Program

  • John Hersey’s Hiroshima

    The original radio adaptation of John Hersey’s Hiroshima stars Tyne Daly, Ruby Dee, Daniel Benzali, Roscoe Lee Browne, Esther K. Chae, Michael Chinyamurindi, Tony Plana, Jeanne Sakata, Chris Toshima and John Valentine. Produced by Brian DeShazor and Mark Torres, in association with Artists United and The Feminist Majority. Adapted for radio by John Valentine. Directed…

  • The John Coltrane Pack (2-CD Set)

    A 2-CD set celebrating the life and legacy of jazz pioneer John Coltrane. This set was written and produced for Pacifica Radio by Mark Torres and Maggie LePique, July 17, 2005.\nCD 1: The Trane Legacy. This new documentary weaves the legacy of John Coltrane through an interview with his wife Alice Coltrane, choice tracks of…

  • Voices of a People’s History of the United States 2 CD

    Listen to the people’s historian, Howard Zinn, and his friends during a very special night of dramatic readings from Voices of a People’s History of the United States.\nVoices is the long-awaited primary-source companion volume to Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States. It features words of rebels, dissenters, and visionaries from our past —…

  • 1984 by George Orwell

    Pacifica Radio Archives presents a reading of one of the most important dystopian novels written in modern history, George Orwell’s classic Nineteen Eighty-Four. The entire book was read on-air by longtime Pacifica morning show host Charles Morgan in 1975. Morgan was joined by legendary voice over artist June Foray, widely known for her work in Disney…

  • Watts Rebellion 50th Anniversary Concert DVD

    Pacifica Radio Archives and From the Vault Radio have joined forces with the Grand Performances Summber Concert Series in Los Angeles to present a 50th Anniversary remembrance of the 1965 Watts Rebellion, in which social unrest over unemployment and police discrimination gripped this Southern California neighborhood for seven days, causing 34 deaths and tens of…

  • Jimi Hendrix: The Radio Documentary

    In 1982, twelve years after Hendrix’s untimely death at the age of 27, a team of talented producers (including Bari Scott, Craig Street and Don West) from Pacifica’s flagship station KPFA 94.1 FM – Berkeley enlisted the help of biographer David Henderson, author of Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child of the Aquarian Age, to explore the…

  • Feminist Perspectives on Pornography Conference (1978): Kathleen Barry and Susan Griffin

    Lilia Medina opens the first session of the Feminist Perspectives on Pornography Conference, held November 17-19, 1978 at Galileo High School in San Francisco, CA. The conference was organized by Women Against Violence in Pornography and Media. Medina introduces Kathleen “Kathy” Barry who speaks on “Beyond pornography: creating a vision.” Next Judith Reisman is introduced…

  • Gloria Anzaldua: Borderlands / La Frontera

    This presentation by Gloria Anzaldua, one of the leading feminist voices in the Chicana Movement, outlines the long road to relevancy for Chicano-a writers in both publishing houses and academic curriculum. Gloria Anzaldua explains her use of traditional spiritual figures from pre-Columbian Latin America, such as Coyolxauhqui, the Aztec moon goddess, to help explain the…

  • Dolores Huerta: Taking a stand in history

    Dolores Huerta, a pioneer in the Civil Rights movement for immigrants, brings her living history to the University of Houston. Huerta, co-founder of the United Farmworkers of America, discusses “Taking a Stand in History.” Lecture given on February 9, 2006 at the University of Houston, Cullen Performance Hall.

  • Nuclear disarmament: moving forward / Charlene Spretnak, Willis Harman and Bill Wahpepah

    An excerpt from the “Nuclear Disarmament: Moving Forward” conference sponsored by Meeting of the Ways, held in San Francisco, September 23-25, 1983. Charlene Spretnak (1946 – ), author and ecofeminist, speaks about the founding ideas of the Green Party in Germany and how it influenced the nascent American Green Party. Willis Harman (1918 – 1997),…