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Tuesday Night Special
Tuesdays at 7 pm (unless pre-empted by SFUSD Board meeting)

Curated by David Boyer

KALW’s Tuesday Night Special is our curated mix of new documentaries, gems from the archive, audio fiction, audio experiments and more. It’s the best of audio from the Bay Area and (way) beyond.

Note: Tuesday Night Special airs at 6 pm when it is pre-empted the second and fourth Tuesdays of the month by the SFUSD School Board Meeting (during school year)

Latest Episodes
  • Tuesday Night Special
    Sneak Peek: RELATIVITY
    Be the first to hear a new show from Lauren and Michael Schiller. It's called Relativity. And this episode is about their Aunt Rose.
  • Panelists Aminah Elster, Thanh Tran, Betty McKay, Earlonne Woods, and Piper Kerman posing in front of an Uncuffed and KALW backdrop
    Uncuffed
    Pass the Mic: Bring the Uncuffed radio program to incarcerated women
    Uncuffed
    A special Giving Tuesday panel conversation to raise support for Uncuffed, which is bringing its award-winning radio and podcast program to incarcerated women for the first time.
  • Update: BURNING MAN confronts GLOBAL ISSUES
    David Boyer
    As the media portrays 2023's Burning Man as a hellscape, THE INTERSECTION at Burning Man revisits the work of a group of Burners at the 2019 event, who felt that the overwhelmingly white community wasn't living up to its self-proclaimed principle of Radical Inclusion. Find out what has changed and what hasn't.
  • August 29: Hip-Hop 50
    NPR Special honors the first 50 years of Hip Hop.
  • August 15: Sold a Story
    How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong. A special report from APM Presents.