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Love and Radio

PRX

Nick van der Kolk's Love and Radio features in-depth, otherworldly-produced interviews with an eclectic range of subjects, from the seedy to the sublime. Get inside the mind of a rogue taxidermist. Find out what it's like to experience a stroke firsthand. Or spend time with an artist who gives away her life savings every night. You've never heard anything like it before.

Location:

Chicago, IL

Networks:

PRX

Radiotopia

Description:

Nick van der Kolk's Love and Radio features in-depth, otherworldly-produced interviews with an eclectic range of subjects, from the seedy to the sublime. Get inside the mind of a rogue taxidermist. Find out what it's like to experience a stroke firsthand. Or spend time with an artist who gives away her life savings every night. You've never heard anything like it before.

Language:

English


Episodes

Imagine What I Could Do To You

8/2/2023
Originally published in 2018. RIP Adrian Street: 1940-2023. The Exotic Adrian Street grew up in a three generation family of Welsh coal miners, but he wasn’t destined to be in the dark.

Duration:00:41:19

Marriage is a Religion

7/20/2023
Sarah found the perfect husband.

Duration:00:34:06

L+R Presents: Future Ecologies

7/5/2023
A sympoietic stream of consciousness; on language, art making, and more-than-human interconnection, from our friends at the Future Ecologies podcast. Listen to more future ecologies at https://www.futureecologies.net/ !

Duration:00:50:27

Rotting with Style

6/21/2023
Sandor Katz has had a deep and longstanding love affair with fermented foods that spans decades. His book The Art of Fermentation is considered by many to be the Bible of DIY fermentation (although if you're just starting out his book Wild Fermentation is a little less overwhelming). His latest book is Fermentation Journeys. PLAYLISTS AND CITATIONS: https://loveandradio.org/2023/06/rotting-with-style/ SUPPORT THE SHOW: https://loveandradio.org/member

Duration:00:36:42

No Bad News

6/7/2023
Three decades ago, American hypnotist Larry Garrett committed himself to abstaining from the news. So, in 2001, when he received a phone call inviting him to Iraq, he said yes.

Duration:01:00:51

Fearful Symmetry

5/24/2023
One of the great ironies of today's "Golden Age" of podcasts is that it's hard to find work that stands out and has creative ambitions. Fearful Symmetry--a mix of surreal monologues, conversations, and ephemera from Bob Paris--is definitely an exception. I hope you enjoy it as much as I have. https://fearfulsymmetry.org/about/ MUSIC! https://soundcloud.com/pipe-choir-three/prayingspace https://soundcloud.com/gumbelgrumble https://soundcloud.com/pipe-choir-three/the-whisper https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Damiano_Baldoni/Old_Beat/Gothic_trip_with_thunderhorse

Duration:00:38:33

The Other Hand

5/10/2023
Ed does the unthinkable for a young friend. SUPPORT THE SHOW! https://loveandradio.org/member PLAYLIST! Marc Barreca - Music Works For Industry - Music Works For Industry Richard Horowitz - Bandit Nrah Master of Rajasthan - Eros in Arabia Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Suzanne Ciani - Closed Circuit - Sunergy Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Suzanne Ciani - A New Day - Sunergy Helado Negro - Calienta - Private Energy Helado Negro - Tartamundo - Private Energy Michele Mercure - The Intruder - Eye Chant Helado Negro - Runaround - Private Energy

Duration:00:23:36

Representation

4/26/2023
Marilyn York is Reno, Nevada's only attorney specializing in Men's Rights. PLAYLIST! Artist - Song - Album Dialect - Invert Yr Path - Under~Between Flore Laurentienne - Petit Piano - Volume I Dialect - Mesa - Keep Going... Under Carlos Niño & Friends - Commend, NYC Peace 2 - Live at Commend, NYC Orieta chrem & selvagia - Punta Uva - Ramho EP Carlos Niño & Friends - Commend, NYC Peace 4 - Live at Commend, NYC Dialect - Flame Not Stone - Under~Between Isik Kural - yeniden (feat. spefy) - in february Melodium - 26 Septentri - Exhibition #100 Autistici & Justin Varis - Red Grey Orange (Isnaj Dui - Remix) - nine Steve Gunn & David Moore - Over the Dune - Reflections Vol. 1: Let the Moon Be a Planet Cue Shop - Multilane Traffic Interchange - Disquiet SUPPORT! https://loveandradio.org/member SECRETS! https://secretshotline.org

Duration:00:35:47

Refraction

4/12/2023
It took Anwen almost a year to realize that it wasn’t just a bad hookup. Listen to more from Reckonings at https://reckonings.show Support Love + Radio: https://loveandradio.org/member Playlists, transcript and more: https://loveandradio.org

