The documentary doesn't cover up the fractious culture of the station rather it illustrates that communities are themselves in constant formation, change and contention.
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It surveys the station's spirited coverage of such events as the Civil Rights Movement, the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, the campus Anti-War Movement and the rise of the Black Panther Party. KPFA On the Air recounts how KPFA transformed itself into a voice for the radical movements of the 1960s. Alan Watts, Langston Hughes, Dylan Thomas, Allen Ginsberg and Linus Pauling shared the mike with Caspar Weinberger, Edward Teller, the father of the H-Bomb, and the John Birch Society. Broadcasting for the first time in April 1949, KPFA became a rare voice for cultural and ideological pluralism during McCarthyism and the conformist 1950s.
They actualized these ideals in a listener-supported radio station which would offer ideas not products. KPFA grew out of the conviction of Lew Hill and a small group of fellow World War II pacifists that the best hope for peace in the dawning nuclear age was open dialogue between people of different points of view. KPFA On the Air is a case study of the pitfalls and possibilities confronting any experiment in media democracy. Novelist Alice Walker narrates the vibrant and stormy history of the first listener-sponsored station. KPFA On the Air pays tribute to the oldest and most ambitious independent, community-based media in the world, KPFA radio.
Producer/Director: Veronica Selver, Co-Producer/Writer: Sharon Wood
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