Wish We Were Here
Colorado Public Radio
A former monthly documentary series from KRCC that features stories and investigations that complicate Colorado Springs' reputation as one of America's most conservative cities.
Location:
United States
Networks:
Colorado Public Radio
Description:
A former monthly documentary series from KRCC that features stories and investigations that complicate Colorado Springs' reputation as one of America's most conservative cities.
Language:
English
Episodes
Wish We Were Here Episode 16: Liberty’s Pitchman — Robert LeFevre & The Freedom School
6/17/2016
In the mid-20th Century, a man named Robert LeFevre (pronounced Luh-FAVE) created a small mountain academy just north of Colorado Springs called The Freedom School.
Duration:00:58:55
Wish We Were Here, Episode 15: Acre for Acre — The Fight for Strawberry Fields
5/20/2016
On this weekend’s special episode of Wish We Were Here, we take a close look at all sides of the proposed Broadmoor land swap deal and the way that open […]
Duration:00:57:02
Wish We Were Here, Episode 14: Shorty—The Life and Disappearance of Mike “The Bike” Rust
4/15/2016
UPDATE: On Monday, 4/25/16, the Colorado Bureau of Investigation officially confirmed that the remains found in January in Saguache County were those of Mike Rust.
Duration:00:57:20
Wish We Were Here, Episode 13: The Girl Who Dug Up Dinosaurs
3/18/2016
A 12-year-old girl in blue jeans probably isn’t the first thing you picture when you hear the word paleontologist.
Duration:00:58:52
Wish We Were Here, Episode 12: Avalanche on America’s Mountain
2/19/2016
Most people think of Pikes Peak as a tourist destination – the Fourteener with a highway and a donut shop on top.
Duration:01:01:03
Wish We Were Here, Episode 11: Dragonman – Behind the Guns
1/15/2016
With a national debate raging about the 2nd Amendment, we went to meet a man who epitomizes the right to bear arms: Dragonman.
Duration:00:58:37
Wish We Were Here, Episode 10: After the Evangelical Vatican
12/4/2015
For many years in the 1990s and 2000s, Colorado Springs was so synonymous with conservative evangelical Christianity that it earned the nickname “The Evangelical Vatican.” But in late-2006, Pastor Ted […]
Duration:00:59:24
Wish We Were Here, Episode 9: Three Degrees of Lorne Greene
10/5/2015
On this episode of Wish We Were Here, we bring you three stories from three current or former Colorado springs residents, completely unknown to one another.
Duration:00:39:49
Wish We Were Here, Episode 8: CSPD Black — The True Story of COS’ First African American Detective
8/21/2015
On this episode of Wish We Were Here, we bring you the story of Ron Stallworth.
Duration:00:44:21
Wish We Were Here, Episode 7: Bishop Castle
6/5/2015
PODCAST In 1959, at the age of 15, Jim Bishop bought a plot of land in the Wet Mountains, west of Pueblo, Colorado.
Duration:00:59:02
Wish We Were Here, Episode 6: Anchor Dreams — The Passion of Scoop Nemeth
4/17/2015
(Many poems in the slideshow NSFW or young eyes.) In this episode of Wish We Were Here, we tell the story of Colorado Springs native Brian “Scoop” Nemeth, a man with […]
Duration:00:58:58
Wish We Were Here, Episode 5: The Gods Must Be Bewildered
3/5/2015
In 2002, retired FBI and CIA investigator Charlie Hess began writing letters Robert Charles Browne, a convicted murderer who claimed to have killed dozens of other people around the country.
Duration:00:58:19
Wish We Were Here, Episode 4: Growing Up With Gay Parents in Colorado Springs
2/6/2015
On this episode of Wish We Were Here, Producer Noel Black tells the story of a small community of kids who grew up in Colorado Springs with gay parents.
Duration:00:49:46
Wish We Were Here, Episode 3: The Beginning of the End of Homelessness?
12/8/2014
At an old prison in southeastern Colorado, an experimental new program is working to help chronically homeless people from around the state rebuild their lives.
Duration:01:00:08
Wish We Were Here, Episode 2: Ludlow and its Legacy
10/31/2014
This episode of Wish We Were Here was originally broadcast in November of 2014 On April 20th, 1914, just north of Trinidad, Colorado, one of the bloodiest, most overlooked events […]
Duration:00:56:10
Wish We Were Here — Pilot: “I is An Other”
7/3/2014
In this pilot episode of Wish We Were Here, we critically examine the career of one of the 20th century’s most infamous con-artists, Storme Aerison.
Duration:00:53:26
Wish We Were Here — Program Trailer
7/2/2014
“Wish We Were Here” – Enjoy this introductory teaser for the pilot episode, I is An Other, which unpacks the story of Storme Aerison (aka Charles Daugherty, Storme Ireland, etc.,) the […]
Duration:00:00:31