TWO 64 GB USB Drives...
FIRST USB DRIVE: Voices that Change the World
64 gb USB drive / approximately 1300 hours in MP3 format
Wrap your ears around the largest and most comprehensive collection of historic audio ever compiled by Pacifica Radio Archives, now available for the very first time on a single USB memory drive. With nearly one thousand hours of meticulously curated audio, covering dozens and dozens of topics, listening will find you inspired, challenged, entertained, and educated - the true fulfillment of Pacifica Radio's Mission Statement!
From the Vault, Volumes 1-6
Explore over 500 one-hour radio documentaries hand-crafted from the exquisite audio preserved at Pacifica Radio Archives - immerse yourself in sounds covering some of the most important events of the last fifty years, featuring voices of some of history's most controversial figures, like Noam Chomsky, Ray Bradbury, Alice Walker, Allen Ginsberg, June Jordan, Adrienne Rich, and hundreds more.
Sixty Five Years, Sixty Five Voices
Each recording in this compilation was chosen for Pacifica's 65th Anniversary because it uniquely exemplifies the quintessential Pacifica sound. The result is a well-rounded and rich tapestry of the history of Pacifica Radio through the voices of Gore Vidal, Langston Hughes, Bernardo Bertolucci, Elsa Knight Thompson, Jessica Mitford, Dylan Thomas, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Murray Bookchin, Lena Horne, plus dozens more.
Black History
The Pacifica Radio Archives proudly presents its comprehensive collection of Black voices in celebration of Black History - with studies of the Civil Rights Movement, Black Power, the Black Panthers, Blacks in Hollywood, Black Poets, and Black Authors; you'll hear from Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Huey Newton, Rosa Parks, Paul Robeson, Nelson Mandela, Billie Holiday, John Coltrane, and many more.
Women's History
Showcasing Women's History through restored audio recordings dating back to the earliest days of community radio broadcasting in 1949, these recordings have been professionally preserved and digitized through grants and listener donations. Included in the collection are Pauline Kael, Emma Goodman, Alice Walker, Helen Caldicott, Lily Tomlin, Bette Davis, and many more.
AudioBooks
Pacifica Radio's vibrant tradition of non-traditional on-air book readings wove its way through the last six decades with gusto. Relax, and visit to a different reality with readings of literary classics like Tolstoy's War and Peace, Lawrence Durrell's The Alexandria Quartet, George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Notes from Underground, Jaime de Angulo's Indian Tales, and Noel Langley's children's classic, In the Land of Green Ginger.
Grammy Restored Recordings
In 2013 the Pacifica Radio Archives received a grant from the GRAMMY Foundation to preserve two series of music and theater programs that aired on WBAI-FM, Pacifica's NYC affiliate station, back in the 1960s and 1970s: The Free Music Store and the Mind's Eye Theatre. These two series are exemplary of WBAI's history of cutting-edge cultural programming, and feature performances by Janos Starker, Dave van Ronk, Julia Mendina, John Hammond, and over a dozen plays including Romeo and Juliet, The Starr Pitt, and Inquest at Christiana, to name just a few.
Pacifica and Politics
These recordings showcase the quality and breadth of Pacifica' s coverage of all things political, with classic topics covering Watergate, the Vietnam War, the American Indian Movement, gang politics, and race relations through the voices of Fidel Castro, Russell Means, Molly Ivans, Mort Sahl, Philip Agee, Dick Gregory, and so many more.
Radio Arts
Pacifica's diverse history has always included as a cornerstone unabashed and enthusiastic support for art in all forms, with a penchant for the controversial. The Radio Arts collection celebrates that amazing broadcast history with recordings form artists like Gary Snyder, Edith Piaf, Suni Paz, Vincent Harding, Judy Chicago, Toni Morrison, Ed Asner, Julius Lester, Rosalyn Drexler, Phil Ochs, Jerry Stiller, and plenty more.
Student Free Speech Movement
Pacifica was front and center for one of the most important pivot points of the Civil Liberties movement - the student protest on the UC Berkely during the 1964-65 academic year. Travel back to this politically charge place in time with the l ikes of Joan Baez, Mario Savio, Bettina Aptheker, student organizers, plus fantastic 'on the street' actuality from campus and beyond.
Religious Studies
Pacifica Radio has always welcomed beliefs of all kinds to its airwaves, and through the decades has amassed an impressive body of audio that covers alternative views of theology, issues concerning religions of all kinds, and historical perspectives on the origins of religion. We'll hear religious thinkers such as Alan Watts, Madalyn Murray O'Hair, Russell Means, D.T. Sozuki, and Blase Bonpane.
Exploration with Dr. Michio Kaku
Pacifica Radio's flagship science program, hosted by theoretical physicist (and sci-pop-culture phenom) Dr. Michio Kaku, remains one of the longest running radio science programs in the world. Heard weekly on Pacifica Radio and across the globe, topics include bio-technology ethics, cosmos and physics, environmental issues, and science's contributions to both war and peace. Regular guests include Brian Greene, Ray Kurzweil, Lisa Randal, Neil deGrasse Tyson, David Archer, and Peter Ward.
