Radio Parallax is a weekly public affairs radio show created and hosted by physician Douglas Everett. Radio Parallax covers topics in the political and scientific arena. The show is noted for its prominent guests including national figures, authors, investigative journalists, documentary filmmakers, entertainers, and other people of interest. Notable Past Guests Walter Cronkite Bill Moyers Bob Edwards Chuck Yeager Dean Edell John Dean Dennis Kucinich Eugene McCarthy George McGovern Daniel Ellsberg Alex Gibney Carol Channing Eli Wallach Dick Smothers Neil deGrasse Tyson Ray Bradbury Phil Proctor Norman Corwin David Talbot Daniel Schorr Margaret Talbot Richard C. Hottelet Norman Lloyd Christine Todd Whitman Bill Nye Mary Roach Bob Berman Chris Hedges David Cay Johnston David Wallechinsky Peter Dale Scott Richard A. Muller Eugene Jarecki Will Durst Willie Brown (politician) Vincent Bugliosi Robert Scheer P. J. O'Rourke Jim Lehrer Jared Diamond Ira Flatow James Randi
History From 2003 to 2020, the show aired in the Sacramento Valley region of California as part of the freeform radio station KDVS, which is broadcast from the University of California at Davis (it was, and still is, one of the station's longest running programs). The show went on hiatus from 2015 to 2016, with edited reruns and occasional new interviews. It was also a part of the lineup at KZFR in Chico, California from 2008 to 2021, and has from time to time aired on other stations in California and Indiana. The show has been available as a podcast since 2005, and has returned to terrestrial broadcasting on KDVS as of 2022.
Creator Douglas Everett grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. After receiving a BS degree in Biological Sciences from UC Davis, Doug went on to earn an MD from UC Irvine. In addition to hosting Radio Parallax, he was a practicing physician in the Central Valley of California for three decades. Doug served as the initial substitute host for Capital Public Radio's Insight program under Jeffrey Callison, hosting about 60 shows. A "Telemarketers" piece for CPR won a First Place (Division A) PRNDI Award (Public Radio News Directors Incorporated) in 2002.
References McManis, Sam. “The Doctor Is On: Eclectic Doug DeSalles is a physician, but he doesn't play one on his 'Radio Parallax' show.” The Sacramento Bee. Jan. 9, 2007. Leibrock, Rachel. “Is this the most dangerous man in radio?” Sacramento News and Review. Feb. 2010. "...[this] KDVS show plays to a small audience, but what it [may lack] in Arbitron numbers, it makes up for in brains." Official Radio Parallax website: https://www.radioparallax.com