
UpFront
7:00 AM PT: Monday-Friday
UpFront delivers a mix of local, state, and international coverage through challenging interviews, civil debates, breaking updates, and in-depth discussions with authors. UpFront PM is the afternoon edition of UpFront. Pitch us at [email protected]
Fund Drive Special with Kristin Ohlson
0:08 — Kristin Ohlson, author and freelance journalist. Her newest book is Sweet in Tooth and Claw: Stories of Generosity and Cooperation in the Natural World.
Fund Drive Special with Paul Stamets
0:08 — Paul Stamets is a legendary mycologist. This talk was the keynote lecture at a conference called exponential medicine in January 2020.
Fund Drive special with George Monbiot: sustainable change to our global food system
0:11 — George Monbiot, author, Guardian columnist and environmental activist, whose current research focus is on the global food system. His latest book is Regenesis: Feeding the World without Devouring the Planet.
Fund Drive Special: Comic book writer David F Walker on his graphic novel about Frederick Douglass
0:08 — David F. Walker, award-winning comic book writer, filmmaker, journalist, and educator.
Russia’s war in Ukraine; Plus, Covid call-ins with Dr. Swartzberg
0:08 – John Feffer (@johnfeffer), Director of Foreign Policy in Focus discusses the latest developments from Russia’s war in Ukraine. 0:33 – Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health joins us to answer listeners’ COVID questions.
Russian invasion of Ukraine: one year later
0:08 — Anatol Lieven, Director of the Eurasia Program at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. 0:34 — Olena Gnes, Ukrainian tour guide, formerly living in Kyiv, now based in the US state of Georgia.
Robin DG Kelley discusses the twentieth anniversary edition of “Freedom Dreams”
0:08 — Robin D. G. Kelley is Distinguished Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA. He is the author of seven books, including Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination.
Another earthquake hits Turkey and Syria; Plus, geophysicist Glenn Biasi on what the past says about the next big earthquake
0:08 — Zaina Erhaim, Syrian journalist based in the UK, formerly with the Institute for War and Peace Reporting. 0:35 — Glenn Biasi, geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey’s Earthquake Science Center — we ask him why California hasn’t had more “Big Ones” lately, and he advises listeners to pay attention to the Hayward Fault.
Russia’s war in Ukraine; Plus, Covid call-ins with Dr. Swartzberg
0:08 – John Feffer (@johnfeffer), Director of Foreign Policy in Focus discusses the latest developments from Russia’s war in Ukraine. 0:33 – Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health joins us to answer listeners’ COVID questions.
Robin DG Kelley on the twentieth anniversary editing of “Freedom Dreams”
0:08 — Robin D. G. Kelley, Distinguished Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA. He is the author of seven books, including Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination.