You may know him as THE voice of NPR. He recently lent his talents to the band Capital Cities on their song, Farrah Fawcett Hair, featuring André 3000 from Outkast. We asked him about how he was convinced to do this - and we found out that it involves Phil Rizzuto.

NPR's Frank Tavares Ventures Into Pop Music

Stupidity - King Midas

Stitch by Stitch by Javier Colon

Ladysmith Black Mambazo Ofana Naye (live)

Ladysmith Black Mambazo Homeless (live)

Joe Bagliere just returned from Ukraine where he was serving in the Peace Corps. He explains the different pronunciations of Ukraine's capital from the perspective of an American living there.

Photo of Joe enjoying a bagel in Kiev/Kyiv.

Pronounciation Of Kiev/Kyiv

Charla Nash Clip

Charla Nash 911 Clip

A mash-up of Diana Ross' "I'm Coming Out" and "Mo Money Mo Problems" by The Notorious B.I.G., performed by West End Blend.

Photo of Tangsauce by Chion Wolf.

West End Blend - I'm Coming Out/Mo Money Mo Problems

Students at New Haven's Foote School play Old Joe Clark on dulcimers made in Connecticut.

"Old Joe Clark" at Foote School

What it sounds like when you slow a hummingbird's call down.

Listen Closely: There's A Song Hidden In This Hummingbird's Chirp

The story of Ed Thrall and his contentious dance hall, produced by WNPR's Catie Talarski. Aired on Colin McEnroe Show 09/30/2014

Ed Thrall's Hall

Audio of William Gillette as Sherlock Holmes

A Conversation about the new play "Reverberation" with actor Luke Macfarlane and playwright Matthew Lopez 

A Conversation with actor Luke Macfarlane and playwright Matthew Lopez

Original Music by David Teie / Image Credit: Flickr Creative Commons, Captain Bagpuss

Cat Music: "Rusty's Ballad"

Edward Kamuda from the Titantic Historical Society talks to WNPR's Where We Live, April 16, 2008. Kamuda died in 2014. For more: 
http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2014/04/edward_kamuda_founder_of_titan.html

Where We Live Archives: Edward Kamuda - Titantic Historical Society

WNPR's Ray Hardman talks with E.C. Schroeder, director of Yale's Beineke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and the acquisition of the Meserve-Kundhardt Collection.

E.C. Schroeder talks about Yale's acquisition of rare 1860s photography

Graham Nash discusses a Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young reunion.

Hear more from WNPR's Tucker Ives:
http://wnpr.org/post/after-40-years-graham-nash-says-theres-still-music-be-made
Image Credit: Connormah / Creative Commons

Graham Nash: "The only important part is the music."

WNPR's Ray Hardman talks with Middletown resident Chris Hinze, who discovered the factory site where the first Indian motorcycle was built in 1901.

Middletown's Chris Hinze discovers the first Indian motorcycle site

Blue Whale calls recorded in the Atlantic Ocean. NOTE: Sounds have been sped up 10x from their original speed. (Credit: Wikimedia Commons)

The Sounds of Atlantic Blue Whales

WNPR's Ray Hardman talks with Yale Law School prof. Judith Resnik about the recent "Time-In-Cell Report" which tallied the number of prisoners in the U.S. being held in solitary confinement.

Interview with Yale Law Professor Judith Resnik

For a while, biologists thought giraffes couldn't produce sustained vocalizations. But this montage of hums, pulled out from nearly 1,000 hours of audio, are adding another piece to the puzzle of giraffe communication. 

(Image Credit: Martin Pettitt / Audio Credit: Anton Baotic, Florian Sicks, and Angela S. Stoeger, "Nocturnal “humming” vocalizations: adding a piece to the puzzle of giraffe vocal communication")

Listen to this Giraffe "Hum"

Inmates from the MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution in Suffield, Connecticut talk about Dante.

More from WNPR's Betsy Kaplan:
http://wnpr.org/post/connecticut-inmates-travel-through-dantes-inferno

Inmates Talk Dante on The Colin McEnroe Show

The Needle Drop's Anthony Fantano shared more music than we had time to air on WNPR's "Where We Live." One of those tracks was "Those Who Can't, Cheat" by Clarence Clarity.

Hear Anthony talk about the song and hear a clip from it.

For more of his top picks of 2015, go to http://wnpr.org/post/best-songs-2015-needle-drops-anthony-fantano-shares-his-top-picks

The Needle Drop Review of Clarence Clarity

Robert Cotto Jr. is Trinity College’s director of Urban Educational Initiatives, and an elected member of the Hartford Board of Education. 

