The Colin McEnroe Show

News & Politics Podcasts

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,...

Episodes

The day the clowns cried: A look at ‘Circus Fire’ and the Hartford circus fire

The intangibility of ‘good taste,' from literature to food

All calls: deChardin will take you on a hot air balloon ride you weren’t expecting to go on

What the golden age of Condé Nast can tell us about the future of magazines

The Nose looks at ‘Lord of the Flies’ and ‘The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins’

Listen and you shall hear the lore and legend of Paul Revere

George Orwell saw it coming

Monsters: A look at the real, the fake, and the friendly

All calls: ‘I’ll never call while eating a hamburger again’

An hour with Rupert Holmes

O Romeo (and Juliet): The lasting appeal of Shakespeare’s tragedy

Occam’s razor makes the case for simplicity in a complex world

Beverly Gage's road trip through American history

All Calls: Rome is kind of like a lasagna

Wild and crazy guys: A look at ’80s comedies

Beam me up! A look at teleportation

Rope has been knotting humanity together for centuries

The value of introspection in an outward-looking world

All Calls: With callers like these, who needs Shazam?

How critics and creatives grapple with spoilers and plot twists, like those in 'The Drama'