These podcasts are recorded live in Los Angeles Central Library's Mark Taper Auditorium as part of the award-winning ALOUD at Central Library speaker series presented by the Library Foundation of Los Angeles. ALOUD podcasts are updated on a weekly basis. Initial funding for ALOUD podcasts was made possible by Arent Fox LLP.
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![Stephen Greenblatt](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/podcastgreenblatt.jpg?itok=-lTWJyVh)
Stephen Greenblatt, Jack Miles
October 5, 2017
Fiction/Literature, Religion/Spirituality
![Danielle Allen](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/podcastallen.jpg?itok=TkVTYfFR)
Danielle Allen
September 26, 2017
Essay/Memoir
![Chaz Bojórquez](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/podcastbojorquez.jpg?itok=jAtZ_QVw)
Chaz Bojórquez, Dario Canul, Cosijoesa Cernas, Amanda de la Garza
September 19, 2017
Arts & Entertainment
![Ngugi wa Thiong'o](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/podcastthiongo.jpg?itok=ArnzTXV1)
Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Richard Ali A Mutu
July 31, 2017
Fiction/Literature
![Ali Noorani](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/podcastnoorani.jpg?itok=u1rvb3d-)
Ali Noorani
July 27, 2017
California/The West, Current Events, Social Sci/Politics
![Chiwan Choi](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/podcastchoi.jpg?itok=Ya8F6ioL)
Chiwan Choi, Natalie J. Graham, Ashaki M. Jackson, and TK Lê
July 25, 2017
Poetry
![Maile Meloy](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/podcastmeloy.jpg?itok=MKlZdgri)
![Arundhati Roy](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/podcastroy.jpg?itok=qvOaal0g)
![Manal al-Sharif](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/podcastalsharif.jpg?itok=8mpm9B5a)
![Alan Alda](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/podcastalda.jpg?itok=IIBXWzhC)
![Tim Weiner](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/podcastweiner.jpg?itok=x4KNYVhQ)
Tim Weiner
June 6, 2017
Current Events, Social Sci/Politics
![Robert Sapolsky](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/robert-sapolsky-credit-thompson-mcclellan-photography.jpg?itok=u6P2mCoa)
Robert Sapolsky, Amy Parish
May 25, 2017
Science/Nature
![Dennis Lehane](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/podcastlehane.jpg?itok=iKCWAsCA)
Dennis Lehane, Attica Locke
May 23, 2017
Arts & Entertainment, Fiction/Literature
![Janna Levin, Sean Carroll](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/podcastlevin.jpg?itok=DzWXDLC4)
![Richard O. Prum](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/podcastprum.jpg?itok=8ITLKEyG)
![Central Library as seen from Flower Street](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/mg1529.jpg?itok=KVw0L8F-)
Victoria Chang, Brendan Constantine, Kim Dower, Blas Falconer, Amy Gerstler, Doug Kearney, Brynn Saito
May 11, 2017
Poetry
![David Francis](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/podcastfrancis.jpg?itok=zMzot-LD)
![purple logo for Kingsley & Kate Tufts](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/2017-25th-circle-logo.jpg?itok=SQ99F5rj)
Vievee Francis, Phillip B. Williams, Alice Quinn
April 20, 2017
Poetry
![David Owen](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcastOWEN.jpg?itok=k-9Geuqp)
David Owen, Judith Lewis Mernit
April 18, 2017
Science/Nature
![Rosa Brooks](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/podcastbrooks.jpg?itok=us-IaGl4)
Rosa Brooks, Nicholas Goldberg
April 13, 2017
Social Sci/Politics
![Abdellah Taïa](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/podcasttaia.jpg?itok=iZ9kWe3o)
![Cheech Marin](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/podcastmarin.jpg?itok=kc7QiPIV)
Cheech Marin, Marisol Hernandez
March 28, 2017
Arts & Entertainment, Essay/Memoir
![Elif Batuman](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/elifbatuman-beowulf-sheehan.jpg?itok=PlVLqtBc)
![Jonathan White](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/podcastwhite.jpg?itok=hhnn602-)
![Poet and essayist Ocean Vuong](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/podcastvuong.jpg?itok=3rrkett-)