedges Report. The

  with Chris Hedges

• CinemaScore with John Santana

  John Santana presents orchestral music from Hollywood film scores and interviews with the composers, Sundays 5-6PM

• CODEPINK Radio

  A women-led grassroots organization working to end U.S. wars, support peace, and redirect our tax dollars into healthcare, and life-affirming programs.

• Contacto Ancestral

  http://www.myspace.com/contactoancestral

• Contragolpe - Noticias

  Un espacio de discusión política para la comunidad hispana de California.

• Conversation Piece

  Interviews from a Black woman's perspective with Angela Birdsong

• Cut To The Chase

  Unfiltered conversations with activists, artists, and everyday people on the frontlines of change. From worker justice to environmental action, Cut To The Chase brings you truth with heart.

• Dark Star, Dead & Music

  Dark Star, Dead & Music is show devoted to Grateful Dead and beyond including all of the psychedelic music of the past and present, with your host Arnella Barbara, Dark Star Gurl. Arnella is huge dead head with masters in opera from Milan Conservattorio di Musica, Milan, Italy, She’s production designer with bachelors in architecture as well as vegan chef, licensed mixologist/bartender, and professional organizer. Join her every Sunday night for a couple hours of dead music, fun, information and good mantras.

• Democracy Now!

  Democracy Now! goes beyond the rhetoric and party politics offered by the mainstream media. Instead, it highlights grassroots efforts to enhance and ignite democracy in the U.S.

• Diálogos de Media Noche

  Dialogos Culturales de Media Noche

• Eco Justice Radio

  EcoJustice Radio presents environmental and climate stories from a social justice frame intended to amplify community voices, broaden the reach of grassroots-based movements, and inspire action

• Economic Update w Richard Wolff

  Prof. Richard D. Wolff delivers updates and perspectives on national and international issues

• Edna Tatum's Gospel Classics

  Gil Fears - Host of “Edna Tatum’s Gospel Classics” has served as co-host for “Gospel Classics” for the past sixteen years. Gil is an ordained Minister and is associated with the Gospel Music Workshop of America.

• El Noticiero

  Spanish language locally produced newcast with segments from Informativo Pacifica and Democracy Now en espa~nol

• Encuentros with Gregorio Luke

  Una programa de 60 minutos dedicado al arte y la cultura de América Latina, con biografías de audio en la vida de los visionarios Latina Américas más emocionantes e influyentes del pasado y del presente.

• Enfoque Latino con Ruben Tapia

  News and public affairs for the Spanish-speaking community. "Su programa para derrotar la Indifererncia" en horario para desvelados y desveladas en acción.

• Expansion Zone

  With Sonia Barrett. Explores the human experience from vast perspectives. We examine the life and our quest to understand who and what we are.

• Feminist Magazine

  Feminist Magazine is the weekly Southern California radio show with intersectional feminist perspectives. Covering stories that you don't hear on mainstream media!

• FolkScene

  FolkScene is dedicated to providing the highest quality music and information to the Folk and Acoustic Community

• Freedom Now

• Global Village Mondays w/Kathy Diaz

  "Music from around the world and around the block" with Kathy Diaz

• Global Village Tuesdays w/Gary Baca

  "Music from around the world and around the block"

• Global Village Wednesdays

  "Music from around the world and around the block" with rotating hosts

• Global Village Thursdays w John Schneider

  Music from around the world and around the block.With a special focus on stringed instruments and eclectic styles!

• Global Village Fridays w Sergio Mielniczenko

  Featuring music from around the world with an emphasis on interviews and live performances.

• Hablando de Sudamerica

  Siempre rompiendo el cerco mediatico

• IMRU

  IMRU Radio Magazine is a vehicle for LGBTQ community support and political change.

• Informativo Pacifica

  Un programa de media hora con noticias nacionales e internacionales con reportes y contribuciones de periodistas de mas de treinta paises de nuestra America y Europa.

