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Support for Forum comes from Broadway SF, presenting Parade, the musical revival based on a true story.

From three-time Tony-winning composer Jason Robert Brown comes the story of Leo and Lucille Frank,

a newlywed Jewish couple struggling to make a life in Georgia. When Leo is accused of an

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From KQBD in San Francisco, I'm Mina Kim.

Coming up on Forum, is this allergy season worse than normal?

If you felt like your allergy symptoms are more severe this year, or you've suddenly felt like you have allergies. Chances are you're not imagining

it. Climate change is shortening our winters and pumping out more pollen, and this hour will look

at the latest on the science and treatment of allergies, the biggest hotspots for a seasonal allergy

sufferers in California, and two doctors will take your allergy-related questions.

Forum is next right after this news.

Mina Kim here. We've got a short pledge break going on right now. So you on the pledge free stream, or nighttime replay or podcast, get a little bonus that we call behind the scenes. This one is from our lead producer, Susie Britton, who just returned recently from a reporting fellowship in Ukraine with the International Women's Media Foundation.

I've produced many, many forum shows on the war in Ukraine and jumped at the chance to do this,

to understand a little of what daily life is like in a country under siege.

I also wanted to know how people distress and find laughter and distraction.

For me, one of the best distressers is a good game of Mahjong.

And it turns out there are lots of Ukrainians who play too, a Japanese version of the game called Richi.

I want to tell you about some players I met at a Mahjong club in Kiev.

First, Polina. She's 17, with the brightest smile.

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