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The California Report Magazine

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Every week, The California Report Magazine takes you on a road trip for the ears: to visit the places and meet the people who make California unique. The in-depth storytelling podcast from the California Report.

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KQED

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News

Podcast website

www.kqed.org

Latest episode

Jul 10, 2026

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Episodes

Feeding California During a Pandemic 01.05.2020

One Man's Mission To Bring Groceries to Rural Trinity County; 90% of Catalina Unemployed; Transforming a Sacramento Restaurant to a Food Kitchen; Filipinos Feed the Frontlines. Plus: What's Bringing You Joy? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Art Lives On, Even During a Pandemic 24.04.2020

Social distancing haiku; Poet captures life on the brink; Building a GenZ pop empire from home; Show doesn't stop for 83 year old comic Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Life on the Front Lines of a Pandemic 17.04.2020

Dispatch from the ER; Kids Can't Hug their Nurse Mom; Comforting the Dying from Afar; A Public Health Officer Gets Sick; In-Home Caregivers Demand Face Masks Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Love and Sex in the Time of Corona 10.04.2020

An immunocompromised boyfriend; "Is sex still safe during a pandemic?"; Voicemails about life without sex; A WFH Dominatrix Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Home Baked: One Woman’s Subversive Response to the AIDS Crisis 03.04.2020

How a San Francisco woman became an unexpected source of comfort at a time when another pandemic rocked the state. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Coping Under Quarantine 27.03.2020

Everyone's home at my apartment complex; Connecting through Corona Diaries; Gen Z: Masters of virtual connection; Video games for the soul; What brings you joy? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Unemployed, Uninsured, Uncertain 20.03.2020

A bartender, a farmworker, a person on disability and a musician cope with the fallout from COVID-19. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When COVID-19 Came to California 13.03.2020

What CA Did Right (and Wrong); Working Without Sick Leave; Life After Lockdown Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Healing the Divide 07.03.2020

Making Dinner Political; The Un-Selfie; Fighting with Grandpa; An Unusual Friendship Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Pupusas for Voters, Love for Activists, and No More Nightly Movies for Catalina Island 29.02.2020

A 19-year-old runs for office; Colleges hold voting centers; Activists fall in love; Catalina Island loses its theater. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

California Apologizes But Scars Remain 21.02.2020

Scars of Internment at Heart Mountain; Big Band Swing Meets Taiko Drumming; My Mom Has DACA Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Valentine’s Day, California Style 15.02.2020

A rideshare romance; a 94-year-old DJ; and teaching how to love. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mothers, Mental Illness and the Unthinkable 08.02.2020

Sometimes, it’s only after something really terrible has happened that you start to see the signs leading up to it. Years later, Rudy Coronado still refers to what happened as “that day.” He still thinks about what he said to his wife, and, what he didn’t say. He says he doesn’t blame her. But he can’t forgive her, either, for what she did. In this episode of The California Report Magazine, KQED's...

‘Dreaming the Golden State’ With The California Report Magazine (Part Two) 01.02.2020

The California Report Magazine listeners and reporters take the stage to share their stories about the 'California Dream' and whether it's still alive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

‘Dreaming the Golden State’ With the California Report Magazine (Part One) 25.01.2020

Excerpts from a live stage version of The California Report Magazine's night of storytelling, 'Dreaming the Golden State,' which explored California dreams found, and lost. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Taking the Frida Kahlo Corporation to Court, and the Vietnamese Immigrant Who Helped Sriracha Go Mainstream 18.01.2020

An artist's legal battle brings up complex questions about who owns images of cultural heroes; a superfan’s obsession with 'Heat' leads to a Hollywood ending; and the Vietnamese immigrant who helped make Sriracha so popular. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Getting Inside the Political Mind of Jerry Brown 11.01.2020

How do you tell the story of Jerry Brown’s political career? You start by sitting down with the former California governor for over 40 hours of interviews. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Cave Woman of India: Tracing My Scars as an Immigrant’s Daughter 04.01.2020

Most children of immigrant parents know what it's like to walk between two worlds. In this week's episode, Sandhya Dirks takes us back with her to her mother's India. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transgender Opera Singers Take Enormous Risks to Live Authentically 28.12.2019

Elliot Franks, Lucia Lucas and Breanna Sinclairé are transgender opera singers navigating an industry that has been slow to evolve with the times. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Barbed Wire at the Border Brings Back Memories of Internment – and the Unexpected Impact of Legalized Marijuana 21.12.2019

Memories of Internment; Childcare Saves a Family; The Fight Over Police Use of Deadly Force; Legal Cannabis' Impact on Farming Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Living In and Out of the Box 14.12.2019

A Fantasy World Made of Cardboard Boxes; Bringing up Baby in a Tiny House; What Box Do you Check?; Transgender Prisoners Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Hidden History of Slavery in California 07.12.2019

An Afro-Diasporic Remix of The Nutcracker; The Ghost of Mary Ellen Pleasant; A Slave Auction in Los Angeles?; Indigenous Red Market Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How One Woman’s Search for Her Homeless Mother Became a Mission to Help Others 30.11.2019

Robin Burton started out trying to find her mom. But the search morphed into something else: a mission to help other people who are homeless and missing too. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Do You Really Want to Know? One Man’s Search for Family From Jonestown and Beyond 23.11.2019

Forty-one years ago this week, more than 900 people died in a mass suicide in Jonestown, a remote settlement in South America. This documentary follows a Bay Area man who unravels the tangled family history that binds him to that tragedy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What Is the California Dream, and Is it Still Alive? 16.11.2019

Prison-to-College Pipeline, Prop 13’s Impact on the CA Dream, Letter to My CA Dreamer, a Dream Shaped By Water Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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