• In The Cut Radio – Live From The Launchpad with DJ Ben Vera

  DJ Ben Vera brings you a Saturday night extravaganza of sound, blending club cuts with crate digging

• Jazz Sessions

  A program that captures the spirit of the jam session and celebrates timeless jazz recordings of then and now with Dr Jaz Sawyer.

• KPFA Evening News

• LA Review of Books

  LARB

• L.A. Theatre Works

  Founded in 1974, L.A. Theatre Works' mission is to record and preserve great performances of important stage plays, maximizing the use of new technologies to make world-class theatre accessible to the widest possible audience...

• La Raza Radio

  La Raza Radio with Matt Sedillo, Dr. Vanessa Bustamante, and Ernesto Ayala

• Law & Disorder with Cat Brooks

  Abolitionist radio from the front lines. Organizer and activist Cat Brooks hosts deep conversations on justice, resistance, and movement power.

• The Lawyer's Guild - with Jim Lafferty and Maria Hall

  A public affairs program where political activists and experts discuss current political developments and progressive movements for social change. Also listener calls.

• Living In The USA w/Jon Wiener

  Talking about politics, thinking about the Left.

• Middle East in Focus

  The mission of MEIF is to fill the many gaps left by the mainstream media in their coverage of the Middle East

• Midnight Snack

  A blend of house, electro pop, and everything in between with DJ Dani Mamath

• Musiqueros y Juventud

  # youth collectives alternate with contemporary music and cultural developments; in Spanish with some code switching

• Nightscapes

  Giving you the music to make you think, feel, expand your dreams, reach for the stars and grow your mind. Playing an eclectic blend of low-fi, chilled out neo-soul, jazz, rock, blues, and a few classics. No holds barred, anything goes--DJ Jillian Rise

• Nuestra Voz

  Roundtable of Latino and Latin American issues. Topics include environment, politics, education, health, human rights and international issues. Open phone lines, calls welcome. Call in number (818) 985-5735

• The Out Agenda

  Through interviews, debates, and special feature stories, this show examines today’s issues from the LGBTQ perspective.

• Pacifica Performance Showcase

  Arts & culture to enlighten, enliven and educate

• Perspectiva de las Americas

  Collective Members: Paula Ramirez, Julieta Reynoso, Correspondents for AMATE, Alternative Media Agency and Trade Editions

• Phil and Ted’s Sexy Boomer Show

  Free-form, comedy/talk podcast co-hosted by Phil Proctor and Ted Bonnitt, featuring special guests and Hollywood stars in fun and deep conversations.

• Planting Medicine

  Join us Tuesdays at 1pm for "Planting Medicine", formerly Herbal Highway, enhancing the community’s knowledge of herbal medicine by sharing voices of traditional, holistic healers and healing practices. Hosted and produced by Emiliano Lemus and Renée Camila. That's Planting Medicine Tuesdays at 1pm on KPFK 90.7FM Los Angeles and online at kpfk.org

• Pocho Hour of Power

  News, Music, Comedy & Cultural Arts Variety Show & "Non-Stop Afternoon Party"

• Profiles w/ Maggie LePique

  Profiles with Maggie LePique, An hour-long look, first Friday of the month from 7-8 PM, into the music, artistry, lives and legacies of the musicians, activists and artists who defined a uniquely creative era by breaking boundaries and finding new influences...

• QR Code

  Culture. Opinions. Dialogue. Entertainment. Hosted by Q Ward & Ramses Ja, The QR Code dives into politics, media, and culture with sharp takes and bold guests.

• Que Pasa en Los Angeles?

  Behind the scenes at KPFK en espa~nol and greater L.A., too

• Radio Bilingue

  Línea Abierta, national Spanish-language talk and call-in program.

