50 years of Attica Prison Uprising - Abolition Now

HKR audio collection of rare recordings

A Hip Hop History

An audio history of Hip Hop according to KPFA’s Davey D.

Africa Today

A weekly news program providing information and analysis about Africa and the African Diaspora, hosted by Walter Turner.

Against the Grain 20-20 Collection: 20 Interviews Celebrating 20 Years

AI Literacy Pack

A curated collection of interviews and forums all about AI and it’s impact today from across KPFA.

Alice Walker, Studs Terkel and Howard Zinn

A newly digitized KPFA event recorded on February 14th, 1998 in Berkeley

Animal Allies

Caroline Casey’s special audio collection interweaving understanding between humans and our animal kin.

Autumnal Equinox 2023

Anarcho*Entheo*Astro*Animist Equinox address by Caroline Casey, September 2023, in Viroqua Wisconsin, with music by Sound Play

Autumnal Equinox Magic

A special Equinox illumination from your Visonary Activist, Caroline Casey.

Bay Area Theater

Bay Area theatre reviews with KPFA theatre critic Richard Wolinsky, plus interviews with local Artistic Directors, actors and directors. Older posts include interviews witth former associate KPFA theatre critic C.S. Soong. Dates when reviews airs can be found at http://bookwaves.homestead.com/Theatre_Reviews.html

Big Picture Ideas: The Best of Against the Grain

Thirty-three illuminating conversations with some of the smartest thinkers on the radical left.

Book Talk

Building a Future of Black and Asian Coalition

California Ballot Breakdown

If you’re slogging through a California ballot packet, we’re here to help! We’ll be posting pro-con debates on high-stakes ballot propositions, interviews with candidates for offices that will shape the politics of the state, and special reports on everything from voting rules to money in politics. Subscribe with Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, or by pasting this link into any podcast player.

Chris Hedges Digital Speech Collection

Chris Hedges has worked as a freelance war correspondent in Central America for The Christian Science Monitor, NPR, and Dallas Morning News. Hedges reported for The New York Times from 1990 to 2005 and served as the Times Middle East Bureau Chief and Balkan Bureau Chief during the wars in the former Yugoslavia. In 2001, Hedges contributed to The New York Times staff entry that received the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for the paper’s coverage of global terrorism. Hedges produced a weekly column for Truthdig for 14 years until the outlet’s hiatus in 2020. His books include War...

Corona Calls

A weekly update on new research and developments concerning COVID-19 (and occasionally other infectious diseases that hit the news). We take questions via call-in during the live broadcast, Mondays at 7:33am Pacific, streaming via kpfa.org. Podcasts with show notes go up later the same day. Between live shows, we take questions via email at [email protected] . Our guest most weeks is Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health. Our question-wrangler most weeks is Brian Edwards-Tiekert, host of KPFA’s morning public affairs program, UpFront.  Music: Now Son by Podington Bear, licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0...

COVID, Race and Democracy

COVID, RACE AND DEMOCRACY is a national weekly show from Pacifica Radio, a collective effort by producers from across the Pacifica Radio Network.

Did You Hear?

Many of our most interesting and informative conversations begin with the phrase “did you hear?” The “Did You Hear?” podcast seeks to be a source of that kind of thought-provoking information that you just can’t wait to share. “Did You Hear?” will cover news, politics, culture and the arts with curiosity and an eagerness to know and share information. A recurring segment on “Did You Hear?” will be “707 Corner.” It’ll be a periodic in-depth look at a fascinating issue happening in the North Bay — a special corner of our corner of the world – the “707 Corner.”

Diggin in the Vault, Volume Two

Dire Beauty: Calling All Sacred Clowns

“Oh spirit of the Compassionate Trickster Sacred Clown within each one of us, open the pathway before us that we may be of greatest good, contribute our medicine to the community, in ways that are most serious and dedicated fun.”

Don't Believe The Hype

KPFA’s Political History  Collection In these perilous times, a grounding in history from KPFA events and interviews.  

East Bay Yesterday

East Bay Yesterday is a podcast that gathers, shares and celebrates stories from Oakland, Berkeley, Richmond and other towns throughout Alameda and Contra Costa

Education of The Black Child

Interviews with Lateefah Simon, Hodari Davis, Christopher Edmin, Sunspot Jonz, Naru Kwina, Dr. Venus Evans-Winters and more.

