Nick van der Kolk's Love and Radio features in-depth, otherworldly-produced interviews with an eclectic range of subjects, from the seedy to the sublime. Get inside the mind of a rogue taxidermist. Find out what it's like to experience a stroke firsthand. Or spend time with an artist who gives away her life savings every night. You've never heard anything like it before.
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Hereβs a preview of the new season of Heavyweight, Jonathan Goldsteinβs quest to help people
face moments from their lives that they havenβt been able to let go of and make them right.
When Jenna was eight years old, she was taken from her mom and placed with a foster family
called the Grizzles. For two and a half years, she built a life with them, and when they asked to
adopt her, Jenna was thrilled. But then, abruptly, the Grizzles changed their minds. Three
decades later, Jenna still wonders: What happened? Find more episodes of Heavyweight
wherever you get podcasts.
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L+R Presents: Death of an Artist
Thursday, September 3, 2026 β’ Duration 41:56
In February 2024, celebrated childrenβs book author and illustrator Petra Mathers and her husband, photographer Michael Mathers, mailed letters to dozens of friends and family members to let them know they had died by suicide. Petra and Michael were by all accounts healthy, happy, and in love. Why did they choose to die together? And what did that decision do to the people left to mourn them?Β
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L+R Presents: The Truth
Tuesday, June 30, 2026 β’ Duration 35:24
The Truth--the intimate, clever, and pioneering fiction podcast from Jonathan Mitchell--made a recent return to the podwaves. Enjoy this recent episode: The Completetist, written by Hunter Nelson.
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L+R Presents: Conversations with Ghosts
Monday, April 20, 2026 β’ Duration 32:04
From our friends at Dead Signals (Archive 81, The Deep Vault, Generation Crossing):
Conversations with Ghosts follows mausoleum attendant Mal Fleming as he tries to convince the spirits of Grey Briar Cemetery to pass on. In each episode, Mal sits down with a new ghost to build a portrait of their life, their death, and their afterlife... all to help them release whatever still ties their soul to this reality.
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Website: conversationswithghosts.com
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βIf you marry a prisoner, you only know this person when theyβre sitting next to you on a chair in the prison visiting room.β
After 45 years behind bars, Michael adjusts to life on the outside, makes new friends, and starts a business. But things quickly unravel.
PLAYLIST!https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/track/the-melt
https://tambien.bandcamp.com/track/fau
https://tambien.bandcamp.com/track/lampyridae
https://andrewfrankel.bandcamp.com/album/romaslend
https://inter-bellum.bandcamp.com/track/disintegration-fallsΒ
https://tambien.bandcamp.com/track/corporal
https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/track/chiron
https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/track/s-and-s
https://soundcloud.com/tambi3n/sets/zoroxxe
https://inter-bellum.bandcamp.com/track/interlude-04
https://eileanrec.bandcamp.com/track/red-grey-orange
LSC - Star of the Sea (Unreleased)
https://ab-strangebird-sounds.bandcamp.com/track/old-map
Guts and Erasures - Sereptie (Unreleased)
https://banabila.bandcamp.com/track/not-in-our-name
https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/track/a-real-person-in-the-window
https://quixosis.bandcamp.com/track/descomposicion-2-stillness-2
https://soundcloud.com/tambi3n/00-glacial
https://soundcloud.com/tambi3n/02-esperame-un-segundo-mstr-2448-etv2?in=tambi3n%2Fsets%2Fzoroxxe-nefelomancia
https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/track/asonata
https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/track/the-devoted-fifth
https://tamben.bandcamp.com/track/kon
https://quixosis.bandcamp.com/track/descomposicion-iv-triple-n
https://dj-masuno.bandcamp.com/track/hortela
https://microhm.bandcamp.com/track/emerging-from-the-depths
https://soundcloud.com/tambi3n/07-tahuando
https://andrewheath.bandcamp.com/track/the-absentee
https://tambien.bandcamp.com/track/aurora
https://daisyrickman.bandcamp.com/track/blue-morning
https://quixosis.bandcamp.com/track/lisergium-tremens
CREDITS!
Additional Voice: Tina Antolini
Series Producer: Meera Kumar
Managing Editor: Robin Amer
Additional Reporting: Brian Krans and Anya Schultz
Fact Checking: Nicole Pasulka
Contributing Editor: Allison Herrera
Visuals: Orla Mc Hardy
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Blood Memory #08: Habeas Corpus
Season 11 Β· Episode 8
Tuesday, March 24, 2026 β’ Duration 01:05:01
βThe issue's not the truth. The issue is the reality of the truth."
