Current Programs - News

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Local program, produced in the KSER News Department.

What program can listeners depend on to cover everything from the growth of democracy to the threat of terrorism, from invasions and cataclysmic natural disasters to inspiring humanitarian triumphs? 

Launched in 1988, "Newshour" broke new ground for BBC World Service. The idea was to provide world news headlines in a global context and broadcast the voices of those making the news. Today, it presents 60 minutes of essential listening for people who want a fresh and clear perspective of stories from across the globe. It is packed with newscasts, interviews, and analysis from the BBC's most experienced correspondents. Heard by almost a million listeners each week, "Newshour" treats its audiences to a host of veteran BBC journalists, including Owen Bennett-Jones, Claire Bolderson, Alex Brodie, Lyse Doucet, Robin Lustig, Julian Marshall and Judy Swallow.

"Newshour" is always at the center of breaking news worldwide. It was on the scene, for example, moments after the first planes struck on 9/11, then reporting the war in Afghanistan, the fall of the Taliban, the crisis in Iraq and the removal of Saddam Hussein. The program continues covering the complex aftermath of the Iraq war with reports from inside the country and ongoing examination of its political and diplomatic impact throughout the Middle East, Central Asia, the United States and Europe.

"Newshour" also provides special coverage. In December 2003, for example, "Newshour" contributed to the special BBC World Service HIV/AIDS series with reports from Brazil, South Africa, and Nigeria. When the U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell told "Newshour" that the Bush administration was not backtracking on its commitment to spend $15 billion on AIDS over the next five years, it made headlines around the world.

"Newshour" — leading the pack with timely, accurate, essential world news.

 It brings together the best reportage from BBC correspondents around the world, with the voices of those directly involved in global events - wherever and whenever they take place.

The programme goes on air several times a day, and each edition contains the latest updates, ensuring that listeners are always informed of the main news developments.

It also includes a variety of stories on issues such as science, the arts, and cultural matters, as well as regular sections on business and sport.

Each week, Between The Lines provides dissenting views on the status quo, reporting on issues that matter including: skyrocketing energy prices and oil company profiteering; the growing debt crisis; religious extremism; the drive for American empire; and the failing U.S. healthcare system.

Bioneers highlights cutting-edge solutions to major environmental challenges and crises, along with broader social approaches for ecological and cultural restoration.

A forum for connecting the environment, health, social justice, and spirit within a broad progressive framework, Bioneers encompasses biodiversity, cultural diversity, community economics, and spirituality. Bioneers seeks to unite nature, culture and spirit in an Earth-honoring vision, and create economic models founded in social justice.

Produced at KSER.

Combining lively discussion and a thoughtful media critique, CounterSpin highlights biased and inaccurate news; censored stories; sexism, racism and homophobia in the news; the power of corporate influence; TV news' narrow political spectrum; attacks on free speech; and more.

Democracy Now!’s War and Peace Report provides our audience with access to people and perspectives rarely heard in the U.S.corporate-sponsored media, including independent and international journalists, ordinary people from around the world who are directly affected by U.S. foreign policy, grassroots leaders and peace activists, artists, academics and independent analysts.

In addition, Democracy Now! hosts real debates–debates between people who substantially disagree, such as between the White House or the Pentagon spokespeople on the one hand, and grassroots activists on the other.

Democracy Now! has won nearly every major broadcasting award available to a news program. Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, program’s hosts, are among the most respected journalists in the United States.

The 4th Monday of each month, Joan Bethel and Pat Mahoney look at the issues and needs of our aging population and hear from experts in the community covering topics of importance to seniors.

Produced at KSER

The focus is on how to get the most out of the money you have and how to make your money work its hardest.

Listeners are invited to call with questions -- 425-303-9070.

Produced at KSER.

Primary Care Physicians Kasra Pournadeali, Rebecca Dirks, and Stacy Wells, have been answering listener calls live since 1998!  Unique to Healthy Living, "The Doctors" provide mainstream and naturopathic perspectives to listener questions.  To get your questions answered call 425 303-9070 (or email the doctors ).  To view articles The Doctors have authored, you can visit their clinic website at www.ncoh.net. 

Remember, "The Doctors Are In" every Thursday!

Produced at KSER

The League of Women Voters of Snohomish County keeps voters in our community informed about legislation and candidates in coming elections.

Produced at KSER.

Up-to-the-minute, alive and witty, Left, Right and Center is a weekly dialog on politics, policy and popular culture with four of the most insightful news analysts anywhere:

• Matthew Miller, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress representing the Center, and moderator.
• Robert Scheer, editor-in-chief of Truthdig, representing the Left.
• Tony Blankley, editorial page editor of the Washington Times representing the Right.
• Arianna Huffington, Huffington Post publisher, representing the independent-progressive blogosphere.

Produced by the Northwest Community Radio Network at community radio station KBCS, each broadcast highlights communities in action from Alaska, British Columbia, Washington, Idaho, Montana and Oregon.

A live call-in program, linking public radio stations, the Internet and listeners together, Native America Calling is a thought-provoking national conversation about issues specific to Native communities. Each program engages noted guests and experts with callers throughout the United States shining a light on life for Native Americans.

These people are exploring and documenting the dramatic inter-relationship between all living things and demonstrating the amazing power of the mind and spirit to control and direct an individual’s life.

The 3rd Monday of each month, long-time labor activists and historians Ross Rieder, Bill Johnston, and Roger Yockey put you in touch with the labor movements history as they inform you about current issues affecting working people.

Produced at KSER.

PoetsWest is local poets, reading their contemporary works, blended with music and an occasional interview. It’s a concise, breezy, thought-provoking presentation of one of the oldest spoken word traditions.  

PoetsWest links the poet with readers and listeners in the broader community.

Produced for KSER.

• Call-in Fridays at 3:00pm with your questions and comments: 425-303-9074

People may work together as a formal group, it may be an ad hoc coming together, or it may be only the work of one person, but the common goal is “peace on earth.” Host Gabriele Bartholomew explores the way people across the North Puget Sound work and live for peace.

Produced at KSER.

In partnership with the BBC, the New York Times, WGBH in Boston and WNYC, The Takeaway provides a breadth and depth of world, national and regional news coverage that is unprecedented in public media.

Hockenberry and Headlee convene critical conversations, take live reports from the field, provide a platform for commentary and analysis, and invite listeners to join the discussion.

Ed Bremer keeps you connected to local news with traffic, weather and conversations with correspondents from Everett to Port Townsend, Snohomish to Whidbey Island.

The Takeaway gives you up-to-the-minute local, national, and international news you can’t get anywhere else on the North Sound’s only public radio station: 90.7 KSER.
 

Global, National, Local...The Takeaway tells you what you need to know to start your day.

For one hour each week, Zorba Paster, M.D., and Tom Clark take callers' questions from around the country, covering what's new in medicine and sharing tips for healthy living.

The show's upbeat, "wellness" approach emphasizes a healthy lifestyle and diet — right down to a Heart-Healthy Recipe of the Week.

As a family physician, clinical researcher, and university professor, Paster has a depth and range listeners can count on during this friendly "house-call".