This is the first person account of a fugitive. He knew he was in trouble – big trouble. So he ran – for 31 years. Until finally, he realized, he didn’t want to run anymore.The story was produced by Max Miller in collaboration with KCRW's Unfic

Refuge

Mar 12th, 2017 26m 20s

In 1915, thousands of Armenian christians were forced by the Ottoman government to march to their death into the deserts of modern-day Syria. A man named Stepan survived this march with the help of a muslim sheikh. Nearly a century later, his g

Poeta En Las Lomas

Jan 12th, 2017 42m 24s

"You were the angriest against injustice, and you were the hungriest for something new". From drive-by shootings and drug addiction in the ganglands of the San Gabriel Valley to a life dedicated to poetry and community service: the story of L

The Adventures of Joe Lumbroso - Part 2

Dec 21st, 2016 37m 53s

Part Two of our series on the life and remarkable times of Joe Lumbroso: The Children of God, or The Family as it's sometimes called, was founded in California in the late 1960's. The Family is a fringe religious group with a worldwide follow

The Adventures of Joe Lumbroso – Part 1

Oct 27th, 2016 47m 4s

The Children of God, or The Family as it's sometimes called, was founded in California in the late 1960's. The Family is a fringe religious group with a worldwide following. Their leader referred to himself as a prophet, as moses, as a king. Th

Forty Blinks

Oct 13th, 2016 24m 20s

One brisk autumn morning in Brooklyn, Katie decided to go for a bike ride. Little did she know that the gruesome events to follow would nearly cost Katie her life, and forever change how she looked at the world.

Disillusionment

Sep 29th, 2016 40m 48s

He's been a womanizing petty criminal. A revolutionary marxist. An ex-con bank robber. A spiritual teacher. This week on ARRVLS, we go on a journey through the many lives of John Sherman. Find out more about John & Carla Sherman's organizatio

Agent

Sep 15th, 2016 28m 20s

Catie's dad joined the FBI after serving in Vietnam. Despite the popular portrayals of FBI agents in the media, Catie's dad was a dressed-down family man with a day job that happened to be highly classified. But things changed dramatically in C

Orthodox

Sep 1st, 2016 30m

What happens when your religious faith and sexual identity directly contradict one another? Josh Tranen lived with this contradiction for years. Even while studying in an orthodox Yeshiva in Israel, Tranen struggled to reconcile his beliefs wit

Jerry Curl

Aug 5th, 2016 31m 7s

Jerry Curl takes us into her world: growing up gay in the projects on the east side of El Paso, coming out to her parents, and eventually becoming a drag performer.

My Carnie Family

Jul 14th, 2016 38m 2s

What's it like to be a traveling salesperson? Sarah Barrett takes us inside the mind and world of Canada's finest pitchmen.

Conversion

Jun 30th, 2016 34m 52s

A collaboration between ARRVLS and Borders Radio, this episode tells the story of one man's journey from redemption to loss of faith as a Mormon missionary in the Fijian Islands. For more info, visit our website: http://www.arrvls.com

BONUS: "Norman's House" Soundscape

Jun 10th, 2016 23m 18s

This is a new special bonus feature available exclusively to Acast+ subscribers of ARRVLS. Our first installment: an extended original soundscape from our episode "Norman's House"

Maybe I'm Not Vanilla

Jun 10th, 2016 38m 10s

Michal documents her journey of sexual self-discovery, and finds out that she may not, in fact, be "vanilla" after all.

Border Junkie

May 19th, 2016 29m 41s

Scott Comar was a truck driver from Hartford. In the late 90s, he discovered the borderland region that includes El Paso, Texas and Cuidad Juarez, Mexico. His growing dependency on hard drugs drew him to the lawless streets where the cost of li

Cosmic Wind

Apr 28th, 2016 21m 16s

What's it like to experience total memory loss? Oyevind Aamot experienced the unimaginable. After traveling the world for years, we awoke from a fall while hiking in the Himalayas not knowing who he was, how he got there, or even his own name.

Sacred Operator

Apr 7th, 2016 26m 47s

I guess you could say that ARRVLS is a show about the future. Or at least, what each of us thinks our own future might be. And from that vantage point this episode is really interesting, because it’s about those among us who believe that the fu

Norman's House

Mar 24th, 2016 35m 30s

There are a lot of stories about friendship, community, and survival that have been born from AIDS. There are plays and movies that underscore the anger and the activism, and music that defines the tragedy. But for every song and every movie,

Junji

Mar 10th, 2016 38m 41s

It’s been five years since a 9.0 earthquake rocked Japan, but the images from that time are indelible: the wall of water devouring parts of the Japanese coastline. Cars lifted over walls and tumbling into the sides of buildings.Then there’s a

Movements

Feb 25th, 2016 36m 51s

In the new year, I decided to pack up my life and move across the country, leaving my old home in Brooklyn for my new home in Los Angeles. At the same time, producer Sara Brooke Curtis was leaving her home in San Francisco for the northeast.W

Refusenik Love

Feb 14th, 2016 30m

During the 1970's hundreds of thousands of Russian nationals migrated from the country. Many left in protest to the policies of the soviet regime: the antisemitism, the curbing of civil liberties, the jailing of political dissidents. And while

Promise

Feb 4th, 2016 36m 48s

Jax Beach is a small, scruffy seaside town in Jacksonville Florida. It's not what I expected from Florida, to be honest, having visited other beach towns in Florida like Tampa, Daytona, and Miami. Jax Beach isn't like those towns. Really it

January 1, 1982

Jan 1st, 2016 35m 37s

Jerry McGill (Jerome) and Dalton Conley grew up next to one another in a tough area of the Lower East Side of Manhattan in the 1980's. Dalton's family lived in public subsidized housing, which sat in the middle of a block of project housing, wh

Gringa Sis

Dec 10th, 2015 40m 24s

A 17 year old Chilean girl decides to travel to the US as an exchange student. Her host family lives in Minnesota. When she arrives, she quickly becomes fast friends with a girl her age in the house. But not long after she arrives, the exchan

This Moment is Worth It

Nov 26th, 2015 41m 20s

When Thanksgiving arrived in 2008, Robert found himself struggling with a tangled mess of emotions. The economic crisis in the U.S., big changes at home, and the challenges of the workplace all conspired to make it difficult for Robert to keep