Originally broadcast in 2012. Andre Taylor identified strongly with Daniel from the Bible, who interpreted the visions and dreams of kings. And like Daniel, he spent 3 years in a Babylonian captivity of sorts. But Daniel never had quite the unorthodox career path of Andre.

When Barbara was reunited with the son she gave up for adoption, it opened up a whole world of weird feelings. Final song: Your Life in the End by Prince Rama.

Adult content. Again. A man and woman in the 1960s trade reel-to-reel audio “letters” over the course of years. Final song: Hobbies Galore by R. Stevie Moore.

Adult content. Listener discretion is advised. Since a child, Sarz had a deep connection to the Lord of the Rings books. After the movie version came out in 2003, that connection went several layers deeper. Outro song: By Your Side (Sade cover), performed by Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith.

A preview of our next season, coming at you NEXT MONTH! Doug Williams has been waging a war for decades against the polygraph machine (aka the lie detector). Produced by Jacob McCleland and Ana Adlerstein.

Genesis Breyer P-Orridge is the founding fa/mo/ther of Industrial music, a performance artist, and a very, very, very devoted husband. Originally broadcast in 2013.By contact@loveandradio.org (Love and Radio).

Recordings from the Secrets Hotline, with original music and production by George Langford. Find more of George’s work at georgelangford.com. You can leave your own secret at +1 (641) 715-3900, extension 55403#.By contact@loveandradio.org (Love and Radio).

With Carlos’ enemies enraged, the Gomez family is forced into hiding with the Witness Security Program, or WITSEC. But making a clean break from the past is a lot harder than they expected.By contact@loveandradio.org (Love and Radio).

The story continues as Rocío Gómez divorces her husband Rodrigo, a master drug trafficker in Colombia. Rocío and her children move to Miami where she begins a relationship with a new man, Carlos, whose dangerous past with the mafia catches up with Rocío’s family.By contact@loveandradio.org (Love and Radio).

In Colombia, Rocío Gómez marries into an empire of wealth and power. She is told the family operates a low-profile import/export business, and finds comfort in her role as wife and mother. However, she soon learns the family business is not what it seems as Rosio becomes entangled with drugs, money, and mafioso. Produced in collaboration with E ...…

Carey believed she was assigned the wrong gender, but transitioning wasn’t how she expected.By contact@loveandradio.org (Love and Radio).

We revisit Daryl Davis and ask him, "how should we argue?"By contact@loveandradio.org (Love and Radio).

Music is Daryl Davis' profession, but extreme racism is his obsession.By contact@loveandradio.org (Love and Radio).

Tim loves Tool, Steel Reserve, and snakes. Not necessarily in that order.By contact@loveandradio.org (Love and Radio).

Three decades ago, American hypnotist Larry Garrett committed himself to abstaining from the news. So, in 2001, when he received a phone call inviting him to Iraq, he said yes.By contact@loveandradio.org (Love and Radio).

When Mike comes home, his family is faced with a new reality and an impossible choice. Produced by John Fecile.By contact@loveandradio.org (Love and Radio).

Adam Zaretsky is a bioartist who explores the manipulation of DNA, the fringes of genetic modification, and butts up against the ethical boundaries of science and beyond.By contact@loveandradio.org (Love and Radio).

Deep in the woods of Norway, a man from a strange, foreign land chops wood and reminisces over the love of his life from a bygone time. Produced by Sindre Leganger for NRK.By contact@loveandradio.org (Love and Radio).

Julie needed a fresh start, so she moved back home to the Bay Area, and made a new group of friends. Produced by Benjamin Frisch.By contact@loveandradio.org (Love and Radio).

A co-production with the podcast Reckonings. In the 1980s, Glenn Loury was one of the most prominent black conservative intellectuals in the United States. He was selected to be a top official within the Reagan administration in 1987, but suddenly and unexpectedly, he withdrew his consideration.By contact@loveandradio.org (Love and Radio).

Davecat and Sidore had a blissful marriage together in the suburbs of Detroit. One day, a Russian woman showed up unexpectedly at their doorstep, declared her love for both of them, and asked to move in. It was a complicated situation, but that doesn’t even begin to scratch the surface of this unusual threesome.…

Jerome and Ana work a couple blocks from one another in Oakland, California. When Jerome called out to her in the street, she pulled out her microphone and asked if he could repeat what he said to her. This is the conversation that followed. And, the conversation that followed that conversation.By contact@loveandradio.org (Love and Radio).

Love + Radio presents “On The Shore Dimly Seen” by Gregory Whitehead: one day in the no-touch torture of detainee 063.By contact@loveandradio.org (Love and Radio).

Love + Radio presents: “The Neighborhood” by Scott CarrierBy contact@loveandradio.org (Love and Radio).

Producer David Weinberg brings us the true story of Clyde Casey, a street performer who used surrealism and abstract art to fight crime in Los Angeles’ Skid Row in the 1980s, and the creator of a place called Another Planet. Also featuring the voices of Tim Robbins (yes, THAT Tim Robbins), Lonnie Johnson, Flame Simon, and Richard Haxton. Origin ...…

On a late night along an empty Utah highway, Melvin Dummar says he came across a bloodied man lying by the road. It’s cliched to say this, but it’s really true: the story of that discovery would profoundly alter the course of his life forever. (Originally broadcast May 2011)By contact@loveandradio.org (Love and Radio).

