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Art Talk
Host: Edward Goldman
Art reviews from art critics Edward Goldman and Hunter Drohojowska-Philp.
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Bookworm
Host: Michael Silverblatt
Intellectual, accessible, and provocative literary conversations.
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Design and Architecture
Host: Frances Anderton
A thoughtful look at architecture and design in the modern age.
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Film Reviews
Host: Joe Morgenstern
The Pulitzer Prize-winning critic of The Wall Street Journal, Joe Morgenstern reviews films weekly in the paper and on KCRW.
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Freakonomics Radio
Host: Stephen J. Dubner
Stories that use the tools of economics to explore hidden side of everything, telling you things you always thought you knew but didn't, and things you never thought you wanted to know, but do.
Good Food
Host: Evan Kleiman
Evan Kleiman's taste of life, culture and the human species.
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Good Food on the Road
Hosts: Jonathan Gold, Evan Kleiman
KCRW’s Good Food host Evan Kleiman talks with LA Weekly’s Pulitzer Prize-winning food writer Jonathan Gold about places you may not have tried yet, but ought to.
Get Jonathan Gold's weekly restaurant suggestion sent to your phone. Text the "Good Food" to 69866 and get a text with the name, address and phone number of this week's restaurant.
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Hollywood Breakdown
Hosts: Kim Masters, John Horn
KCRW’s The Business host Kim Masters breaks down Hollywood's top story with L.A. Times reporter John Horn.
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Joe Frank: Return Engagement
“Radio noir,” selected from 230-plus hours of Frank's original programs. Each hour can contain a philosophical exploration, an intimate confession, an absurd comedy, a dark tragedy; all of which he takes to the farthest edge while bringing the listener along for the alternately emotional and/or enlightening ride...
- Also available: Archives
KCRW Presents Zocalo Public Square
Zócalo Public Square connects people to ideas and to each other in an open, accessible, non-partisan and broad-minded spirit.
LA Observed
Host: Kevin Roderick
The week's top stories in LA media, politics and culture.
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LA Review of Books on KCRW
Host: Tom Lutz
Conversations on the written word from the Los Angeles Review of Books and KCRW.
- Also available: Archives
Opening the Curtain
Host: Anthony Byrnes
Musings on what Los Angeles theater is - and can be.
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Orange County Line
Host: Gustavo Arellano
OC Weekly editor and author Gustavo Arellano's weekly look at the political and social issues shaping California's third most populous county -- a place of affluence and conservative thought but also growing economic and ethnic diversity. And far too few orange groves.
- Channels: Live
Radiolab
Hosts: Jad Abumrad, Robert Krulwich
Experiments with sound and style that allow science to fuse with culture and information to sound like music...Radiolab returns in June!
Second Opinion
Host: Michael Wilkes
An examination of medical ethics and the practioners who define them.
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Sonic Trace
Sonic Trace is a new story-telling project that begins in the heart of Los Angeles and crosses into Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.
Special Programming
Special programming that's not regularly scheduled,
- Also available: Archives
State of the Re:Union
Al Letson travels the country to find compelling stories of community, and tell them with honesty, perspective, and deep curiosity.
StoryCorps
Since 2005, StoryCorps has collected the memories of people from all fifty states and every imaginable walk of life, identity group, age, and state of mind.
- Also available: Archives
Strangers
Since the beginning of time, strangers and strange places have given rise to our wildest dreams and our deepest fears — and to the greatest stories on earth. Hear them here. Real people, true stories.
- Also available: Archives
TED Radio Hour
Host: Guy Raz
A journey through fascinating ideas, astonishing inventions and new ways to think and create. Based on riveting TEDTalks from the world's most remarkable minds.
- Channels: Live
The Moth Radio Hour
Storytellers stand alone, under a spotlight, with only a microphone and a roomful of strangers, and take the audience on a high-wire act of shared experience which is both terrifying and exhilarating.
- Channels: Live
The Organist
Host: Andrew Leland
A monthly experimental arts-and-culture program from McSweeney's and KCRW.
The Treatment
Host: Elvis Mitchell
KCRW's half-hour pop culture and film interview show.
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UnFictional
Fascinating documentary production and storytelling that covers the ground between the sophisticated and the profane. A half-hour of captivating stories of real life, created by the most talented producers from around the country, as well as stories from writers and performers based in Los Angeles.
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WTF with Marc Maron
Host: Marc Maron
In-depth interviews with Conan O'Brien, Janeane Garofalo, Robin Williams, Judd Apatow, Carlos Mencia, Margaret Cho, Ben Stiller, Louis CK and others...
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