Wednesday, August 24 5:00 First Light With Sheilah Glover. 6:30 The Morning Show With Kris Welch and Philip Maldari. 9:00 Morning Concert World Music. Explore the ecodiversity of World Music with retro-deco-futurist musical botanist Sandy Miranda. 11:00 Word and Image 11:00 Feminine Genius. "Brenda Richardson's first novel, Chesapeake Song, concerns an African-American couple, Tamra and Charles, and their long difficult romance and marriage. After a career as a preacher, then as a television journalist, Richardson decided there is much unexplored territory in the human imagination for success stories about strong independent African-Americans. This beautifully structured lyrical novel just won the Josephine Miles Award for fiction. Maggie Switzer hosts. 12:00 Brainstorm Solutions to Violence. On January 6 through 8, 1994, Jesse Jackson hosted the National Black Leadership Conference on Youth Violence and Black on Black Crime. In this series of thought-provoking panel discussions, activists, academics, journalists, politicians and other experts debate various solutions to the problems of violence in our society. Session 7. Violence in the Media. Panelists include: Barbara Reynolds, syndicated columnist; Bill Cosby, actor; Spike Lee, Filmmaker; Keith Klinkscales, Vibe Magazine. 1:00 Folk Music from Near and Far Out A Terrible Beauty. Old and new music from the Celtic regions, hosted by Padraigin McGillicuddy. 2:30 The Reggae Experience With Doug Wendt and Spliff Skankin. 4:00 Rhythm Drive With David McBurnie. 4:30 Pacifica Network News 5:00 Flashpoints News, commentary, and analysis. 6:00 KPFA Evening News 7:00 Pulse 7:00 Fruit Punch: Gay Radio. With David Lamble, Dan Curzon and others. 7:30 Steppin' out of Babylon. Sue Supriano interviews participants and coordinators of acupuncture treatment recovery programs for substance abusers. 8:00 Grateful Dead Hour Produced by David Gans in cooperation with the Grateful Dead. 9:00 Music In America Atlanta Slide. Ragtimey blues and twelve-string classics from the '20s--'40s. Joel Sachs hosts. 10:00 Evening Theater On Leaving Home. Essays about moving on, moving away, and trying to stand still in a progressively mobile world. Read by Susan Stone. 11:00 KPFA Evening News Rebroadcast 12:00 The Witching Hour Women doing womanish things after dark. Hosted by Audrey Lee and Kirsten Thomas. 1:30 Beedle Um Bum Folk Music and more, with Larry and Lynn. .