The Colin McEnroe Show
Episodes
A New Look Through "Rear Window" at Hartford Stage
10 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In 1954, Alfred Hitchcock directed two movies. They both star Grace Kelly. They’re both murder mysteries involving a married couple and a boyfriend ...
The Scramble: Ana Gasteyer Sings; Recognizing a Hero; Demands on Campus
09 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
You may best remember Ana Gasteyer eating Alec Baldwin's Schweddy Balls as Margaret Jo, the NPR co-host of The Delicious Dish on "Saturday Night Live....
It's an All-Star "Star Wars" Nose
06 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Star Wars fans are anxiously awaiting the release of "Star Wars VII: The Force Awakens," the seventh film in the Star Wars franchise, and fi...
Two Great Authors Share Their Latest Works
05 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Colum McCann was assaulted in New Haven last summer while attending a conference on empathy. He was knocked unconscious and suffered physical and emot...
Why Coincidences Happen: The Psychology and Mathematics Behind Rare Events
03 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Coincidences happen to everyone -- whether it's hearing a song you've been thinking about all day on the radio or running into an old acquaintance who...
Protest Music: Then and Now
03 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Music can be a powerful, transformative tool in the quest for social change. Protest songs are the songs associated with a particular movement.Earlier...
Storytelling With Matthew Dicks
02 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Caroline Jacobs is a grown woman with children of her own. But by all accounts, she's a wimp. She would prefer to suffer in silence than stand up for ...
The World According to Atlas Obscura
30 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Atlas Obscura considers itself a "friendly tour-guide to the world's most wondrous places" -- a number of which can be found right here in C...
The Other Connecticut: The Southeastern Region
29 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Connecticut might mean clapboard homes, leafy suburbs, and town centers that show off their roots to our colonial past. Unless you're thinking of sout...
Is It Time to Take Chinese Medicine More Seriously?
28 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
This year's Nobel Prize went to three Chinese scientists. It was the first time China won a Nobel in science. The committee emphasized it wa...
As Another World Series Starts, How is Baseball Changing?
27 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Tonight the Kansas City Royals and the New York Mets face off in game one of the 2015 World Series. A lot has changed in the 29 years since either of ...
Sloane Crosley Pays Homage to Guy de Maupassant
26 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
We had a great show planned for you today with two great authors. But, sometimes life is crazier than the fiction we talk about and today, we ended up...
The Nose Is Making a Trailer For Today's Show
23 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
This week, movie trailers lost their way when someone advocated boycotting Star Wars VII because they believe the trailer advocated white genocide. Wh...
Don't Let The Bed Bugs Bite!
22 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Humans are used to being the predator, not the prey. But when it comes to our relationship with bed bugs - well, these little critters have been makin...
Celebrating 100 Years of Arthur Miller
20 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
More than a decade after his death, Arthur Miller’s plays continue to resonate with readers and audiences across the world. This October marks ...
The Not-So-Secret Book Club: Purity
20 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Jonathan Franzen has become that rare American author whose life and moods and sulks make news. From his friendship with David Foster Wallace to his f...
All The Scramble's Men
19 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Bob Woodward thought he knew everything about Watergate. Then Alexander Butterfield, now in his late 80's, told him there were other stories never spo...
The Nose Says Lincoln Chafee Won the Democratic Debate
16 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
This past week brought us the long-awaited first of six Democratic candidate debates, held at the Wynn Casino in Las Vegas. The tone was substantive, ...
Are You Prepared for Disaster?
15 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Three years ago, Hurricane Sandy hit the shores of Connecticut, New York, and New Jersey, killing 71 people and causing damages worth $50 billion. We ...
Is College Worth the Cost?
14 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
There's a debate over whether college should prepare kids with specific skills that will prepare them for jobs, or give them a wide-ranging but more g...
A Poet of a Certain Age and Playwright Paula Vogel
12 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
I could have called myself a Stradivarius, for though I, of course, was just an ordinary violin, waiting, ready to be held for the first time in a mus...
The Scramble: Hard Slides and Fantasy Sports
12 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Public radio is one of the few places where you can avoid ads for daily fantasy football companies like DraftKings and FanDuel. If you go anywhere els...
The Nose Just Wants Some Mac 'n Cheese
09 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In 24 hours, UConn freshman Luke Gatti became a viral video sensation. By now, millions have turned on their computers to watch the apparently-intoxic...
A Conversation About Russia, the Cold War, and Espionage With a Once Aspiring Spy
07 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Justin Lifflander wanted nothing more than to become a spy for the CIA. Growing up during the Cold War, he practiced spying on friends, family, and sc...
Philippe Petit's "Perfect Crime"
07 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Philippe Petit made his walk between the towers of the World Trade Center over 40 years ago. He stayed up on that wire for 45 minutes, made 8 passes b...
What's In a Title?
06 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
The opening credits of your favorite movies and television shows set the mood, tone, and characters for what's to come, and allow you to relax and get...
