This season, unbelievably true stories of perception and what it’s like to experience the world the way someone else does. An experimental treatment that works all too well. A man selling get rich schemes until he unleashes a part of himself he...
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.
11/4/2021 • 32 minutes, 3 seconds
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 Los Angeles in the '80s — and goes inside the community she cultivated, her passion for music, and the problems she had with KCRW’s management and staff. Featuring archival live performances by Camper Van Beethoven, the Meat Puppets, Glass Eye, Jazz Butcher, the Dream Syndicate, and more.
10/28/2021 • 34 minutes, 17 seconds
The Dream is Over
One man’s treasure is another man’s Olympic gold medal.
3/21/2019 • 34 minutes, 8 seconds
Denial
It never occurred to Janey that he would put something in her drink. Never in a million years.
3/14/2019 • 30 minutes, 43 seconds
Friends in Juggalo Places
Take a three-day bus trip across the country with a juggalo, and you’ll learn some things.
3/7/2019 • 30 minutes, 39 seconds
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.
2/28/2019 • 22 minutes, 31 seconds
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, she wasn’t.
2/21/2019 • 23 minutes, 36 seconds
Strangers in a Good Way
One woman discovers that her childhood crush has grown up into someone she doesn’t recognize.