Offshore Postcard: The Queen’s Quarantine
In 1881 — less than a week after King David Kalakaua left Hawaii for a yearlong tour around the world — a ship arrived in Honolulu carrying...
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Offshore, from Honolulu Civil Beat & PRX, is a new immersive storytelling podcast about a Hawaii most tourists never see. In Season 1, “A Killing in Waikiki,” Offshore investigates the viole...
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20 of 41 episodesS4 Episode 6: Homecoming
How do you practice Hawaiian culture when you’re thousands of miles from Hawaii? And what happens when Hawaiians abroad finally get a chance...
S4 Episode 5: Leaving Home
Nearly half of all Native Hawaiians now live outside of Hawaii. And while many have cited Hawaii’s high cost of living as the main reason fo...
S4 Episode 4: On The Road
After the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom in 1893, hundreds of disenfranchised Hawaiian musicians would journey to the continental U.S. in...
S4 Episode 3: Hawaii’s Sons Of The Civil War
Two decades after Hawaiians helped build a fort for John Sutter in California, another group of Hawaiians would find themselves stranded in...
S4 Episode 2: The Tribe
This is the story of a group of Hawaiians who ended up in California more than 160 years ago — back when Hawaii was an independent nation. A...
S4 Episode 1: Should I Stay or Should I Go?
Nearly half of all Native Hawaiians now live outside of Hawaii. It’s a staggering number that raises questions about what Hawaii will be lik...
Offshore: “Far From Home” — coming soon
This season, Offshore is taking a deep dive into the Hawaiian diaspora. Join journalist Kuʻu Kauanoe, as she digs into what is driving Hawai...
Offshore Postcard: Our Journey to the Last Wild Place
The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands is one of the most remote places on Earth. Now, it’s threatened by climate change, pollution and politics.
S3 Episode 8: Family
When we started reporting this season, we expected it to be a story about troubling adoptions that happened in the 1990s. But it quickly bec...
S3 Episode 7: Reunions
There’s an entire generation of Marshallese adoptees like London Lewis asking questions about who they are and where they come from. And the...
S3 Episode 6: Majuro
London Lewis had to get back to work in Florida, so we’re continuing the search on his behalf — journeying to the Marshall Islands to where...
Chasing Leads
We started reporting for this season of Offshore last June, but we’re still chasing down leads and new developments. It’s been a busy few we...
S3 Episode 5: Not by Accident
London Lewis’ biggest worry when he arrived in Springdale was how he would be received. Would other Marshallese people recognize him? Accept...
S3 Episode 4: An Unbreakable Bond
In Springdale, London Lewis begins to experience Marshallese culture for the first time. He’s going to meet people he’s only read about in W...
S3 Episode 3: Springdale
The biggest population of Marshallese in the U.S. isn’t in Hawaii. Or even a coastal state. It’s in Springdale, Arkansas - a small, unassumi...
S3 Episode 2: Missing History
Susette Lewis was excited when she arrived in Honolulu in 1992. And like most new moms, nervous. Uncertain of what to expect. She didn’t kno...
S3 Episode 1: The Adoptions
International adoptions were a rarity in the Marshall Islands until the mid-'90s. Then came an adoption boom of such intensity that the remo...
Offshore: “The Blood Calls” — coming soon
A young man on a quest to find his birth family. An adoption market that rocked an island nation. A culture in danger of disappearing — and...
Offshore Postcard: A Nuclear Party
Hawaii’s false nuclear alarm scare sends Offshore reporters on a trip back in time to 1962, when Hawaii had a very different kind of brush w...