30 episodes
The Bat Segundo Show & Follow Your Ears Edward Champion
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3.9 • 15 Ratings
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The Bat Segundo Show is a cultural radio program devoted to quirky and very thorough long-form interviews with contemporary authors, idiosyncratic thinkers, and other assorted artists. Guests have included John Waters, John Updike, Stephen Fry, Marilynne Robinson, Karen Russell, David Lynch, Weird Al Yankovic, Robert A. Caro, and more than 500 others. Follow Your Ears is an investigative radio program committed to original inquiry and the pursuit of a specific subject through several angles. A new Follow Your Ears episode is released every month. The remaining weeks are devoted to Bat Segundo. New shows are released every Tuesday.
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My Henry James Problem: Dinitia Smith and Susan Mizruchi (The Bat Segundo Show #553)
This Bat Segundo special chronicles Our Correspondent’s indefatigable and good faith efforts to find appreciation for an author he does not care for — namely, Henry James. Our Correspondent read numerous books for this particular episode and appealed to several James scholars and acolytes to help set him straight. Susan Mizruchi is most recently the […]
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5. Compassion Fatigue (The Gray Area)
Emma is a top-notch psychiatrist who can change the lives of the most difficult patients imaginable. But there's a great personal cost to her formidable talents that she's not telling anyone about, an internal torment eating away at her inner life that she's hiding from her patients and her professional peers and that a quiet survivor of an abusive relationship may just have the answer for. (Running time: 25 minutes)
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4.5. The Waiting Room (The Gray Area)
Virginia Gaskell finds herself on the other side of the portal that lured her in, greeted by an extremely exuberant (and strangely familiar) receptionist, some squawking avians that aren't quite okay with her love of chicken fajitas, and further mysteries about how the universes rupture into each other. (Running time: 7 minutes)
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4. Loopholes (The Gray Area)
As a thriving empire faces war with ferocious barbarians, a mischievous scholar named Minerva hopes to bring law and civilization to a great realm populated by talking birds, giant rats, gregarious knights, elemental gods, and menacing malasanders. An unanticipated dispute among the knights gives Minerva an opportunity to uphold the doctrine of moral principles, but Minerva finds herself testing her loyalty to her aide-de-camp while helping others to learn what honor, empathy, and identity really mean. (Running time: 32 minutes)
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3. Fuel to the Fire (The Gray Area)
An artisanal mustard retailer from Astoria finds herself in a strange realm with the ability to set things on fire. Meanwhile, Ed Champion continues his investigation into Miss Gaskell's disappearance, meeting a woman in mourning who may hold the answer to his own strange curse. (Running time: 19 minutes)
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2. Brand Awareness (The Gray Area)
Joanna loves Eclipse Ale. It's the best beer in the world. She has boxes of Eclipse memorabilia. She regularly wears Eclipse baseball caps. But on one rainy night, Joanna discovers that this happy relationship (along with the relationship with her boyfriend) is not what it seems. Why can't she remember what her boyfriend gave her on their second anniversary? And why doesn't anybody know about Eclipse Ale? (Running time: 28 minutes)
Customer Reviews
Pretentious, but still interesting
I quite enjoy this podcast. He often asks thought-provoking questions and has really great, intelligent guests. I disagree with those who would argue that Champion doesn't come off as pretentious, though. He often stumbles over his own words, asking questions in 60 words that would be much more clear in 10. He has, multiple times, confused his guests this way. Sometimes he seems confused by himself. There have been many times I couldn't understand what the hell he was trying to ask, and it's not because I'm an idiot. His guests frequently need him to repeat his questions. It's sort of cringe-worthy. I get the impression that Champion is not an artist himself, so sometimes it's a little embarrassing when he has analyzed a text or film, all extra-pedantic, and then asks the artist a specific question about that analysis when, for the artist, much of creation is done at a subconscious level. I think this is why Mike Leigh got so pissed off in their interview. Too much head, not enough heart. Still, it's a good podcast, and Champion seems well-intentioned. I appreciate it.
Underwhelmed
Just listened to the Greg Sestero/Tom Bissell interview. The interviewer is very smarmy and kind of antagonistic. Keeps trying to needle the guests for no reason. Very offputting.
Great, Fantastic, and Good
Marvelous, real, informed, talks with writers, I couldn't live without.
Thanks!