The Colin McEnroe Show
Connecticut Public Radio
The Colin McEnroe Show is public radio’s most eclectic, eccentric weekday program. The best way to understand us is through the subjects we tackle: Neanderthals, tambourines, handshakes, the Iliad, snacks, ringtones, punk rock, Occam’s razor, Rasputin, houseflies, zippers. Are you sensing a pattern? If so, you should probably be in treatment. On Fridays, we try to stop thinking about what kind of ringtones Neanderthals would want to have and convene a panel called The Nose for an informal roundtable about the week in culture.
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Mar 8, 2018 • 50min
An Hour With Martin Amis
The Times of London has said that Martin Amis "is as talented a journalist as he is a novelist." His latest collection of essays and reportage covers 1994 through 2017, Travolta through Trump.Amis joins us for the hour.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mar 7, 2018 • 50min
Is Democracy Dying?
Populism is on the rise from Europe to India to the United States.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mar 6, 2018 • 49min
Voodoo Unveiled
Voodoo is more than just a misunderstood religion, its practice draws on age-old beliefs, cultural elements, and folk traditions from a multitude of nations and ethnic groups.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mar 5, 2018 • 50min
The Scramble: Dark Clouds Over The White House
Like the Alexander of children's literature, President Trump had a "terrible, horrible, no good, very bad" week.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mar 1, 2018 • 50min
It's The Nighttime Noscars!
It's The Nose's annual Academy Awards special, and this year we're doing it live at night.The Nose has covered 15 of this year's Oscar-nominated movies. The only Best Picture nom we missed was Darkest Hour, so we're doing this show at the, uh, darkest hour of the day that we're on.Or... something.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mar 1, 2018 • 49min
An Ode To Obituaries And Obituarists
On the one hand, obituaries are an amalgam of a bunch of different kinds of journalism: they're feature stories, they're profile pieces, they cover history, and they're hard news too.On the other hand, the subject is always... dead.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Feb 28, 2018 • 50min
Slime: From Spontaneous Generation To Internet Sensation
Slime is not something we often think about. But there are plenty of reasons why that should probably change: From the theory that life on Earth may have have first emerged from a primordial ooze, to the current slime-making craze that's sweeping the internet.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Feb 27, 2018 • 49min
An Hour With David Gelernter
Consciousness has been an elusive enigma for philosophers and scientists alike for about as long as there've been philosophers and scientists.And, while it's long been thought that artificial intelligence would bring us the next big breakthroughs in our understanding of consciousness, A.I. authority David Gelernter has a different idea entirely.He looks for answers to these fundamental questions in, instead... literature.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Feb 26, 2018 • 50min
The Scramble: Mueller And Parkland Developments, Plus: Your Calls
Grading on the post-2016 scale, it was a relatively earth shattering revelation-free weekend. And so we have some time to regroup and take a look at more iterative developments in Mueller investigation- and Parkland-adjacent news.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Feb 23, 2018 • 50min
The Nose Goes To 'Black Panther'
Ryan Coogler's Black Panther is the eighteenth feature film entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It is the sixth movie in Phase Three, and it's most directly a sequel to Captain America: Civil War, the first film of the phase.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
