This is the official announcement of Professor Quinn Mecham's radio show on the Middlebury College radio station WRMC, Fridays at 5pm. It's a fusion of news and music: five news items from this week and music to go along with the stories. Don't miss the best entertainment WRMC has to offer. This week's music will include songs by Phish, the DuBay Band, Dance Hall Crashers, The Red Army Choir, the department of homeboy security, The Beatles, Matt McCluer, The Red Elvises, Abaji, and Paul Simon. Tune in locally or online!
Addendum: The Show outline
All music listed is available on iTunes. The news summaries are mine, not exact quotes.
News item: The BBC reports a man boarded a plane in Peru with a monkey under his hat, which was discovered at New York's LaGuardia airport on Wednesday August 8.
Music:
I Really Love My Monkey (by Kid Andersen)
Sleeping Monkey (by Phish)
Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey (by The Beatles)
News item: The Canadian Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, has begun an Arctic tour to strengthen his country's claim on the region. Last week, Russia placed a flag at the North Pole.
Music:
Arctic Wind and Ice (by Alan Tower)
O Canada (by The DuBay Band)
Russian National Anthem (by The Red Army Choir)
Arctic Zone (by Isolation Years)
North Pole (by Dance Hall Crashers)
Diplomacy (by the department of homeboy security)
News item: The German newspaper Spiegel reports that a giant Lego man washed up on a beach in the Netherlands.
Music:
Lego (by Ian Gomm)
Plastic Man (by The Temptations)
Washed Up By the Ocean (by Jamie Junger)
Boogie On The Beach (by Red Elvises)
News item: The New York Times reports that a man was detained by officers of the law after his homemade submarine came too close to a cruise ship off Brooklyn's Pier 41. The submarine was a plywood replica of America's first submarine, the Turtle, from the Revolutionary War. See also.
Music:
Submarine (by Here Comes Everybody)
Mr. Submarine (by Russ Tolman)
News item: The BBC reports: Unity call as Afghan jirga opens. Afghan President Hamid Karzai tells tribal leaders at a peace summit that unity with Pakistan will defeat militants.
Music:
The Tribe Is Back Together (by Matt McCluer)
Pakistanaise (by Abaji)
Peace Like a River (by Paul Simon)
5 comments:
Thanks for posting this. On Friday I realized that I hadn't learned how to connect. This helps; thanks! I'm looking forward to this week's broadcast.
I desperately want this as a podcast so I don't have to tune in at a particular time that will rarely be good for me. Tell Prof Mecham to get recordings of it and then we'll figure out how to start him into the world of podcasting!
I too would listen if podcast. 5 pm is Metro time for me, and I would never hear it.
Yeah, 5 is a bad time: I'm trying to listen while making dinner with three whiny kids in the kitchen! He can't do that time slot in the Fall anyway: it's reserved for NPR and Democracy Now. He'll have to decide if he can do it some other time or if he'll give it up. (Maybe Friday 4 at 8...?)
There's obviously a way to record it; the week he was gone they just replayed his show from the previous week. He'll have to work that out with the "staff" up there. Last week, though, it was all on auto-pilot, so there wasn't any staff. (Kari, that's why he was a bit thrown off when you called in- he was nervous about getting everything right without anyone there to help.) Presumably, it's a tighter ship during the regular school year. We'll check into recording it this week and let you know.
OOh, thanks for posting the addendum - nice stuff! I like the hopeful ending with "Peace Like a River".
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