Feisty Women Collection

Inspiring tales of formidable, dedicated Women: protectors and allies of life on Earth; practitioners of ally etiquette Aikido; guides leading us to dynamic peace, beauty, and how to rejoin the choreography of Creation.

Feral Visions

Welcome to Feral Visions, a decolonial feminist radio hour brought to you by Liberation Spring! Tune in for consciousness-raising, analysis, current affairs, and unlearning from some of the most provocative visionaries in our movements. Please donate at liberationspring.com! Feral Visions is produced by the We Rise cultural production collective. Find our other podcasts on Area941, Birth Bruja and We Rise.

FLASHPOINT'S TRUTH TO POWER STAR PACK

Flashpoints: In Focus

A curated selection of standout interviews from Flashpoints, KPFA’s investigative news magazine. These short-form episodes pull powerful moments from the daily broadcast—highlighting critical voices, urgent issues, and sharp analysis without the full hour. For listeners who want the essence of Flashpoints, distilled and direct. Part of KPFA’s Area 941 collection.

Happy 73 years! KPFA!

Hard Knock - Diggin in the Vault Audio Collection

Hard Knock Pack Summer 2023

Hard Knock Radio Holiday Pack 2024

A collection of complete and exclusive inteviews from Davey D and Hard Knock Radio

Hard Knock Radio: The Holiday Drop 2025

A collection of complete and exclusive inteviews from Davey D and Hard Knock Radio

HerStory Unfiltered: Conversations with Women Who Shape the World

A special Hard Knock Radio audio collection.

Hip Hop Turns 50: A Collection of Pioneering Voices

A Collection of Davey D interviews with of the pioneering voices of hip hop.

HKR BLACK POLITICS

Hard Knock radio interviews ranging through the politics of being black.

Holiday Hijacks

A place to listen to previously aired Holiday Hijacks

Honoring Our Warriors

KPFA celebrates our 72nd birthday with an audio collection of indigenous, spiritual and social justice warriors who are a part of KPFA’s broadcast history. (Photo by Tim Foster on Unsplash)

Iconic Moments in KPFA's 75 Years

Jennifer Stone

The best of KPFA’s iconic monologist, Jennifer Stone.

Knowledge is Power

Special voices of Black History from KPFA’s cache of illustrious past public events.

KPFA 2024 Election Coverage

KPFA and Pacifica Evening News bring you the latest in news and voter information to help you navigate the upcoming federal, state, and local elections. For additional, election-related interviews and call-in shows, check out recent episodes of Upfront and Letters and Politics. Be ready for election day — November 5, 2024 — with KPFA.

KPFA Presents

KPFA's Abolish Racism Audio Collection

Esteemed voices of our time from KPFA’s author event archive, speaking about the history and current manifestation of racial inequity in our society and steps forward toward change. Listen, learn and be inspired! Copy the link below to your podcast app: https://kpfa.org/area941/program/kpfa-abolishracismaudiocollection/feed/

Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks

Law & Disorder exposes the cracks in our system, agitates for resistance and collectively builds a new world where all of us thrive — all through an Oakland-based abolitionist lens that centers Black experience, movement-building and art. Hosted by Cat Brooks. Produced by Jesse Strauss. —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: [email protected] Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/

Let's Take a Trip

A Social History of LSD from the Pacifica Radio Archives

Letters & Politics Ancient History Collection

Letters & Politics US History Collection

Mitch Jesserich curates a collection of his in-depth interviews on US History

Letters & Politics World History Collection

Malcolm X Digital Collection

Music

Philosophy and the Good Life: an Against the Grain collection

A special compilation of in-depth interviews with noted thinkers about how to find meaning and fulfillment in everyday life. Host: C. S. Soong.

Radio Wolinsky

A podcast posted every Sunday featuring extended interviews and discussions from Bookwaves, Art-Waves, and Bookwaves Artwaves Hour programs on KPFA, and newly digitized and edited archive interviews from the pre-digital Probabilities series dating back to 1977. Literature, theater, film, the visual arts: in-depth interviews from a progressive and artistic viewpoint, with long-time KPFA/Pacifica host Richard Wolinsky.

Speaking Truth in Troubled Times

Hard Knock reaches back to the voices of past freedom fighters and independent thinkers for words of wisdom and inspiration.

