Every week, KQED airs some of the best programs from independent radio producers and public radio networks around the world.

Radio Daily Schedule

OVERNIGHT

12:00 am

News & Notes
Farai Chideya
Obama National Security Team -- This morning, President-elect Barack Obama unveiled his national security team. He nominated one-time Democratic rival Hillary Clinton as his Secretary of State.

2:00 am

It's Your World (formerly World Affairs Council)
Capitalism, Communism, and the Pursuit for Political Change in China -- The program's speaker is Philip Pan, correspondent and former Beijing bureau chief for The Washington Post. While capitalism has brought prosperity to China, to what extent have the country's citizens pushed for greater political freedom? How have ideology and values been tested by the booming economy and the rush to get rich? Pan will tell the story of Chinese people pressing for political change in a nation undergoing a remarkable transformation.

3:00 am

Morning Edition
Mexican Border Series -- As part of a series exploring the forces changing communities on both sides of the border. the program looks at Mexican drug cartels battling over smuggling routes.

MORNING

9:00 am

Forum
Michael Krasny
Bush Presidency Winds Down -- The Bush presidency is winding to a close, but his term is not over yet. This "lame duck" period of the presidency is often a time for last minute executive orders and pardons. In this hour, we look at the waning days of the Bush administration and consider his legacy. Guests include: Robert Scheer, editor in chief of "Truthdig," an online political magazine; Bill Whalen, research fellowat the Hoover Institution, former speechwriter for Governor Pete Wilson and political consultant to Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tom Campbell and Richard Riordan; and Russell Riley, presidential scholar at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia.

10:00 am

Forum
Michael Krasny
At 10am: Body Music -- The first International Body Music Festival opens today in San Francisco. We'll be joined by several musicians using their chests, feet, voices and the rest of their bodies to create percussive music including beat boxing, ham bone and traditional Balinese chants. Guests include: Keith Terry, artistic director for the first annual International Body Music Festival; Brian Dyer, bass singer of the Slammin' All Body Band; Dewa Berata, director of Cudamani, an internationally touring Gamelan Ensemble, and guest artistic director of local Balinese group Gamelam Sekar Jaya; and Derique McGee, performs hambone locally. And at 10:30am: Art Deco San Francisco: The Architecture of Timothy PfluegerThe dramatic art deco legacy of San Francisco owes much to the architect Timothy Pflueger. For examples, look to the Castro Theater, Oakland's Paramount Theater and the San Francisco Stock Exchange. Journalist Therese Poletti joins Forum to discuss her recent book on Pflueger's Bay Area architecture, "Art Deco San Francisco: The Architecture of Timothy Pflueger."

11:00 am

Talk of the Nation
Neal Conan
Mumbai Terror Attacks -- Two elegant international hotels, a railway station, a cafe, a Jewish center and a hospital for women and children. That was the target list of the heavily armed gunmen who killed almost 200 people in Mumbai last week. What do the targets tells us about what the terrorists hoped to accomplish, and what we can learn?

AFTERNOON

12:00 pm

Talk of the Nation
Neal Conan
Texting -- OMG. LOL. Is text messaging an extraordinary new language or the end of civilization as we know it?

1:00 pm

Fresh Air
Terry Gross
The Place of the Religious Right in Post-Election Politics -- Terry talks with Richard Cizik, chief lobbyist for the National Association of Evangelicals, and Stephen Waldman, the founder of Beliefnet.comtells, who talks about the issues that may split the religious groups that united in support of Obama.

2:00 pm

World
Benjamin Netanyahu's Plan -- Benjamin Netanyahu is a former and perhaps future prime minister of Israel. He has a plan to bolster moderate Palestinian leaders by promoting economic growth in the West Bank.

4:00 pm

Marketplace
Kai Ryssdal
Retail Stocks -- Major retail stocks dropped amid fears that the deeply discounted wares offered in the first major holiday shopping weekend of the season would cut into profits. Major department store chains like Macy's and Saks and apparel companies like Abercrombie and Aeropostale saw their stocksdip.

EVENING

6:30 pm

Marketplace
Kai Ryssdal
Retail Stocks -- Major retail stocks dropped amid fears that the deeply discounted wares offered in the first major holiday shopping weekend of the season would cut into profits. Major department store chains like Macy's and Saks and apparel companies like Abercrombie and Aeropostale saw their stocksdip.

7:00 pm

Fresh Air
Terry Gross
The Place of the Religious Right in Post-Election Politics -- Terry talks with Richard Cizik, chief lobbyist for the National Association of Evangelicals, and Stephen Waldman, the founder of Beliefnet.comtells, who talks about the issues that may split the religious groups that united in support of Obama.

8:00 pm

City Arts & Lectures
George Saunders -- A master of the short story, George Saunders' work earned him a MacArthur Fellowship in 2006. Saunders' eclectic past -- his jobs range from roofer in Chicago, to guitarist in a country-western band, to knuckle-puller in a West Texas slaughterhouse -- has fostered a wild and wry creative streak. Wickedly funny, his first collection of short stories, "CivilWarLand in Bad Decline," follows a cast of characters fettered by consumerism, modern decay and a disheartening status quo. Saunders infuses his settings, both fictional and real, with a veneer of absurdity: from a crumbling Civil War theme park to the fantastical landscape of Dubai. His latest book, "Braindead Megaphone," is a collection of essays that retain an undercurrent of optimism beneath a withering critique of everything from skirmishes between illegal immigrants and minutemen at the U.S. border to the inertia of a media circus. His work appears regularly in Harper's, The New Yorker, and GQ. Saunders spoke with Charles Bock on October 6, 2008.