The Scramble: Changing the Gun Conversation
05 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Our weekly Monday afternoon "Scramble" continues the conversation arising from last week’s school shooting in Oregon. As the number of mass shooting...
Shhh... The Nose Met Secretly With the Pope
02 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Pope Francis was the biggest thing to hit America since the British Invasion. You could buy Pope-themed dolls, cookies with the Pope's...
Alan Doyle: From Small Town to Great Big Sea... and Beyond
01 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Alan Doyle is best known as lead singer of the Canadian band Great Big Sea. Recently, however, he's been touring with a different act: Alan Doyle...
U.S. Intelligence Dabbles in Forecasting the Future
29 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
The participants are average citizens: school teachers, waiters, pharmacists, perhaps even your neighbor. By day they work and pay their bills, but wh...
What Does It Mean to Be a Man?
29 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
We've been talking a lot over this last year about problems like misogyny and violence in football, rape on college campuses, mass shootings, and incr...
Walking With Dante
28 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
"Dante's Inferno" is the most famous section of Dante Aligheri's 14,000 line epic poem, The Divine Comedy. But it's only the first part of Dante'...
The Nose Doesn't Cheat On Emissions Tests
25 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Volkswagen is having a moment. Not a good moment, but it's certainly a moment. VW owners are glaring at their vehicles with suspicion after it was rev...
A Cartoonist's Mother's Love Affair With a Cartoonist
24 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
I first met cartoonist Bill Griffith back in the 1980s. I arranged for us to tour a Boston-area Hostess Twinkie plant, which sounds like a weird first...
Scientists Confirm Existence of Woo-Woo. Woo-Woo Declares Results Inconclusive
22 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Between all we know to be true, and all we know to be false, lies a world of woo. Woo-Woo, to use the official term, refers to ideas considered irrati...
Is America Losing Its Bearings?
22 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
There was a time when hard work brought most Americans a decent wage, a secure life, and opportunities to aim for a better life. George Packer says th...
The Scramble: Emmys Start the Week, Pope Closes It
21 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
There's a lot of great TV. We already knew that, but the Emmy Awards reiterated that we live in a golden age of television. "TV is where you meet peop...
The Nose: Clock Debacle and GOP "Crazy Talk"
18 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Ahmed Mohamed is a 14-year-old Texas student who likes to tinker. He was arrested for bringing a home-made clock to school, because school officials t...
The World According to Atlas Obscura
17 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Online guidebook Atlas Obscura considers itself a "friendly tour-guide to the world's most wondrous places" -- a number of which can be foun...
An Hour With Song-and-Dance Man Ben Vereen
16 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Ben Vereen was plucked from the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn to go to the prestigious Performing Arts High School because somebody thou...
Checking In With a Physicist and a Filmmaker
15 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
This hour, we get updates from a few of our favorite former guests. UConn physicist Ron Mallett is looking to fund a feasibility study to pay for the ...
How Can We Help the Syrian Refugees?
14 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Ever since a photo of a Syrian boy dead on a beach made the rounds of the internet, there has been a new focus on the refugee crisis. The United Natio...
Late Show With The Nose
11 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
It was a rocky start to Stephen Colbert's Late Show debut. He admitted he went way over time, and barely got it on the air. But days later, his emotio...
A Conversation With Joyce Carol Oates
09 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Joyce Carol Oates has been writing since before she could read, making "books" by drawing and coloring characters in her tablet. She preferred upright...
Storytelling With Matthew Dicks
09 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Caroline Jacobs is a grown woman with children of her own. But by all accounts, she's a wimp. She would prefer to suffer in silence than stand up for ...
Christopher Shinn Taps Local Roots for Play at Hartford Stage
08 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Born in Hartford and raised in Wethersfield, playwright Christopher Shinn pays homage to Connecticut in a new play called "An Opening In Time."Su...
Making The Nose Great Again
04 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
This hour we'll talk Evan Osnos' in-depth look at the nationalist movement behind presidential candidate Donald Trump. How much power lies with the fr...
Black Holes: How an Idea, Hated By Einstein, Became Loved
03 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
This hour, we celebrate the hundredth anniversary of Einstein's general theory of relativity with author and scholar Marcia Bartusiak. Bartusiak'...
The Inner Circle of Hunter S. Thompson
02 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Hunter S. Thompson was one of those writers whose lives start to matter more than their art. From almost the beginning, life and art were intentionall...
Obsolescence: Novelty Versus Nostalgia in the Age of Mass Production
31 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In an era awash in the rollout of brand new gadgets, gizmos, fashions, and fads, it's easy to think of obsolescence as part of the natural order: Reme...
The Scramble: Bears, Blumenthal, and Boastful Americans
31 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Does it seem like there are a lot of bears in Connecticut? It's hard to have a conversation this summer without someone mentioning they spot...
What Makes a Word a Word?
28 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
If you know how to read, you're probably pretty good at recognizing words. But, new words like "egg corn," "crema" and "slendro" are challenging our c...
Getting to Know Our Iranian-American Neighbors
27 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
America and Iran have not had an easy relationship since 1979, when 52 Americans were held hostage for 444 days by students supporting the Iranian Rev...
