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

Radio Daily Schedule

OVERNIGHT

1:00 am

Cambridge Forum
Of War and Law
Harvard Law Professor David Kennedy discusses the impact of laws and legal language on the ways we think and talk about war and on the way that modern warfare is practiced. How does the notion of a law of war affect our sense of responsibility as a nation making war? As soldiers in the field? As taxpayers supporting the war?

1:30 am

Latino USA
Border Crossing Bureaucracy
Most airline travelers know to watch what they say while negotiating cumbersome airport security. Even jokes can be taken seriously. But few people remember that a similar environment occurs at the border ports of entry. Mexican civil rights attorney Gustavo de la Rosa Hickerson learned this the hard way when he was taken into protective custody simply for mentioning that the drug war in Mexico sometimes made him fearful for his life.

2:00 am

Marketplace Money
Credit Card Rate Hikes
Do you think you're safe from credit card rate hikes? You could be in for a nasty surprise. Banks are raising interest rates into the high double digits on cards across the board. Marketplace's Nancy Marshall Genzer reports.

3:00 am

Morning Edition
Swine Flu Latest
Swine flu is now widespread over many parts of the U.S. Doctors' offices and clinics are packed with patients who are sick or just trying to get the vaccine -- and there's still a lot of confusion about symptoms, treatment and how to keep the flu from spreading.

MORNING

6:33 am

Quest
Saving California's Parks
It may seem that California's parks dodged a bullet recently when the governor announced that all of them will remain open. But the reality is that state parks still have to cut $14 million in spending this year. That likely means rolling closures, maintenance cuts and possibly, layoffs. Hoping to solve a chronic funding problem, environmentalists are considering a ballot proposal that would place a fee on car registrations to help fund parks.

8:33 am

Quest
Saving California's Parks
It may seem that California's parks dodged a bullet recently when the governor announced that all of them will remain open. But the reality is that state parks still have to cut $14 million in spending this year. That likely means rolling closures, maintenance cuts and possibly, layoffs. Hoping to solve a chronic funding problem, environmentalists are considering a ballot proposal that would place a fee on car registrations to help fund parks.

9:00 am

Forum
Rich Cohen
Vanity Fair contributing editor Rich Cohen joins us to talk about his book, "Israel Is Real: An Obsessive Quest to Understand the Jewish Nation and its History." Cohen is also a contributing editor at Rolling Stone Magazine.

10:00 am

Forum
Mamet and ACT
Over the past decade, San Francisco's American Conservatory Theater has revived numerous works by David Mamet, including "American Buffalo," "Glengarry Glen Ross" and "Speed-the-Plow." ACT is currently featuring Mamet's Oval Office farce "November." We talk about the theater's longtime association with the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright.

11:00 am

Talk of the Nation
The Next Phase in the Debate on Drugs
President Richard Nixon labeled illegal drugs "public enemy number one," and declared war. In October, President Obama changed the federal government's unrelenting stance to let state laws cover medical marijuana. Host Neal Conan and guests examine the next phase in our national debate on drugs.

AFTERNOON

12:00 pm

Talk of the Nation
R. Crumb's Book of Genesis
"And God said let there be light" may be the best-remembered part of a rather well known book. But for underground comic legend R. Crumb, the light was a little hard to find. R. Crumb joins the show to talk about his recent project illustrating the entire book of Genesis, and drawing God.

1:00 pm

Fresh Air
'Googled: The End of the World as We Know It'
The show talks with media critic Ken Auletta. In his new book "Googled: The End of the World as We Know It," Auletta tracks the development of the company from search engine to provider of all things Internet. Auletta talks about how relying on one company for applications, data storage, advertising, voice, video, mail and now the Android operating system has many benefits -- but potentially great costs. Auletta has written "The Annals of Communication" column for The New Yorker since 1992.

2:00 pm

World
Dave Eggers and Valentino Achak Deng
A Sudanese refugee returned to his home. He built a school there, with earnings from a book based on his own life, written by author Dave Eggers. The two talk about their friendship.

3:57 pm

California Money
Bay Bridge Re-opens, Price Tag Uncertain / Swine Flu Boosts Clorox
The Bay Bridge may be open again, but now it's time to tally up the bill. Workers and engineers with CalTrans and Sacramento-based MCM Construction worked almost around the clock to fix the bridge since it failed last Tuesday night. Also, concerns over the H1N1 flu virus helped Clorox boost its earnings last quarter.

EVENING

6:04 pm

California Money
KQED Radio News daily business and economics newscast.

7:00 pm

Fresh Air
'Googled: The End of the World as We Know It'
The show talks with media critic Ken Auletta. In his new book "Googled: The End of the World as We Know It," Auletta tracks the development of the company from search engine to provider of all things Internet. Auletta talks about how relying on one company for applications, data storage, advertising, voice, video, mail and now the Android operating system has many benefits -- but potentially great costs. Auletta has written "The Annals of Communication" column for The New Yorker since 1992.

8:00 pm

It's Your World (a broadcast of the World Affairs Council)
Challenges of the Middle East: The Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process
This weeks speaker, Ehud Olmert, became Israels prime minister in 2006. Under his leadership, Israel reduced casualties from terror attacks to the lowest in decades and expanded economic growth in the country. On this weeks program, Olmert discusses the challenges facing the Middle East and the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.

11:00 pm

All Things Considered
Ford's Fine Financials
Ford Motor Company posted better-than-expected financial results for the third quarter today. The company also revised its projection for 2011, from "breakeven" to "solidly profitable." Michigan Radio's Tracy Samilton reports on how the only domestic auto company to not declare bankruptcy has improved its balance sheet in one of the worst economies in modern times.

11:04 pm

California Money
KQED Radio News daily business and economics newscast.

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