From our friends at the Here Be Monsters podcast: Marlo Mack gave birth to a son. At least, she thought she did. But her son crawled towards dresses, wanted to be a princess, and asked to grow long blonde hair. At age 3, Marlo’s son asked to go back into mommy’s tummy, so he could come back out as a baby girl. Marlo thought it was a phase–it wa ...…

David is followed by a strange hooded figureBy contact@loveandradio.org (Love and Radio).

In the remote, high deserts of New Mexico, Timothy Wyllie reflects on a life of testing the limits of reality and spirituality.By contact@loveandradio.org (Love and Radio).

Frank has been an advocate for perhaps the most universally abhorred group in America: sex offenders.By contact@loveandradio.org (Love and Radio).

Sam Najjair works in insurance now, but four years ago he had a very different occupation.By contact@loveandradio.org (Love and Radio).

Rachel Prince receives a mysterious letter from 1938.By contact@loveandradio.org (Love and Radio).

For the last few years, Zoe Nightingale has been recording random, often hilarious, and sometimes harrowing conversations with people from all walks of life, exploring the balancing act of sin and virtue.By contact@loveandradio.org (Love and Radio).

Paul Wood was sentenced to life in prison for murder at age 18, and began his adult life negotiating the social dynamics of some of New Zealand’s toughest prisons, including the maximum security wing of Paremoremo Prison (now Auckland Prison).By contact@loveandradio.org (Love and Radio).

Norah Vincent is a former “immersive journalist,” but she’s left that all behind now. (Vincent’s latest book is Adeline: A Novel of Virgina Woolf.)By contact@loveandradio.org (Love and Radio).

Ceara Lynch has a ten year career as a self-described humiliatrix, catering to a wide variety of sexual fetishes over the internet, and gaining exposure to a unique part of the human psyche.By contact@loveandradio.org (Love and Radio).

Diane’s new neighbors across the way never shut their curtains, and that was the beginning of an intimate, but very one-sided relationship.By contact@loveandradio.org (Love and Radio).

Jerome and Ana work a couple blocks from one another in Oakland, California. When Jerome called out to her in the street, she pulled out her microphone and asked if he could repeat what he said to her. This is the conversation that followed.By contact@loveandradio.org (Love and Radio).

Next to an imposing, largely abandoned circus building in Chisinau–the house-techno-soaked capital of the former Soviet Republic of Moldova–a Norwegian illusionist tries to figure out her next steps after escaping the chaos of Ukraine.By contact@loveandradio.org (Love and Radio).

An eruv is a ritual enclosure that allows religious Jews to negate rules against carrying certain objects (like housekeys or strollers) during the Sabbath. This conversation is not about that.By contact@loveandradio.org (Love and Radio).

Tom Justice is passionate about cycling, and was on the shortlist for the US Olympic Team. Also, he’s a bank robber.By contact@loveandradio.org (Love and Radio).

Charles Farrell was born to a sophisticated middle class family in Boston, but at age 12, he left home and came of age on the street, joining “low-life culture”, the underbelly of boxing, and avant garde piano.By contact@loveandradio.org (Love and Radio).

In 1987, during the last years of the Cold War, a West German teenager with only about 50 hours of flying experience rented a Cessna and departed on a two week trip. His goal was to fly over the Iron Curtain and land in Moscow.By contact@loveandradio.org (Love and Radio).

We think of certain events as profoundly life-altering. Getting married or emigrating to a new country, say. But you can always get divorced, and you can almost always move back. Taylor is weighing a life decision from which there would be no turning back.By contact@loveandradio.org (Love and Radio).

The true story of Clyde Casey, a street performer who used surrealism and abstract art to fight crime in Los Angeles’ Skid Row in the 1980s, and the creator of a place called Another Planet. Also featuring the voices of Tim Robbins (yes, THAT Tim Robbins), Lonnie Johnson, Flame Simon, and Richard Haxton.…

Music is Daryl Davis’ profession, but extreme racism is his obsession.By contact@loveandradio.org (Love and Radio).

A couple months ago, a friend handed Julia a scrap of paper with a phone number on it. One night, bored and maybe a little tipsy, she called it up. This is who she met.By contact@loveandradio.org (Love and Radio).

Genesis Breyer P-Orridge is the founding fa/mo/ther of Industrial music, a performance artist, and a very, very, very devoted husband.By contact@loveandradio.org (Love and Radio).

Hey kids, this interview isn’t for you. You should skip this one. Ellen was struggling for money, working as a Subway “sandwich artist” (yes, that’s a real thing). So she decided to find a new job, and settled on one that allowed her to make over $30,000 for just a couple hours of work each week. One with emotional and moral consequences she di ...…

Lewis Greenberg is an artist unlike any other, a winner of the coveted Geezer of the Year award, and a man on a mission–much to the chagrin of his Ballwin, Missouri neighbors.By contact@loveandradio.org (Love and Radio).