25 Best KQED Podcasts
A list of the most popular KQED podcasts on Podyssey Podcasts.
25 Best KQED Podcasts
1. The Bay
The Bay is a local news podcast about what’s really going on here. We’ll show you the messy and resilient culture of this place we call home, with help from Bay Area reporters, community leaders, and neighbors. The show is hosted by Ericka Cruz Gueva...Show More
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What ‘American Dirt’ Gets Wrong
15:56 | Jan 27th, 2020
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Many Latinx writers, including here in the Bay Area, have expressed frustration with American Dirt, a new book by Jeanine Cummins that has been called the next great American novel. Oprah even selecte...Show More
2. Bay Curious
Bay Curious is a podcast about the unexplored San Francisco Bay Area. Each week we take a deep dive into the mysteries that make this area quirky, delightful and, at times, dysfunctional. It’s a show about questions — and the adventures you stumble u...Show More
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The Little Known History of Japanese Internment on Angel Island
18:32 | May 28th, 2020
1 RECOMMENDATION
Visitors to Angel Island often learn about how the island was once an immigration processing and detention center where Chinese immigrants were made to wait for weeks or months in sordid conditions. R...Show More
3. Truth Be Told with Tonya Mosley
We’re the friend you call after a long day. The one who gets it. Through wisdom from some of the greatest thinkers of our time, host Tonya Mosley explores what it means to grow and thrive as a Black person in America while discovering new ways of bei...Show More
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Friendship: The Other Love of Your Life
33:01 | Jul 16th, 2020
1 RECOMMENDATION
This week we’re talking about friendships - how to make them better, if it's okay to take breaks and when emotional labor becomes too much. Tonya Mosley is joined by ‘Call Your Girlfriend’ hosts Amina...Show More
4. KQED's Forum
Forum tells remarkable and true stories about who we are and where we live. In the first hour, Alexis Madrigal convenes the diverse voices of the Bay Area, before turning to Mina Kim for the second hour to chronicle and center Californians’ experienc...Show More
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Jennifer Senior on the Fragility of Friendship
55:30 | Feb 9th, 2022
2 RECOMMENDATIONS
“Modern life conspires against friendship,” says Atlantic staff writer Jennifer Senior, "even as it requires the bonds of friendship all the more." That’s one of the paradoxes at the center of Senior’...Show More
5. The Leap
From a doctor’s controversial LSD treatments to a mother’s high-risk efforts to recover her abducted child to a punk rock pioneer’s radical career reinvention, these are stories of people making dramatic, risky changes—and the big and small decisions...Show More
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Suddenly Everyone’s Favorite Communist
35:25 | Jul 24th, 2018
1 RECOMMENDATION
Brace Belden was 27 when he snuck into Syria to enlist in a Kurdish militia, leaving his girlfriend, job, and hometown of San Francisco behind. Even he thought it was a dumb idea, but it was also a ch...Show More
6. KQED’s The California Report
KQED's statewide radio news program, providing daily coverage of issues, trends, and public policy decisions affecting California and its diverse population.
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7. MindShift Podcast
It’s easy to see a child’s education as a path determined by grades, test scores and extra curricular activities. But genuine learning is about so much more than the points schools tally. MindShift explores the future of learning and how we raise our...Show More
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When Teachers Learn All of AAPI History, Students Benefit
21:22 | Aug 12th
There is a common perception that Asian Americans don’t get involved with civic life, but a closer read of AAPI history proves that to be false.
8. SOLD OUT: Rethinking Housing in America
Tents, evictions and gentrification. SOLD OUT envisions what home should be, by telling stories from California, the epicenter of the nation’s housing crisis. A new season of SOLD OUT examines the patterns of evictions. Not just the ones that have ma...Show More
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Bonus: Stories from Inside the Housing Crisis
28:57 | Oct 26th, 2020
1 RECOMMENDATION
In a bonus episode, we’re featuring stories that show how housing touches us all in different ways. Each one is a part of a bigger picture. Hear from people raised under one roof, friendships formed b...Show More
9. KQED's Perspectives
Our series of of daily listener commentaries since 1991.
