Renegades

Our show this week is all about renegades — people and things that defy the status quo.

Reporters Padmini Parthasarthy and Lee Mengistu talk to Free Radio Berkeley’s Stephen Dunifer, one of the pioneers of pirate radio. Nikka Singh profiles a comedian who uses her comedy to poke fun at misconceptions about those with disabilities.

Zoë Ferrigno explores the threat of a non-human renegade — a tsunami — in the bay area. Kaitlin Benz follows a group of athletes fighting the system within their own bodies. And in the first part of a two-part series, Nuria Marquez Martinez follows the potential closure of Alta Bates Hospital in Richmond, and the people trying to stop it.

In part two of the story, we’ll explore the term “hospital desert” and the effects it’s had on West County.