P.O.V.

Season 13 Episode 8: KPFA on the Air

32 SeasonsSep 20, 2000NR1h8

A heartfelt history of KFPA, the nation's oldest alternative radio station, the Pacifica Foundation's eclectic flagship, based in Berkeley, Cal. Since KPFA signed on in 1949, it has broadcast everything from Soviet-press reviews to bird calls. Even conservatives have gotten airtime. Of course, KPFA has always been controversial, and recently, the controversy has been internecine. This hour doesn't shrink from that, but mostly it celebrates KPFA. Author Alice Walker narrates.

Season 13 Episodes:

Episode 1 Butterfly

1. Butterfly

Aired: Jun 20, 2000

Chronicling the two-year “tree-sit” by environmental activist Julia Hill, exa...

Episode 2 La Boda

2. La Boda

Aired: Jun 27, 2000

“La Boda” (The Wedding) follows a Mexican-American migrant farmworker during ...

Episode 4 Blink

4. Blink

Aired: Jul 18, 2000

Ex-white supremacist Ron Withrow, who founded the White Students Union at a C...

Episode 5 Our House in Havana

5. Our House in Havana

Aired: Jul 25, 2000

Following Cuban expatriate Silvia Moroni Heath, the daughter of a sugar plant...

Episode 6 Dreamland

6. Dreamland

Aired: Aug 22, 2000

Gambling hits home in filmmaker Lisanne Skyler's perceptive profile of Las Ve...

Episode 8 KPFA on the Air

8. KPFA on the Air

Aired: Sep 20, 2000

A heartfelt history of KFPA, the nation's oldest alternative radio station, t...

Episode 9 Live Free or Die

9. Live Free or Die

Aired: Sep 27, 2000

Following abortion politics as they played out during the 1990s in one U.S. t...

Episode 10 First Person Plural

10. First Person Plural

Aired: Dec 18, 2000

A Korean-American adoptee tries to forge relationships with her biological fa...


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Current Status: Returning Series

Network: PBS

Genres:Documentary