Crosscurrents

By KALW

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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.


Episode Date
SHOW: The History of Labor and Transit
Sep 01, 2026
Public Labor: 90 Years of Radical Solidarity with the ILWU
Sep 01, 2026
The history of San Francisco through the lens of Muni photographers
Sep 01, 2026
SHOW: The New Deal Hides in Plain Sight
Aug 31, 2026
Oakland government corruption trial moving forward
Aug 31, 2026
Public Space: New Deal history hides among the roses
Aug 31, 2026
BOUNCE: Tracing the History of the San Francisco Pioneers
Aug 27, 2026
Coyote Media: doing away with 'old, tired ethics'
Aug 26, 2026
The revolutionary act of repair
Aug 26, 2026
Building community at the Richmond tool library
Aug 26, 2026
SHOW: Repairing and Sharing
Aug 26, 2026
SHOW: Back-to-School Season
Aug 25, 2026
State of the Bay: SF Back-to-School
Aug 25, 2026
Meet Amira: The AI program teaching San Francisco kids how to read
Aug 25, 2026
Audiograph: Philip & Sala Burton High School Band
Aug 25, 2026
SHOW: The Cool, Gray, Sound of Love
Aug 24, 2026
A 1987 recording keeps San Francisco’s fog horns alive
Aug 24, 2026
Audiograph: The sonic signature of the Bay's Wave Organ
Aug 24, 2026
BOUNCE: Reflecting on 30 years of the WNBA
Aug 20, 2026
SHOW: Uncuffed's 'Dance Dance Revolution'
Aug 19, 2026
SHOW: Preserving the History of Power Through Art
Aug 18, 2026
Hand-painted signage is having a local renaissance
Aug 18, 2026
Sights + Sounds: 'Conjuring Power: Roots & Futures of Queer & Trans Movements' exhibition
Aug 18, 2026
SHOW: Tuning in to the Music Inside
Aug 17, 2026
Bay Area Beats: 'God gave me my music back’ — LT Finesse on faith, addiction and healing
Aug 17, 2026
Notes from the Edge: Valerie June shows us 'a gentler way of being in the world'
Aug 17, 2026
Flipside Lovers and South Bay cruising
Aug 17, 2026
BOUNCE: Changing the Game
Aug 13, 2026
SHOW: Finding Human Connection Through Song
Aug 12, 2026
Sights + Sounds: Sound sculpture artist Bill Fontana
Aug 12, 2026
CircleSinging brings connection through group improvisation
Aug 12, 2026
Keeping history alive and ringing
Aug 12, 2026
SHOW: Sustaining Ourselves, and Community, Through Comedy
Aug 11, 2026
The Bay Agenda: Making a Scene — Exploring the Bay Area Comedy Landscape
Aug 11, 2026
Sights + Sounds: BATS Improv co-founder William Hall on the theater turning 40
Aug 11, 2026
Laughing through the fear: Comedians find power in humor
Aug 11, 2026
SHOW: Freedom Needs a Soundtrack Ep.4 — The First Concert
Aug 10, 2026
BOUNCE: A New Generation of Opportunity in Girls Flag Football
Aug 06, 2026
SHOW: Uncuffed's 'More Than A Game'
Aug 05, 2026
Fixing What’s Broken to Give it New Life
Aug 04, 2026
Sex, bribes, and phone tape: An update on Oakland's corruption scandal
Aug 04, 2026
The Stoop: Bury Me Whole
Aug 04, 2026
Fixit Clinics turn consumers into fixers
Aug 04, 2026
New Arrivals: Mike Huguenor chronicles iconic indy label Asian Man Records
Aug 03, 2026
SHOW: The Lasting Fallout from Local Immigration Court Closures
Aug 03, 2026
Move to Concord immigration court proving chaotic for judges, asylum seekers
Aug 03, 2026
Sights + Sounds: BART Prom Royalty
Aug 03, 2026
BOUNCE: A Heyday for Girls Baseball
Jul 30, 2026
SHOW: Staying Safe From Scams in the Age of AI
Jul 29, 2026
