KALW
- Call Letters: KALW
- Frequency: 91.7FM
- http://www.kalw.org
- Affiliations: BBC, NPR, PRI, APM, and NFCB and Greater Public
- Networks: Sound Opinions Private Network, PRX Remix Select, Reveal, LA Theatre Works Private Network, and American Public Media
KALW is rooted in the Bay Area and inspired by the world. We create and curate programming that is informative, innovative, inclusive, and entertaining. We nurture new and underrepresented voices. Our goal is to engage the individual and strengthen the connections between us.
With its diverse leadership and staff, and the voices of the communities we serve, KALW Public Media is on a mission to inspire audiences and tell the human story in all its breadth and richness. Justice, equity, and community creation are at the heart of everything KALW does.
The station is shaping public media’s future by building upon its legacy for innovation and what’s next, as well as by training, nurturing and amplifying local voices and makers. The station will continue to seek out and showcase the best from around the globe, and serve as an essential and trusted source for news, music, culture, podcasting and digital media.
Series
453 Pieces
Award winning writer, radio host, NPR contributor and novelist Sandip Roy brings his wit and insight to these personal audio diaries from his new life in his old home, India.
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- Updated: May 18, 2015
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- Updated: Jan 28, 2011
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- Updated: Jan 17, 2017
Latest Pieces
If you think love letters are quaint and lack passion, Janet Gallin of the Love Letter Squad has news for you.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 22, 2012
- Length: 04:38
- Purchases: 2
For anyone who’s been there, the news that Downtown Berkeley is one of the Bay Area’s poorest neighborhoods probably comes as a surprise.
- Added: Mar 22, 2012
- Length: 06:58
Every day we make decisions based on our environmental values. A wooden stirrer or a compostable plastic one to mix your to-go coffee? Organic vege...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Mar 19, 2012
- Length: 06:47
- Purchases: 1
With gold continuing to sell at historically high prices, the hunt for the shiny mineral is alive and well. Mostly. In 2009, California outlawed a ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 19, 2012
- Length: 08:41
- Purchases: 1
Driving to Alameda Point in the East Bay may leave a first timer a little lost. It’s out towards the waterfront, past the Victorian neighborhoods o...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 19, 2012
- Length: 07:33
- Purchases: 1
Shows like CSI have taught us that a lot can be gleaned from clues left at a crime scene, and painstakingly pieced together by investigators. What ...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 19, 2012
- Length: 06:11
- Purchases: 2
Before there ever was a Golden Gate Bridge or a Bay Bridge, people who wanted to cross the Bay did it by boat. At their peak, ferries carried over ...
- Added: Mar 19, 2012
- Length: 06:41
West Oakland is a neighborhood in transition – more people are moving in, and developers have it in their sights as the next up-and-coming place to...
- Added: Mar 19, 2012
- Length: 06:20
Maurice Caldwell is just one of hundreds of former inmates whose convictions have been overturned after spending years in prison. Now, Caldwell is ...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 19, 2012
- Length: 10:46
- Purchases: 2
Just about everyone knows that the largest park in San Francisco is Golden Gate Park. But can you name the second largest one? (The Presidio doesn’...
- Added: Mar 19, 2012
- Length: 05:58