Fixing Liberalism; COVID-19 News Roundup: New York Edition; A History of...
Coming up on today's show:Zerlina Maxwell, MSNBC political analyst, senior director of Progressive Programming for SiriusXM and the co-host of Signal Boost, and the author of The End of White Politics:...
View ArticleFixing Liberalism
Zerlina Maxwell, MSNBC political analyst, senior director of Progressive Programming for SiriusXM and the co-host of Signal Boost, talks about the day's political news and her new book, The End of...
View ArticleDispatches from 1918
It’s hard to imagine what the world will look like when COVID-19 has passed. So in this episode, we look back to the years after 1918, at the political, artistic, and viral aftermath of the flu...
View ArticleAfter the Hum
In a post-apocalyptic world, a young woman faces her fears of the outside world in order to save her sister.Written by Mary McDonnell.Performed by Marisa Brau, Jessica Morgan, James Dwyer, Gregory...
View ArticleGotcha
A rowdy radio show. A sick listener. A Radio DJ who gets in way, way too deep.This story is a co-production between Snap Judgment Studios, Hi-Phi Nation with Barry Lamb, and our dear friends over at...
View ArticleThe Haunting of Radio Centro
Everyone who works at Radio Centro knows it’s haunted. But Guillermo, the host on the station’s paranormal show “Tell it Tonight” is about to discover that he has psychic powers that make him...
View ArticleAppearances
Appearances is “an audio mind trip about an Iranian-American woman, the family she carries around in her head, and the family that she wants to have.” It’s a wonderful new 10-part series from producer...
View ArticleSmile My Ass
Candid Camera is one of the most original – and one of the most mischievous – TV shows of all time. Admirers hailed its creator Allen Funt as a poet of the everyday. Critics denounced him as a Peeping...
View ArticleHow Rush Limbaugh Paved The Way For Trump REBROADCAST
What more can we say: El Rushbo is dead. He died Wednesday after a months-long bout of lung cancer, and following decades of racist invective, misogynistic bombast, and other assorted controversy. He...
View ArticleHow We Produce The Takeaway in a Pandemic
This week marks one year since our team here at The Takeaway began working from home, for the most part. Our board operators and engineers have been working from the studio all along to broadcast the...
View ArticleArtist Propulsion Lab Guest DJ Orion Weiss
Tune in this Wednesday, April 21, at 7 pm to hear Artist Propulsion Lab pianist, Orion Weiss, guest host our evening programming. In 2005, Orion Weiss toured with the Israel Philharmonic and Itzhak...
View ArticleFifty And Forward: An Anniversary Celebration Of NPR
NPR grew up alongside a post-Watergate journalism ethos that shaped the media industry for decades. Hosted by Audie Cornish and featuring other NPR journalists, we'll unpack that ethos: how it...
View ArticleHey DJ! - Snap Classic
A tiny, pirate radio station broadcasts to the thousands of families trapped in ISIS-controlled Mosul. A man’s fingers fly across the keys with ease when he sits down at a piano for the first time. And...
View ArticleHow Radio Makes Female Voices Sound Shrill
"Shrill" popped back up in the national lexicon in the coverage of Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential bid, and again, in a 2020 race filled with female candidates. "This spike in usage is hardly a...
View ArticleCBC's 'The Flamethrowers' and the History of Right-Wing Radio
CBC podcast producer Justin Ling, who helmed the Uncover series, The Village, joins us for his new podcast, The Flamethrowers, which investigates the history of right-wing radio and how it provided a...
View ArticleThe Moth Radio Hour: Wedding Dress, Prison Choir, and Hot Dogs
A feminist searches for the perfect wedding dress, a playwright visits a prison in Malawi, a man spends a lifetime regretting a single moment, and a new mother struggles with her prosthetic arm. Hosted...
View ArticleBecoming A Parent Of Six, At 25
On weekdays between 10 and 3, Yesi Ortiz is the warm, flirty host for the popular Los Angeles hip-hop station Power 106. But off the air, she’s a dedicated single parent of six adopted kids.Her kids'...
View ArticleA History of Boston's Legendary Rock Station, WBCN
The documentary, "WBCN and The American Revolution," and its new companion book tell the story of Boston’s legendary radio station, which established itself through coverage of the musical, political,...
View ArticleThe Moth Radio Hour: The Moth StorySLAM
In this hour we’ll travel around the country to hear stories from our live open mic StorySLAM events: Louisville, Kentucky; San Francisco; Burlington, Vermont; Portland, Oregon; as well as the...
View ArticleFrom the WNYC Archives: the Holidays in NYC
We go back into the WNYC archives to hear what the holidays sounded like in New York City back in the day. We play clips of old broadcasts from interviews with Santa Claus, the sounds of carols and...
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