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West Coast Live (1985—2018)
[1] was a weekly two-hour radio
variety show hosted by
Sedge Thomson . The unscripted program features interviews with world-renowned authors and cultural figures along with performances by musicians, comedians and other entertainers. It is broadcast live-to-satellite each Saturday morning in front of a theater audience from one of several
San Francisco Bay area venues. The show was carried on
NPR stations from coast-to-coast, and in Paris, France until 2018.
[2] Occasionally, the show traveled to theaters, music festivals and film festivals throughout the northwest. The Biospherical Digital-Optical Aquaphone (container of water sloshed for microphone), is the "trademarked signature" of Sedge Thomson.
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Past guests
Writers include:
Diane Ackerman ,
Maya Angelou ,
Julian Barnes ,
T.C. Boyle ,
Ray Bradbury ,
A.S. Byatt ,
Joyce Carol Oates ,
Michael Chabon ,
Julia Child ,
Billy Collins ,
Junot Diaz ,
Jennifer Egan ,
Dave Eggers ,
Lawrence Ferlinghetti ,
Jonathan Safran Foer ,
William Gibson ,
Allen Ginsberg ,
Daniel Handler ,
Robert Hass ,
John Irving ,
Jamaica Kincaid ,
Anne Lamott ,
Gregory Maguire ,
Greil Marcus ,
Armistead Maupin ,
Michael McClure ,
Ian McEwan ,
Toni Morrison ,
Susan Orlean ,
P.J. O'Rourke ,
Raj Patel ,
Michael Pollan ,
Tom Robbins ,
Salman Rushdie ,
David Sedaris ,
Eric Schlosser ,
Zadie Smith ,
Gary Snyder ,
Calvin Trillin ,
Chris Van Allsburg ,
Tobias Wolff ,
Alice Walker ,
Alice Waters ,
Irvine Welsh ,
Edmund White ,
Jacqueline Winspear ,
Jeanette Winterson ,
Naomi Wolf ,
Tobias Wolff ,
Carlos Ruiz Zafón .
Musicians include:
The Blind Boys of Alabama ,
Greensky Bluegrass ,
Tim Bluhm ,
Billy Bragg ,
The Neville Brothers ,
Greg Brown ,
Sam Bush ,
David Byrne ,
Bruce Cockburn ,
Judy Collins ,
Ramblin' Jack Elliott ,
Tommy Emmanuel ,
Michael Franti ,
Béla Fleck & The Flecktones ,
David Grisman ,
Arlo Guthrie ,
Ben Harper ,
Richie Havens ,
Sean Hayes ,
Dan Hicks ,
Jolie Holland ,
Zakir Hussain ,
The String Cheese Incident ,
Leo Kottke ,
Taj Mahal ,
Ladysmith Black Mambazo ,
Ray Manzarek ,
Country Joe McDonald ,
Tuck & Patti ,
U. Utah Phillips ,
Kronos Quartet ,
Jonathan Richman ,
Peter Rowan ,
Blame Sally ,
Pharoah Sanders ,
Merl Saunders ,
John Sebastian ,
Chris Smither ,
Allen Toussaint ,
Charlie Hunter Trio ,
Trance Mission ,
Hot Tuna ,
McCoy Tyner ,
The Devil Makes Three ,
Vetiver ,
Loudon Wainwright III .
Actors include:
Carrie Fisher ,
Peter Gallagher ,
Elliott Gould ,
Gene Hackman ,
Larry Hankin ,
Bill Irwin ,
Eddie Izzard ,
Terry Jones ,
Rita Moreno ,
Adam Savage &
Jamie Hyneman ,
Richard Lewis ,
Robin Williams ,
Debra Winger ,
Geoff Bolt, Michael O'Brien
Others include:
Andre Agassi ,
Jerry Brown ,
Roger Ebert ,
Wavy Gravy ,
Spalding Gray ,
Guerrilla Girls ,
Garrison Keillor ,
Craig Newmark ,
Peter Sellars ,
Steve Wozniak .