Special Announcement!

Storytelling for Social Change

Digital gems from our archives as your thank you from KPFA.

Storytelling for Social Change Fall 2021

KPFA’s Fall 2021 special collection of audio gems from our digital collection.

Storytelling for Social Change Winter 2022

KPFA’s Winter 2022 gift to all donors at any level

Telling the Story

KPFA’s Spring Drive 2021 special audio offering. Thank you and enjoy!

The Future is Female

HKR’s special audio collection for you.

The Intelligence of our FloraFaunaFungi Kindom

Dedicated Voices guiding our rogue species to collaborative humility.

The Legacy of Lawrence Ferlinghetti

KPFA’s collection of Lawrence Ferlinghetti readings and interviews.

The Mike Davis Audio Collection

Mike Davis is an American writer, political activist, urban theorist, and historian who has been a guest on KPFA many times. He is best known for his investigations of power and social class in his native Southern California. His books include City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles, Planet of Slums: Urban Involution and the Informal Working Class, Buda’s Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb, Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties, among many others.

The Occasional Scoop

The Politics of A Darkening America

The Politics of Sex

The Sacred Place Where Life Begins

Protectors and Allies of the Arctic and All Life. The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is known as “the sacred place where life began” to the indigenous Gwich’in people. Interviews with Dune Lankard, Sarah James, Carol Hoover, Subhankar Banerjee, Professor Rick Steiner, David Grimes, Michael Stocker, Judith Schwartz, and other allies dedicated to life. 

The World Belongs to Storytellers Part II

The World Belongs to Storytellers: Part I

A Visionary Activist Show Collection

To Reimagine, The Hard Knock Perspective vol. 1

Trickster Training Collection

The Compassionate Trickster Experimental Juju Mystery School. Recordings from Caroline Casey’s weekly Trickster Training Council Series. Click here for the Trickster Companion pdf

Underworld Ministry

8 Stories of Underworld Collaborators and Guides: human, flora, fauna, mushroom and mythic … so that we may rise again, brewing medicine for the collective.

Unthanksgiving Holiday Hijack 2024

Host mikO Tolliver interviews Bill Means, Miguel Gavilan Molina, Tony Gonzales and Morning Star Gali about the history and future of the Indigenous People’s Sunrise Gathering broadcast live on KPFA Radio 94.1 from Alcatraz Island. This powerful event is a celebration of strength and survival, bringing communities together to reflect on the true history of this land and stand in solidarity with Indigenous peoples. Hear interviews about the origins of the occupation movement, the broadcast and what it takes to put on the event twice a year.

UpFront's Black History Pack

A collection of interviews illuminating deep Black History with UpFront’s Friday host Jeannine Etter.

UpFront's Deep Dive Collection

Curated interviews–some longer cuts than what aired–on topics that explore who we are and where we’re going. 

UpFront's Rethinking History Collection

A dozen conversations to change the way you think about the past. Pre-history:  Geologist-Paleontologist Andrew Knoll on the first 4 billion years of Earth’s history. Archaeologist David Wengrow on the book he co-authored with the late David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity  Anthropologist Brian Fagan on Climate Chaos: Lessons on Survival From Our Ancestors  Science writer Annalee Newitz on her book Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age  Mark Bittman on Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal Native peoples and colonialism:  Damon Akins on We Are the Land: A...

Vijay Prashad

Visionary Activist Show Archival Gold

26th Anniversary Collection from The Visionary Activist Show Archives

Voter Registration Day in Detroit, MI with Hard Knock Radio

Hard Knock exclusive with Davey D interviews on the ground in Detroit, Michigan, 2024

WALKING THROUGH THE INFERNO FOR FARMWORKER RIGHTS

We Rise

We Rise brings you stories, interviews, and music to nourish our imaginations in service of collective liberation. Guided by Toni Cade Bambara’s call to make the revolution irresistible, each show explores the practice of solidarity in today’s freedom movements. Brought to you by We Rise Production. www.weriseproduction.com

Winter Solstice Astro*Mytho Zoom Council

Caroline W. Casey’s Winter Solstice Zoom event on 12.21.2021. Astrology, Mythology & Ritual Magic to guide us through this Dark of Year, Longest Night, and into the coming New Year