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KQED Public Radio: Friday, December 5, 2014

88.5 FM San Francisco •  89.3 FM Sacramento

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Friday, December 5, 2014
  • 12:00 am
    All Things Considered Holder: Cleveland Police Have Pattern of Excessive Force Attorney General Eric Holder says the Justice Department has found a pattern of excessive force by the Cleveland police. Holder's announcement comes as his department investigates high-profile cases of officer-involved deaths in New York and Missouri.
  • 1:00 am
  • 2:00 am
    Radio Specials State of the Re:Union with Al Letson American Justice -- Some six million Americans are currently in prison, on probation or on parole. The American justice system is vast, but how well is it working? The program chronicles how a few communities have responded creatively to problems with police, courts and prisons. From families in Albuquerque raising questions about the police department's use of lethal force, to an historic case on the Pascua Yaqui Reservation in southern Arizona, to a program in San Quentin State Prison rethinking offender rehabilitation.
  • 3:00 am
  • 5:00 am
    Morning Edition
    The California Report 5:50am, 6:50am & 8:50am

    KQED News 6am, 6:30am, 7am, 7:30am, 8am, 8:30am, 9am, 10am, 11am, 12pm, 1pm & 4:30pm


    Perspectives 6:06am, 7:35am & 11:30pm

  • MORNING
  • 6:33 am
  • 8:00 am
  • 8:33 am
  • 9:00 am
    Forum Garner Decision Prompts Calls for Police Retraining, Accountability Civil rights leaders are calling for a march on Washington in the wake of grand juries declining to indict police officers in the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner. As protests continue in the Bay Area, we'll hear a variety of perspectives on the Garner decision and the ongoing tension over police use of force. We'll also discuss efforts to improve police departments' training and relationships with minority communities.
  • 10:00 am
    Forum Bay Area's John Vanderslice Stays True to Analog and Indie Artists We meet John Vanderslice. The musician and record producer helped put out groundbreaking records from indie bands such as Death Cab for Cutie, Spoon and The Mountain Goats. His San Francisco recording studio Tiny Telephone focuses on analog production techniques, and aims to keep the cost of production affordable for up-and-coming bands.
  • 11:00 am
    Science Friday Who's Taking the Lead on Climate Change Action? The United Nations climate meetings began this week in Peru. And even if the talks are just hot air, there's reason for optimism. Host Ira Flatow and guests look at how countries are already combatting climate change, climate deal or not.
  • AFTERNOON
  • 12:00 pm
    Science Friday How Your Midnight Snack Alters Your Metabolism You aren't just what you eat -- when you eat matters, too. Host Ira Flatow finds out how your midnight snack can alter your metabolism. The show also looks at the future of human space flight.
  • 1:00 pm
    Fresh Air Remembering Keyboardist Ian McLagan The show remembers Ian McLagan, keyboardist with the British rock bands Small Faces and Faces. He died Wednesday at the age of 69. The show listens back to an excerpt of a 2004 interview with him, and hears about his life in rock 'n' roll, touring with Rod Stewart, Ron Wood and the Rolling Stones.
  • 2:00 pm
    World Was Sony Pictures Hacked by North Korea? A new Sony Pictures film revolves around a fictional assassination attempt on North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, by characters played by James Franco and Seth Rogen. Last week, the company was the target of a cyber attack. Now, security experts wonder whether Sony was hacked by North Korea.
  • 3:00 pm
  • 4:00 pm
    Marketplace Gentrification: Highland Park, Los Angeles Highland Park, a gentrifying community in Los Angeles, is changing rapidly. The show looks at the business plan and the key players who are making it happen in the next installment of its series on gentrification.
  • 4:30 pm
    The California Report The California Report Magazine Groups of California farmers have been struggling to survive the state's epic drought, and this year, one group has started to lose the fight. Fresno County's Hmong refugee producers are some of the state's newest and most disadvantaged farmers -- and they cannot afford the water necessary to keep their businesses going. Emergency loans are available from the government, but as many are discovering, the help is often too little too late.
  • 5:00 pm
    All Things Considered Activists in Missouri Complete 120-Mile Trek Activists organized by the NAACP have completed their 120-mile march from Ferguson to the Missouri state capitol building in Jefferson City, to ask for improvements to policing policies. Melissa Block speaks to NAACP President Cornell William Brooks at the capitol.
  • EVENING
  • 6:30 pm
    The California Report Hmong Farmers Losing Battle Against the Drought Groups of California farmers have been struggling to survive the state's epic drought, and this year, one group has started to lose the fight. Fresno County's Hmong refugee producers are some of the state's newest and most disadvantaged farmers -- and they cannot afford the water necessary to keep their businesses going. Emergency loans are available from the government, but as many are discovering, the help is often too little too late.
  • 7:00 pm
    Fresh Air Remembering Keyboardist Ian McLagan The show remembers Ian McLagan, keyboardist with the British rock bands Small Faces and Faces. He died Wednesday at the age of 69. The show listens back to an excerpt of a 2004 interview with him, and hears about his life in rock 'n' roll, touring with Rod Stewart, Ron Wood and the Rolling Stones.
  • 8:00 pm
    Commonwealth Club Abbas Milani: The Rise of ISIS and the Changing Middle East The program's guest is Abbas Milani, director of Iranian Studies at Stanford University. He's one of the founding co-directors of the Iran Democracy Project and a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. Until 1986, he taught at Tehran University's Faculty of Law and Political Science, where he was also a member of the board of directors of the university's Center for International Relations. For eight years, he was a visiting research fellow in University of California, Berkeley's Middle East Center. Milani joins the show to offer his take on how ISIS will ultimately impact the region and the U.S.
  • 9:00 pm
  • 10:00 pm
  • 11:00 pm
    The California Report Hmong Farmers Losing Battle Against the Drought Groups of California farmers have been struggling to survive the state's epic drought, and this year, one group has started to lose the fight. Fresno County's Hmong refugee producers are some of the state's newest and most disadvantaged farmers -- and they cannot afford the water necessary to keep their businesses going. Emergency loans are available from the government, but as many are discovering, the help is often too little too late.
  • 11:30 pm
    All Things Considered A First Step Into Deep Space: NASA Successfully Launches Orion NASA successfully launched and landed a test version of its next-generation Orion spacecraft on Friday morning. The unmanned test is the first for the follow-on to the shuttle. The flight lasted approximately four hours and splashed down safely on target in the Pacific as planned.
  • 12:00 am
    All Things Considered Another Grand Jury Decision Expected in NYC Police Killing People gathered Friday for the wake of another black man killed by a police officer in New York City. Akai Gurley was killed in a darkened stairway by a rookie cop who said his gun discharged accidentally. A grand jury is expected to consider charges against the officer.
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