Episode

  • Kirghizian woman interviewed by William Mandel

    First audio heard is William Mandel introducing the phone-in portion of the show (about 9 seconds), which is cut off and there is a brief news report on the PLO’s relations with Syria and Cairo, reported by Russ Stetler for Internews. At 35 seconds, an unidentified speaker announces Soviet Lives with William Mandel. Mandel says…

  • Rickie Lee Jones / by Susan Sailow

    Susan Sailow talks about Rickie Lee Jones’ life and music. Program features her eponymous debut album on Warner Brothers Records; no interview. Produced by Susan Sailow.

  • Yelena Zeltin interviewed by William Mandel

    William Mandel interviews, in English, Professor Yelena Zeltin of Moscow, speaking of her life: her parents were revolutionaries exiled to Siberia under Tsar, and Zeltin was thus born in Siberia; her mother is Jewish, her father Latvian. Her husband died as a result of World War II hardships. Very human, interesting life. |Previously attributed to…

  • The International Hotel

    For over fifteen years tenants of the International Hotel, primarily elderly Filipinos, struggled to defend themselves against eviction from their home. The issue reached dramatic proportions in San Francisco, with Sheriff Richard Hongisto going to jail for initially refusing to carry out the eviction and Mayor George Moscone risking an entire political career on the…

  • Lesbians and alcoholism / produced by Karla Tonella

    Host: Ann Noolen, Lesbian Task Force of the San Francisco Commission on the Status of Women. Guests: Ann Worthington, Women’s Alcohol Coalition; Celinda Cantu, Center for Feminist Therapy & Education; Bonnie Malcolm, Whitman Radcliffe Foundation; and musician Meg Christian, Olivia Records. Includes a song by Meg about her own alcoholism. Includes listener phone-in comments. Produced…

  • The lesbian underground: on being a lesbian before the women’s liberation movement

    Sabrina Sojourner hosts a discussion on the lesbian underground, or what it was like to be a lesbian before the feminist and gay liberation movement. Guests include Del Martin, author and Commissioner of the San Francisco Commission on the Status of Women; Phyllis Lyon, Commissioner for the Human Rights Commission in San Francisco; and Pat…

  • Setting the stage, 1949 : enter the Cold War

    The mood of the Cold War era is explored in interviews with Jessica Mitford, Helga Lohr-Bailey, and Billy Allan, three political activists of the forties and fifties. Produced as part of the KPFA thirtieth anniversary retrospective programming group. Interviews conducted by Helen Mickiewicz, Laurie Garrett, and Paul Allen. Produced by Helen Mickiewicz.

  • Suburban sadness / produced by Lili Francklyn and Robin Steinhardt.

    “Suburban Sadness” was produced for the year 1952 in KPFA’s thirty-year retrospective. Suburbia’s housing developments and housewives, cars, televisions, drive-ins and Cold War anxieties are all discussed in the context of music from the early fifties. There is the story of a typical American family according to one journalist, and an analysis of suburbia by…

  • Women speak out against fascism (Episode 3 of 12)

    A panel at the conference called by the Black Panther Party the weekend of July 18-20 in Oakland. Panel speakers are Roberta Alexander, Marlene Dixon, Evelyn Harris, Carol Henry, Penny Nakatsu, and Carol Thomas. Panel is introduced by Marie Johnson. Originally aired during KPFA’s Open Hour, 1969-08-11.

  • Madeline Duckles interviewed by William Mandel

    Interview with Madeline Duckles (May 19, 1916-Nov. 23, 2013), prominent Anti-Vietnam War Older-Generation activist (Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom, Women for Peace). She had just been to the U.S.S.R. on an invitation of their Soviet Women’s Committee. She discusses SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks), etc.; her impressions of Soviet Central Asia vis-a-vis Vietnam,…