KCRW

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KCRW, a community service of Santa Monica College, is Southern California's leading National Public Radio affiliate, featuring an eclectic mix of music, news, information and cultural programming. The station boasts one of the nation's largest arrays of locally produced, nationally distributed talk program content. KCRW.com extends the station's profile globally, with three streams featuring web-exclusive content: all music, all news and the live station simulcast, as well as an extensive list of podcasts. The non-commercial broadcast signal reaches 550,000 listeners weekly and is supported by 55,000 member/subscribers.

The terrestrial station serves Los Angeles and Orange Counties at 89.9 FM, Ventura County at 89.1 FM on KCRU/Oxnard-Ventura, the greater Palm Springs area at 89.3 FM on KCRI/Indio-Palm Springs and Kern, and Northern LA Counties at 88.1 FM on KCRY/Mojave/Antelope Valley. KCRW can now be heard in Santa Barbara at 106.9. Other translators carry the signal to Borrego Springs, CA, at 92.9 and the Twentynine Palms and Yucca Valley areas at 90.7 FM, Gorman at 89.7 FM, Banning at 90.9 FM, the Ridgecrest area at 101.1 FM, the Thousand Oaks and Conejo Valley areas at 102.3 FM, Ojai at 102.1 FM, and Lemon Grove/Spring Valley in San Diego County at 89.9 FM.

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KCRW Presents Zocalo Public Square 
6 Pieces

KCRW partners with Zócalo Public Square on a series of talks about healthcare. Zócalo Public Square connects people to ideas and to each other in an open, accessible, non-partisan and broad-minded spirit.

  • From: KCRW
  • Updated: May 29, 2012
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KCRW's "Nocturna" 
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Deep rhythms and urban soul with a Latin twist.

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  • Updated: Apr 05, 2011
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KCRW's Bookworm 
1 Piece

A glorious half-hour for the serious reader!

  • From: KCRW
  • Updated: Apr 13, 2011
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KCRW's Guest DJ Project 
77 Pieces

KCRW's DJs invite an array of cultural personalities to share and discuss songs that have inspired and moved them.

  • From: KCRW
  • Updated: Nov 01, 2012
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KCRW's Le Show 
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A weekly, hour-long romp of music and satire from Harry Shearer.

  • From: KCRW
  • Updated: Apr 05, 2011
Caption: Matt Miller, Arianna Huffington,<br/> Tony Blankley and Robert Scheer<br/>, Credit: Marc Goldstein
KCRW's Left, Right & Center 
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Public radio's only political roundtable! This weekly "love-hate relationship of the air" features four of the most insightful news analysts anywhere: Matt Miller, Arianna Huffington, Tony Blankley and Robert Scheer.

  • From: KCRW
  • Updated: Apr 05, 2011
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KCRW's Private Playlist 
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KCRW's Private Playlist is a listening session with Southern California’s most notable musical figures in their private creative environments.

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  • Updated: Apr 17, 2020
Caption: "The Treatment" host Elvis Mitchell, Credit: Marc Goldstein
KCRW's The Treatment 
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On "The Treatment," film critic Elvis Mitchell talks to the most influential and innovative forces creating movies and popular art and entertainment today.

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  • Updated: Apr 12, 2011
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Mean Streets USA: A Collection of Short Crime Fiction 
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Classic and contemporary detective noir fiction, read by actors

  • From: KCRW
  • Updated: Apr 13, 2006
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UnFictional 
33 Pieces

UnFictional is a program of storytellers and documentaries that will suck you in and stick in your head like a memory.

  • From: KCRW
  • Updated: Nov 02, 2012

Latest Pieces

Guest DJ Project Benjamin Millepied
From: KCRW
Series: KCRW's Guest DJ Project
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Hear what music has influenced French ballet dancer and choreographer Benjamin Millepied, who starred in the movie Black Swan and founded the LA Da...

  • Added: Dec 26, 2012
  • Length: 10:01
UnFictional: Skating in the Darkness
From: KCRW
Series: UnFictional
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Learning to navigate through the dark. Much like a radio listener, a blind person has to rely a lot on their sense of hearing. But once you learn t...

Bought by KMUN, Louisville Public Media, KOSU, PRX Remix, and Aspen Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 19, 2012
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 5
UnFictional: Unwanted
From: KCRW
Series: UnFictional
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Stories of the unwanted: a teenager, unwanted by those closest to him, visits his troubled past. Plus, the people who take your burdensome possessi...

Bought by Louisville Public Media, KUOW, KOSU, and Aspen Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 19, 2012
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
UnFictional: Self-Immolation Man
From: KCRW
Series: UnFictional
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A young boy escapes to a foreign country by himself, on foot, with no money or passport. When he grows up, he sets himself on fire, and lives to te...

Bought by XRAY.fm, Louisville Public Media, KOSU, and Aspen Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 16, 2012
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
UnFictional: Family Justice
From: KCRW
Series: UnFictional
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On this episode... two stories about crime hitting close to home. A man's evil plan takes an ironic turn and a Brooklyn dad hits the streets and la...

Bought by XRAY.fm, Louisville Public Media, KOSU, and Aspen Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 16, 2012
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
UnFictional: The God of Chaos
From: KCRW
Series: UnFictional
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What does an ancient African deity have to do with a Reese's cup? Meet Elegba, trickster spirit of chaos.

Bought by KMUN, XRAY.fm, Louisville Public Media, KOSU, and Aspen Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 16, 2012
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 5
Ministry of Presence
From: KCRW
Series: UnFictional
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Memories of the death house, from a man who sat with 95 condemned men on their last day on earth.

Bought by Marfa Public Radio, KMUZ, Louisville Public Media, Aspen Public Radio, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Nov 02, 2012
  • Length: 25:02
  • Purchases: 5
Guest DJ Project Milla Jovovich
From: KCRW
Series: KCRW's Guest DJ Project
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Actress Milla Jovovich is a force to be reckoned with as the star of the Resident Evil franchise and has also found success as a model and fashion ...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2012
  • Length: 10:27
Guest DJ Project Rob Delaney
From: KCRW
Series: KCRW's Guest DJ Project
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Rob Delaney has been called the funniest person on Twitter and counts This American Life host Ira Glass among his fans.

  • Added: Nov 01, 2012
  • Length: 10:27
The Seance
From: KCRW
Series: UnFictional
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On a summer night in the early 1990s a small group of friends gather for a dinner party in Los Angeles. Just for fun, someone suggests having a séa...

Bought by KISU, WRFA-LP, WMPG, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WPSU and more


  • Added: Sep 12, 2012
  • Length: 19:06
  • Purchases: 17

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Staff of KCRW

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Mike Newport (Admin)
Operations
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Ariana Morgenstern
Sounds Eclectic
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Michael Silverblatt
Bookworm
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Elvis Mitchell
The Treatment
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Anayansi Diaz-Cortes
Associate Producer, Radio Diaries
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Ray Guarna (Admin)
production
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Bob Carlson (Admin)
Host and Producer of KCRW's UnFictional
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mario saavedra
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Michael Stark (Admin)
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Natalie Kyriakoudis (Admin)
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Arnie Seipel (Admin)
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Mike Grimmer (Admin)
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Anastasia Elmstedt