Dispatches 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 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 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
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 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...
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 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 Article'Playing in the FM Band: The Steve Post Story'
The late Steve Post (1944-2014) was one of the most recognized radio voices in New York City. From broadcasting on WBAI, to later on our very own WNYC, Post was a consistent, humorous, and thoughtful...
View ArticleRadio Ukraine
Kraina FM is a commercial music station in Ukraine. When the war began, it rebranded itself as the “radio station of national resistance.” Nicolas Niarchos, who visited the makeshift production studio,...
View ArticleRadio Ukraine
Kraina FM is a radio station that broadcasts in Kyiv and more than twenty other cities, playing Ukrainian-language rock and pop. When Russia invaded Ukraine, it took on the mantle of “the station of...
View ArticleRadio Ukraine
Kraina FM is a radio station that broadcasts in Kyiv and more than twenty other cities, playing Ukrainian-language rock and pop. When Russia invaded Ukraine, it took on the mantle of “the station of...
View ArticleRadio Ukraine
Kraina FM is a radio station that broadcasts in Kyiv and more than twenty other cities, playing Ukrainian-language rock and pop. When Russia invaded Ukraine, it took on the mantle of “the station of...
View ArticleWNYC Airs New Class of Radio Rookie Stories
WNYC’s youth radio initiative, Radio Rookies, is presenting its new season of stories this week. These young journalists are between the ages of ages 16 to 24 and have come from all over New York City....
View ArticleA Ukrainian Diplomat on the Future of Russian Aggression
Ukraine’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Sergiy Kyslytsya, spent his career trying to avoid Russian aggression; he watched as the effort failed and Russia set out to conquer Ukraine or...
View ArticleWNYC's 98th Birthday!
Today is WNYC's 98th birthday! We take a trip through the archives and hear a recreation, from 1948, of the station's very first broadcast, as well as some summer safety tips from a former mayor.*This...
View ArticleThe Writer Dmitry Bykov on Putin’s Russia, the Land of “Most Free Slaves”
Dmitry Bykov was a force in Russian cultural life; now he’s effectively in exile, probably for as long as Putin remains in power. Bykov speaks with David Remnick about the state of Russia—and...
View ArticleKelefa Sanneh Picks Three Songs on Country Radio Right Now
“In country music, you haven’t quite made it until the radio stations are playing your song,” Kelefa Sanneh, who covers music and other subjects for The New Yorker, says. That’s in contrast to rock and...
View ArticleThe Nerdwriter Conquers the Internet, Plus Kelefa Sanneh on Country Radio
Evan Puschak, known on YouTube as the Nerdwriter, posts videos dissecting topics from Shakespeare and Tarkovsky to Superman; from Martin Luther King, Jr., and Bernie Sanders to Donald Trump. The videos...
View Article504- Bleep!
There's a particular one-kilohertz tone that is universally understood to be covering up inappropriate words on radio and TV. But there are other options, too, like silence -- so why did this...
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 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 ArticleRadio 77 - Snap Classic
A DJ hosts a radio show from a garden shed in his backyard. For over forty years he had an audience of one. This story was co-produced in partnership with our friends at Narratively, which celebrates...
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 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 ArticleWNYC's New Sounds Turns 40
John Schaefer, host of WNYC's New Sounds, discusses his show's 40th anniversary and previews some fall music events to look out for.
View Article517- The Divided Dial
If you’ve ever flipped through the radio dial — not satellite, not podcasts, but good old-fashioned AM and FM radio — you may have noticed something. Right wing radio talk is everywhere.But the...
View ArticleThe Divided Dial - BONUS EPISODE!
We covered a lot of ground in the series, so in this bonus episode we wanted to give space to some of the voices we couldn’t fit into the story; a concerned citizen who tried to take the issue of...
View Article#4725, Radio Is Everything
“[Radio] contains so much of human culture and experience”, writes Chicago-based cellist and sound artist Lia Kohl. “In general there is something a bit mystical about the radio -- I know...
View ArticleHow did Talk Radio Get So Politically Lop-Sided?
How did the right get their vice grip of the airwaves, all the while arguing that they were being silenced and censored by a liberal media? This week, we look at the early history of American radio to...
View ArticleJon Meacham on How the Trump Fever Breaks
In 2018, at the midpoint of the Trump Presidency, the journalist and historian Jon Meacham wrote a book called “The Soul of America,” warning of the gravity of Trump’s threat to democracy. This was...
View ArticleJon Meacham: Indictment Won’t Break the Trump Fever
The journalist and Presidential historian Jon Meacham has written biographies of Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, George H. W. Bush, John Lewis, and, now, Abraham Lincoln. He has served as an informal...
View ArticleKelefa Sanneh on the Sad State of Rock
The longtime music critic Kelefa Sanneh calls mainstream rock “the most unfashionable music in America” right now. But there are some artists bringing new energy to the genre, dusting off the sounds of...
View ArticleBoom!
In late 2016, American diplomats in Havana, Cuba started hearing a mysterious buzzing sound, followed by debilitating symptoms. On this week’s On the Media, why the government now disputes theories...
View ArticleThe Divided Dial: The Political Force of Far-Right Talk Radio
Katie Thornton, independent journalist, public historian, Fulbright fellow, and host of The Divided Dial, a series on WNYC's On the Media, discusses her Peabody-award winning series with On the Media...
View ArticleThe Decline of AM Radio Will Hurt More Than Conservative Talk Shows
This spring, Volkswagen and Mazda announced that they will be removing AM radios from their upcoming fleets of electric vehicles.Tesla, BMW, Audi, and Volvo have already gotten rid of AM radios in...
View ArticleMysteries of Sound
In late 2016, American diplomats in Havana, Cuba started hearing a mysterious buzzing sound and experiencing debilitating symptoms. On this week’s On the Media, why the government now disputes theories...
View ArticleThe BBC at 100
[REBROADCAST from November 11, 2022] In November of 1922, BBC radio first crackled into the homes of Londoners. Over the next century, the BBC would expand far beyond news and become one of the world’s...
View ArticleHas the Podcast Bubble Finally Burst?
The podcast industry has seen a staggering number of layoffs over the past year, and they've hit public radio hard. In April, NPR laid off 10 percent of its staff, and cancelled popular podcast-only...
View ArticleMicah Speaks To Kyle Chayka About The Filter World
Micah Loewinger is hosting this episode, he introduces it with a personal reminiscence:"Before I landed a job at this show, I worked for a few years, on and off, at a couple record stores around New...
View Article#4725, Radio Is Everything
“[Radio] contains so much of human culture and experience”, writes Chicago-based cellist and sound artist Lia Kohl. “In general there is something a bit mystical about the radio -- I know...
View ArticleGarth Greenwell on Finding Refuge in the Music of Britten and Pears
“What this music shows me is real life — a life that I feel determined to find somewhere in the world.”By now, Garth Greenwell is an award-winning author, poet, literary critic, and teacher of writing...
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