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Estimated from 8 chart positions in 8 markets.
By chart position
- 🇺🇸US · Politics#1255K to 30K
- 🇯🇵JP · Politics#1991K to 10K
- 🇦🇪AE · Politics#1330K to 100K
- 🇲🇾MY · Politics#743K to 10K
- 🇵🇪PE · Politics#104500 to 3K
- Per-Episode Audience
Est. listeners per new episode within ~30 days
12K to 49K🎙 Daily cadence·1,000 episodes·Last published 1mo ago - Monthly Reach
Unique listeners across all episodes (30 days)
41K to 162K🇦🇪62%🇺🇸19%🇯🇵6%+5 more - Active Followers
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12K to 49K
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Novelist Karen Tei Yamashita on the Relevance of Japanese Internment Today
Jul 20, 2026
54m 48s
Drones, Plate Readers, and AI Facial Recognition: The Surveillance Technology Watching the Bay Area
Jul 20, 2026
54m 46s
The Battle for the Future of Burning Man
Jul 17, 2026
54m 44s
A Historian Grapples with ‘How We Disappear’ After We Die
Jul 17, 2026
54m 49s
Should the UCs Reinstate the SAT?
Jul 16, 2026
54m 44s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7/20/26 | Japanese internmentloyalty questions+5 | Karen Tei Yamashita | US governmentQuestions 27 & 28 | JapanUnited States | Japanese internmentloyalty questions+5 | — | 54m 48s | ||
| 7/20/26 | surveillance technologyprivacy concerns+5 | — | San Francisco policeSFPD+1 | Bay Area | dronesAI+6 | — | 54m 46s | ||
| 7/17/26 | Burning ManHBO documentary+3 | Jehane NoujaimVikram Gandhi+1 | HBOThe Man Will Burn | Black Rock DesertSan Francisco+1 | Burning ManHBO+6 | — | 54m 44s | ||
| 7/17/26 | historyinformation+4 | Thomas Mullaney | Stanford UniversityHow We Disappear: A Personal History of Information | — | historyinformation+5 | — | 54m 49s | ||
| 7/16/26 | UC admissionsstandardized testing+5 | Felicia MelloLisa Holder+1 | University of CaliforniaBerkeleyside+1 | — | UC systemSAT+6 | — | 54m 44s | ||
| 7/16/26 | peptideshealthcare+5 | Dhruv KhullarZara Stone | Weill Cornell MedicineWeill Cornell Medical College+2 | — | peptideshealthcare+8 | — | 54m 49s | ||
| 7/15/26 | mergerlawsuit+3 | Rob Bonta | CaliforniaParamount+2 | — | CaliforniaParamount+6 | — | 54m 48s | ||
| 7/15/26 | housing policyaffordable housing+3 | — | KQEDFederal Housing Bill | Bay Area | federal housing billaffordable housing+3 | — | 54m 50s | ||
| 7/14/26 | Supreme Courtimmigration+4 | ACLU lawyerBay Area man | Supreme CourtTrump administration | HaitiSyria+2 | Supreme Courttemporary protected status+6 | — | 54m 49s | ||
| 7/14/26 | income inequalityCalifornia+4 | Cristina MoraTianna Paschel | UC BerkeleyNormalizing Inequality: How Californians Make Sense of the Growing Divide | California | income inequalityCalifornia+5 | — | 54m 43s | ||
| 6/12/26 | Native American leadershippolitics+4 | Deb Haaland | KQEDA Voice Like Mine | New MexicoU.S. | Deb HaalandNative American+5 | — | 52m 16s | ||
| 6/12/26 | World Cupexpat communities+3 | Erich SonnbergerDr. Nasser "Nas" Mohamed+4 | Intero Real Estate ServicesOsra Medical+3 | Levi’s StadiumSwitzerland+4 | World Cupexpat communities+5 | — | 52m 19s | ||
| 6/11/26 | facial recognitionhistory of faces+3 | Fay Bound-Alberti | King's College LondonThe Face | ancient Greeks | facescharacter+7 | — | 52m 11s | ||
| 6/11/26 | AI IPOshousing affordability+3 | Enrico MorettiGerrit De Vynck+2 | AnthropicOpenAI+5 | San Francisco | AIIPO+5 | — | 54m 50s | ||
| 6/10/26 | American identityspeeches+4 | Ben Rhodes | KQEDAll We Say: The Battle for American Identity | — | American identityBen Rhodes+5 | — | 54m 45s | ||
| 6/10/26 | coal terminalenvironment+4 | Darwin BondGrahamMaxine Joselow+1 | Trump administrationOaklandside+2 | Oakland | coal terminalTrump administration+5 | — | 54m 49s | ||
| 6/9/26 | artificial intelligencehigher education+3 | Jay Caspian Kang | The New YorkerThe Loneliest Americans | — | artificial intelligencecollege+3 | — | 54m 46s | ||
| 6/9/26 | Pulitzer Prizenovel+4 | Andrew Sean Greer | KQEDVilla Coco+4 | — | Andrew Sean GreerVilla Coco+5 | — | 54m 49s | ||
| 6/8/26 | democracypolitical deception+4 | Andrew Weissmann | KQEDNYU Law School+4 | — | Andrew WeissmannLiar's Kingdom+5 | — | 54m 45s | ||
| 6/8/26 | freedomBlack Americans+5 | Zinzi Clemmons | UC DavisFreedom+1 | — | freedomZinzi Clemmons+8 | — | 54m 46s | ||
| 5/8/26 | life's workcareer advice+4 | Jodi Kantor | Columbia UniversityThe New York Times+1 | — | life's workcareer+5 | — | 54m 46s | ||
| 5/8/26 | familyadoption+3 | Tracy Clark-Flory | KQEDMy Mother's Daughter+1 | — | long-lost sisteradoption+3 | — | 54m 49s | ||
| 5/7/26 | digital healthscreen time+3 | Manoush Zomorodi | NPRBody Electric: The Hidden Health Costs of the Digital Age and New Science to Reclaim Your Well-Being | — | screen timehealth costs+3 | — | 54m 43s | ||
| 5/7/26 | disability rightsSSI benefits+4 | Eli HagerKristen Pedersen+1 | ProPublicaThe Arc San Francisco+3 | United States | SSI benefitsdisabilities+7 | — | 54m 50s | ||
| 5/6/26 | infertilityhealth+3 | Shanna SwanMonique Tavares+1 | Icahn School of MedicineBL Pavers+2 | San Ramon | plastic detoxinfertility+3 | — | 54m 46s |
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Chart history for KQED's Forum
Peaked at #13 in AE, currently #13 in AE.
| Market | Genre | Peak | Current | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AE | — | #13 | #13 | — |
| AE | — | #65 | #65 | — |
| MY | — | #74 | #74 | — |
| PE | — | #104 | #104 | — |
| United States | — | #125 | #125 | — |
| TW | — | #163 | #163 | — |
| Finland | — | #183 | #183 | — |
| PL | — | #194 | #194 | — |
| Japan | — | #199 | #199 | — |
Chart Positions
9 placements across 8 markets.
Chart Positions
9 placements across 8 markets.