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10. The Cooler
The Cooler is a weekly podcast from KQED Pop that tackles popular culture in a smart, fun and personal way.
11. Q’ed Up
A weekly podcast that delivers the best Bay Area news stories from KQED News directly to your ears. There’s a lot of news happening, and it can be easy to tune out or miss what’s going on outside of Washington D.C. Make sure you don’t miss the voices...Show More
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12. Bay Curious
Bay Curious is a show about your questions – and the adventures you find when you go looking for the answers. Join host Olivia Allen-Price to explore all aspects of the San Francisco Bay Area – from the debate over "Frisco", to the dinosaurs that onc...Show More
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13. Exactly
The gap between being inspired and entertained just got smaller. Join New York Times bestselling author Kelly Corrigan as she choreographs big-ideas conversations with some of the creative thinkers and artists who define our time. Corrigan and her gu...Show More
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14. American Suburb
Gentrification is changing cities across America, forcing people from neighborhoods they have long called home. Call them the displaced. Now those priced out of the Bay Area are looking for a better life in an unlikely place. American Suburb follows ...Show More
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15. Podcast – The Bay Bridged – San Francisco Bay Area Indie Music
TheBayBridged.com is your source for finding the best indie music in the San Francisco Bay Area. Every Tuesday, we publish a new episode of our acclaimed thirty minute internet radio show The Bay Bridged Feature Podcast. Each week's show spotlights a...Show More
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Awkward Convos with Beejus: Josh Chase (again)
0:00 | Mar 25th, 2020
Awkward Convos, how we've missed thee. This week sees the return of Josh Chase, cannabis-world entrepreneur and owner of the Have a Heart dispensary in downtown Oakland (don't forget dispensaries [...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.16. KQED: Spark Art Video Podcast
SPARK is about San Francisco Bay Area artists and arts organizations -- it is a weekly television show on KQED 9, an educational outreach program and a Web site at www.kqed.org/spark. The SPARK podcast includes segments from the show and is released ...Show More
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Learn more about Occupy Bay Area at YBCA
0:00 | Jul 19th, 2012
Learn more about the Occupy Bay Area art exhibition at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Produced by Spark for This Week in Northern California. Original air date: July 2012.
17. Check, Please! Bay Area Podcast
Check, Please! Bay Area is KQED Public Television's local series featuring regular people reviewing San Francisco Bay Area restaurants. Find out more about this KQED series at: kqed.org/checkplease.
18. KQED Science Video Podcast
KQED Science is the largest multimedia science and environment journalism and education unit in Northern California. KQED Science explores science and environment news, trends and events from the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond with its award-winni...Show More
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Predatory Plant: Lure of the Cobra Lily
05:35 | Mar 3rd, 2014
The cobra lily (Darlingtonia californica) uses deception and patience to trick unsuspecting insect prey into its highly specialized pitcher traps.
19. KQED Science News
KQED's award-winning team of science reporters explores climate change, water, energy, toxics, biomedicine, digital health, astronomy and other topics that shape our lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. As a trusted news source, KQED Science tackles ...Show More
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20. KQED's California Money
A look at the economic, business and financial news impacting Californians.
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21. KQED's Climate Watch
KQED's multimedia series providing in-depth coverage of climate-related science and policy issues from a California perspective.
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22. The Do List Podcast Archives | KQED Arts
Must-see shows and the hottest events in the Bay Area from The Do List.
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Make Like a Wise Man and Head to this Nativity Exhibit in Palo Alto
01:24 | Dec 7th, 2019
The 32 annual Christmas Crèche Exhibit runs December 7-11, 2019 at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Palo Alto.
23. KQED's California Politics Podcast
A weekly conversation about government and politics in California. Hosted by John Myers and Marisa Lagos.
24. Smartmouth Podcast Archives | KQED News
KQED Public Media for Northern CA
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Smartmouth News Podcast: L.A. Cops, Berkeley Cops and Soda Warnings
23:36 | Jun 12th, 2015
Panel finds a shooting unjustified; local police justify protest response; soda warnings coming to S.F.
25. Love in the Digital Age
From KQED Radio, Love in the Digital Age explores how technology changes the way we experience love, friendship, intimacy, and connection.
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