Most Radio Paradise channels exist to sort music into a mood, Mellow, Rock, Global. Radio 2050 was built around a question instead: what does the world need to look like by the year 2050, and who is actually working on getting it there.
Hosted by the Next Goldsmith
Radio 2050 launched in early 2023 as a new channel option inside Radio Paradise's player and apps, hosted by Alanna Jane Goldsmith, according to program listings for the show. Alanna stepped into a larger role at the station in 2022 when her mother Rebecca retired from the family-run project her parents Bill and Rebecca Goldsmith built back in 2000, and Radio 2050 became the clearest sign yet of her own creative stamp on it rather than simply carrying on the existing channels unchanged.
Conversation First, Music Second
The format flips the usual radio ratio: instead of music with the occasional interruption, Radio 2050 runs as an hour of flowing conversation broken into five-to-ten-minute segments, each one paired with a song chosen to sit alongside whatever idea just got discussed. The subject matter ranges across climate solutions, community projects, and other boots-on-the-ground efforts aimed at shaping what the year 2050 actually looks like, treating the music less as the point of the channel and more as connective tissue between one conversation and the next.
A Different Kind of Optimism
What separates Radio 2050 from a standard talk format is its refusal to sit in doom or nostalgia, choosing instead to spend its airtime on what is already being done, not just what should be done someday. That framing turns the channel into something closer to a running documentary about people building solutions than a news roundup of everything going wrong, a deliberate choice for a station whose founding identity was always about giving listeners something commercial radio wouldn't.
Radio 2050 took the same instinct that built the original Radio Paradise, curate something nobody else was building, and pointed it at a question instead of a genre. Twenty-three years after her parents started hand-picking songs from a house in Paradise, California, Alanna Goldsmith is hand-picking conversations about the world her generation is going to inherit.