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    Best of KCRW Podcasts: Origin Stories

    A selection of two of the best KCRW podcast episodes about origin stories

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    By Paulina Velasco • Dec 27, 2018 • 1 min read

    This is a special holiday episode highlighting some of the best KCRW podcasts of 2018. In this hour, we explore two origin stories from KCRW’s podcasts Lost Notes and Welcome to LA. First, an episode of Lost Notes explores how a band composed of very unwilling members finds success as the ultimate outsider art. Then, reporter David Weinberg tells us in Welcome to LA about how courtroom reality TV came into being, despite many odds.

    Producer: Paulina Velasco

    Links:

    • Lost Notes: Shaggs Own Thing: The story of the Wiggins Sisters

    • Welcome to LA: The case of the missing sprinkles

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      Paulina Velasco

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