Domestic comedy
“This person being interviewed is answering every question by starting with the word ‘sure.’”
Weather in the air
Diane Schirf writes about weather radios.
“Anthony! Anthony!”
Mary Fiumara was the voice in the Prince Spaghetti commercial.
“Lush Life” plus
Duke Ellington and the radio personality William B. Williams talk. Billy Strayhorn sings and plays.
NPR voice
“If I could attempt to transcribe it, it sounds kind of like, y’know . . . this .”
Definitely NPR
Oh NPR. The mock-with-it-ness sounds so hollow.
Eames radios
Experiments in the plywood-molding process.
The libertine of the day
A good time to revisit the story of I, Libertine.
The Real Housewives of NPR
“Public radio ought not to serve as an organ of publicity for junk-pop-culture. NPR’s willingness to do so makes me less and less interested in kicking in to support NPR.”
It’s the Weekend Edition lapel pin
Here’s what it looks like.
NPR, sheesh
“Everything from Duck Dynasty to Survivor.”
NPR speaking
“Here’s some really cool music from Chile that I can’t stop listening to at the crib.”
Any port in a storm
“Five-hour-energy-dot-com. This is NPR.”
Public radio map
I like exploring the weirdness of “the dial,” all of it, but I still think I would find this page invaluable on a long car trip.
“War of the Welles”
A KPCC radio documentary about the Mercury Theatre’s 1938 adaptation of H. G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds.
Vin Scully on statues
“I would rather just be part of the scenery, rather than be standing out.”
Recently updated
More details of the like s in the latest This American Life.
This American like
We listened while driving, and every like, well, it like hung in the air in the car, and we couldn’t even open the windows because it was so hot outside. I mean seriously, seriously hot.
Bob and Ray and Komodo dragons
News of a new Komodo dragon exhibit at the Bronx Zoo made me think of Bob and Ray.
Bob Wolff’s archive
Seventy-four years in sports broadcasting
TAL at Harper High School
Chicago’s Harper High School is the subject of two episodes of This American Life.
“In the hinterlands”
“Well, you two, I’m so glad you've come. It gets kind of dull here in the hinterlands.”
“Calamari”
Elaine and I listened last night to This American Life’s inquiry into the possible existence of imitation calamari.
“Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory”
This American Life has retracted its story “Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory.”
Jo Jones Centennial Festival
On WKCR-FM.
BBC on podcasts
Who still listens? Lots of people.
In defense of college radio
Vanderbilt University has sold off its radio station, and former DJ Freddie O’Connell objects.
Farewell, Liane Hansen
Liane Hansen hosted her last Weekend Edition Sunday this morning.
HOUSE TO NPR: DROP DEAD
“My NPR stations, WILL-AM and -FM, are local treasures. If they were to disappear, I’d have little reason to own a radio. I am sorry but not surprised to see that Congressman Tim Johnson (R, Illinois-15) voted to end federal funding of NPR.”
Supporting NPR
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