Nick and his reporting team try to piece apart how much of Michaelβs story is true.
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PLAYLIST!
https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/track/half-self
https://tambien.bandcamp.com/album/memory-amb
https://quixosis.bandcamp.com/track/san-gregorio-remastered-2
https://tambien.bandcamp.com/track/c-mulo-estelar
https://tambien.bandcamp.com/track/acqua
https://quixosis.bandcamp.com/track/tigre-de-papel-feat-king-klav
https://quixosis.bandcamp.com/track/destrancadera-remastered
https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/track/exit-man
https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/track/only-us
https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/track/asonata
https://tambien.bandcamp.com/track/corporal
Overlook by Sereptie (unreleased)
https://tambien.bandcamp.com/track/se-ales
https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/track/nonorganics
https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/track/his-broom
https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/track/two-skins
https://ab-odnu.bandcamp.com/track/meaning
https://ab-henrik-meierkord.bandcamp.com/track/erinnerungen-requiem-tomo-nakaguchi-remix
https://quixosis.bandcamp.com/track/falso-paraiso-feat-biomigrant
https://samarecordings.bandcamp.com/track/quixosis-descomposicion-1-kuna-feat-soios
https://quixosis.bandcamp.com/track/ant-tesis-2
https://quixosis.bandcamp.com/track/buenas-noches-imposible-2
https://ab-strangebird-sounds.bandcamp.com/track/flowing
https://distantfiresburning-ab.bandcamp.com/track/book-of-hope
https://tambien.bandcamp.com/track/cet-cea
https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/track/the-goodbye-clouds
https://quixosis.bandcamp.com/track/descomposicion-2-stillness-2
https://inter-bellum.bandcamp.com/track/every-word-in-the-english-language-interbellum
https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/track/hole-time
https://wilbolton.bandcamp.com/track/going-nowhere
https://tambien.bandcamp.com/track/vac-o
https://run-ireland.bandcamp.com/track/paidir-poball-pupil
https://quixosis.bandcamp.com/track/tierra-madera-y-fuego-2
CREDITS!
Additional Voices: Bill Rohlfing, Roman Mars, Alice Lyons, Valinda Lee, Ellen Horne, Avery Trufelman, Brian Reed.
Series Producer: Meera Kumar
Managing Editor: Robin Amer
Additional Reporting: Brian Krans and Anya Schultz
Fact Checking: Nicole Pasulka
Contributing Editor: Allison Herrera
Visuals: Orla Mc Hardy
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Blood Memory #07: 19 Times
Season 11 Β· Episode 7
Monday, March 16, 2026 β’ Duration 51:46
ββI believe there's order and beauty and meaning in the universe. I believe in goodness and not evil. And if I found out that was all not true, it would be devastating to me.β
As the years tick by, Michael and Ariel start to lose hope heβll ever be free β while Heather fears the people in charge may finally fall for Michaelβs charisma.
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PLAYLIST!
https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/track/weight
https://banabila.bandcamp.com/track/closing-time-the-party-is-over
https://banabila.bandcamp.com/track/waiting-in-moonlight
https://inter-bellum.bandcamp.com/track/every-word-in-the-english-language-interbellum
https://tambien.bandcamp.com/album/memory-amb
https://tambien.bandcamp.com/track/inmutable
https://tambien.bandcamp.com/track/tunnbaq
https://tambien.bandcamp.com/track/hidroslidaridad
https://entranas.bandcamp.com/track/g-lido
https://tambien.bandcamp.com/track/afuera
https://tambien.bandcamp.com/track/17-minutos
https://tambien.bandcamp.com/track/a-bao-a-qu
https://ab-henrik-meierkord.bandcamp.com/track/erinnerungen-drawing-from-memory-odnu-remix
https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/track/c
https://soundcloud.com/tambi3n/2-paisaje-oblicuo
https://entranas.bandcamp.com/track/tierra-templada
https://eileanrec.bandcamp.com/track/red-grey-orange
https://orietachrem.bandcamp.com/track/punta-uva
https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/track/covina
https://eileanrec.bandcamp.com/track/blue-light-marcus-fischer-version
https://eileanrec.bandcamp.com/track/red-grey-orange
https://eileanrec.bandcamp.com/track/blue-christopher-hipgrave-remix
https://glitchbird.bandcamp.com/track/calima
https://quixosis.bandcamp.com/track/descomposicion-iv-triple-n
https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/track/only-us
https://tambien.bandcamp.com/track/sagitarii
https://glitchbird.bandcamp.com/track/aube
https://tambien.bandcamp.com/track/kon
https://jennifercastle.bandcamp.com/track/justice
https://quixosis.bandcamp.com/track/ant-tesis-2
CREDITS!
