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The Earthquake

About a year ago, producers at KPCC started discussing the inevitable major quake set to hit Los Angeles and wondered how they could get people to not just listen but really prepare. The Big One: Your Survival Guide is what they came up with.

The Audio Guide to Grieving

Sometimes, a death in the family means cousins and casseroles. And sometimes — for one reason or another — it means figuring it out on your own.

Purple Rain

“Mihai” – a pseudonym he chose himself – has a lifelong history of drugs and psychosis.

It Started With Oscar Grant

A decade ago, a 22-year-old black man was killed by a white police officer at Oakland's Fruitvale BART station.

Being Siri

A woman gives away an intimate, personal part of herself—a part of herself that she wasn’t even that crazy about to begin with: her voice. And she gives it away to a total stranger.

Making Obama: Wait Your Turn

How was President Barack Obama shaped by his years in Chicago as a community organizer turned politician?

Episode 1 - A Perfect Murder

The abundance and popularity of true-crime podcasts meant the time had come (and gone, and come again) for a really hard look in the mirror. The Onion and Onion Public Radio bravely rose to the challenge!

Man Choubam (I am good)

Sharon calls herself a weirdo and refuses to conform to cultural standards. Her mom does not approve. Winner of the TC/RHDF 2018 Best Documentary: Silver Award.

The Promise: A Beautiful Day in the Projects

The Promise is a limited-run series from Nashville Public Radio about life in James Cayce Homes, a public housing development smack in the middle of a city on the rise.

Dreamers

Joe Frank's Dreamers is more like an M.C Escher drawing than a traditional tale and leaves you questioning the blurry line between dreams and reality.

Larry and Zach

In Joe Frank's imagined world, a father and son conduct a conversation that appears to center around certain, tangible topics. But it's actually a searing and candid examination of their relationship -- no holds barred.

Arthur and Eleanor

Eleanor needs a family -- but the only family she had, her ex-husband Arthur, doesn't really need her anymore.

Suicide Bridge

Lines form around the block for the world's most popular suicide spot.

Minister Excerpt

Joe Frank, master of late night radio, assembled this piece: a phone conversation between himself and a cranky minister.

Fresh Air: Joe Frank

"Whatever tragedies might befall you, you can always right away think, 'well that would make a great story for radio!'"

Sweepstakes Winner

Joe Frank, the original radio maverick, is known for leaving listeners more than a bit uncomfortable.

Not All Who Wander Are Lost… But Some Definitely Are

A car is a classic place to realize: "oh, I’m lost."

First You Leave and Then You Go

Karen's dad wanted to pass on his curiosity and his faith to his seven children. Karen inherited that curiosity, but sharing his faith is another story.

Chanukah, 1992

One minute, snatched from a Chanukah party in 1992. Gwen Macsai's party, to be exact.

The Big Night

Producer Jonathan Goldstein made every girl he ever dated watch the home movie of his family's Rosh Hashanah dinner he made when he was 17.

Terrible, Thanks for Asking: Semper Fi

Terrible, Thanks for Asking is a podcast that tells stories about the parts of life that hurt - the parts we're usually told to get through with quiet determination.

Audio Experiments with Place, Matter and Perception (recommended for advanced producers!)

Nick Ryan shares his highly original approach to sound design, presenting a selection of recent experimental work that breaks new creative and technical ground in seeking to explore how sound can be used to represent place, matter, information and human experience.

2017 Conference Presenters

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