Heben Nigatu and Tracy Clayton cover everything from race, gender and pop culture to squirrels, mangoes, and bad jokes, all in one boozy show.

Since 1980, City Arts & Lectures has presented events with leading figures in the world of art & ideas. Each season, there are more than fifty lectures and onstage conversations — and a few surprise performances — with outstanding figures in literature, criticism, science, and the performing arts, offering the most diverse perspectives about ideas and values. The broadcasts are co-produced with KQED 88.5 FM in San Francisco.

This is a podcast for people who are curious about the world and themselves featuring talks and conversations presented by the Public Programs department of California Institute of Integral Studies, a non-profit university in San Francisco. Listen here or on your favorite podcast app to a diverse array of visionaries, artists, and scholars sharing compelling experiences, offering new perspectives, and expanding creative horizons.

Groundbreaking Peabody Award-winning conversation about the big questions of meaning, hosted by Krista Tippett. Every Thursday a new discovery about the immensity of our lives — and frequent special features like poetry, music and Q + A with Krista.

Our mission is to inspire the imagination and ignite critical dialogue through art and film.

Conversations with scholars, writers, and artists whose work subverts the dominant paradigm. Discover people who are interested in disrupting conventional norms and ideologies and creating new ways of thinking about, being in, and understanding the world. Hosted by Dan Glenn. 

Opening and closing theme music by Podington Bear http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Podington_Bear/

Cover art graphic design by Jeff Wolfe

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Making Contact is an award-winning, nationally syndicated radio show and podcast featuring narrative storytelling and thought-provoking interviews. We cover the most urgent issues of our time and the people on the ground building a more just world.

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