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  • Jonathan Hirsch

Jonathan I. Hirsch is an independent producer, reporter, and sound designer. His work as a producer has won The Green Eyeshade and Edward R. Murrow Awards. He has produced, reported, and sound designed stories for Outside Magazine, Life of the Law, KUOW, KCRW, KALW, NPR, and others. He is the host of the non-narrated audio documentary series ARRVLS -- a founding member of the independent storytelling collective The Heard. He lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.

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Who’s the Criminal?

by Nicole Pasulka

  • September 22, 2015

We all commit little crimes all the time. We speed. We jaywalk. We drive home a little tipsy. And think back to your teenage years—did you ever shoplift?Get into a fight? Have a drink before…

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Prison Break Out

by Andrea James

  • September 15, 2015

Andrea James was an advocate for prison reform. But one day she found that the roles had been reversed, when she herself wound up behind bars. James is the founder and Executive Director of Families…

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Family Watch

by Steve Zimmer

  • September 1, 2015

Steve Zimmer lives in New York, but he didn’t always live in a big city. When he was a kid, Steve and his family moved from one small town to another, and you know how…

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Three Strikes

by Clemmie Greenlee

  • August 18, 2015

Clemmie Greenlee works at Eden House in Uptown New Orleans, the first shelter for sex-trafficking victims in Louisiana. The center opened in October 2012. You can read more about Clemmie here. “I was born a…

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Water Rights

by Jason Albert

  • August 11, 2015

[Encore presentation of Episode 21 from November 19, 2013] In the Western United States, water law is based on what seems like a simple principle: “first in use is first in right.” In other words, first…

http://cdn.panoply.fm/PP8846774209.mp3
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Skatepark

by Skylar Fein

  • August 4, 2015

“I crawled through the underbrush, then I popped out into a beautiful, green clearing in the middle of the city. And in the center of it, about 20 young people were mixing concrete in big…

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