The Next Big Thing Archive
August 2003
You’re the Fool
Friday, August 29, 2003
The Next Big Thing is radio drama. We're giving over the whole hour to "You're the Fool," written by Roy Nathanson for our show. It's more than a play with music. In a way, it's an extended musical composition … with a plot.
Strange Combo
Friday, August 22, 2003
We look at what happens when disparate elements collide – when, say, old New York City subway cars are sunk to the bottom of the ocean, or when a fifty-year-old Vermont drive-in movie theater doubles as a motel. Or when writer Meg Wolitzer re-invents the movie trailer as a vehicle for wish-fulfillment. Also this week, a futuristic comedy from the Naked Angels Theater Company about the limits of cryonics technology.
Hot, Hot, Hot
Friday, August 15, 2003
Some ways to beat the heat – with verse recommended by Poet Laureate Billy Collins, romantic fiction from sound artist Miranda July, and the steel pan rhythms of Trinidad émigré Rudy King. Also, a conversation in the hot kitchen of “Cakeman” Raven Patrick DeSean Dennis III. And André Aciman on writing in exile.
Digging
Friday, August 08, 2003
Digging around in strange places for insight, talent, and humor. Anthropologist Sherry Ortner searches for the Class of ’58, Weequahic High, Newark, NJ. Karen Michel goes back to Alaska to find out why she lost her husband to gold fever. We dig for talent at Amateur Night at Harlem’s Apollo Theater. And we poke around in American history, and in the unconscious, to better understand our President.
Speak for Yourself
Friday, August 01, 2003
Conversations with two men for whom conversation is rarely a simple proposition. One’s a well-known nature writer. The other is a young man from rural Pennsylvania. Both have struggled to overcome or make peace with a stutter. Also, Rick Moody’s short story, “Boys,” adapted for radio in collaboration with composer and performer Meredith Monk.
Windows 
Windows 
Windows 
Search current and archival WNYC broadcasts. More
- The Leonard Lopate Show: The Lyme Disease Epidemic (July 01, 2008)
- The Leonard Lopate Show: Underreported: Nurse-Patient Ratios and the Future of Health Care (July 03, 2008)
- The Leonard Lopate Show: Give Us This Day, Our Daily Meds (June 30, 2008)
- The Brian Lehrer Show: Before There was Stephen Colbert, There was George Carlin (July 02, 2008)
- The Leonard Lopate Show: The End of Food (June 30, 2008)