Duration:00:32:36

Mr. Jones Goes to Washington

3/29/2023
Art Jones wants your vote. SUPPORT THE SHOW https://loveandradio.org/member PLAYLIST Emily Sprague - Dock - Water Memory/Mount Vision Marc Barreca - Vs Chorus - Music Works for Industry Palmbomen II - Caitlin Ross - Memories of Cindy Capitol K - City - Island Row Li Yilei - 0.00 - The Wiretapper 49 Capitol K - Breakers - Island Row Ursula K. Le Guin & Todd Barton - A River Song - Music and Poetry of the Kesh Capitol K - Celestial - Andean Dub Champagne Dub - Drops - Drops Wharp & Rom - President Pullman's Elephanthead Patriarchy - Radical American Hippy Kraut Wharp & Rom - Computers - Radical American Hippy Kraut Quixosis - Plan A - Zorroxxe Syrinx - Chant For Your Dragon King - Tumblers from the Vault Quixosis - Carbo'n - Zorroxxe Mess Noir - Fdbck Trpsm 4 - The Wiretapper 49 Wharp & Rom - The Suite - Radical American Hippy Kraut Li Yilei - 0.00 - The Wiretapper 49 Time Wharp - Halpern - Feel No Pain Syrinx - Journey Tree - Tumblers from the Vault Capitol K - Jamboree - Nomad Junk

Duration:00:33:48

Revisiting Eyes Wide Shut

3/15/2023
When I first saw Eyes Wide Shut, I hated it. 20 years later, thanks to poet and sound artist Tracie Morris, I took a second look. Check out Tracie Morris's work here! https://traciemorris.com/ Support the show! https://loveandradio.org/member

Duration:00:23:54

Journey Into Manhood

3/1/2023
David didn’t want to be attracted to men, so he created a program to fix it. Guess how that went.

Duration:00:40:06

Occupation

2/15/2023
They said the war was over. It wasn't. Support the show! https://loveandradio.org/member Playlist: Artist - Title - Album AF Ursin - Reverie en mineur - Aura Legato Mushio Funazawa - Artist - The end of Negation Tashi Wada with Yoshi Wada and Friends - Ground - FRKWYS Vol. 14 Biosphere - 't Schop - The Hilvarenbeek Recordings Leandro Fresco - Cuando El Sol Grita La Mañana - Pop Ambient 2013 Eduard Artemiev - Untitled (Track 4) - Andrey Tarkovsky Vol. 4 Hyperspace Jelly - (Interlude) - Digital Travelogue Jan Jelinek - A Concert For Television - Tierbeobachtungen Hyperspace Jelly - City Nights - Digital Travelogue Craig Leon - The Twenty Second Step As Well As The Tenth - Anthology of Interplanetary Folk Music Vol. 2: The Canon Corey Fuller - Look Into The Heart Of Light, The Silence - Break OSSIA - Devil’s Dance - Devil's Dance Tashi Wada with Yoshi Wada and Friends - FRKWYS Vol. 14 Mushio Funazawa - In the Night of A Red Moon - The end of Negation

Duration:00:35:36

The Boys Will Work It Out, Part 2

2/1/2023
Sarz Maxwell, whose LOTR erotica we explored in Part 1, returns for a very different story about her day job as a psychiatrist, and her controversial treatment of opioid addiction. Playlists/transcripts/more: https://loveandradio.org Support the show: loveandradio.org/member

Duration:00:40:04

La Línea

1/18/2023
In the shadow of a murder trial, a powerful border patrol agent and a reporter/activist develop an unlikely friendship. Maybe. Playlists/transcripts/more! https://loveandradio.org Support the show! https://loveandradio.org/member

Duration:00:38:34

A Girl of Ivory

1/11/2023
Davecat and Sidore had a blissful marriage together in the suburbs of Detroit. One day, a Russian woman showed up unexpectedly at their doorstep, declared her love for both of them, and asked to move in. It was a complicated situation, but that doesn't even begin to scratch the surface of this unusual threesome.

Duration:00:40:03

Points of Egress

12/21/2022
Cynthia discovers her boyfriend Max’s journal. Hilarity ensues.

Duration:00:48:08

Fruit of Knowledge

12/7/2022
As a young Christian growing up in Michigan, Jex Blackmore decided to leave the church after making a stunning realization: Satan was actually the good guy. Final song: Inu by Satomimagae https://satomimagae.bandcamp.com/track/inu-2 Support the show! https://loveandradio.org/member

Duration:00:40:22

Calling Hours

11/23/2022
When other funeral parlors say “no”, Graham Putnam & Mahoney in Worcester, Massachusetts says “yes.” Transcripts, playlists and more! https://loveandradio.org Keep the show going! https://loveandradio.org/member

Duration:00:41:53

Death Dust

11/9/2022
Artist Robert Burch moves to a new city and finds work after calling a number on a bulletin board.

Duration:00:25:20