Category: radio

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on December 7, 1964, London

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Democracy Now! and Pacifica Radio Archives aired a newly discovered recording of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on December 7, 1964. King, invited by Christian Action, spoke at City Temple Hall, London, on his way to Oslo to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.

Brian DeShazor of Pacifica Radio narrates its finding from their archive and some context for the recording.

Ira Glass on Radiolab

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Ira Glass geeks out on Radiolab for Transom.org.

I marvel at Radiolab when I hear it. I feel jealous. Its co-creators Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich have digested all the storytelling and production tricks of everyone in public radio before them, invented some slick moves of their own, and ended up creating the rarest thing you can create in any medium: a new aesthetic.

 

Jad Abumrad is a MacArthur Fellow.

Robert Krulwich‘s piece on Lucretius is lovely.

Tavis Smiley Radio : The Medicalization of Race

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Tavis Smiley hosted a roundtable discussing the implications of genome project on drugs, race and medicine.  Some of the points are more cultutral anthropology than medicine, but apparently, that is what has been missing in some medical practice.

Here are the direct links to the mp3s — one, two, three, four.

P.S.  I am still mad at Tavis for leaving NPR.