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.

Radio Wolinsky

The story of “Bushman,” at Pacific Film Archive

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A look at the creation of the restored film “Bushman,” directed by the late David Schickele, at Pacific Film Archive, with ilm director Rob Nillson, activist and eEnvironmentalist Gail Schickele, and film archivist Jon Shibata. “Bushman” is an extraordinary film about a Nigerian educator coming to San Francisco in 1968 and what he experiences. Despite film festival awards, it never had commercial distribution, and has now been restored at BAMPFA. Hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Photo courtesy BAMPFA.

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Robert B. Parker (1932-2010), The Spenser novels, 1992

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From the Probabilities Archive: Robert B. Parker (1932-2010), in conversation with Richard Wolinsky and Richard A. Lupoff, recorded June 13, 1992 while on tour for the Spenser novel, “Double Deuce.” In the interview, Parker discusses his career up to that point, the TV series Spenser for Hire and A Man Called Hawk, and his views on his characters of Spenser, Hawk and Susan Silverman.

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Alice McDermott, “Absolution,” 2023

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Alice McDermott, whose latest novel is “Absolution,” in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky, recorded December 12, 2023 via zencastr. Alice McDermott is a National Book Award winning novelist, and two of her books have been Pulitzer Prize finalists. “Absolution” concerns the lives of American wives living in Saigon in 1963.

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Amos Oz (1939-2018), “A Tale of Love and Darkness,” 2004

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Amos Oz (1939-2018), author of “A Tale of Love and Darkness” and other books, in conversation with Richard Wolinsky, recorded in San Francisco in November, 2004. Amos Oz, the noted Israeli novelist, short story writer, essayist and peace activist, and perennial Nobel Prize candidate, died on December 28th, 2018 at the age of 79. The author of forty books, he was a firm believer in the two-state solution as the only option for the region. Encore podcast originally posted January 13, 2019. Photo: Creative Commons

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From the Archive: R.L. Stine, Goosebumps, 1995

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R.L. Stine, in conversation with Richard Wolinsky and Richard A. Lupoff, recorded in the KPFA studios on September 22, 1995 during the book tour for the adult novel, “Superstitious.” R.L. Stine is often called the Stephen King of young adult and children’s horror. With nearly 500 books under his belt alongside several film and TV adaptations, he is best known for two series and their later iterations, Fear Street and Goosebumps. Photo: Gage Skidmore, Creative Commons.