Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Host Madeleine Brand looks at news, culture and emerging trends through the lens of Los Angeles.
Latest Episode
Why California has some of the country’s weakest drunk driving laws (14.11.2025)
Previous Episodes
- The 100-year history of motels from architectural gems to ‘hot pillow joints’
- Veterans Day special: ‘He's become untouchable’: Jeff Buckley is star of new documentary
- ‘Electric Nebraska’: Springsteen album that never was…until now
- Nancy Pelosi to retire after nearly four decades in Congress
- How famed war photographer Lynsey Addario balances work, home life
- Succession’s Matthew Macfadyen: Presidential assassin character ‘less calculating than Tom’
- ‘Dodgers stand tall,’ win back-to-back World Series titles
- 42 million may lose SNAP benefits. This CA mayor is one of them
- Why child sex trafficking exploded on Figueroa in South LA
- Why AI data centers are the ‘new American factory’
- Nigerian musician, activist Fela Kuti believed ‘music could topple a government'
- The ‘vague, ambitious’ new phase of the Gaza ceasefire
- Toppled Confederate statues transformed, reimagined as art in ‘Monuments’
- For decades, CA students were taught the wrong way to read
- 'Like this best friend': How violinist Sudan Archives explores new sounds
- Gaza native on region’s power struggles after ceasefire agreement
- Raoul Peck on today’s Orwellian world, language and democracy
- ‘Shocking level of lawlessness and abuse’ inside Alabama prisons
- Cate Le Bon on making music from the ‘ruins’ of a relationship
- Possible end of war in Gaza can repair a ‘spiritual catastrophe’
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