He describes the impact of redlining in Hartford and the complications behind new development in these historically disinvested neighborhoods. 

Robert Cotto on Redlining in Hartford

Paul Gagne is production manager for Weston Woods Studios, where Morton Schindel produced hundreds of films based on beloved children's books. Schindel died on August 20 at the age of 98. Photo of Schindel: Scholastic, Inc.

More from WNPR's Ray Hardman:
http://wnpr.org/post/morton-schindel-visionary-producer-childrens-films-dies-98



Paul Gagne on Morton Schindel, visionary producer of children's films

WNPR's Diane Orson profiles Connecticut veterans Pete Roe and Melinda Burnham. Both served as musicians for the U.S. Armed Forces in Iraq.

Songs Of War: A Conversation With Military Musicians Pete Roe and Melinda Burnham

Lyrics by Colin McEnroe. Music/singing by Chion Wolf. 
Listen to the full show: http://wnpr.org/post/mysterious-and-misunderstood-melania-trump

"Ode to Melania Trump" by Colin McEnroe & Chion Wolf

WNPR intern Timothy Cohn interviews his mother Patricia Cohn, neice of "Radium Girl" Mae Keane.

Remembering Waterbury "Radium Girl" Mae Keane

We spent so much time this morning making fun of our own show topic — namely: prog rock — and our own lead guest — namely: Mr. Dankosky — that Colin almost couldn't make it through the prerecorded intro to our hour.

Here's the whole show, which includes more recognizable words and somewhat fewer laughs:
http://wnpr.org/post/show-never-ends

Colin Loses It Over Prog Rock

Dr. Dev Roy is a palliative care doctor, and the chair of bioethics at Montefiore Nyack Hospital and Sound Physicians in Nyack, NY. He tells me how their new musical tradition began.

Listen to the whole episode of Us in the Time of Coronavirus: https://www.wnpr.org/post/helpers-helping-helpers

How Montefiore Nyack Hospital uses music to play Covid survivors back into the world

Brock Hamilton is an X-ray technician at Yale New Haven Hospital, but he’s been re-assigned to a support team helping with some of their sickest Covid-19 patients. They’ve been playing Andra Day's "Rise Up" every time one of those patients is released from their hospital, and I asked him how it all got started.

Listen to the whole episode of Us in the Time of Coronavirus: www.wnpr.org/post/helpers-helping-helpers

How Yale New Haven Hospital helps patients "Rise Up" and go home after Covid-19

Even if you’re not in the dating world, you’ve probably heard of Tinder or OK Cupid. The photo of the person you’re checking out is prominent, and in milliseconds, you either choose to dig a little deeper and see what they’re about, or you swipe ‘em into oblivion.
 
But there’s a new app - S’More, which stands for “Something More”, that makes the photo the LEAST accessible feature... and its launch just this January may have come at the perfect time. 

People seem to be less interested in hookups, and more interested in substantial romances that can be more suited to navigating life in a pandemic.

I asked the President & CEO of S’More, Adam Cohen-Aslatei, why he designed the app this way. What’s at the heart of why photos are NOT the initial priority of his dating app?

A Conversation with the Founder of the Dating App, S'More, Adam Cohen-Aslatei

Kathy Shea Mormino of Suffield, Connecticut, is better known as “The Chicken Chick”. She’s the author of “The Chicken Chick’s Guide to Backyard Chickens: Simple steps for healthy, happy hens”, and she’s got almost 800,000 folks following her advice and almost daily educational livestreams on Facebook. I asked her what kind of changes she’s seeing in the chicken world since the pandemic hit.

Extended Conversation with Kathy Shea Mormino, "The Chicken Chick"

We had so many great stories about tattoo coverups for our show, that we had to make a second collection of 'em!
Thanks to everybody for telling me their story! 
Check out the on-air broadcast here:https://www.wnpr.org/post/change-art-stories-about-tattoo-coverups

Audacious Tattoo Coverup Episode - WEB EXTRA

Colin McEnroe's closing essay from the Season Two finale of Pardon Me (Another Damn Impeachment Show?).

More from Connecticut Public Radio's Pardon Me:
https://www.wnpr.org/post/acquitted-or-dorothy-were-not-phillydelphia-anymore

Colin's Closing Thoughts from Pardon Me, Season Two

We started off our conversation defining what exactly a superstition is and isn't. 
Listen to the full show: https://www.wnpr.org/post/are-you-very-superstitious-or-little-stitious

Audacious Extended: DR McElroy on Superstitions

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