Snap Judgment
Snap Judgment mixes real stories with killer beats to produce cinematic, dramatic radio. Snap’s raw, musical brand of storytelling dares listeners to see the world through the eyes of another. It's storytelling... with a BEAT.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 40 minutes
- Episodes
- 489
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2025
The Badlands
For two years, ISIS fought to take over the city of Mosul, killing 40,000 civilians. This is a story about a group of men and women from around the world who packed up their bags, flew into Iraq, and…
00:50:02 |
Thu 19 Apr 2018
Running Man
When a rising high school track star in Eritrea, East Africa, is arrested under the military dictatorship, he realizes he might have a way out....run.
Season 9 Episode 13
00:26:58 |
Thu 12 Apr 2018
26 Lives On Atlas Peak
On Atlas Peak there is one way in and one way out. When wildfire threatened their homes, the only escape route...was up.
Check out KQED's fire investigation.
Producer: Sukey Lewis
Season 9 Epi…
00:13:38 |
Fri 06 Apr 2018
Unforgiven
There is a line, draw it in the sand, shake on it, mark it in blood, but if you cross it... there is no going back.
Season 6 Episode 12
00:50:23 |
Thu 29 Mar 2018
Breakfast Of Champions
Stories of young people using every trick in their little arsenal to win praise and love, only to find themselves alone in the end.
Season 9 Episode 11
00:49:25 |
Thu 22 Mar 2018
Fargo - Snap Classic
Paul Berczeller examines the case of Takako Konishi, who died in a frozen forest on the North Dakota/Minnesota border looking for the treasure from the Coen Brother’s film Fargo.
Producer: Joe Ro…
00:19:39 |
Fri 16 Mar 2018
The Trouble With Shannon Cason
KC was a rising star, improving Detroit’s most troubled public schools. But to do that, she cut some legal corners that put her in prison.
Season 9 Episode 10
00:49:56 |
Fri 09 Mar 2018
Counted: An Oakland Story
Counted: An Oakland Story is a yearlong look at the people lost to Oakland’s violence. During 2017, a team of Snap Judgment producers learned about Oakland’s homicide victims, their families and comm…
00:59:51 |
Thu 01 Mar 2018
Big Girls Don't Cry - Snap Classic
When the going gets tough, the tough make stuff happen. Featuring stories about rattlesnakes pageant queens, Apache orphans, and the legendary Xiao Xiao.
00:51:27 |
Mon 26 Feb 2018
Lifted
Avraham’s story was included in a 12-part Hebrew webseries called Neviim: Operation Amramby Elad Ben Elul (@Eladbenelul) and Yossi Brauman. Read hundreds more testimonies like Avraham’s at Amram’s we…
00:23:42 |
Thu 22 Feb 2018
Quake City Hero
In 1989, an enormous earthquake struck the Bay Area. One of Oakland’s major arteries, the Cypress Freeway, collapsed. And one man named Raven left his home and dove into the wreckage to save lives.
…
00:15:39 |
Thu 15 Feb 2018
The Spelling Bee - Snap Classic
When Snap Judgment producer Davey Kim was in eighth grade, he went to the regional level spelling bee with his best friend...and took R-E-V-E-N-G-E.
00:06:11 |
Tue 13 Feb 2018
Monk Of Mokha
The story of how Mokhtar Akhanshali braved a civil war to bring Yemeni coffee to the world.
Dave Egger’s biography of Mokhtar, The Monk of Mokha, is available wherever books are sold. And be sure…
00:43:10 |
Thu 08 Feb 2018
Ear Hustle Special - Left Behind
Ear Hustle brings you stories of life inside prison, shared and produced by those living it. The podcast is a partnership between Earlonne Woods and Antwan Williams, currently incarcerated at San Que…
00:40:42 |
Wed 31 Jan 2018
Senior Year Mixtape
Snap spends a year with three Mission High School seniors Brantin, Damaris, and Alex as they try to make sense of adulthood in a rapidly changing San Francisco.
Producers: Adizah Eghan, Liz Mak, El…
00:52:16 |
Thu 25 Jan 2018
Soundtrack Of Silence
What sounds would you want memorize if you were told you were going to be completely deaf before you turned 28?
Producer: April Dembosky
Original Score: Renzo Gorrio
Sound Design: Leon Morimoto…
00:33:07 |
Mon 22 Jan 2018
Linda, Loretta, and Me
What happens when boy meets girl and… fungus?
Season 9 Episode 2
00:11:41 |
Thu 18 Jan 2018
How Estee Got Her Zumba Back
What if you were born to twerk it, but you didn't know how to work it? Estee Rose grew up in a tight-knit Ultra-Orthodox neighborhood in Brooklyn. Find out how she reclaims her faith after she loses …
00:32:26 |
Sat 13 Jan 2018
Tonya For Hire - Snap Classic
What if one day you found out you look like one of the most famous people in the country -- who everybody hates?
Lynn Harris is an author, commentator, award-winning journalist and mostly-retired c…
00:11:42 |
Wed 10 Jan 2018
Stoopid
There are big stories with weight, little stories with heart, and then the stories that are just STOOPID.
Season 8 Episode 33
00:23:06 |
Fri 05 Jan 2018
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