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In this season of Unfictional, Stories of Transformation, and the ways in which the world — and all of us — have fundamentally changed since the pandemic began. One man watched his children suddenly turn into grown-ups, while another upended every part of his life. Someone else had to le...
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256 EpisodenFútbol Confidential: Soccer City
Fútbol Confidential looks at AYSO, American homegrown soccer culture.
Fútbol Confidential:The Soccer Store
Fútbol Confidential looks at Niky’s Sports, the biggest family-run chain of soccer stores in LA.
Fútbol Confidential: Fútbol
Two Mexican-American fans talk about rooting for more than one hometown team in Los Angeles and in Mexico.
Fútbol Confidential: Hollywood United
Fútbol Confidential looks at the legendary LA city league soccer team formed over beers in a Santa Monica pub by British expatriates.
El Pueblo
In ‘El Pueblo,’ producer Mike Schilitt explores the surprising history of Olvera Street – an idealized fantasy of Mexico created in downtown Los Angel...
The Cabin Notebook
When Aric Allen was 21, he lived in a desolate mountain cabin for 10 weeks. There he planned to write a novel, but instead he learned how to be alone.
Lowrider
Producer Jaime Roque takes a ride with Ernie Moran in his 1965 Chevy Impala to explore the history and culture of the lowrider community of East Los A...
nisha
In the U.S., nisha venkat feels safe and relieved to identify as queer and non-binary. But in their home country Dubai, nisha’s gender identity is ill...
Los Emprendedores
Street vendors are an essential part of Los Angeles’ history and its economy. You can find vendors with mobile carts and food trucks on street corners...
The Transmogrifier
Imagine entering a giant machine that sucks you in one end, and spits you out the other side as something completely different. That describes the tra...
Music could be your whole life
KCRW’s Bob Carlson talks to some of Deirdre O’Donoghue’s friends and gets further inside her world away from the microphone.
This is SNAP!
Bent By Nature Episode 1 introduces KCRW DJ Deirdre O’Donoghue, host of "SNAP!," a freeform alternative and independent music and culture program in L...
The Man Inside the Radio
UnFictional host Bob Carlson’s journey on the inside of rock and roll radio.
Rolling Thunder
Mary Lorson explores scenes from her childhood in a personal memoir musical documentary. Featuring an elusive father, A Dancerina doll, a Polaroid Swi...
The Rescue
A promising job drew Fedelina Lugasan to the U.S. from the Philippines, she’d start her new life with a family she trusted. But the picture they paint...
The Philosophy of the Flying Saucers
A man finds an old reel to reel tape that reveals much more than just flying saucers and alien conspiracy theories.
The Rowing Man
Ove the rowing man. A stranger who came by way of the ocean, and was soon no longer a stranger.
Mauricio Across the Border - Part 2
Maurcio, star of a hit Mexican television show, is abandoned in the desert while trying to cross the border.
Mauricio Across the Border - Part 1
Mauricio leaves Mexico City for Los Angeles, and his dreams of television come true in a very unlikely way.
Denial
It never occurred to Janey that he would put something in her drink. Never in a million years.
Friends in Juggalo Places
Take a three-day bus trip across the country with a juggalo, and you’ll learn some things.
1-800-KISS-MY-ASS
Aric Allen spent much of the early 2000s on the phone – selling get-rich-quick schemes and rapidly turning into a person he didn’t recognize.
Vampire of Barcelona
Enriqueta Marti was a real-life monster who roamed the streets of 20th Century Barcelona collecting bones and kidnapping children. Except, of course,...
Strangers in a Good Way
One woman discovers that her childhood crush has grown up into someone she doesn’t recognize.
Purple Rain
A romantic daytime drive becomes a nightmare when Mihai’s mind betrays him – and he turns on the person he loves.
My Foolish Illusion
When John Elder Robison gets an experimental treatment for Asperger’s, he feels like he’s suddenly seeing the world in technicolor. But that doesn’t m...
Stories of Perception
This season on UnFictional, we’re looking at how we come to know the unknown parts of ourselves. Get the first episode January 31st.
Halloween 2018
It’s a bonus episode! We’ll be back in January, but we’ve got two spooky stories to tide you over – a Halloween classic, and a brand-new, never-before...
Punk Jubilee
A girl gang goes on a rampage of sex, larceny and murder. But what happened when the cameras weren’t rolling? Go behind the scenes of a riotous ‘70s p...
Haunted
Tara has always believed in ghosts, so she wasn’t surprised when a ghost starting haunting her Los Feliz apartment. That is, until she found out that...
Her Name is Ember
Ember has pretty much always known who she truly was. But it was a long, obstacle-ridden path to live that true life – as a woman.
Big Sur: The Secret Road
A secret road leads to a marooned community and an ocean paradise – along the coast of California.
Bay of Smokes: The Day Smog Showed Up In LA
When you think of Los Angeles, you think of smog. But have you ever heard about the day when smog just showed up in Los Angeles? An impressionistic tr...
Man Choubam (I am good)
After years of living in the space between who she really is, and who her mother wants her to be, Sharon decides she’s finally going to confront her m...
The Outsider
A young movie nerd from Los Angeles finds himself in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on the set of Francis Ford Coppola’s redemption film, “The Outsiders,” thanks to...
UnFictional returns!
The new season of UnFictional is right around the corner. Unbelievably true stories of chance encounters that changed everything. A pair of mail-order...
The Past Can Hold a Terrible Power
The past can warp a person in mysterious ways. Sometimes we can figure out what's eating at us, but sometimes, we just have to push forward – into the...
Because It's There
A former mountaineer returns to the Himalayas for one last climb – to bury his long lost friend. A story from KCRW's newest podcast: The Document.
Father's Day 2017
There comes a time in every child's life when they realize they can strike their own path. But often, that path leads straight back to their parents....