The Unspeakable Atrocity
Sunday night marks the beginning of the Highest Holy Day in Judaism, Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. Tonight, KCRW presents an extraordinary documentary produced by the BBC about the BBC and its coverage of the Nazi concentration camps in World War II. This program was honored with a Peabody Award, the highest recognition in American broadcasting. Airs 7-7:30pm.
Aired Friday, September 29, 2006. [MORE]
Rabbi Abulafia's Boxed Set
For more than two years in the 1950's, avant-garde ethno-musicologist Harry Smith recorded a Lower East Side Rabbi's cantorial music, folk songs and Yiddish story-telling. The Rabbi's eccentric grandson is hoping to re-release a condensed version of this material. It's a holy mission for him. The program you are about to hear was produced for KCRW by Jon Kalish. It has been honored with this year's Gabriel Award recognizing programs that uplift the spirit, sponsored by the Catholic Academy for Communication Arts Professionals. Originally aired in December, 2005, we broadcast it tonight on the occasion of the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah, which begins this evening. Airs from 7-7:30pm. Aired Friday, September 22, 2006. [MORE]
Ted Koppel Town Meeting:
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"The Price of Security"
Recently named National Public Radio's newest senior analyst, veteran broadcast anchor and correspondent Ted Koppel is convening a Town Meeting at National War College at Fort McNair in Washington, D.C., for the Discovery Channel and NPR, timed to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on America.
In "The Price of Security," Koppel asks how the United States can effectively protect the homeland, while at the same time protecting the privacy and civil liberties of Americans. Aired Wednesday, September 13, 2006. [MORE]
Transforming OC: A Magical Milestone
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The final segment in our two-part documentary celebrating the opening of the new Renee and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall on September 15. Aired Tuesday, September 12, 2006. [MORE]
President Bush Address
5 Year Anniversary of 9/11 Aired Monday, September 11, 2006. [MORE]
Sonic Memorial Project Documentary
For the fifth anniversary of 9/11, American RadioWorks rebroadcasts the beautifully haunting documentary from the Sonic Memorial Project. In the weeks and months after 9/11, NPR's Lost and Found Sound and the public broadcasting community collected audio traces of the World Trade center, its neighborhood and the events of September 11, 2001. Listen to this surprisingly intimate portrait produced from voicemails, archival tape, on-site recordings, oral histories, remembrances and stories. Aired Monday, September 11, 2006. [MORE]
Transforming OC: The Best of Everything
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The first in our two-part documentary celebrating the dynamic changes -- in culture and commerce -- taking place in Orange County. Aired Tuesday, September 5, 2006. [MORE]
Senate Intelligence Committe Hearing Wrap Up
Wrap up of the Senate Intelligence Committee hearings on the nomination of General Michael Hayden to head the CIA. Aired Wednesday, May 17, 2006. [MORE]
2006 State of the Union
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KCRW will air National Public Radio's live coverage of President Bush's 2006 State of the Union address. Hosted by NPR's All Things Considered host Robert Siegel, the coverage will include the President's speech, as well as the Democratic response to the address. KCRW will suspend its pledge drive to carry the speech and the Democratic response. 6pm
Aired Tuesday, January 31, 2006. [MORE]
Hidden Kitchens - Part Two
Fellowship of Food. Actress Frances McDormand hosts this further journey into unusual, significant, and clandestine kitchens across America. Produced by the Kitchen Sisters for NPR. Aired Saturday, December 31, 2005. [MORE]
WordTheatre - Admissions
Juliana Margulies hilariously and movingly portrays a mother whose desperate need for her daughter to attend a posh New York school is revealed through a series of letters in Admissions by Mona Simpson.
Aired Thursday, December 29, 2005. [MORE]
Rabbi Abulafia's Boxed Set
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A KCRW documentary by Jon Kalish. For more than two years in the 1950's, avant-garde ethno-musicologist Harry Smith recorded a Lower East Side Rabbi's cantorial music, folk songs and Yiddish story-telling. The Rabbi's eccentric grandson is hoping to re-release a condensed version of this material. It's a holy mission for him. Aired Wednesday, December 28, 2005. [MORE]
Las Vegas, An Unconventional History
Trace Las Vegas' history from a remote railroad town to a mobster metropolis, to its current incarnation as an adult themed resort town that two million people call their home. American RadioWorks Documentary. Aired Tuesday, December 27, 2005. [MORE]
A Christmas Carol
In this new production of A Christmas Carol, English master storyteller and actor Ashley Ramsden portrays all 23 characters in the Dickens classic, transporting listeners back to Victorian England and conjuring up the sinister back alleys, cobblestone streets, and ghostly apparitions that are the story's hallmarks. Aired Friday, December 23, 2005. [MORE]