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Best KCRW podcasts we could find (updated April 2020)
Best KCRW podcasts we could find
Updated April 2020
Updated April 2020
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Intellectual, accessible, and provocative literary conversations.
Every week, host Elvis Mitchell conducts in-depth interviews with the most innovative and influential people working in entertainment, art, and pop culture.
Kim Masters, host of KCRW’s The Business, breaks down Hollywood's top stories.
A weekly reality-check on the issues Americans care about most. Host Warren Olney draws on his decades of experience to explore the people and issues shaping – and disrupting - our world. How did everything change so fast? Where are we headed? The...
The Pulitzer Prize-winning critic of The Wall Street Journal, Joe Morgenstern reviews films weekly in the paper and on KCRW.
Host Frances Anderton looks at design and architecture from a Los Angeles perspective.
Host Madeleine Brand looks at news, culture and emerging trends through the lens of Los Angeles.
The Business is a weekly podcast featuring lively banter about entertainment industry news and in-depth interviews with directors, producers, writers and actors. The show is hosted by award-winning journalist Kim Masters of The Hollywood Reporter...
Screengrab is a new KCRW commentary segment hosted by veteran TV journalists Michael Schneider and Joe Adalian. Each week, they'll have a lively discussion about the evolving world of television and that screens -- be they tablets, phones or TV sets...
“What’s wrong with me?” Each episode of this documentary series begins as a medical mystery. But once you peel back the layers, more questions emerge.
There are so many lawyers, so many lawsuits and so much legal news surrounding President Trump that we decided to call our own lawyer to catch you up.
This season on UnFictional: Stories of fantasy: a childhood dream that becomes a life, impossible goals, underground worlds, adapting to new realities, memories of old friends and relations that become more real than the truth. It’s UnFictional,...
Henry Rollins hosts a great mix of all kinds from all over from all time.
Jason Bentley hosts KCRW's signature daily music program featuring new releases from emerging and established artists, underappreciated gems, live performances, and interviews.
A storytelling show that explores the night, the landscape of the unseen, and how thoughts, feelings and behaviors transform in the dark.
Left, Right & Center is KCRW’s weekly civilized yet provocative confrontation over politics, policy and pop culture.
Evan Kleiman's taste of life, culture and the human species.
Art reviews from art critics Edward Goldman and Hunter Drohojowska-Philp.
A recording from KCRW's showcase at Riot, LA's newest comedy festival.
When Carly Parker’s friend Yumiko goes missing under very mysterious circumstances, Carly’s search for her friend leads her headfirst into a ancient mysterious game known only as Rabbits. Soon Carly begins to suspect that Rabbits is much more than just a game, and that the key to understanding Rabbits, might be the key to the survival of our species, and the Universe, as we know it.
A weekday download of standout songs, including advance releases, exclusive live tracks recorded at KCRW, remixes, and an introduction to new artists on our radar.
The Document is KCRW's new kind of mashup of documentaries and radio - telling addictive, real life, right now stories.
The Podcast about the Unknown
An examination of medical ethics and the practioners who define them.
The week's top stories in LA media, politics and culture.
The stories shaping California's Central Coast, hosted by Jonathan Bastian.
A weekly tour of the real Orange County, warts and all, with reporter Gustavo Arellano
KCRW's Guest DJ Project invites an array of cultural luminaries to share and discuss songs that have inspired and moved them with a KCRW DJ.
Celestial Blood is a bilingual radionovela about love and secrets in the family of twins Sol and Mundo Lucero. It’s narrated by Mexican actress Kate del Castillo.
Award-winning moderator Warren Olney leads lively, thoughtful and provocative discussion on the issues Southern Californians care about.
KCRW's signature music program features new releases, live performances, and artist interviews guest hosted by Anne Litt. 2020-04-14T16:00:00Z 2020-04-14T16:00:00Z -- Delivered by Feed43 service
Fanatic! I hope you’re enduring. We have a great show for you. Below is some information about a show that Engineer X and I put together. For many years, Engineer X and I have had this idea for a long form show. I mean really long form. Like hours. To do it terrestrially would be difficult because we would be crowding other shows out. But if it was…
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Mavis Staples: “All In It Together” featuring and produced by Jeff Tweedy
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Legendary singer Mavis Staples is someone we've all been able to turn to in times of trouble, and she doesn't fail us now! "All In It Together" is a new anthem to cling to featuring and produced by Wilco's Jeff Tweedy.By KCRW
As COVID-19 takes over most aspects of our lives, many of us are putting milestones like weddings and birthday parties on hold. But if you’re pregnant, the baby is coming and you can’t press pause. How can new parents minimize stress and find support in the middle of a pandemic? You might have to change your birth plan based on new hospital policie…
Due to COVID-19, farmers nationwide are tossing tons of eggs, dumping thousands of gallons of milk into manure pits, and plowing under fresh vegetables. Coronavirus outbreaks have led grocery stores and meat production plants to shut down.By KCRW
In this high tech world, you're never without a camera, and can take a picture anywhere you go, recording every detail of a mountain or a river, or a tree. But do these images convey the experiences of awe, excitement, wonder and fear we had while we were in those places? Adam Katseff discovered a way to convey those feelings by taking landscape ph…
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Curtis Stigers: “Shut Ins” featuring Larry Goldings
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Award winning jazz vocalist Curtis Stigers wrote "Shut Ins" months ago as a simple love song about homebodies, but the song takes on particular resonance now. Stigers and pianist Larry Goldings offer a song of hope and empathy with a little humor.By KCRW
Porn and racist imagery are popping up in family or school Zoom sessions. Now big companies like Google are banning Zoom for employee meetings because of security lapses.By KCRW
