Podcast Episodes

Family Separation Today … and 40 Years Ago

Mom Seeks Refuge at the Border; Healing from Family Separation Four Decades Later; No One Recognizes this Hong Kong Star in Berkeley; Hello to Coache…

8 years, 2 months ago

Going Back to 1993: Unpacking the Internet, Then and Now

We've come a long way from a 6-foot-tall computer. But the internet hasn't solved everything it promised to. This week we visit the Computer History …

8 years, 2 months ago

SPECIAL: The Leap: Little Girl Lost

A Mother Launches a Painful Search After Her Ex-Husband Abducts Their Daughter

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8 years, 2 months ago

Young and Homeless … But Dreaming Big

On Her Own at 17, LGBTQ and Homeless, Finding the Gay Mecca, Family Separations Open Old Wounds

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8 years, 2 months ago

Discovering Some of California’s ‘Hidden Gems’

Black Chasm Cavern; Foster’s Bighorn; Back Dancing and Dynamite Society; Valley Relics Museum; Forestiere Underground Gardens

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8 years, 3 months ago

From a Tiny Oaxacan Restaurant in the Central Valley, to High School in a San Francisco Jail

A Taste of Oaxaca in Madera; My Big Brother’s CA Dream; High School Behind Bars; Woodworking for the Blind

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8 years, 3 months ago

California Stories From 1968 … From RFK to a Classic Dishware Factory

Sirhan Sirhan’s Brother; My Mom’s California Dream is Muted; TEPCO Dishes Out Nostalgia

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8 years, 3 months ago

Life in California Prisons

Losing Language Behind Bars; Rachel Kushner’s New Novel Based on Friendship with Women Prisoners; Life After a Life Sentence; Letter to My CA Dreamer…

8 years, 3 months ago

Immigrant Parents and the California Dream

Parents Deported, Big Sister in Charge; When UC is not the Golden Ticket; Tell Us Your California Dream Story; L.A.'s 'No ICE' Man

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8 years, 4 months ago

Grappling with the Idea of Home

Addicted to Heroin and Living in a Motel with a Baby on the Way, Persistent Poison, Calling it Quits on the Golden State, Birthplace of Flamin' Hot C…

8 years, 4 months ago