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Radio Daily Schedule

KQED Public Radio: Tuesday, May 21, 2013

88.5 FM San Francisco • 89.3 FM Sacramento

Schedule is subject to change. Please visit kqed.org/tv/schedules/daily for the most up-to-date info.

OVERNIGHT

12:00 am

All Things Considered Myanmar President Visits White House The president of Myanmar, Thein Sein, met with President Obama in Washington, D.C. on Monday. The program discusses how Sein's trip is the first state visit to the U.S. by a Burmese official in nearly 47 years.

2:00 am

It's Your World (a broadcast of the World Affairs Council) The Challenges and Choices of Climate Change: A United Nations Perspective Climate change presents the global community with one of its greatest challenges -- and one of its greatest opportunities. The choices we make today will determine the future state of the environment, for good or ill. Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, discusses her unique perspective on what changes will transform the world of tomorrow and how we can make a positive impact.

3:00 am

Morning Edition Texas Medicaid Texas has the country's highest rate of people without health insurance, and Governor Rick Perry says he won't expand Medicaid to include many of them. But in some poor communities, Republican and Democratic politicians alike want the expansion.

MORNING

9:00 am

Forum Yahoo! Acquires Tumblr On Monday, troubled internet giant Yahoo! announced it will purchase Tumblr, the social media and blogging network. We speak with the Silicon Valley journalist who broke the story, about what Yahoo! hopes to gain from the $1.1 billion acquisition, whether it can increase its appeal to younger audiences and the implications for Tumblr's loyal user base.

9:30 am

Forum Poverty Rates Soar in Bay Area Suburbs In the suburbs of East Contra Costa County, the poverty rate has grown by more than 70 percent in the past decade. That's part of a Brookings Institution report chronicling the rise of suburban poverty nationwide. The report found the rate of poverty in suburbs has grown twice as fast as it has in the cities, but anti-poverty programs have been slow to respond and are still mostly focused in urban areas. We discuss the rise of poverty in the suburbs, and what can be done about it.

10:00 am

Forum Jeremy Affeldt: Life, Justice and Major League Baseball San Francisco Giants relief pitcher Jeremy Affeldt is being called the most honest athlete in America, after he was overpaid half a million dollars and handed it back. He joins us in the studio to talk about his new book, "To Stir a Movement," his Christian faith, and his work against child slavery and child poverty.

AFTERNOON

1:00 pm

Fresh Air Steven Soderbergh: Behind the Candelabra Host Terry Gross speaks with film director Steven Soderbergh. His new film, "Behind the Candelabra," stars Michael Douglas as Liberace and Matt Damon as his young boyfriend.

2:00 pm

World Cairo Artists Finding Freedom The government in Egypt is too distracted to think about the arts, which is a boon to Cairo artists. They're reaching new audiences with provocative art, while the government looks the other way. The program discusses how some Cairo artists are finding a margin of freedom.

4:00 pm

Marketplace Fake Meat When one hears the words "fake meat," they probably think of tofu burgers. But the program discusses how some scientists are actually growing edible meat in laboratories.

4:30 pm

All Things Considered
KQED News 4:30pm, 5:04pm, 5:30pm, 6:04pm & 7:04pm

EVENING

6:30 pm

Marketplace Fake Meat When one hears the words "fake meat," they probably think of tofu burgers. But the program discusses how some scientists are actually growing edible meat in laboratories.

7:00 pm

Fresh Air Steven Soderbergh: Behind the Candelabra Host Terry Gross speaks with film director Steven Soderbergh. His new film, "Behind the Candelabra," stars Michael Douglas as Liberace and Matt Damon as his young boyfriend.

8:00 pm

City Arts & Lectures The New Yorker: An Evening with David Remnick David Remnick is an award-winning journalist, best-selling author, and the editor of The New Yorker magazine. Before he joined The New Yorker in 1998, Remnick was the Moscow correspondent for The Washington Post. He is the author of several works of non-fiction, including "Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire," for which he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize, and "King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero." His most recent book, "The Bridge," is a meticulously researched account of President Obama's historic election. Based on hundreds of on-the-record interviews, the book offers a richly detailed narrative about the president's life, work, and the complexities of race in American politics. He spoke with Steven Winn on May 6, 2013 at the Nourse Theater.

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