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041: Conspiracy Not The Crime
March 18, 2017

This is the first person account of a fugitive. He knew he was in trouble – big trouble. So he ran – for 31 years. Until finally, he realized, he didn’t want to run anymore.The story was produced by Max Miller in collaboration with KCRW's Unfic

040: Refuge
March 12, 2017

In 1915, thousands of Armenian Christians were forced by the Ottoman government to march to their death into the deserts of Anatolia. A man named Stepan survived this march with the help of a muslim sheikh. Nearly a century later, his granddaughter return

039: Poeta en Las Lomas
January 12, 2017

"You were the angriest against injustice, and you were the hungriest for something new". From drive-by shootings and drug addiction in the ganglands of the San Gabriel Valley to a life dedicated to poetry and community service: the story of Los Angel

038: The Adventures of Joe Lumbroso - Part 2
December 21, 2016

Part Two of our series on the life and remarkable times of Joe Lumbroso: The Children of God, or The Family as it's sometimes called, was founded in California in the late 1960's. The Family is a fringe religious group with a worldwide following. The

037: The Adventures of Joe Lumbroso - Part 1
October 27, 2016

The Children of God, or The Family as it's sometimes called, was founded in California in the late 1960's. The Family is a fringe religious group with a worldwide following. Their leader referred to himself as a prophet, as moses, as a king. The group has

036: Forty Blinks
October 13, 2016

One brisk autumn morning in Brooklyn, Katie decided to go for a bike ride. Little did she know that the gruesome events to follow would nearly cost Katie her life, and forever change how she looked at the world. Read Katie's new memoir, "How to Get R

035: Disillusionment
September 29, 2016

He's been a womanizing petty criminal. A revolutionary marxist. An ex-con bank robber. A spiritual teacher. This week on ARRVLS, we go on a journey through the many lives of John Sherman. Find out more about John & Carla Sherman's organization Ju

034: Agent
September 15, 2016

Catie's dad joined the FBI after serving in Vietnam. Despite the popular portrayals of FBI agents in the media, Catie's dad was a dressed-down family man with a day job that happened to be highly classified. But things changed dramatically in Catie's life

033: Orthodox
September 01, 2016

What happens when your religious faith and sexual identity directly contradict one another? Josh Tranen lived with this contradiction for years. Even while studying in an orthodox Yeshiva in Israel, Tranen struggled to reconcile his beliefs with his ident

032: Jerry Curl
August 05, 2016

Jerry Curl takes us into her world: growing up gay in the projects on the east side of El Paso, coming out to her parents, and eventually becoming a drag performer.