The New Yorker Radio Hour - Coming Soon: The New Yorker Radio Hour
Episode Date: October 17, 2015One of the nation’s most celebrated magazines comes together with New York’s flagship public radio station to create a new weekly radio program and podcast. What’s it all about? New Yorker Radio... Hour listeners, we want to hear from you. We have a few questions about the show and how you listen to it. The survey takes about twenty minutes, and your feedback will help us make our podcast better. Take the survey here.
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I'm David Remnick, editor of the New Yorker magazine, and I'm here to talk radio.
This is the New Yorker Radio Hour.
What is it exactly?
Well, first thing, it's an experiment.
Each week, we're going to bring you stories and profiles and humor,
all of it inspired somehow by the New Yorker magazine.
How does this work as a national story?
And at the center of things will be the writers and artists and editors
who work here at our offices at One World Trade Center.
This won't be an audio version of the magazine or the website.
It'll be its own thing.
radio. Sure. Each week
we'll have in-depth conversations.
Do you like dogs or cats better? We'll explore ideas
that are central to our lives now.
I mean, I was the dream of Malcolm X, that we could separate
ourselves, that we could divorce ourselves from what this
was. Do you want that?
I want that.
We'll hear stories about the human condition.
One of the first things Nina told me
was that
Bob Dylan really loved your father.
We'll take you into the city.
How much money have you found this year on the streets
of New York? My total is 30,
Across the United States and the world.
Are you still in Cuba?
Yeah, I'm in Santiago.
I've listened to radio all my life, and there was a good reason for that.
I was a childhood insomnia.
It was a classic confrontation.
I listened to all kinds of radio to the wildness of Bob Fasso's show on WBAI.
You brought electricity with you?
Yes, I did.
To the endless conversations of Long John Nebel on WMCA.
And, of course, music all night long.
For me and like so many other people, radio brought me to other worlds.
And that's what we'll try to do for you.
So join me for the first episode of The New Yorker Radio Hour.
A co-production of the New Yorker and WNYC Studios.
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