SECOND USB DRIVE: Public Radio Anthology, V.1
64 GB USB Drive / approximately 1000 hours in MP3 format
Pacifica Radio Archives introduces its latest master collection of historic audio, totaling approximately 1000 hours, which dives deep into the storied corners of public radio stations KPFK (Los Angeles), KPFA (Berkeley), KPFT (Houston), WPFW (Washington DC), and WBAI (New York City) - the fabled "five sisters" that are the heart and soul of legendary Pacifica Radio. Rare, significant, and unfiltered, this new audio collection is not only flush with familiar names synonymous with Pacifica Radio, but also brings to the surface voices and sounds particular to each individual station - those from local station communities, caring listeners, and proud supporters.
KPFA
It all started at KPFA 94.1 FM in Berkeley. America's first public radio station (and one of the first FM stations in the world) would exist solely upon the support of its listeners. KPFA presented a radical new type of radio experience for the Bay Area; unrestrained by commercial advertising, what came out over airwaves were unlike anything heard before... raw, risque, revolutionary. Hundreds of notable souls have passed through KPFA since its first days in 1949, and continue to do so today: Lew Hill, Alan Watts, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, , Elsa Knight Thompson, Linus Pauling, Mario Savio, W.E.B. DuBois, to name a few.
KPFA is known for its strong programming in LGBTQ studies, Gender and Women's Studies, History, and Music, with notable programs including:
Greg Palast
Emma Goldman: The Courage to Struggle
Noam Chomsky: On the New World Order
John Trudell: Speaking at CSU Hayward
Gore Vidal: State of the Union
Michael Moore at Santa Rosa, 2003
Bette Davis at the San Francisco Film Festival, 1969
Gore Vidal and Hermoine Gingold
Tennessee Williams Meets the San Francisco Press
Celia Cruz In San Francisco with Johnny Pacheco
Ralph Nader, 2014
Cornel West: Prophetic Imagination, 2014
KPFK
KPFK, in Los Angeles, was the second member of the Pacifica family, going on-air in 1959. Blessed with an enormous transmitter in a prime location on Mt. Wilson in the Angeles National Forest, KPFK 90.7 FM is the most powerful of the Pacifica stations and is the most powerful public radio station in the Western United States. Its roots run deep in Southern California, and it is proud to have a strong partnership with local activists and the entertainment industry.
KPFK is known for its strong programming in Music, Union Causes, Poetry and the Arts, and Native American Studies, with notable programs including:
Paul Rosenstein: The Structure of Union Democracy
Richard Mowhawk: The Case of Paul Skyhorse
The Past Makes the Future: A Los Angeles History
Guatemala and their Unions
Charles Chaplin, Jr.: Chaplin on Chaplin
Father Luis Olivares
WBAI
WBAI began as WABF in 1941 and moved to 99.5 FM in 1948; then, station took a respite from broadcasting in 1953, and came back on the air as part of World Broadcast Associates, Inc (WBAI) in 1955. On January 10, 1960, WBAI joined Pacifica when philanthropist Louis Schweitzer gave the station to the network. The rest is history, literally. WBAI is famous for wild free-form radio and a slew of unique metropolitan voices and sounds fitting for New York City and its environs.
WBAI is known for its strong programming in LGBTQ studies, Women's Studies, Science, Music, and Native American Studies, with notable programs including:
Einstein On The Beach
Duke Ellington at Basin Street East
Alice Walker Reads Her Poetry
Malcolm X: Life After Death
Leonard Peltier & the Land
Cornel West Speaking in NY
Russell Means Interview with Mike Walsh Backup
Bob Dylan Interviews
KPFT
KPFT 90.1 FM Houston was founded in 1970 by journalist Larry Lee, and started broadcasting on March 1st, 1970. Just two months later, the Ku Klux Klan blew up the KPFT transmitter, and the station was off the air for several weeks until repairs could be made. In October, 1970, the transmitter was bombed yet again, and this time the damage was more extensive, taking many months to repair. In early 1971, with Arlo Guthrie live in the studios performing "Alice's Restaurant," (the song that had been playing when the October bombers struck), KPFT triumphantly took to the air again, and remains strong today, reaching an audience of over a million listeners each week.
KPFT is known for its strong programming in Gender and Women's Studies, Poetry, and Chicana/Chicano Issues, with notable programs including:
Noam Chomsky: A Preemptive Strike on International Law
Robert Fisk Flashpoints Interview
Bill Moyers
Dolores Huerta: Taking A Stand In History
Jane Fonda and the Indochina Peace Campaign in Houston
WPFW
WPFW 89.3 FM is the fifth station of the Pacifica Radio Network, going live in 1977, and stands proud as the original voice for progressive news, public affairs, and music programming in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. Known as the "Jazz and Justice" station, WPFW continues to challenge the norm in public media, passionately serving the underserved and the marginalized in the community. Von Martin, a volunteer programmer who still hosts the show Caribbeana, was the first voice to sign the station on the air 40 years ago, beginning the broadcast with Duke Ellington's "Take the 'A' Train".
WPFW is known for its programming in Gender and Women's Studies, Music, Civil Rights, Poetry, Native American Studies, with notable programs including:
Malcolm X
John Coltrane
Dizzy Gillespie: The Man and His Music
Kathleen Quinlan: I Never Promised You A Rose Garden
The Rosenberg Case: Twenty-Five Years Later
An Interview with Earl Robinson
James Baldwin: They Would Not Want to be Black Here
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