Over 800 great shows in a wonderful sixteen years of broadcasts! For example:

Here are listings of our past shows, with improved audio coming soon. Some dates have audio sites linked. Meanwhile, for novelty, try West Coast Live on TV via the Exploratorium at April 1, 2000 for a show about Bodies. (No foolin') Or, some of Sedge's other projects include interviews for the Exploratorium which can be found in their Memory Lecture website here. If you have a taste for chocolate, try a bite of this!

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  • 2005 2004 2003 2002
  • 2001 2000 1999 1998
  • 1997 1996 1995 1994

    • As we revamp the way we present our show archives and photos this season. You can hear several of our shows in "RealAudio" from the Exploratorium, where we broadcast these five coast-to-coast shows of West Coast Live. Also, try a sample of the new and improved high-fidelity audio sound file you can enjoy in the coming weeks here. Please let us know how it sounds to you. It helps us provide the best listening experience (short of being in the theater itself, of course!) Best, WCL

    To be there for each week's show: reservations & tickets: 415-664-9500 or through Ticketweb (both phone and internet service.) Visa MC, AE, others

    ForFilm Reviews the lovely Wesla Whitfield, chanteuse and sometime guest, whose lovely husband Mike Greensill is our wonderful house pianist, enjoys some movies more than others, and enjoys saying so: "Goldie"

    PS: Just of a few of the guests: Musical, Literary, Witty & Thoughtful (though all are in their own ways :

  • Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Diane Ackerman
  • Mandy Aftel
  • Eric Allen
  • Ioan Allen
  • Steve Allen
  • Isabel Allende
  • Karl & Carl
  • Chitra Divakaruni
  • Ben Bagdikian
  • Nicholson Baker
  • Edward Ball
  • Bill Barich
  • K.K. Beck
  • Alan Bennett
  • John Berendt
  • Swami Beyondananda
  • Cara Black
  • Claire Bloom
  • Roy Blount, Jr.
  • J.S.G. Boggs
  • Eric Bogosian
  • T.C. Boyle
  • Wade Brackenberry
  • Ray Bradbury
  • Jeff Brady
  • Duck's Breath Mystery Theater
  • Po Bronson
  • Alan Brown
  • Clarence Brown
  • Jerry Brown
  • Sylvia Brownrigg
  • James Lee Burke
  • A.S. Byatt
  • David Byrne
  • David Cale
  • Ethan Canin
  • Carl & Karl
  • Jon Carroll
  • Chief Andy Carvill
  • Michael Chabon
  • David Chadwick
  • Whitney Chadwick
  • Susan Cheever
  • Julia Child
  • Jok Church
  • Culture Clash
  • Eoin Colfer
  • Brother Guy Consolmagno
  • Alistair Cooke
  • Charles Corn
  • Douglas Coupland
  • Peter Coyote
  • Liza Dalby
  • Nora Marks Dauenhauser
  • Dr. William Dement
  • Diane di Prima
  • Michael Dibdin
  • Paul Doherty
  • Buckwheat Donahue
  • Stanley Donen
  • Roddy Doyle
  • Daniel Duane
  • John Gregory Dunne
  • Sylvia Earle
  • Roger Ebert
  • Jennifer Egan
  • Harlan Ellison
  • James Ellroy
  • Naomi Epel
  • James Fallows
  • Michael Feldman
  • Harvey Fierstein
  • Firesign Theater
  • Ben Fong-Torres
  • Michael Frayn
  • Frances Fyfield
  • Simson Garfinkel
  • Allen Ginsberg
  • Nikki Giovanni
  • Robert Girardi
  • Marga Gomez
  • Alison Gopnik
  • Wavy Gravy
  • Spalding Gray
  • Jeff Greenwald
  • Alan Gurganus
  • Mickey Hart
  • Larry Harvey
  • Robert Hass
  • Cynthia Heimel
  • Carl Hiassen
  • Dan Hicks
  • Oscar Hijuelos
  • Tony Hillerman
  • Brenda Hillman
  • Jane Hirschfield
  • Adam Hochschild
  • James Houston
  • Maureen Howard
  • Barry Humphries
  • Eric Idle
  • Eddie Izzard
  • Penn Jillette
  • Ha Jin
  • Diane Johnson
  • Leslie Jonath
  • Gemma Jones
  • Terry Jones
  • Karl & Carl
  • Joe Kane
  • Kevin Kelly
  • Garrison Keillor
  • Thomas Keneally
  • Jamaica Kincaid
  • Dean Koontz
  • Josh Kornbluth
  • John Krich
  • Roger Jackson
  • Anne Lamott
  • Dimitra Lavrakas
  • Elmore Leonard
  • Wendy Lesser
  • Doris Lessing
  • Oscar London
  • Barry Lopez
  • Lyle Lovett
  • Country Joe McDonald
  • Robert MacNeil
  • Clarence Major
  • Ray Manzarek
  • Jeffery Masson
  • Peter Mayle
  • Michael McClure
  • Malachy McCourt
  • Ian McEwan
  • Jay McInerney
  • Dr. Jonathan Miller
  • Eliza Minot
  • Susan Minot
  • Willie Morris
  • Walter Mosley
  • Michael Murphy
  • Gerald Nachman
  • Richard Nelson
  • Wes "Scoop" Nisker
  • Edna O'Brien
  • Nuala O'Faolain
  • Dr. Oliver Sacks
  • Molly O'Neill
  • Peggy Orenstein
  • Ruth Ozeki
  • Sara Paretsky
  • Jim Paul
  • Claire Peaslee
  • U. Utah Phillips
  • George Plimpton
  • Ian Rankin
  • Ruth Reichl
  • Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D.
  • Howard Rheingold
  • Ned Rorem
  • Francesco Rosi
  • David Ross
  • Theodore Roszak
  • Arundhati Roy
  • Paul Rudnick
  • Mort Sahl
  • Greg Sarris
  • Orville Schell
  • Bart Schneider
  • Charles Schulz
  • Doctor Science
  • David Sedaris
  • Peter Sellars
  • Aedes Sheer,
  • Burl Sheldon
  • Ian Shoales
  • Ron Siegel
  • Robert Silverberg
  • Mona Simpson
  • April Sinclair
  • Simon Singh
  • Jane Smiley
  • Anna Deveare Smith
  • Julie Smith
  • Tom Standage
  • Jean Stapleton
  • Rigo Star
  • Gloria Steinem
  • Cliff Stoll
  • John Straley
  • Julia Sweeney
  • George Takei
  • Studs Terkel
  • Paul Theroux
  • Y.A. Tittle
  • Calvin Trillin
  • Meredith Tromble
  • True Fiction Magazine
  • Gail Tsukiyama
  • Ellen Ullman
  • Bill Viola
  • Alice Walker
  • Irvine Welsh
  • Lawrence Weschler
  • Bailey White
  • Betty White
  • Edmund White
  • Michael Wild
  • Robin Williams
  • Simon Winchester
  • Jeanette Winterson
  • Tobias Wolff
  • Elizabeth Wurtzel
  • Some of Sedge's other projects include interviews for the Exploratorium which can be found in their Memory Lecture website here. If you have a taste for chocolate, try a bite of this!