2015
2014
2013
2012
Claire Peaslee - December 22, 2012
Anne Lamott, Help Thanks Wow - December 15, 2012
Raymond Offenheiser, Oxfam America - July 21, 2012
Raj Patel, Stuffed and Starved - July 21, 2012
Alice Waters, Owner of Chez Panisse Restaurant - July 21, 2012
Raj Patel, Raymond Offenheiser & Alice Waters - July 21, 2012
Howard Rheingold, Netsmart: How to Thrive Online - June 16, 2012
Dhaya Lakshminarayanan - June 16, 2012
Juliet Bell (aka Sylvia Brownrigg), Keplers Dream - May 12, 2012
Edmund White, Jack Holmes and His Friend - February 4, 2012
Barbara Babcock, Woman Lawyer - February 4, 2012
Maira Kalman, Why We Broke Up - February 4, 2012
Ellis Avery, The Last Nude - January 14, 2012
Nicholas de Monchaux, Fashioning Apollo - January 14, 2012
Julia Flynn Siler, Lost Kingdom - January 7, 2012
2011
Thomas Steinbeck, The Silver Lotus - December 10, 2011
Mark Bowden, Worm: The First Digital World War - October 22, 2011
Courtney E Smith, Record Collecting for Girls - September 10, 2011
Rita Moreno, Life WIthout Makeup - September 10, 2011
Adam Hochschild, To End All Wars - April 30, 2011
Eric Greitens, The Heart and The Fist - April 30, 2011
Daniel Clowes - April 23, 2011
Donovan Hohn, Moby Duck & Susan Freinkel, Plastic - April 23, 2011
Jacques dAmboise, I Was a Dancer - April 9, 2011
Joyce Carol Oates, A Widows Story - April 2, 2011
2010
Judy Chicago, Frida Kahlo: Face to Face - December 11, 2010
Coleman Barks, Rumi the Big Red Book - December 11, 2010
Armistead Maupin, Mary Ann in Autumn - December 11, 2010
Daniel Handler AKA Lemony Snicket, 13 Words - November 13, 2010
Terry McMillan, Getting to Happy - November 13, 2010
Alice Walker, Hard Times Require Furious Dancing - October 30, 2010
Alexander McCall Smith, The Lost Art of Gratitude - October 23, 2010
Julia Butterfly Hill, The Legacy of Luna - April 17, 2010
Zachary Mason , The Lost Books of Odysseus - March 6, 2010
TC Boyle, Wild Child - February 20, 2010
2009
Andre Agassi, Open: An Autobiography - November 21, 2009
Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals - November 7, 2009
John Irving, Last Night in Twisted River - November 7, 2009
Ben Fong Torres - August 8, 2009
Ruth Reichl, Not Becoming my Mother - May 9, 2009
Geoffrey Masson - May 2, 2009
Jane E Smith - May 2, 2009
Jane Vandenburgh - April 25, 2009
Lynn Freed - April 25, 2009
Alva Noe - April 11, 2009
Brenda Webster - April 11, 2009
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Alan Boss - March 14, 2009
Zoe Heller, The Believers - March 7, 2009
Barry Jenkins, Medicine for Melancholy - March 7, 2009
Joe Gores, Spade and Archer - February 28, 2009
Jacqueline Winspear, Among the Mad -
February 28 , 2009
Stacey DErasmo, The Sky Below - January 17, 2009
Robert Roper, Now the Drum of War - January 17, 2009
Wes Nisker - January 10, 2009
2008
Spain Rodriguez, CHE, A Graphic Biography - December 13, 2008
Maxine Hong Kingston - November 29, 2008
Toni Morrison, A Mercy - November 22, 2008
Eoin Colfer, The Worst Boy in the World - May 24, 2008
Sylvia Brownrigg ,
Morality Tale - May 10, 2008
Rabih Alameddine, Hakawati - May 10, 2008
Robert Bly and Eavan Boland - May 3, 2008
Elizabeth McKenzie, McGregor Tells the World - May 3, 2008
Richard Price, Lush Life - March 29, 2008
Gene Hackman and Daniel Lenihan, Wake of the Perdido Star - February 16, 2008
James McBride, Song Yet Sung - February 9, 2008
Roy Blount Jr, Long Time Leaving - February 2, 2008
Calvin Trillin - February 2, 2008
Ricki Lake & Abby Epstein, The Business of Being Born - January 19, 2008
Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food - January 19, 2008
2007
