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

Radio Daily Schedule

OVERNIGHT

12:00 am

News & Notes
Farai Chideya
Judge Lynn Toler - Juggling Public and Private -- The Obama family is relatively close-knit and private, but privacy may be harder to achieve when they become America's first family. Regular contributor Judge Lynn Toler of TV's "Divorce Court" talks with Farai Chideya about how to juggle the public with the private.

2:00 am

Radio Specials
Radio Lab: Race -- Wayne Joseph is a black man. No question about it. But one day he took a DNA test and found out that he has no African ancestry. What happens when the biological and social realities of race collide? Radio Lab begins its fifth season with a good hard look at the schizophrenic science behind racial differences. The show hears from writer Malcolm Gladwell, uncovers the surprising effects of stereotypes and swabs the inside of host Jad Abumrad's cheek to test his race.

3:00 am

Morning Edition
Staying Insured -- Not many things are worse than losing your job -- until you realize you've lost your health insurance, too. As the economy takes a downturn, more and more Americans are losing their health insurance each month. The program looks at how Americans can keep themselves and their families insured in these trying economic times.

MORNING

9:00 am

Forum
Michael Krasny
CSU Budget Crisis -- Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has asked universities in the CSU system to make an additional $66 million in mid-semester cuts to their programs. We take a look at how these cuts will affect current students, enrollment requirements and the future of the Cal State educational system. Guests include Allison Jones, assistant vice chancellor for student academic support at California State University; Natalie Franklin, president of Associated Students, Inc. at San Francisco State University; Thomas McCoy, professor of communication and chapter president of the California Faculty Association at California State University East Bay; Jim Blackburn, director of enrollment management services for the California State University system; and H.D. Palmer, deputy director of external affairs for the California Department of Finance.

10:00 am

Forum
Michael Krasny
Stem Cells - Breakthroughs and Restrictions -- Physicians in Europe this week said they had successfully transplanted a woman's windpipe using the patient's own stem cells. Meanwhile, there is speculation that an Obama administration will loosen restrictions on stem cell research. We talk with a panel of local scientists about recent developments involving stem cells. Guests include Arnold Kriegstein, director of the UCSF Institute for Regeneration Medicine; Thea Tlsty, professor of pathology at UCSF; and Renee Reijo Pera, director of the Center for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research and Education and professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Stanford University.

11:00 am

Talk of the Nation
Neal Conan
Michelle Obama -- Michelle Obama says her job in the White House will be mom-in-chief. Will that be enough for the former executive with a Harvard Law degree? The program talks with listeners and guests including Rebecca Traister, writer for Salon.com and author of "The Momification of Michelle Obama."

AFTERNOON

12:00 pm

Talk of the Nation
Neal Conan
Big Boy Rules - American Mercenaries in Iraq -- Private contractors are both heavily armed and highly paid, and they're commonplace all over Iraq. They also operate under what they call "big boy rules." The program takes a look at the inside story on mercenaries in Iraq with Steve Fainaru, foreign correspondent for The Washington Post and author of "Big Boy Rules: America's Mercenaries Fighting In Iraq."

1:00 pm

Fresh Air
Terry Gross
"Milk" Screenwriter and Producer Dustin Lance Black -- The show talks with screenwriter and producer Dustin Lance Black. He wrote the screenplay for the new film "Milk," based on the life and death of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man to be elected to public office. Milk served as a San Francisco supervisor for just under a year, from 1977 until his assassination in 1978. He was shot along with Mayor George Moscone by fellow supervisor Dan White.

2:00 pm

World
China Looks for Natural Resources - in Colorado -- With its ravenous appetite for natural resources, China is now looking to Colorado to mine for a metal known as molybdenum. Mining it could bring new jobs - but it could also harm the environment. As the program reports, some Coloradans say risking environmental damage for China isn't worth it. Others want to start digging.

4:00 pm

Marketplace
Kai Ryssdal
Mining for Coltan in the Congo -- A mineral nicknamed coltan keeps the world's cell phones and laptops running -- and demand for the mineral is skyrocketing. Eighty percent of the world's coltan is found in the Democratic Republic of Congo. As part of its "Working" series, the program reports from the Congo on the dangerous and dirty work of coltan mining.

EVENING

6:30 pm

Marketplace
Kai Ryssdal
Mining for Coltan in the Congo -- A mineral nicknamed coltan keeps the world's cell phones and laptops running -- and demand for the mineral is skyrocketing. Eighty percent of the world's coltan is found in the Democratic Republic of Congo. As part of its "Working" series, the program reports from the Congo on the dangerous and dirty work of coltan mining.

7:00 pm

Fresh Air
Terry Gross
"Milk" Screenwriter and Producer Dustin Lance Black -- The show talks with screenwriter and producer Dustin Lance Black. He wrote the screenplay for the new film "Milk," based on the life and death of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man to be elected to public office. Milk served as a San Francisco supervisor for just under a year, from 1977 until his assassination in 1978. He was shot along with Mayor George Moscone by fellow supervisor Dan White.

8:00 pm

The California Report
Health Dialogues: Patient Advocacy -- Navigating the health care system challenges a family in the best of times. But what if your family isn't around, or doesn't have the time to monitor your care? That's where the growing business of patient advocacy steps in, providing competent oversight to prevent medical mistakes and even save lives.