Friday’s Poem: “Truth” by Leonard Nathan from The Potato Eaters. Friday’s Literary Notes: It’s the birthday of the British scientist Henry Cavendish, born in 1731 in Nice, France. He’s the man who discovered hydrogen, which he called “inflammable air,” and he wrote about it in 1766 in a scientific paper called “On Factitious Airs.” Cavendish was painfully shy — so shy that he didn’t really like to publish his papers, and so he conducted lots of experiments that he didn’t tell anyone about. It…
There's way too much audio in the world to catch everything that comes out of your clock radio. Public Radio Redux shines a spotlight on stories that makes you turn and look at your speakers. It's a curated list, a place to make comments, and a blog about making radio. Consider it the espresso in your daily public radio fix.
Public Radio Redux was started by two friends who bonded over the joys and pain of making radio. Jen Nathan and Erin Mishkin met at the Salt Institute of Documentary Studies and quickly bonded over a shared love of podcasts and bloody marys. Rather than boring their friends with another unrehearsed live re-enactment of their favorite radio shows, they started this blog.