ARRVLS

Series produced by Jonathan Hirsch

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Image by: Michelle Ovalle 

Stories of migration, transformation, and change. A program that explores what we do, when what we've done, is a thing of the past.

Breathtaking explications of the moments that punctuate and reinvent our lives. Near-death experiences, life-defining coincidences, and sudden awakenings. ARRVLS takes you by the hand, and leaves you where you need to be.

Written and produced in Brooklyn, New York, by Jonathan I. Hirsch.


18 Pieces

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Disillusionment
From: Jonathan Hirsch
Series: ARRVLS
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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...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2016
  • Length: 26:10
Cosmic Wind
From: Jonathan Hirsch
Series: ARRVLS
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What's it like to experience total memory loss? Oyevind Aamot experienced the unimaginable. After traveling the world for years, he awoke from a fa...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 08, 2016
  • Length: 32:40
  • Purchases: 1
Sacred Operator
From: Jonathan Hirsch
Series: ARRVLS
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A tarot card reader details how he got into the business of divination.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 06, 2016
  • Length: 10:47
  • Purchases: 1
Norman's House
From: Jonathan Hirsch
Series: ARRVLS
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A story of three friends, a disease, and the opera.

  • Added: Mar 25, 2016
  • Length: 20:25
Junji
From: Jonathan Hirsch
Series: ARRVLS
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What does it feel like to be an outside in the middle of a national crisis? A Japanese-Canadian perspective on the earthquake and tsunami that shoo...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2016
  • Length: 22:37
Refusenik Love
From: Jonathan Hirsch
Series: ARRVLS
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Like many Soviet defectors, Olga left a life behind when she emigrated to the U.S. in the early 80's. This episode of ARRVLS tells the story of lov...

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  • Added: Mar 05, 2016
  • Length: 16:42
  • Purchases: 1
Movements
From: Jonathan Hirsch
Series: ARRVLS
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Do you know that feeling you get when you’re about to leave a place? Like you’re seeing it all for the first time? That all the sounds and sights ...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2016
  • Length: 22:59
Gringa Sis
From: Jonathan Hirsch
Series: ARRVLS
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A young man's journey from his home in Chile to his host family in suburban Minnesota quickly turns from exciting adventure to a nightmare.

  • Added: Dec 26, 2015
  • Length: 30:20
This Moment is Worth It
From: Jonathan Hirsch
Series: ARRVLS
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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...

  • Added: Dec 05, 2015
  • Length: 31:20
Alpha-1
From: Jonathan Hirsch
Series: ARRVLS
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We all live with the knowledge of our own mortality, but what about those who know more, how do you chart a course through the world when the end i...

  • Added: Dec 05, 2015
  • Length: 22:34
Miss Eva
From: Jonathan Hirsch
Series: ARRVLS
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This episode of ARRVLS chronicles one woman's journey to find solace and happiness in the wake of tragedy. A story about faith and the legacy of su...

  • Added: Dec 05, 2015
  • Length: 30:04
Manhattan Milonguero
From: Jonathan Hirsch
Series: ARRVLS
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From the trading room floors to the Milongas of Buenos Aires, how 9/11 and the days that followed took one man on a path of self-discovery.

  • Added: Sep 17, 2015
  • Length: 26:15
Felix The Different
From: Jonathan Hirsch
Series: ARRVLS
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"My understanding had a name now." An 86 year old retired autistic judge chronicles his journey from the Everglade Swamp of the segregated South to...

  • Added: Aug 27, 2015
  • Length: 20:50
King Rickey & The Knights of The Playa
From: Jonathan Hirsch
Series: ARRVLS
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The story of one man's complicated love affair with a bi-polar woman, and how it all came to a head at the Burning Man Festival in the Nevada desert.

  • Added: Aug 05, 2015
  • Length: 13:11
In The Left Pocket, By My Heart
From: Jonathan Hirsch
Series: ARRVLS
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A story about the transformative power of loss. How one tiny life can become so large, that you begin to see it everywhere and in everything that y...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Jul 31, 2015
  • Length: 20:02
  • Purchases: 1
Two Doves
From: Jonathan Hirsch
Series: ARRVLS
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Julie had never planned to be a mother. When her partner of ten years suffered a near fatal stroke and moved back home with his family, she found h...

Bought by KALW


  • Added: Apr 01, 2015
  • Length: 10:58
  • Purchases: 1
Ricochet
From: Jonathan Hirsch
Series: ARRVLS
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On christmas day, the propellor on a four-seater cessna died, along with the engine. Robin Holleran and her brother-in-law found themselves floatin...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 30, 2015
  • Length: 11:38
  • Purchases: 1
The Blazing Echidna
From: Jonathan Hirsch
Series: ARRVLS
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The story of Ethan Hughes: a real-life superhero.

  • Added: Jan 06, 2015
  • Length: 10:50