The Frame/KPCC: Meet the woman behind L.A.’s epic balloon installations (starts 18:38 in episode)

Outlook/BBC World News Service: A homeless pianist brings joy to L.A.’s Union Station (starts at 17:30)

The Frame/KPCC: What if President Donald Trump was on your improv team?

Design and Architecture/KCRW: At Podshare, living communally without privacy

SoundsLA/KCRW: Maybe the last elevator operator in L.A.

Outlook/BBC World News Service: Meet ‘The 5th Dementia Band’

The Frame/KPCC: LA’s feminist artists get help from the Women’s Center for Creative Work

Welcome to L.A./KCRW: Five sound portraits of Angelenos sharing their L.A. story ( Liz, Randi, Megan, Cheryl, Claire) to promote new podcast

Take Two/KPCC: Crystals, aura readings and healing treatments are no longer the ‘hippie fringe’ in LA

Runner’s World Show: Running everyday is everything to two teenage brothers (story starts at 35 min)

Off-Ramp/KPCC: This Garden Grove tattoo shop is one of the only places to get a proper Samoan Tattoo

University of Southern California: If you the chills from music, you may have a unique brain

University of Southern California: USC’s scientific glassblower lets chemists’ dreams become reality

KCRW’s 24-Hour Radio Race, 2016: Finding Lola