Guest host Guest host Neil Gaiman introduces two American classics. In Ray Bradbury’s futuristic “The Veldt,” a virtual reality nursery turns on its owners. The reader is Stephen Colbert. In James Thurber’s “The Catbird Seat,” a mild-mannered employee plots revenge. Leonard Nimoy performs.
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Dreams and Schemes -Selected Shorts: On Air
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A Touch of Magic - Selected Shorts
Tony-winner James Naughton reads Andrew Lam’s “The Palmist,” in which a teenage boy learns about his future, on a bus. The English humorist Saki depicts upper-class horticultural snobbery in “The Occasional Garden.” Daniel Gerroll reads. Donald Barthelme’s surreal story “The Balloon” describes its sudden appearance in the sky over Manhattan. Maria Tucci reads with wry charm. The program closes with Haruki Murakami’s unsettling tale “The Little Green Monster,” which faces a repressed housewife with a deceptively nightmarish creature.
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WNYC - Radiolab » The Loudest Miniature Fuzz
This week Jad talks with the band Buke and Gass (pronounced ‘Buke and Gase’) about the weird and wonderful twangy chaotic sounds they make with their homemade instruments. Though they sound like a whole rip-roaring party of bodies, the band is in fact only comprised of two people: Arone Dyer and Aron Sanchez. Together they play for us, attempt to describe their genre-bending sound, and talk a bit about what’s it like to play out what you don’t say.
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PRI: Selected Shorts Podcast A Touch of Magic
Tony-winner James Naughton reads Andrew Lam’s "The Palmist," in which a teenage boy learns about his future, on a bus. The English humorist Saki depicts upper-class horticultural snobbery in "The Occasional Garden." Daniel Gerroll reads. Donald Barthelme’s surreal story "The Balloon" describes its sudden appearance in the sky over Manhattan. Maria Tucci reads with wry charm. The program closes with Haruki Murakami’s unsettling tale "The Little Green Monster," which faces a repressed housewife with a deceptively nightmarish creature.
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