Something's Happening

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Something's Happening (SH) is a long-form late-night radio show on KPFK 90.7 FM in Los Angeles. Created by Roy Tuckman in 1977, he has hosted, produced, and engineered it ever since. The show airs four nights a week, usually from midnight to 6:00 AM Pacific Time, and most of the content comes from pre-recorded lectures, interviews, and rebroadcasts, with occasional live guests. There is a segment called Radio Alchemy produced especially for SH. The program often covers topics like politics, spirituality, and the environment, and it goes deeper than daytime radio because of the longer time slot. Each night is described in “psychological time,” so Monday night runs from late Monday into Tuesday morning, Tuesday night from midnight to Wednesday morning, and so on.

SH features frequent guest voices such as Guy Finley, Natalie Goldberg, Pema Chodron, and Adyashanti. The first Monday of the month is “Old Radio Night” with Bobb Lynes and Barbara Sunday and classic programs like X Minus One. Gary Null’s material is typically aired as rebroadcasts with possible live phone segments, mainly on health and alternative medicine. The show also emphasizes politics and current events, plus spirituality content. The first Thursday is “Women’s Night,” usually featuring Alan Watts and Caroline Casey, with other slots filled by female guests-on-tape; past Women’s Night speakers include Pema Chodron, Judith Handelsman, and Caroline Myss.

Something's Happening is known for annual specials, such as “Beethoven: His Spiritual Development” around Beethoven’s birthday in December, and the 14-hour “Homelessness Marathon” in February, which SH rebroadcasts in part. The program also features long interviews, like L. Fletcher Prouty’s account of special operations and the Vietnam era. SH sources audio from many archives and organizations, including Sounds True, TUC Radio, KPFA, WBAI, MEA, Justice Vision, Vipassana Support International, KFA, Spitfire, Alternative Radio, Dharma Seed, Bio-Meditation Society, Pacifica Radio Archives, Life of Learning, and Radio Free Maine.