A free weekday download of standout songs, including advance releases, exclusive live tracks recorded at KCRW, remixes, and an introduction to new artists on our radar.
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Evan Kleiman is your guide to the best cooking and eating
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The best film reviewers in the business give you recommendations on what to see and what to skip each week.
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An examination of medical ethics and the practitioners who define them. Sign up to receive the Second Opinion topics in newsletter form at kcrw.com/newsletters .
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Lively banter about entertainment industry news and in-depth interviews with directors, producers, writers and actors, hosted by award-winning journalist Kim Masters of The Hollywood Reporter.
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Host Madeleine Brand looks at news, culture and emerging trends through the lens of Los Angeles.
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This season on Lost Notes: Groupies. Women of the Sunset Strip from the Pill to Punk. From KCRW and Golden Teapot.
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The Sam Sanders Show from KCRW is your guide to entertainment. Find out what makes your favorite artists tick, dissect the trends that shape our culture, or just make sense of that random meme you can’t stop thinking about. Join us every week to unpack the pop culture we love. Sign up for Sam’s Newsletter to get behind the scenes stuff from every interview each week. Sam Sanders is an award-winning podcast and radio host. He’s been named best podcast host by both The Ambies and the iHeart Po ...
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The Treatment is a compelling listen to the vital conversations about the catalysts of creative inspiration. Following some of the most interesting, influential, and crossover creators in the world of entertainment, fashion, sports, and the arts, we hear from tastemakers who are the very fabric that forms popular culture.
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Left Right & Center is for listeners who feel like people on the other side of the political divide are on Mars. David Greene pieces together the big picture by inviting people from the left and the right to unpack their ideological differences, not to smooth them over, and look at what’s truly at stake. The show offers a rare kind of clarity. It doesn’t ask you to agree. It asks you to look more closely at what’s happening and to challenge your assumptions. You might not always agree – you ...
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Life Examined is a one-hour weekly podcast exploring psychology, philosophy, spirituality — and finding meaning in the modern world. The show is hosted by Jonathan Bastian.
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The stories shaping California's Central Coast, hosted by Jonathan Bastian.
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Host Steve Chiotakis connects you to the people and places of Southern California.
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Each episode of this documentary series begins with a medical mystery. Sometimes the sickness is in the body, and sometimes the sickness is in the system. Once you peel back the layers, more questions emerge. Created by Allison Behringer and supported by KCRW.
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Steve Chiotakis talks to Los Angeles journalists about the week's leading news stories.
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A weekly tour of the real Orange County, warts and all, with reporter Gustavo Arellano
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Go behind the gates of America’s largest port complex for an intimate and unflinching look at the lives riding the waves of supply and demand.
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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.
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KCRW’s DnA: Design and Architecture explores who and what matters in our designed world – on air, online and at public events. Host Frances Anderton talks to designers, users and experts about products, fashion, buildings and more, in Los Angeles and beyond –revealing how we shape today’s world and how it shapes us.
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Award-winning moderator Warren Olney leads lively, thoughtful and provocative discussion on the issues Southern Californians care about.
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Kim Masters, host of KCRW’s The Business, breaks down Hollywood's top stories.
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A wry take on real life in Hollywood.
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Intellectual, accessible, and provocative literary conversations.
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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 – increasingly dominate our lives.
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In one of LA’s fanciest neighborhoods, homeless military veterans built a big tent city and refused to leave. That’s when things got crazy.
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Eric Hilton ‘Lost In The Light' (Feat. Natalia Clavier)
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3:51Eric Hilton drifts into his signature blend of downtempo elegance and smoky, late-night atmosphere, letting warm basslines, shimmering textures, and a subtly propulsive groove set the pace. The track moves like a slow exhale after midnight, guided by Natalia Clavier’s soft, hypnotic vocals. (Mixto Records)…
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Why San Francisco sued Coca-Cola, Kraft Heinz, and others over ultra-processed foods
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51:38Plus, children are working on California farms and an investigation finds the state is turning a blind eye to safety violations, a mom writes a private letter to her son every year and gives them to him when he turns 18, and Evan Kleiman on the loved (and loathed) holiday fruitcake.
