Arts-Waves on Cover to Cover
3:00 PM Pacific Time: Mondays
Interviews devoted to the arts, focusing on theatre and literature, with side-trips to film and non-fiction narratives. Also on tap: archive interviews from Probabilities and Bookwaves. Hosted by Richard Wolinsky.
Cover to Cover with Denny Smithson – April 7, 2008
This week we bring you a special from the Pacifica Arcives commemorating the 40th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s assasination. We present excerpts from Pacifica Radio Archives’ Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. five-hour radio special. The original program features Dr. King recordings spanning 11 years from 1957 to just a few weeks before his … Continued
Cover to Cover with Denny Smithson – March 31, 2008
We honor the life and struggles of Cesar Chavez. In this half hour, you hear Cesar Chavez a collection of his words. We start with his address at the CWA Convention in San Francisco in 1991, an interview by Chuy Varela on the "Picket Line" in 1992 and Danny Valdez singing “Viva Huelga en General … Continued
Cover to Cover with Denny Smithson – March 24, 2008
Memories from a sinking ship! A re run, hosted by Barry Gifford
Cover to Cover with Denny Smithson – March 17, 2008
Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Fred Kaplan talks with Denny about his latest book Daydream Believers: How a Few Grand Ideas Wrecked American Power. The book is an in-depth look at how George W. Bush and his supporters got so far off track, and how much of the nation followed.
Cover to Cover with Denny Smithson – March 10, 2008
Irvin D. Yalom, Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University and strong proponent of existential psychotherapy, talks with Denny about his new bestselling book Staring at the Sun, Overcoming the Terror of Death. He also wrote the NY Times bestseller Love’s Executioner and the international Bestselling novel When Nietzsche Wept.
Cover to Cover with Denny Smithson – March 3, 2008
Paul Faulhaber, director of the Bancroft Library on the UC Berkeley Campus, and co-editor of the new book Exploring the Bancroft Library, talks with Denny about the library’s history and mission, including the famed Mark Twain collection.
Cover to Cover with Denny Smithson – February 25, 2008
Denny welcomes SF Chronicle writer Leah Garchik.