Robert Hass, Time and Materials - December 8, 2007
Alice Waters, The Art of Simple Food - November 24, 2007
Bill Pullman - September 8, 2007
Michael Chabon - June 16, 2007
Josh Waitzkin, Searching for Bobby Fisher - June 16, 2007
Mal Sharpe - May 26, 2007
Helen Simpson, In the Drivers Seat - May 26, 2007
Julia Whitty - May 26, 2007
Bill Bryson - May 12, 2007
2006
Craig Newmark - November 4, 2006
Mark Childress, One Mississippi - August 19, 2006
Carolyn Cooke - August 12, 2006
Sylvia Brownrigg, The Delivery Room - July 8, 2006
Ben Fong Torres, Almost Famous - June 10, 2006
Gary Shteyngart, Absurdistan - May 13, 2006
John Baxter, Well Always Have Paris - April 1, 2006
Julian Barnes, Arthur and George - February 11, 2006
Mary Roach, Spook - February 4, 2006
Ayelet Waldman, Love and Other Impossible Pursuits - February 4, 2006
Allan Zweibel, The Other Shulman - February 4, 2006
Matthew and Terces Anglehart, The Abounding River - January 28, 2006
2005
Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - December 3, 2005
Michael Recchiuti and Fran Gage - November 26, 2005
Will Durst - October 22, 2005
Howard Junker, Zyzzyva - October 15, 2005
Gus Lee, China Boy - October 15, 2005
Terry McMillan, The Interruption of Everything - August 20, 2005
Melissa Bank, The Wonder Spot
- June 11, 2005
David Sedaris, Dress your Family in Corduroy and Denim - June 11, 2005
Robert Bly - May 14, 2005
Marc Ian Barasch, Field Notes on the Compassionate Life - May 7, 2005
SARK, Sarks New Creative Companion: Ways to Free Your Creative Spirit - May 7, 2005
Les Barker - February 19, 2005
Irvin Yalom - February 19, 2005
2004
Nigella Lawson, Feast: Food to Celebrate - November 20, 2004
Maya Angelou - October 16, 2004
Guy Johnson- October 16, 2004
Carl and Karl- October 2, 2004
Annie Somerville, Greens Restaurant Chef - August 28, 2004
David Sedaris - June 19, 2004
Isabel Allende, Adventure Stories, My Invented Country: A Memoir - May 15, 2004
Lang Lang, pianist and raconteur - Nov. 13, 2004
2003
Amy Tan - December 13, 2003
Kathy Kamen Goldmark - August 9, 2003
Sarah Jones - May 17, 2003
Paul Disco - May 3, 2003
Norman Fisher - May 3, 2003
Noah Levine - May 3, 2003
Paul Collins - April 12, 2003
Po Bronson - February 8, 2003
William Gibson - February 8, 2003
Sarah Jones - February 1, 2003
AS Byatt - January 25, 2003
2002
2001
2000
1999
1998
1997
1996
Gary Snyder - December 14, 1996
Julia Child - November 16, 1996
Hettie Jones - October 10, 1996
Dennis Hopper - October 5, 1996
Ruth Weiss - October 12, 1996
Charles Schultz - September 7, 1996
Jennifer Egan - May 9, 1996
Gus Lee - March 30, 1996
Jamaica Kincaid - February 10, 1996
Anne Lamott - January 6, 1996
1995
Tobias Wolff - November 11, 1995
Gregory Maguire - October 14, 1995
David Byrne - October 7, 1995
John Berendt - September 23, 1995
Anne Lamott - June 3, 1995
Ray Bradbury & Robert Watson - June 3, 1995
Paulo Coelho - May 27, 1995
Thomas Keneally - May 6, 1995
Oliver Sacks - March 4, 1995
Helen Palmer - January 21, 1995
1994
Sylvia Earl - December 12, 1994
Anne Lamott - December 12, 1994
Karl and Carl - December 12, 1994
Meredith Tromble - December 12, 1994
Ian Frazier - December 3, 1994
Lucy Grealy - December 3, 1994
Howard Rheingold - December 10, 1994
Josh Kornbluth - October 15, 1994
Naa Kahidi - October 15, 1994
Terry Jones - October 22, 1994
George Takei, To the Stars - September 24, 1994
Allen Ginsberg - September 17, 1994
Michael McClure - August 6, 1994
James Houston - July 9, 1994
Bill Barich - July 2, 1994
Whitfield Diffie - July 2, 1994
Paul Theroux - March 19, 1994
1991
Venues
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