Schedules

• 12:00 am
  News & Notes Black Yoga Retreat Black Yoga Retreat -- Yoga instructors Maya Breuer and Jana Long have organized "Roots, Rhythm, and Soul" -- a yoga retreat that's drawing instructors from across the country to teach the unique benefits of yoga for black communities. They talk with the show about the gathering this weekend at the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, New York.
• 1:00 am
  This Week in Northern California Jazz Legacy in Monterey Jazz Legacy in Monterey -- This weekend marks the fiftieth Monterey Jazz Festival. Since 1958, giants of jazz such as Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong and Billie Holiday have graced the stage at this historic musical gathering. This year is no exception, with headliners including jazz legends such as Sonny Rollins, Ornette Coleman and Cyrus Chestnut.
• 1:30 am
  Pacific Time CyWorld CyWorld -- With Facebook currently in place as the latest social networking craze in the U.S., a South Korean site is attempting to enter the American market. The show explores CyWorld and its growing popularity - the site already boasts 20 million members in South Korea, forty percent of that country's population.
• 2:00 am
  Commonwealth Club American Budget Crisis American Budget Crisis -- The program hears from the "Fiscal Wake-Up Tour," a public engagement initiative addressing the problems of the nation's fiscal policy. Its purpose is to cut through partisan rhetoric and stimulate a more realistic public dialogue on what we want our nation's future to look like. In this program, panelists with diverse perspectives discuss why our current fiscal policy is unsustainable and what we can do to change it. Panelists include David M. Walker, comptroller general of the U.S.; Isabel V. Sawhill, senior fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution; Alison Acosta Fraser, director of the Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation; and Robert L. Bixby, executive director of the Concord Coalition. The panel's moderator is Tom Campbell, dean of the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley.
• 3:00 am
  Washington Week Cracking Down on Mortgage Lending Practices Cracking Down on Mortgage Lending Practices -- Just days after the Federal Reserve slashed a key interest rate, Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress the Fed will take steps to crack down on abusive mortgage lending practices. Wall Street Journal Senior Contributing Writer and CNBC Chief Washington Correspondent John Harwood reports on whether these moves can help ease market stress created by the housing market meltdown.
• 3:30 am
  Inside Europe Recovering Looted Assets in Swiss Banks Recovering Looted Assets in Swiss Banks -- Switzerland, traditionally famous for its secretive banks, has announced it's ready to work with the United Nations and the World Bank in a new campaign to help recover and return money looted by foreign leaders and squirreled away in foreign bank accounts. The new Stolen Asset Recovery initiative aims to speed up the process by which looted money is sent back to often-needy developing countries.
• 4:00 am
  It's Your World (a broadcast of the World Affairs Council) American Leadership in the 21st Century American Leadership in the 21st Century -- The program's speaker is Paul Krugman, award winning economist and columnist at The New York Times. Professor Krugman returns to the Bay Area as the second speaker in the 2007 Richard and Judith Guggenhime Series. One of the world's pre-eminent economists and an insightful, outspoken commentator on economic and political affairs, Krugman will give a preview of his upcoming book, "The Conscience of a Liberal." In it, Professor Krugman evaluates American social policy and leadership over the last century and considers where we go from here as we enter the 21st century.
• 5:00 am
  Weekend Edition Author Pete Hamill Author Pete Hamill -- The show talks with author Pete Hamill about his new novel set in depression-era New York City, "North River."
MORNING
• 7:00 am
  Weekend Edition

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• 9:00 am
  Weekend Edition
• 10:00 am
  Car Talk Click and Clack tackle the tougher questions of the automobile world.
• 11:00 am
  Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me This quiz show takes a fresh, fast-paced and irreverent look at the week's events. NPR veteran newscaster Carl Kassell is the program's judge, scorekeeper, and quiz show impersonator extraordinaire.
AFTERNOON
• 12:00 pm
  This American Life Unconditional Love Unconditional Love -- The program hears stories of unconditional love between parents and children, and explores how hard loving others can be on a day to day basis.
• 1:00 pm
  Radio Specials Put to the Test Put to the Test -- This documentary examines how high-stakes testing took root in American classrooms and what effect it is having. These questions come to life through a portrait of Western Guilford High School in Greensboro, North Carolina over the course of two school years.Program website: americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/testing/
• 2:00 pm
  Soundprint Hospice Chronicles Hospice Chronicles -- It's been forty years since St. Christopher's Hospice - the first modern hospice - opened in a suburb of London. Over the course of eight months, team Long Haul followed two hospice volunteers through their training and first assignments in patients' homes. Trained to provide "respite care," the volunteers set out to give family members a break from their caretaking responsibilities. While one has a chance to reflect on her patient's life in an intimate setting, another gets to explore death in a rather unexpected way - a way that training never could have prepared him for.
• 2:30 pm
  Soundprint Upright Grand Upright Grand -- A document of the poignant moment in the life of Producer Tim Wilson's own mother, a daunting figure and a once-accomplished pianist, now diagnosed with Alzheimer's, when she is forced to leave her apartment, her pearls, and her 'upright grand' to enter 'a home.' Upright Grand turns into a searching examination of the often ambiguous relationship between a mother and son.
• 3:00 pm
  BBC World Service
• 4:00 pm
  Living On Earth Climate Diplomacy Climate Diplomacy -- With China onboard for U.N. climate talks in Bali this December, the Bush administration appears increasingly isolated in its continued resistance to call for mandatory caps on carbon emissions. The program talks with Jennifer Morgan, an advisor to the German government on climate change.
• 5:00 pm
  All Things Considered
EVENING
• 6:00 pm
  A Prairie Home Companion The show presents a new broadcast from the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul.
• 8:00 pm
  Selected Shorts John Shea reads "My Grandmother Goes to Comiskey Park" by James T. Farrell; Isaiah Sheffer reads a selection from "Portnoy's Complaint" by Philip Roth; David Strathairn reads "Polo Grounds" by Rolfe Humphries; Isaiah Sheffer reads "Glory" by Yusef Komunyakaa; John Shea reads "The Thrill of the Grass" by W.P. Kinsella; and A. Bartlett Giamatti reads his own "The Green Fields of the Mind."
• 9:00 pm
  Studio 360 Eugene Drucker - Violinist Turned Novelist Eugene Drucker - Violinist Turned Novelist -- A founding member of the prestigious Emerson Quartet, violinist Eugene Drucker recently became a novelist. "The Savior" is about a musician living in Hitler's Germany, trying to lay low as the country spins into a nightmare. One day, a Nazi commandant orders him to play for the prisoners in a concentration camp. Drucker tells the program of how his father's life in 1930s Germany helped shape the story.
• 10:00 pm
  This American Life Meet the Pros Meet the Pros -- The show presents the story of one man's journey from obscurity to international professional celebrity, aided only by his own hard work, a sneaker commercial and mad handles. The program also hears other stories of amateurs hurtling themselves at the pros whose jobs they covet.
• 11:00 pm
  Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me This quiz show takes a fresh, fast-paced and irreverent look at the week's events. NPR veteran newscaster Carl Kassell is the program's judge, scorekeeper, and quiz show impersonator extraordinaire.