Stories

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.

Re:sound #131: The Space Show

This hour: a one way mission to mars, a Russian cosmonaut's favorite music, the Voyager golden record, the sound of the northern lights, and more.

Re:sound #41: The Dry vs. the Moist Show

This hour: the captivating results of a transcontinental radio collaboration.

American Student Radio

American Student Radio (ASR) is cultivating your future radio heroes.

Re:sound #22: The Fish Story Show

This hour: a beached whale in Maine, a conversation with the "real" Darth Vader, school kids deconstruct the work of one of America's most difficult poets, and more.

Re:sound #35: The Dad Show

This hour: Dads. The good, the bad, and the complicated.

Re:sound #159 The Protest Show

This hour: whether it is a mob of millions or one single voice, nothing changes unless someone stands up and says, "No more."

Re:sound #149 The Piano Show

This hour: the piano. But not just as a musical instrument. The piano as a spiritual healer, as a symptom in a grand delusion, as a man's obsession, and as a beloved friend, put out to pasture.

We Lost Them

How does a victim's family cope, hours after a violent crime, when they are thrust into a national spotlight?

The It's Complicated Show

This hour: imperfect, impolitic, infuriating... love.

Re:sound #169 The Ghosts of Vietnam Show

This hour: hauntings of war, ethereal recordings, and other ghosts of Vietnam.

This Proves Everything

Introducing a posse of smart, hopeful, boy band conspiracy theorists... and the civilian caught in their midst.

2015
17:32
Alex Goldman
PJ Vogt

1984 (the year not the book)

In the book 1984, George Orwell predicted that in the future "Big Brother" would watch and dictate our every move. In the year 1984, producer Benjamen Walker was in middle school.

2014
52:21
Benjamen Walker

Holy Soul

Matthew Power first met poet Allen Ginsberg at his cousin's Bar Mitzvah, when he was a 15-year-old aspiring writer.

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!

Re:sound #57: The Seeking Show

This hour: spiritual loss and pursuit, an isolated religious community in rural Montana, a grumpy minister, and more.

Re:sound #75: The True Crime Show

This hour: amateur sleuths and internet detectives.

Songs of the Earth

Behold, an hour of radio packed with exquisite field recordings from all corners of the planet.

Woman Found Dead By Lake Shore

The body of a woman - violently injured - is found on the shore of a lake northeast of Loftahammer, Sweden. The prime suspect? Her husband.

2014
51:32
Hugo Lavett

We've Forgotten James Powell

As we near the end of a violent summer of 2014, we look back to the summer of 1964. Late afternoon, New York City: a group of kids hangs out on a stoop after a day of summer school, just kicking it, like they always do.