Episodes

Profile of the Gallery and its President Pam Borrelli.

San Francisco’s unique Innocence Commission. Exonerating Joaquin Cirica who served 32 years in prison, wrongfully convicted.

Sequel to the 1986 Top Gun film also starring Tom Cruise. Ensemble cast of well rounded characters. Suspenseful.

June 4 & 5 and June 11 & 12 124 artists in Sonoma County open their studios to the public.

Four iconic black black women - Lena Horne, Moms Mabley, Memphis Minnie, Yolande DuBois Williams - are profiled and how they found pleasure in their public and private lives.

With the historic campaign to recall San Francisco's District Attorney drawing to a close as election day - June 7th - looms before us, the two campaigns are in high gear. Brooke Jenkins with the recall campaign makes the closing arguments with a data driven approach. In contrast ,the No on Recall campaign strategy has been to paint the recall as a Republican conspiracy, in a city with fewer than 20% of voters registered Republicans. Listen in and make up your own mind. --- Send in a voice me...

Lara Bazelon demolishes some of the popular myths around working Moms: the work/life balance, the selfless mother, and toxic female ambition. Both a memoir and a series of interviews with career women, Lara backs her arguments with data.

Sweden and Finland to join NATO: the law of unintended consequences of Putin’s war against Ukraine.

François Truffaut’s comedy classic movie about making a movie. It won the 1974 Oscar for best foreign film. He was one of the great filmmakers of the second half of the 20th Century.

Robert Altman’s 1975 drama about the intersecting lives of people in Nashville, Tennessee. Country music, the entertainment industry and politics are some of the major themes.

Abortion in Canada was decriminalized in 1988, 15 years after the American Roe v Wade decision. While the Roe decision treated abortion as a woman's right, Canada treats it as a medical procedure to be discussed and agreed to by the pregnant woman and her doctor. Has Canada's approach been better than America's ? Sean Fine walks us through our neighbor's very different approach to terminating a pregnancy. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/james-herlihy/message

It looks as though the US Supreme Court is about to strike down Roe v Wade that gave women the right to have an abortion. Assuming the decision is confirmed, it will fundamentally change American society and 49 years of precedent.

A tale of sunshine being the best disinfectant for Russian money laundering and corruption.

Elon Musk acquired Twitter for $44 billion on April 25. The deal will close later this year. Musk has stated that he believes in Freedom of Speech and looks forward to ensuring that the social media messaging platform continues to remain open to all. But major changes are bound to follow in the business operations of Twitter once Musk takes control. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/james-herlihy/message

Are Russian sanctions starting to bite ? Or will China, India and Israel provide a back door to bust the sanctions, as Russia has done for Cuba and Iran for instance ?

Former Assistant DA Brooke Jenkins and now working on the Recall Boudin campaign. 7 weeks to go in the race with polls showing a 68% margin to recall.

The History of GCHQ, the most secretive intelligence agency in the world.

How the American Conservative movement has come full circle from 1920s populism, through the Goldwater and Reagan eras, to the 2022 populism of Donald Trump.

UN Security Council Resolution 1325 assures women a role in peace negotiations. Adopted unanimously by the 15 members of the SC on October 31, 2001, it is reviewed annually at the UN to track progress.

Ambassador Mulhall discusses James Joyce’s Ulysses.