Additional Voices: Katie Mingle, Betsy Corcoran, James Spring, Lu Olkowski, Nigel Poor, and Samantha Harvey.
Series Producer: Meera Kumar
Managing Editor: Robin Amer
Additional Reporting: Brian Krans and Anya Schultz
Fact Checking: Nicole Pasulka
Contributing Editor: Allison Herrera
Visuals: Orla Mc Hardy
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Blood Memory #06: Blood In, Blood Out
Season 11 Β· Episode 6
Monday, March 9, 2026 β’ Duration 32:14
βBushido, the code of conduct for a samurai: When you render it down, it's about honor.β
When a former AB member testifies against the gang and goes into hiding, its leadership debates whether to murder his family as retribution.
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PLAYLIST!
https://tambien.bandcamp.com/track/frente-a-espejos
Looped Bowed Gong - Star of the SeaΒ (Unreleased)
https://soundcloud.com/tambi3n/2-paisaje-oblicuo
https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/track/the-ash-around-us
https://nonturn.bandcamp.com/track/opportunity
https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/track/against-futures
https://ab-marcneys.bandcamp.com/track/tides
https://ab-memoryscale.bandcamp.com/track/pluto-l-o
https://ab-odnu.bandcamp.com/track/dividing
https://lashermanas.bandcamp.com/track/dormir-un-a-o-entero
https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/track/an-impossible-hello
https://andrewfrankel.bandcamp.com/track/anibol-station
https://dj-masuno.bandcamp.com/track/romero
https://ab-strangebird-sounds.bandcamp.com/track/warm-soil
https://ab-strangebird-sounds.bandcamp.com/track/lavender-river
Lay Your Puny Bones Beside the Water by Boduf Songs (Coming 2027!)
https://quixosis.bandcamp.com/track/candela-y-tron-2025-edit
CREDITS!
Additional Voices: Bill Rohlfing and Dan Conroy
Contributing Research: Bethany Jones
Series Producer: Meera Kumar
Managing Editor: Robin Amer
Additional Reporting: Brian Krans, Anya Schultz
Fact Checking: Nicole Pasulka
Visuals: Orla Mc Hardy
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Blood Memory #05: The Brand
Season 11 Β· Episode 5
Monday, March 2, 2026 β’ Duration 41:08
βIt's interesting how people think when they're attempting to justify or rationalize the damage to another human being.β
Michael considers a proposal from the Aryan Brotherhood that could alter his future β and the gangβs.
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PLAYLIST!
https://tambien.bandcamp.com/track/despegar
https://banabila.bandcamp.com/track/early-morning-light
Sax Synth Loop - Star of the Sea (unreleased)
https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/track/chiron
https://quixosis.bandcamp.com/track/reversa-2
https://quixosis.bandcamp.com/track/tigre-de-papel-feat-king-klav
https://rosarito1-2.bandcamp.com/track/tiempo-libre
https://inter-bellum.bandcamp.com/track/remnants-of-structures-built-to-break
https://wilbolton.bandcamp.com/track/swept
https://entranas.bandcamp.com/track/resbala
https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/track/covina
https://entranas.bandcamp.com/track/nublado
https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/track/hesperia
https://eezzmmeerraallddaa.bandcamp.com/track/l-grimas-de-sangre-ii
https://ab-strangebird-sounds.bandcamp.com/track/lavender-river
https://tambien.bandcamp.com/track/deriva-qoa
https://tambien.bandcamp.com/track/17-minutos
https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/track/nonorganics
https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/track/a-crushing-down
https://landless.bandcamp.com/track/the-newry-highwayman
https://rosarito1-2.bandcamp.com/track/karmario
CREDITS!
Additional voice: Tina Antolini
Series Producer: Meera Kumar
Managing Editor: Robin Amer
Additional Reporting: Brian Krans and Anya Schultz
Fact Checking: Nicole Pasulka
Visuals: Orla Mc Hardy
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