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Solomon Ray is the hottest new voice in Gospel music, but there’s a catch. He’s not real. Sam chats with Andrew R. Chow, a correspondent for Time where he covers technology. They break down the rise of AI in the music industry and how human artists are fighting back. Are streamers doing anything to filter out tracks made by machines? What can liste…
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Drawing from his Indigenous and Afro-Caribbean roots Cochemea’s “ Otros Mundos” or “Other Worlds” transports listeners into a rich spiritual jazz universe — a place where ancestry, rhythm, and cosmic exploration converge. (Daptone)
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‘No Lessons Learned’ over 12 pretty, pretty good seasons of ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’
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52:29Plus, longtime Ukraine watcher Alexander Vindman doesn’t expect the war with Russia to end anytime soon, an LA Times investigation adds context to the Trump administration’s claims about attacks on ICE agents, and whether or not a domesticated raccoon would make a good house pet.
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Mothers of the Mothership: The women who shaped the sound of 70s funk
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52:23Plus, the Trump administration pauses granting asylum and visas to Afghan nationals, the Supreme Court hears oral arguments over online piracy, and the Cal State system invests in “AI-empowered higher education.”
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When veterinarians vaccinating goats in India discovered women were dying in childbirth along migration routes, the solution came from recognizing that herders already knew how to save lives—just not their own.
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The Treat: The Mortician director Joshua Rofé
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4:39Director Joshua Rofé’s unforgettable HBO documentary series The Mortician, about an unethical family-run funeral home, left its mark on audiences. For his treat, Rofé pays tribute to the underrated 1977 William Friedkin film, Sorcerer. Rofé recalls his first time watching it in a theater and breaks down why it’s possibly the best thriller of all ti…
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Dwayne Johnson defies expectations with The Smashing Machine
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23:32This week on The Treatment, Elvis speaks with actor, producer and all-around Hollywood powerhouse Dwayne Johnson aka "The Rock.” Johnson stars in the new Benny Safdie film The Smashing Machine alongside Emily Blunt where he portrays real life MMA fighter Mark Kerr. Johnson talks about going deep for the role, performing the role of "The Rock," and …
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It's a cookbook bonanza! Celia Sack of Omnivore Books on Food shares a roundup of the year's best cookbooks, including graphic novel memoirs and one of the only Cambodian cookbooks written in English. Bee Wilson explores how quotidian kitchen items become powerful symbols, representing friendship, grief, love, superstition, safety, and even politic…
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Digging into ‘Wake Up Dead Man’ with Rian Johnson and Ram Bergman
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30:02This week, Kim Masters talks to writer-director Rian Johnson and producer Ram Bergman about their latest Knives Out installment, Wake Up Dead Man. Johnson opens up about leaning on his producer when he panics during the writing process—and why, oddly enough, he never hit that wall on The Last Jedi. Bergman explains why he and Johnson prefer to bank…
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The Healing Powers of Smothered Chicken (from Your Mama’s Kitchen)
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50:16To celebrate Thanksgiving, we’re sharing a special episode of Your Mama's Kitchen. In the podcast, host Michele Norris and guests explore how our earliest culinary experiences shape our personal and professional lives. Plus, every guest shares a recipe for a favorite dish from their youth so you can taste a bit of their story. Sam was on the show r…
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Why are executions on the rise in the US?
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50:30President Trump has been a vocal supporter of capital punishment, even before his foray into politics. Now in his second term, he’s instructed the Department of Justice to help states facilitate more executions, and death row executions have reached the highest number in over a decade. Does Trump see political value in capital punishment? What can …
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How two movie critics (and their thumbs) became must-see TV 50 years ago
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52:33Plus, LA County fire officials are advising residents of Topanga Canyon on a different strategy when a fast-moving fire approaches, a chaotic year of tariffs hasn’t stopped holiday shopping deals, and our weekly film reviews.
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Weekend Film Reviews: 'Hamnet,' 'BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions'
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17:31Film critics Alonso Duralde and Dave White review Hamnet, BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions, The Things You Kill, and Palestine 36.
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What every restaurant owner wants - Michelin Guide stars. But how do you get them?
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51:49Plus, the Trump Administration has labeled an alleged Venezuelan cartel as a terrorist organization, and claims President Nicolás Maduro is its leader, the Trump Administration has begun targeting some DACA recipients who previously weren’t at risk for deportation, and a Hollywood Hills house made famous by a 1960 photograph is up for sale for the …
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Now that Wicked: For Good is finally in theaters, has the industry been changed for the better? NOTE: This episode contains hot takes and spoilers. Sam breaks it all down with Katey Rich, awards editor at The Ankler, and host of the Prestige Junkie podcast and newsletter. They dive into the memes, the money, and star power that created the biggest …
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Composer Alexandre Desplat on ‘Frankenstein,’ collaborating with Guillermo del Toro
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52:44Plus, a federal judge tosses cases against former FBI director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, autism experts say the CDC is now peddling misinformation by linking vaccines and autism, and how USAID cuts are affecting children in Africa.
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