We are pleased to present Frank Zappa for President, an enlightening and freewheeling conversation between Zappa and former KPFA host and Music Director, Charles Amirkhanian, as well as KPFA-FM listeners – from the early 1980s.
Featured Episode
Voices of Independence – Harvey Milk Interview with Greg Gordon
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We are pleased to present an incredibly insightful interview of with Harvey Milk conducted by Greg Gordon. At the time, Milk was the first openly gay elected official in the history of California.
We are pleased to present a significant moment in time – messages and recordings dispatched to KPFA during the Patricia Hearst kidnapping in 1974. You’ll hear these dispatches over time as the kidnap saga grows with intensity until its final resolution.
We are pleased to present an onstage conversation with Frances Ford Coppola at the San Francisco Film Festival in 1972, shortly after the release of “The Godfather”. He discusses his early development as a screenwriter that, ultimately, led him to make one of the most influential films of all-time.
We are pleased to present Anais Nin and Judy Chicago in an engaging conversation about the state of feminism in the United States in 1972. Nin was a French-American diarist, essayist, novelist and writer of short stories and erotica.
We are pleased to present Langston Hughes reading from collection of his poetry and reflecting on his life as a writer – to an audience at the University of California, Berkeley in the 1960s.
We are pleased to present the two intriguing interviews featuring music greats, Sarah Vaughn and Esther Phillips. Vaughn is interviewed by KPFA producer Herbert Weinstein in 1967; Angela Davis interviews Esther Phillips in 1977.
We are pleased to present a wonderful program featuring Bob Dylan in conversation with Cynthia Gooding in March of 1962. Bob Dylan performs one of a kind live versions of some of his favorite Blues and Roots songs. As well, he performs a few originals for the first time on radio
Is God Great? We are pleased to present “Is God Great?”, a fascinating and free-wheeling debate between Christopher Hitchens and Chris Hedges at an KPFA-FM Author Series event on May 24, 2007.
For Our Children We are pleased to present “For Our Children” a beautifully evocative documentary about Dolores Huerta, Co-founder of the United Farm Workers Union