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Commonwealth Club of California Podcast

The Commonwealth Club of California is the nation's largest public affairs forum. The nonpartisan and nonprofit Club produces and distributes programs featuring diverse viewpoints from thought leaders on important topics. The Club's weekly radio broadcast — the oldest in the U.S., since 1924 — is carried on hundreds of stations. Our website features audio and video of our programs. This podcast feed is usually updated multiple times each week.

CLIMATE ONE: Jane Goodall: Celebrating 90

53 mins; September 27, 2024

Week to Week Political Roundtable: September 19, 2024

69 hours 26 mins; September 25, 2024

Joseph Stiglitz: Economics and the Good Society

66 hours 58 mins; September 24, 2024

REWIND – Wardrobe Malfunction: The Climate Impact of Clothing

60 hours 4 mins; September 20, 2024

Don Lemon: My Search for God in America (EXPLICIT)

62 hours 11 mins; September 19, 2024

Don Lemon: My Search for God in America (EXPLICIT)

62 hours 11 mins; September 19, 2024

Cass Sunstein: Campus Free Speech

67 hours 16 mins; September 17, 2024

Banking on Purpose: A Fireside Chat with Darrel Hackett, President & CEO, BMO Bank N.A.

65 hours 9 mins; September 16, 2024

The Connection Between Autoimmunity and Trauma

76 hours 11 mins; September 14, 2024

Daniel Levitin: Music as Medicine

71 hours 4 mins; September 13, 2024

Turning Election Anxiety Into Action

57 mins; September 13, 2024

Dan Morain: Making History with Kamala Harris

60 hours 55 mins; September 12, 2024

People Power & Service Transforming the City: What's Good SF! Summer Series

69 hours 1 min; September 11, 2024

Mary Trump: Family Ties and Lies

69 hours 54 mins; September 09, 2024

H.R. McMaster: My Tour of Duty in the Trump White House

68 hours 52 mins; September 07, 2024

Cheaper, Faster, Better: Tom Steyer on Winning the Climate War

57 mins; September 06, 2024

Military Power: Balancing Security and Climate Threats

58 mins; August 30, 2024

Erwin Chemerinsky: No Democracy Lasts Forever

65 hours 18 mins; August 28, 2024

Melissa Jacoby with Sen. Elizabeth Warren: How Our Bankruptcy System Makes America More Unequal

58 mins; August 26, 2024

Anne Applebaum: Autocracy, Inc.

59 mins; August 24, 2024

What’s a Climate-Conscious Republican to Do?

55 mins; August 23, 2024

Alzheimer's, ALS, "Alzheimer's, ALS, Parkinson's—There's Hope

65 hours 21 mins; August 22, 2024

Mike Madrid: The Latino Century

64 hours 20 mins; August 20, 2024

With President Biden Out of the Race . . . What to Expect at the DNC

63 hours 31 mins; August 19, 2024

What the FERC Is Going on With the Electric Grid

56 mins; August 16, 2024

John Sullivan: Midnight in Moscow

58 mins; August 15, 2024

Unions You Wouldn't Expect Bargaining for Climate Action

56 mins; August 09, 2024

Way Forward: A Conversation about Race, "New Solutions & the Way Forward: A Conversation about Race, Equity & Economic Justice

66 hours 10 mins; August 07, 2024

Week to Week: Kamala Harris Enters the Ring (EXPLICIT)

59 mins; August 06, 2024

President Nixon Film Screening: The Movement and the "Madman"

41 mins; August 05, 2024

The Untold Story of John Muir, Indigenous Peoples, "The Untold Story of John Muir, Indigenous Peoples, and the American Wilderness

65 hours 13 mins; August 04, 2024

Thrillers, "Thrillers, Tech and Ethics in a Rapidly Changing World

71 hours 50 mins; August 03, 2024

Thirst Trap: When Big Cities Run Dry

57 mins; August 02, 2024

Going for Green at the Paris Games

57 mins; July 26, 2024

Foto-Diásporas

93 hours 14 mins; July 22, 2024

Tor Kenward: Reflections of a Vintner and Wine Tasting

67 hours 13 mins; July 21, 2024

Raj Shah and Christopher Kirchhoff: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War

65 hours 6 mins; July 20, 2024

What’s at Stake in November

61 hours 44 mins; July 19, 2024

Advancing the Science: The Latest in Alzheimer’s and Dementia Research

61 hours 54 mins; July 18, 2024

Cultivating Creativity for Your Future

66 hours 7 mins; July 17, 2024

We Are Home: Who Decides Who Is an “American”? (EXPLICIT)

76 hours 8 mins; July 16, 2024

Arthur Goldwag: The Politics of Fear

63 hours 46 mins; July 15, 2024

Brody Mullins: The Secret History of How Big Money Took Over Big Government

64 hours 38 mins; July 14, 2024

2nd Annual San Francisco Pride Human Rights Summit (Afternoon)

