Featured Work
Our vast — and ever-growing — collection contains thousands of carefully curated audio stories from all over the world.
The Earthquake
About a year ago, producers at KPCC started discussing the inevitable major quake set to hit Los Angeles and wondered how they could get people to not just listen but really prepare. The Big One: Your Survival Guide is what they came up with.
- 2019
- 30:12
- Arwen Champion Nicks
The Audio Guide to Grieving
Sometimes, a death in the family means cousins and casseroles. And sometimes — for one reason or another — it means figuring it out on your own.
- 2018
- 15:08
- Melanie Kruvelis
Purple Rain
“Mihai” – a pseudonym he chose himself – has a lifelong history of drugs and psychosis.
- 2019
- 11:55
- Wederik De Backer
It Started With Oscar Grant
A decade ago, a 22-year-old black man was killed by a white police officer at Oakland's Fruitvale BART station.
- 2019
- 24:15
- Sandhya Dirks
Being Siri
A woman gives away an intimate, personal part of herself—a part of herself that she wasn’t even that crazy about to begin with: her voice. And she gives it away to a total stranger.
- 2017
- 07:16
- Erin Anderson
Making Obama: Wait Your Turn
How was President Barack Obama shaped by his years in Chicago as a community organizer turned politician?
- 2018
- 56:15
- Colin McNulty
Episode 1 - A Perfect Murder
The abundance and popularity of true-crime podcasts meant the time had come (and gone, and come again) for a really hard look in the mirror. The Onion and Onion Public Radio bravely rose to the challenge!
- 2018
- 13:40
- Katy Yeiser
- Fran Hoepfner
- Ryan Natoli
- David Sidorov
Man Choubam (I am good)
Sharon calls herself a weirdo and refuses to conform to cultural standards. Her mom does not approve. Winner of the TC/RHDF 2018 Best Documentary: Silver Award.
- 2018
- 39:57
- Sharon Mashihi
The Promise: A Beautiful Day in the Projects
The Promise is a limited-run series from Nashville Public Radio about life in James Cayce Homes, a public housing development smack in the middle of a city on the rise.
- 2018
- 24:58
- Meribah Knight
Dreamers
Joe Frank's Dreamers is more like an M.C Escher drawing than a traditional tale and leaves you questioning the blurry line between dreams and reality.
- 2012
- 12:18
- Joe Frank
Larry and Zach
In Joe Frank's imagined world, a father and son conduct a conversation that appears to center around certain, tangible topics. But it's actually a searing and candid examination of their relationship -- no holds barred.
- 2018
- 09:44
- Joe Frank
Arthur and Eleanor
Eleanor needs a family -- but the only family she had, her ex-husband Arthur, doesn't really need her anymore.
- 1987
- 05:28
- Joe Frank
Suicide Bridge
Lines form around the block for the world's most popular suicide spot.
- 2000
- 01:55
- Joe Frank
Minister Excerpt
Joe Frank, master of late night radio, assembled this piece: a phone conversation between himself and a cranky minister.
- 2000
- 05:15
- Joe Frank
Fresh Air: Joe Frank
"Whatever tragedies might befall you, you can always right away think, 'well that would make a great story for radio!'"
- 2018
- 19:56
- Terry Gross
- Joe Frank
Sweepstakes Winner
Joe Frank, the original radio maverick, is known for leaving listeners more than a bit uncomfortable.
- 2000
- 04:36
- Joe Frank
Not All Who Wander Are Lost… But Some Definitely Are
A car is a classic place to realize: "oh, I’m lost."
- 2017
- 25:46
- James Spring
First You Leave and Then You Go
Karen's dad wanted to pass on his curiosity and his faith to his seven children. Karen inherited that curiosity, but sharing his faith is another story.
- 2017
- 10:28
- Karen Duffin
Chanukah, 1992
One minute, snatched from a Chanukah party in 1992. Gwen Macsai's party, to be exact.
- 2017
- 01:17
- Dennis Funk
The Big Night
Producer Jonathan Goldstein made every girl he ever dated watch the home movie of his family's Rosh Hashanah dinner he made when he was 17.
- 2002
- 13:57
- Jonathan Goldstein
Terrible, Thanks for Asking: Semper Fi
Terrible, Thanks for Asking is a podcast that tells stories about the parts of life that hurt - the parts we're usually told to get through with quiet determination.
- 2017
- 35:49
- Nora McInerny
- Hans Buetow
Audio Experiments with Place, Matter and Perception (recommended for advanced producers!)
Nick Ryan shares his highly original approach to sound design, presenting a selection of recent experimental work that breaks new creative and technical ground in seeking to explore how sound can be used to represent place, matter, information and human experience.
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Purple Reign
Gwen Macsai comes clean with a very colorful secret... about her dad.
- 2012
- 14:59
- Gwen Macsai
- Roman Mars
Haunted by ISIS
On The New York Times ' podcast The Daily , host Michael Barbaro dives into one critical story of the day with a Times’ reporter who knows it best.
- 2017
- 19:36
- Andy Mills
- Rukmini Callimachi