KPFK 90.7 FM: Programming Highlights

Pacifica Performance Showcase, Friday, June 26 at 2:30 pm with guests Victor Wallace ("Mamma Mia") and filmmaker Jon Bolerjack ("Stan Lee: The Final Chapter")

Donna Walker — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 21:45:00 +0000

PACIFICA PERFORMANCE SHOWCASE, arts & culture to enlighten, enliven and educate with host Donna Walker, covers the best in film, theatre, music, and the arts.

Archives of this show can be heard here - https://archive.kpfk.org/index_one.php?shokey=pperf

Email: Donna_Walker@kpfk.org

Facebook: Pacifica Performance Showcase

Phil and Ted's Sexy Boomer Show, Tuesday, June 23 at 2:00 pm with guest writer/director Orson Ossman ("Treasure Island: A Telling for the New World")

Donna Walker — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 20:55:00 +0000

About the Show

Phil and Ted's Sexy Boomer Show is a free-form, comedy/talk live radio show heard in Los Angeles on KPFK and as a podcast. Co-hosted by long-time collaborators Phil Proctor and Ted Bonnitt, the show features special guests and Hollywood stars in fun and deep conversations.

A voice for the fast-growing 50+ podcast audience while appealing to all ages, the show is produced by Radio Pictures, Inc., a Hollywood-based creative production company. More at sexyboomershow.com.

Hosts

Phil Proctor

An accomplished humorist, author, and actor, best known as a founding member of the groundbreaking comedy group The Firesign Theatre.

Ted Bonnitt

A writer, host, and producer of national entertainment podcasts, as well as radio, television, and film programming, including with members of The Firesign Theatre.

LA Theatre Works, Sunday, June 21 at 10:00 pm, David Hare's "Racing Demon" starring Jared Harris

Donna Walker — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 23:45:00 +0000

One of the world's most renowned playwrights, David Hare has received many awards including two Olivier Awards, three Tony Awards, two Oscars, two BAFTA's and two Golden Globes, among other accolades. Among his best known works are "Plenty" (adapted into a film starring Meryl Streep), "Skylight," "Map of the World," "Pravda" (starring Anthony Hopkins), and "Straight Line Crazy" (starring Ralph Fiennes), while his latest "Montauk" is set to be produced by Manhattan Theatre Club in 2027.

Recorded in Los Angeles before a live audience at The James Bridges Theater, UCLA in November 2014.

Directed by Rosalind Ayres
Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg
An L.A. Theatre Works Full-Cast Performance Featuring:
Rosie Fellner as Frances Parnell
Paul Fox as Ewan Gilmour
Jared Harris as Reverend Lionel Espy
Jason Hughes as Reverend Tony Ferris
Martin Jarvis as Reverend Harry Henderson
Christopher Neame as Right Reverend Charlie Allen
Lesley Nicol as Heather Epsy
Alan Shearman as Tommy Adair
Simon Templeman as Reverend Donald 'Streaky' Bacon
Jane Wall as Stella Marr
Matthew Wolf as Right Reverend Gilbert Heffernan
Associate Producers: Anna Lyse Erikson, Myke Weiskopf
Recording and Mixing Engineer: Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood
Sound Effects Artist: Jeff Gardner

Pacifica Performance Showcase, Friday, June 19 at 2:30 pm with guest documentary filmmaker Nick Davis ("This Ordinary Thing")

Donna Walker — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 23:30:00 +0000

Filmmaker Nick Davis joins host Donna Walker to talk about his documentary "This Ordinary Thing" which explores the heroism, bravery, and self-sacrifice of non-Jewish people throughout Europe who risked their lives to hide their Jewish neighbors, as well as strangers. Honored by Yad Vashem in 2023 as individuals "righteous among nations," their stories are a testament that "to be human, we need each other." With never-before-seen archival footage, narrated by Academy Award winning actors, including Dame Helen Mirren, Jeremy Irons, Ellen Burstyn, among others, the film is a powerful reminder that one person can make a difference.

Remembering Bob Weir (1947–2026)

Arnella Barbara — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 08:00:00 +0000

🌹⚡️ For Bob ⚡️🌹

The music has shifted.

The air itself feels altered.

Beloved Bob Weir has left this physical plane, and the long strange trip will never feel the same again. Something essential — something living and breathing — has slipped beyond our reach, and we are standing here together, stunned, heartbroken, and forever changed.

Bob was not just a musician.

He was a frequency.

A compass in the dark.

A living bridge between chaos and communion.

The Grateful Dead was never only a band — it was a universe, a language, a way of surviving this world with your soul intact. And Bob Weir was one of its great storytellers, guiding us through winding roads where answers dissolved and truth lived in the asking.

Every chord he played felt like an invitation:

to wander,

to wonder,

to feel deeply,

to belong.

I was meant to have Bob on my show this spring.

We spoke with his PR team just weeks ago.

The thought that he was still out there — still moving, still creating, still shining — makes this loss cut impossibly deep. Plans were forming. Stories were waiting. And now, all that remains is gratitude tangled with grief.

From me — the Dark Star Gurl, host of Dark Star, Dead and Music — and from Deadheads everywhere:

We are shattered.

We are grieving.

And we know, in our bones, that we will never fully recover from this.

Bob’s music didn’t just accompany our lives — it held us.

It carried us through heartbreak, addiction, joy, rebellion, awakening.

It taught us how to stay soft in a hard world, how to keep dancing even when the night felt endless.

This is not just the loss of a man.

This is the loss of a living current of American soul.

A light that shaped generations.

A voice that told us we weren’t alone.

So tonight, let us all light a candle.

Watch the flame dance.

Let the smoke drift upward so Bob can see how deeply he is loved.

Tonight, the road stretches on without you, Bob —

but your songs are still moving through us.

Your spirit still hums in the static.

Your love still binds this family together.

We will keep listening.

We will keep dancing.

We will keep carrying the music forward — brokenhearted, but grateful beyond words.

Thank you for the road.

Thank you for the courage.

Thank you for the eternal invitation to belong.

This world will never be the same without you.

And because of you, neither will we.

Forever Grateful.

Forever Dead.

Forever Bob. 🌹⚡