121 hours 51 mins; July 13, 2024

2nd Annual San Francisco Pride Human Rights Summit

99 hours 50 mins; July 13, 2024

Local Climate Heroes with Project Drawdown

57 mins; July 12, 2024

How Earth Came Alive! With Ferris Jabr

62 hours 15 mins; July 09, 2024

Nonprofit Oversight in San Francisco

65 hours 11 mins; July 08, 2024

REWIND: Six People Who’ve Changed Jobs for Climate

54 mins; July 05, 2024

The Unforgettable San José Earthquakes: Momentous Stories On and Off the Field

68 hours 58 mins; July 03, 2024

Mary C. Daly: President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

67 hours 23 mins; July 02, 2024

Mo Rocca and the Roctogenarians

71 hours 32 mins; July 01, 2024

Nicholas Kristof: On Chasing Hope, A Reporter's Life

63 hours 45 mins; June 30, 2024

MSNBC's Ali Velshi: A Legacy of Endurance and the Fight for Democracy

60 hours 29 mins; June 29, 2024

Crude Awakening: Why Ecuador Voted to Stop Drilling in the Amazon

60 hours 18 mins; June 28, 2024

James Rhee and Yul Kwon: Reimagining Leadership and the Social Compact

66 hours 22 mins; June 27, 2024

"AfroSolo Theatre Company’s ""Standing Tall"": A Celebration of Black Resilience (EXPLICIT)

39 mins; June 26, 2024

Losing My Religion: NPR’s Sarah McCammon on EXvangelicals in Trump's America

68 hours 37 mins; June 25, 2024

Renée DiResta: The Invisible Rulers Turning Lies Into Reality

67 hours 12 mins; June 23, 2024

CLIMATE ONE: Climate Policy Wonk Turned Indie Pop Star: AJR’s Adam Met

53 mins; June 21, 2024

India’s Search for Major Power Status

63 hours 44 mins; June 20, 2024

Burned Out? This Is The Way Out!

60 hours 5 mins; June 19, 2024

Autonomous Vehicles and the City 2024

152 hours 42 mins; June 15, 2024

Adulting in Turbulent Times

56 mins; June 14, 2024

Alcatraz: The Last Escape

73 hours 37 mins; June 11, 2024

The Path to Paradise: A Francis Ford Coppola Story

68 hours 13 mins; June 09, 2024

Kenneth Walsh: The Architects of Toxic Politics in America

77 hours 1 min; June 08, 2024

Rekindling Our Relationship With Wildfire

58 mins; June 07, 2024

The Future of Health Care Is Unfolding—and Nursing and Public Health Are Leading the Way

64 hours 7 mins; June 04, 2024

Sal Khan: How AI Will Revolutionize Education

64 hours 40 mins; June 03, 2024

You Gonna Finish That? Saving Good Food from Going Bad

54 mins; May 31, 2024

Jen Psaki with Dan Pfeiffer: Lessons from the White House

62 hours 2 mins; May 29, 2024

'My Octopus Teacher''s Craig Foster: Finding the Wild in a Tame World

58 mins; May 28, 2024

Nellie Bowles: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History

61 hours 29 mins; May 26, 2024

15th Annual Mineta National Transportation Policy Summit—Beyond the Pump: Rethinking Transportation Funding Without the Fuel Tax

82 hours 36 mins; May 25, 2024

Staycation: All I Ever Wanted

54 mins; May 24, 2024

Climate Vanguard: Youth-Powered Litigation at Our Children's Trust

71 hours 12 mins; May 23, 2024

Karen Valby and Karlya Shelton-Benjamin: The Swans of Harlem (EXPLICIT)

65 hours 5 mins; May 22, 2024

Sarah Thornton with Michael Lewis: Myths and Misconceptions About Breasts

54 mins; May 22, 2024

Sean Carroll: Exploring Quanta and Fields

67 hours 35 mins; May 21, 2024

Natalie Foster with Darrick Hamilton: The Guarantee

67 hours 33 mins; May 20, 2024

Batya Ungar-Sargo: The Working Class and the American Dream

63 hours 49 mins; May 18, 2024

Fighting Fossil Fuels in the Courts and on the Ballot

54 mins; May 17, 2024

Ari Berman: Minority Rule and Resisting the Right-Wing Attack on Democracy

65 hours 44 mins; May 15, 2024

Big Plastic: The New Big Oil

54 mins; May 10, 2024

Week to Week Political Roundtable: February 22, 2024

67 hours 31 mins; May 08, 2024

Philippines–U.S. Relations: Evolving Opportunities and Challenges

59 mins; May 07, 2024

Jonathan Haidt with Tristan Harris: The Anxious Generation and the Epidemic of Childhood Mental Illness

61 hours 41 mins; May 06, 2024

Youth Talk: Are We Too Polarized to Govern? The Importance of Working Across Political Divides

58 mins; May 05, 2024

Annie Jacobsen - Nuclear War

58 mins; May 04, 2024

When California Dreams Hit Political Reality

59 mins; May 03, 2024

Excessive Punishment: How the Justice System Creates Mass Incarceration

59 mins; May 03, 2024

Justice Stephen Breyer: Reading the Constitution

63 hours 2 mins; May 02, 2024

David Sanger: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West

66 hours 20 mins; May 01, 2024

Antonio López: Civic Leader, Poet, and Mayor of East Palo Alto

81 hours 57 mins; April 30, 2024

REWIND: Building a Better Battery Supply Chain with JB Straubel and Aimee Boulanger

69 hours 14 mins; April 26, 2024

Saving Ourselves: From Climate Shocks to Climate Action

69 hours 4 mins; April 22, 2024

Special Southeast Asian New Year Celebration

50 mins; April 20, 2024

Artificial Intelligence, Real Climate Impacts

57 mins; April 19, 2024

Susannah Fox: Rebel Health

66 hours 49 mins; April 18, 2024

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