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US farmworkers’ safety during COVID-19, plus a new model for mental health treatment
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From Florida to California, COVID-19 poses a threat to some of America’s most essential employees: farmworkers. Are they able to maintain social distancing? Do they have face masks? Can they wash their hands? Irene de Barraicua of Lideres Campesinas, a group representing women farm workers, explains challenges to staying healthy in the fields. Dave…
Death Cab for Cutie singer Benjamin Gibbard kicked into high artistic gear during his time of isolation. He recorded this little gem called “Life In Quarantine,” at his home-studio. Net proceeds of the track benefit Seattle-area relief organizations.By KCRW
Thinking about COVID-19 may different around the worldBy KCRW
At a time when the luckier among us have takeout food and booze and even weed delivered to our doorsteps, movies about delivery services may provide some accompaniment—though “Deliverance” doesn’t qualify. “The Lunchbox” came out in 2013. According to one of its many nuggets of wisdom, the wrong train will sometimes get you to the right station.…
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Housework, gardening, the dairy industry
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The old adage, “a woman’s work is never done,” takes a different spin as families hunker down during COVID-19 and share traditional household responsibilities.By KCRW
Bernie Sanders announced the suspension of his presidential campaign this week, making Joe Biden the official presumptive Democratic nominee. What is the legacy of his campaign? Does it signal a complete lack of interest in very left policies and a major win for conservatives in the US, or does it show gradual change? Wisconsin’s primary election w…
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Samantha Bee and Jason Jones on making ‘Full Frontal’ from the woods
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Samantha Bee and Jason Jones — her husband, producer and fellow former “Daily Show” correspondent — take Bee's late-night show, “Full Frontal,” into the woods outside their house in upstate New York after the coronavirus pandemic shut down production. Jones is the crew, and Bee still opens every episode with her trademark speedy monologue. They now…
The governors of California, New York, Ohio, and Michigan are all experiencing high approval ratings for their responses to COVID-19. Meanwhile, a new CNN poll shows Trump’s initial approval rating bump has withered away.By KCRW
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Disney+ streaming service reaches 50 million subscribers in 5 months
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While some of Disney’s businesses have suffered due to the coronavirus pandemic, its streaming service just hit a major milestone. Disney+ is now up to 50 million subscribers after launching five months ago. About 8 million of those subscribers come from Hotstar, an Indian service that packages multiple streamers. A portion of the U.S. subscribers …
Revered multi-Grammy winning singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams has always taken a stand for the downtrodden, and her new song "You Can't Rule Me" makes no exception. The band comes out swingin' with a hard-hitting track about pride, dignity, and perseverance.By KCRW
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Coronavirus has already transformed America, for better and for worse
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In a special edition of “Scheer Intelligence,” host Robert Scheer becomes the guest as filmmaker Stephen French asks for the journalist’s take on the coronavirus crisis. Speaking on the eve of Scheer’s 84th birthday, the “Scheer Intelligence” host draws from lessons learned in his seven decades of reporting to make sense of this unprecedented momen…
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Charles North: Everything and Other Poems
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Charles North discusses being taught poetry by the influential Kenneth Koch. And Charles North discusses the pleasures of poetry. He describes Everything and Other Poems as “messy poetry” without the formal demands of his earlier work. New poems emerge from a new freedom. The long poem, Everything, is about the nature of poetry, and its ability to …
In Louisiana , 70% of people who died from the novel coronavirus were black, despite being just 30% of the population. In LA County , 17% of people who died were black. We look at race and mortality rates when it comes to COVID-19.By KCRW
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Kelly Wearstler shares tips from her interior design MasterClass
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Working at home? Is your home working for you? Kelly Wearstler might have some answers. Kelly Wearstler has held reign in interior design since arriving in Los Angeles in the 1990s. She’s now teaching an online MasterClass. Her tips for improving one's space might be timely for people sheltering in place. DnA talks to Wearstler about the class and …
The trio behind Cubicolor combines electronica and organic instrumentation on "Wake Me Up." The track focuses on our transient sense of identity; a fitting concept during these trying times we're living through.By KCRW
Growing up in Mexico City, Mauricio always dreamed of being on television. Then life came along – school, work, a difficult home life. He started working in car shops, first as a teenager in Mexico and then as an undocumented immigrant in Los Angeles. It seemed like he’d left his dreams of television behind. And then, he met Xzibit. Photo Courtesy …
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Coronavirus pandemic realigns US democracy
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Andy Slavitt helped save Obamacare. Now he’s helping the Trump White House cope with COVID-19. Lengthy threads on his increasingly influential Twitter feed get hundreds of mentions an hour. In an extensive interview, Slavitt tells Warren Olney that the pandemic is more important than partisanship. “We’re not in a moment that is Democrat versus Repu…
Inspectors general are supposed to be independent actors with oversight power within the executive branch. What happens when presidents fire them? This week, President Trump did just that for Michael Atkinson, the intelligence community inspector general who forwarded information about the Ukraine whistleblower’s report to Congress, and for Glenn F…