AI accelerates organized cybercrimes
Jul 29, 2026
Remembering Oakland storytelling icon, Diane Ferlatte
Jul 29, 2026
SHOW: How Fatherhood Shapes Men's Brains, and Lives
Jul 28, 2026
Litquake - Dad Brain: The New Science of Fatherhood and How It Shapes Men's Lives
Jul 28, 2026
A musician’s thousand mile journey to help the monarch butterfly
Jul 28, 2026
Bounce Season 3 Trailer
Jul 28, 2026
SHOW: The Regenerative Cycle of Bay Area Art and Culture
Jul 27, 2026
Sights and Sounds: The Henry J. Kaiser Center for the Arts reopened
Jul 27, 2026
Artist Talk: CreatingAS1 — Pollinating the possible
Jul 27, 2026
Bay Poets: “Because our roots are in rivers, not Latin”
Jul 27, 2026
SHOW: The Queer history of Bay Area radio
Jul 23, 2026
SHOW: Uncuffed's 'Just a Kid'
Jul 22, 2026
SHOW: Using Cold Water to Heal, Connect and Compete
Jul 21, 2026
The Transformative Power of Cold Water
Jul 21, 2026
Oldest San Francisco: South End Rowing Club
Jul 21, 2026
State of The Bay: Dogsurfing Championship comes to Pacifica
Jul 21, 2026
SHOW: Rising up: Housing, Soul, and Song
Jul 20, 2026
State of the Bay: Housing vs Local Control
Jul 20, 2026
Sights + Sounds: Melissa Etheridge
Jul 20, 2026
SHOW: Animals Outside; Domestic and Wild
Jul 16, 2026
In Oakland, one nonprofit looks beyond the dog days
Jul 16, 2026
New Arrivals: Vanessa Hua tackles race, class, housing, and suburbia in new novel
Jul 16, 2026
Intergenerational Conversations and Life Lessons
Jul 15, 2026
Living Lessons from the AIDS Crisis: Queer Elders on Care, Activism & Community
Jul 15, 2026
Bay Poets: 'What If We Didn't Die' after Bayani Bala & Maria Bolaños by poet Keana Aguila Labra
Jul 15, 2026
Transitioning, trancestors, and community legacy
Jul 15, 2026
SHOW: Disability Pride, Advocacy, and Justice
Jul 14, 2026
Remember Alice Wong, one of the Bay Area’s strongest fighters for disability advocacy
Jul 14, 2026
The Intersection: Will meets way at Burning Man
Jul 14, 2026
SHOW: 'Wood Street' Documentary, An Uncuffed My Mixtape, and the best of CA State Parks
Jul 13, 2026
Sights + Sounds: 'Wood Street' documentary
Jul 13, 2026
Uncuffed My Mixtape: Seyomay
Jul 13, 2026
State of the Bay: California State Parks
Jul 13, 2026
SHOW: Storytelling our Memories
Jul 09, 2026
Litquake - Migrant Heart: Essays About Things I Can't Forget
Jul 09, 2026
Uncuffed My Mixtape: U Should've Known Better
Jul 09, 2026
Sights + Sounds: Storyteller Ben Tucker on his memoir 'A Good Run'
Jul 09, 2026
An Award Winning Episode of Uncuffed: Mama
Jul 08, 2026
The Multiple Choice Test of College Admissions
Jul 07, 2026
State of The Bay: Should the UCs Bring Back Standardized Testing? 
Jul 07, 2026
Sights + Sounds: 'Paper Bag Plan' film
Jul 07, 2026
Oldest San Francisco: Mitchell's Ice Cream
Jul 07, 2026
SHOW: Fighting Back by Staying United
Jul 06, 2026
San Francisco's crackdown on RVs leaves some homeless residents in limbo
Jul 06, 2026
OASIS Lives!
Jul 06, 2026
Bay Poets: 'ode to the beating heart' by poet Alexiz Angel Romero
Jul 06, 2026
AI and Cybersecurity
Jul 02, 2026
How does adding AI change cybersecurity risks for government agencies?
Jul 02, 2026
Sights + Sounds: Adam Nimoy's memoir 'The Most Human'
Jul 02, 2026
Music Notes from the Edge of America's 250th: Julian Brave NoiseCat
Jul 02, 2026
Getting to Know the New Class of Uncuffed!
Jul 01, 2026