• RADIO INSURGENCIA FEMENINA

  Radio Insurgencia Femenina es un programa radial que es parte de la programacion en español de la emisora comunitaria KPFK 90.7 FM

• Radio Maíz - El Vuelo del Águila y el Cóndor - Radio Sudamérica

• Ralph Nader Radio Hour

  The Ralph Nader Radio Hour is a weekly talk show broadcast on the Pacifica Radio Network.

• Reggae Central

  Chuck Foster plays ska, rocksteady, reggae, dub, roots and dancehall, drawn from one of the largest collections in the U.S. From vintage 7" singles to the latest Jamaican chart hits, Reggae Central celebrates the classics and keeps you up to date on curre

• Revolucion Arcoiris

  Spanish language LGBTQ+ program

• Rhapsody in Black

  Classic Rhythm & Blues from the 40's, 50's and 60's and beyond

• Rising Up With Sonali

  Rising Up is a weekly digest of independent news analysis, investigation, education, artistic expression, activism in the public interest

• Roots Music & Beyond

  Folk and roots music and more, sundry sounds from bluegrass to bebop and beyond.

• Scholars Circle

• Senderos de Oaxaca o Asi Es Nuestra Cultura

  Senderos de Oaxaca (oaxacan programan) o Asi Es Nuestra Cultura

• The Signal

  News, Information & Analysis with Dino aka Armando Gudino

• Sojourner Truth

  Sojourner Truth brings you news and views on local, national, and international policies and stories that affect us all. We draw out how those of us most impacted - women, communities of color and other communities are responding.

• Something's Happening A Hour 1 honoring Roy Of Hollywood

  News and programming on the cutting edge - dynamite radio for night people

• Soul Rebel Radio

  Soul Rebel Radio is a cutting edge youth based radio program hitting on topics as well as current events through comedy, youth voices, and interviews. SoulRebel Radio also plays a wide variety of music that young people get denied by mainstream radio.

• Soundwaves

  Soundwaves Radio strives to bring you the best in all forms of music both new and old. Live guest DJ set's and producer performances as well as extensive interviews with artists from all over the globe.

• Special Programming

  KPFK Presents Special Programming on various topics. Call (818) 985-5735 To Pledge!

• Stairway To Heaven

  a music program that consists of music from the soulful genre...the focus is on stories....the feeling..

• Suplemento Comunitario

  Programa semanal de asuntos públicos en español

• Radio Intifada (SWANA Region Radio)

  Weekly review of politics and culture bringing you the voices of the voiceless from Kolkata to Casablanca. Hosts, Members of SWANA (South and West Asia and North Africa) Collective. Archives: anchor.fm/SWANA

• Think Outside The Cage

• This Way Out

  The International LGBTQ Radio Magazine

• Thom Hartmann

  LIVE CALL IN NUMBER During this show- (202) 808-9925

• Travel Tips for Aztlan

  The best music from the latin youth culture including rock, salsa, cumbia, hip-hop, ska, electronica and LatinX ChicanoX Music, Cultural news and information showcase

• The Visionary Activist Show

  Dedicated to “anything we need to know to have a democracy”: Democratic Animism, Pragmatic Mysticism, Applied Divination, Renaissance of Reverent Ingenuity. Hosted by Caroline Casey. Her guests are allies contributing to a culture of reverent ingenuity. Critique and Solution.

• Voces de Libertad

  focused in the political and revolutionary struggle in Mexico,

• Way Out West

  Way Out West is your early morning journey into the heart and future of jazz, blues, classic R&B, and the West Coast’s most daring new sounds. Every Saturday from 5 to 7am, we cut through the noise to bring you artists who push boundaries and honor roots—voices and legends who shape, challenge, and celebrate the music made by real communities right here and across the globe.

• Working Voices

  Working Voices is a labor of love for us because of our love for labor. The labor movement has pulled many folks out of poverty and taught us leadership skills and the ability to help even more. We're here to teach, to learn, to share our expertise and our experiences.

• World Massive

  Hand picked Massive music from every corner of the globe with Dj D.Painter