So what I'm saying is give lots of money to WNYC and tell them you like Radiolab
I've mentioned Radiolab before. Radiolab is a show about science on NPR... Don't you run away! It's really interesting, and not just to self-confessed geeks like me. The two hosts are engaging and have great back and forths. Using their skill in storytelling, including absolutely incredible editing, the hosts can make subjects that make the heads of full-fledged scientists spin understandable without talking down to their audience.
"War of the Worlds" is a great starting point. The show was taped live so you don't get as many of the cool editing devices, but you get a good sense of who the hosts are and how the show works and a new perspective on the mass hysteria surrounding Orson Welles' 1938 radio play. My personal favorite shows, along with "War of the Worlds," are "Emergence" and "Diagnosis", but they are all worth a listen.
The reason I felt the strong urge to pimp Radiolab is that I just discovered a show which technically isn't Radiolab, but was produced and hosted by the main producer and host of it so it feels like Radiolab. It is all about Wagner's Ring Cycle and it is phenomenal. Whether you're a Ring addict or an opera hater it is worth a listen. I learned things about "Leb Wohl," the reason I became a fan of James Morris and went to see him in Dayton, that I never even considered. I nearly broke down in tears at work listening to the description of Brunnhilde and Wotan's love and the explanation of how Wagner conveyed it through his ever evolving motifs. Besides, the show is called "The Ring and I." How can you resist that?
Incidentally, that's not the first time I've had tears in my eyes at work. The first and only other was the first time I heard the song "Half a Heart." I'm such a wimp sometimes.
Speaking of great co-host rapport, intelligent discussions, and great editing Made of Fail episode 14 came out a few weeks back. It is the Watchmen episode and they really smacked it out of the park.
Also in the Watchmen vein: Rorschach's journal on a boring night and Saturday Morning Watchmen. The latter takes a lot of the darker, more "adult" moments of Watchmen and makes them kid friendly while a peppy 1980s-esque Saturday morning cartoon theme plays in the background. Absolutely astonishing. And hilarious.
"War of the Worlds" is a great starting point. The show was taped live so you don't get as many of the cool editing devices, but you get a good sense of who the hosts are and how the show works and a new perspective on the mass hysteria surrounding Orson Welles' 1938 radio play. My personal favorite shows, along with "War of the Worlds," are "Emergence" and "Diagnosis", but they are all worth a listen.
The reason I felt the strong urge to pimp Radiolab is that I just discovered a show which technically isn't Radiolab, but was produced and hosted by the main producer and host of it so it feels like Radiolab. It is all about Wagner's Ring Cycle and it is phenomenal. Whether you're a Ring addict or an opera hater it is worth a listen. I learned things about "Leb Wohl," the reason I became a fan of James Morris and went to see him in Dayton, that I never even considered. I nearly broke down in tears at work listening to the description of Brunnhilde and Wotan's love and the explanation of how Wagner conveyed it through his ever evolving motifs. Besides, the show is called "The Ring and I." How can you resist that?
Incidentally, that's not the first time I've had tears in my eyes at work. The first and only other was the first time I heard the song "Half a Heart." I'm such a wimp sometimes.
Speaking of great co-host rapport, intelligent discussions, and great editing Made of Fail episode 14 came out a few weeks back. It is the Watchmen episode and they really smacked it out of the park.
Also in the Watchmen vein: Rorschach's journal on a boring night and Saturday Morning Watchmen. The latter takes a lot of the darker, more "adult" moments of Watchmen and makes them kid friendly while a peppy 1980s-esque Saturday morning cartoon theme plays in the background. Absolutely astonishing. And hilarious.