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Crosscurrents

Crosscurrents is KALW Public Radio"s award-winning news magazine, broadcasting in the Bay Area Mondays through Thursdays on 91.7 FM. We make joyful, informative stories that engage people across the economic, social, and cultural divides in our community.

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26:50

SHOW: In Celebration of StoryCorps

Crosscurrents ·

2025/11/06

Today, we celebrate the legacy and work of StoryCorps. And we play you some of our favorite conversations recorded right here, in the Bay Area.

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26:50

SHOW: Revisiting San Francisco's Crosstown Trail

Crosscurrents ·

2025/11/04

Today, we get lost… and find our way on San Francisco’s Crosstown trail. Then, a story about a mother in prison and a daughter who wishes for her to come home.

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13:32

Taking the long way: San Francisco's Crosstown Trail

Crosscurrents ·

2025/11/04

Today we’re bringing you a story that recently won the Society of Professional Journalists - Nor Cal award for best feature story - small division! The San Francisco Crosstown Trail offers up a lot of those opportunities for charm and whimsy. It’s a 17 mile walk from Candlestick Point to Land’s End.

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05:27

Uncuffed: Mothering from prison isn't easy

Crosscurrents ·

2025/11/04

A story from Uncuffed and the California Institution for Women about a mother in prison and a daughter who wishes for her to come home.

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05:38

Sights + Sounds: 'Noises Off' play

Crosscurrents ·

2025/11/04

"Noises Off," by English playwright Michael Frayn, debuted over 40 years ago, and is still cracking audiences up. And now, there’s a new production of the play at San Francisco Playhouse. Actor Joe Ayers plays the arrogant, but clumsy leading actor Garry Lejeune.

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26:50

SHOW: Grief and Dying in the Modern Age

Crosscurrents ·

2025/11/03

Today, we explore what's at stake when people mourn online. Then, Death Doula's give agency to people at the end of their lives.

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16:53

The business of never letting go

Crosscurrents ·

2025/11/03

When loved ones die we find ways to hold on — through photos and keepsakes. Now, things like AI memorial platforms and companion chatbots offer digitized connection with the dead. With these technologies becoming more common, what does it mean to grieve with a chatbot instead of each other?

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07:33

End-of-life doulas and the art of dying well

Crosscurrents ·

2025/11/03

This story is about a different kind of doula – an end of life doula. Their role is to provide emotional support to dying people and their families. In 2019 Reporter Annie Berman joined Mimi Burrows and her son, Peter, as they met with a death doula. In the process, she learned more about what it means to live – and die – well.

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08:56

Federal agents are heading to the Bay Area today

Crosscurrents ·

2025/10/23

To understand what an escalation of federal agents means for San Francisco, and especially Latine immigrants in the Bay Area, we spoke with El Tecolote Investigative Reporter Yesica Prado.

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26:50

SHOW: Lifting the Fog and Showing Love

Crosscurrents ·

2025/10/23

A local reporter talks about how Latine immigrant communities are preparing for an influx of Federal agents. Then, we go to a show that’s all about celebrating the City by the Bay. And, an Oakland novelist confronts everyday issues through horror.

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24:50

SHOW: Earthquakes and the Bay

Crosscurrents ·

2025/10/16

Today, we're looking into earthquake preparedness around in the Bay Area. First, we meet San Francisco’s Neighborhood Emergency Response Team. Then, will the City’s skyscrapers stand up against the Big One when it hits? And, how will the city’s water system fare? Plus, is ‘earthquake weather’ a real thing?

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09:15

SF's Neighborhood Emergency Response Team needs more...

Crosscurrents ·

2025/10/16

The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake caused a lot of destruction. It also stirred up a lot of change. And helped create new things, like NERT, the Neighborhood Emergency Response Team. NERT started as a way to prepare for natural disasters, but it's got some problems that are man-made. Back in 2023, KALW’s Wren Farrell went out to see what role NERT might play in the city’s next big emergency.

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26:50

SHOW: Music and Resilience

Crosscurrents ·

2025/10/09

As war in Ukraine rages on artists are collaborating to preserve Ukrainian identity. Then, we’ll hear about reporting from a city under siege.

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18:26

Joy as resistance in Ukraine: Part Two

Crosscurrents ·

2025/10/09

We’ll hear part two of reporter Adreanna Rodriguez’s reporting from Ukraine. She’ll take us inside the electronic music scene in Kyiv and explain how music producers view their work as a necessary act of resistance and preservation of culture.

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06:48

Cafe du Nord: local live music

Crosscurrents ·

2025/10/09

Live music is quintessential to any city's nightlife. But increasing rents and impacts of the pandemic have made it difficult for small venues around the Bay Area to stay open.

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24:50

SHOW: Stories About Spirituality

Crosscurrents ·

2025/10/02

Today, we meet a hairdresser who begins to contemplate the end of life. Now her mission is to get other people to think about it. Then, in honor of Yom Kippur, we’ll learn about the importance of a book called the Zohar.

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26:51

SHOW: Artists and Creators of The Bay

Crosscurrents ·

2025/09/22

Today, a conversation with the executive director of San Francisco’s Dance Mission Theater about the loss of federal funding. Then, an Oakland film tackles the challenges parents face when caring for kids with disabilities. And, we learn about the lost art of steam power.

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08:45

State Of The Bay: Dance Mission Theater’s Fight to...

Crosscurrents ·

2025/09/22

Today, a conversation with the executive director of San Francisco’s Dance Mission Theater about the loss of federal funding.

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08:45

The Sights and Sound Show: Oakland filmmaker Anthony...

Crosscurrents ·

2025/09/22

An Oakland film tackles the challenges parents face when caring for kids with disabilities.

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05:40

Kinetic Steam Works: Breathing life into industrial...

Crosscurrents ·

2025/09/22

In this Audiograph, we go to a warehouse tucked away behind a metal scrap yard. Kinetic Steam Works is an industrial workspace for people to tinker with old machines in West Oakland.

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