KCRW Audio

A must for the serious reader, "Bookworm" showcases writers of fiction and poetry - the established, new or emerging - all interviewed with insight and precision by the show's host and guiding spirit, Michael Silverblatt.

From your iPod to the Freedom Chair to the Walt Disney Concert Hall design and architecture shape our world. On DnA: Design and Architecture host Frances Anderton talks to design world leaders about the latest in products fashion graphics architecture and more in Los Angeles and beyond.

Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal's Pulitzer Prize winning film critic, brings his wit and wisdom to bear on current releases.

By tuning in to Good Food, you can discover delicious recipes, great restaurants, and unique places to buy authentic ingredients; find out how to prepare the newest foods in the marketplace; learn techniues of master chefs and ideas for novices; and listen to discussions about food politics and the latest trends in food and eating.

Your weekly treat from Evan Kleiman.

A weekly hour-long romp through the worlds of media politics sports and show business leavened with an eclectic mix of mysterious music hosted by Harry Shearer.

Provocative, up-to-the-minute, alive and witty, KCRW's weekly confrontation over politics, policy and popular culture proves those with impeccable credentials needn't lack personality.

Veteran TV writer Rob Long shares his behind-the-scenes look at Hollywood life with Martini Shot, a four-minute weekly commentary heard during KCRW's broadcast of NPR's All Things Considered.

On Minding the Media, Nick Madigan takes a weekly look at how reporters for newspapers, television and other media are doing their jobs.

Each week industry veteran Celia Hirschman considers the changes and trends happening in the music business. An independent consultant for the music business she founded the marketing consulting company Downtown Marketing and also runs the UK-based record label One Little Indian in North America.

The Politics of Culture examines the intersection where the world of politics and culture meet and sometimes collide.

A few minutes of medical information from the practical to the political.

Hosted by Variety's Claude Brodesser, The Business looks deep inside the business of entertainment.

Twenty-four hours a day in every city in America, you can hear shock jock radio types screaming their outrage at the latest sports scandal.

On THE TREATMENT, film critic Elvis Mitchell turns the tables and gives the "treatment" to some of the most influential and innovative forces creating movies and popular art and entertainment.

Olney gets to the point with hard-hitting questions that advance the story. He keeps the pace of the program fast and exciting. And the result is smart, relevant radio.