Are You Smarter Than an Octopus?
26 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
The octopus has always been the stuff of spine-tingling legend, like that of the Kraken, the many-armed sea monster believed to drag ships to the bott...
Protest Music: Then and Now
25 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Music can be a powerful, transformative tool in the quest for social change. Protest songs are the songs associated with a particular movement. E...
The Scramble: So Wait, What Should You Do in a Terrorist Attack?
24 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Officials in France and the United States are celebrating the actions of three brave passengers aboard a train who thwarted an attack. Did these passe...
Another Supposedly Fun Nose We Will Never Do Again
21 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
“Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a k...
Dragons Rule!
20 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
She who controls the dragon controls the world.Drogon, Rhaegal and Viserion are the most recent dragons to capture our attention, thanks to "Game of T...
Getting Graphic With Roz Chast
19 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In her graphic memoir Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, cartoonist Roz Chast brings humor to the difficult topic of aging parents. Last ye...
Talking With Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch
18 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Colin spent the last few weeks speaking with each of the Bridgeport mayoral candidates likely to qualify for the September 16 primary. First, Joe Gani...
The Scramble: Song of The Summer? Not This Year
17 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Earlier this summer, we spent a full hour listening to candidates for "song of the summer." Now that summer is winding down, we’re still trying to f...
The Nose: Cuckie Monster and Crimson Tide
14 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Last week's Republican debate created chaos on the internets: Trump insulted Fox's Megyn Kelly, which naturally led to ladies live twe...
It's a Left-Handed Show
13 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Lefties have been scorned as evil, and celebrated as superior. But, like so many things in life, being a southpaw is not so easily defined. Suppo...
We're Having a Poo Party!
12 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Today, our show about poo.First, the 'no-poo' movement. Before the last century, people washed their hair a lot less often than we do today. A little ...
Will Mary-Jane Foster Be Bridgeport's Next Mayor?
11 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Candidate Mary-Jane Foster is hoping to qualify for the Bridgeport mayoral primary on September 16. She thinks she's got a pretty good chance.Foster i...
The Scramble: There's an Atheist in the Huddle
10 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Athletes have always used their elevated platform to advance products and ideas. After a game winning play, it's almost expected to hear the star than...
The Nose Has Its Moment of Zen
07 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
So we know that everyone in the world is covering the end of Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show today. We know that you’ve probably already listened to ...
Brrr... Turn Off the Air Conditioner
06 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
It's summer and 90 degrees -- so why am I freezing at the office?A recent New York Times article on air conditioning has sparked a debate on whether a...
Talk to the Hand: The Puppet Show
05 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Who doesn't love puppets?From the Muppets to Edgar Bergen to the Thunderbirds, they defined our childhoods. Today they're taking over the theater with...
Does Your Dog Really Know How You Feel?
04 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Our show is all about "man's best friend." Dogs are, generally, cute and cuddly and many of us adore them. But what's the science behind our pupp...
The Scramble: Can We Say %&!* On-Air?
03 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Internally, NPR has debated when and where it is appropriate to swear. If the President of the United States says the N-word, should it be bleeped on ...
The Nose: The Revenge of Cecil and Amy
31 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
This past week, a Minnesota dentist and father of two shocked us out of our complacency. Desensitized by the weekly shootings this summer of African A...
Is Bridgeport Ready for Joe Ganim's Return?
30 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
No one can argue the charisma of former Bridgeport mayor Joe Ganim. He served five terms as a beloved leader in a city long plagued by crime, po...
Martin Short Is On, I Must Say!
29 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Two funny men. Two funny books. I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend follows the life of Martin Short, a funny man who spent his childho...
Marriage in Our Modern World
28 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Across the United States, partners still hold the institution of marriage dear. Yet as time moves on, there are significant changes in the way America...
The Scramble Kisses Its Chickens*
27 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
The CDC recently announced that kissing or cuddling your chickens is a health hazard. Because… Well, because people kiss or cuddle their chickens, a...
The Nose Refuses To Talk About Sharknado
24 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
This hour, the Nose will definitely NOT talk about Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No!But they will cover Gawker's horrible week. After lots of backlas...
A Woman and Her Store: Remembering Beatrice Fox Auerbach and G. Fox and Co.
23 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
This hour, a panel of experts and historians gives us an in-depth look at the life and legacy of Beatrice Fox Auerbach, owner and CEO of Connecticut's...
The Flap Over Flags
22 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Flags have been in the news a lot lately. South Carolina removed the Confederate flag from its Statehouse this month and one Missouri county thre...
The Backstory of Advice
21 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
What makes advice good or bad? When and why do we listen to what others have to say? It is human nature to turn to others for advice when the going ge...
The Scramble: The Education of a Mass Murderer
20 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In 2011, Anders Behring Breivik killed 77 people in Norway, most of them teenagers. He's serving a 21-year prison term, which can be extended. But in ...
The Nose Talks Race, Politics, and Pluto
17 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
This hour, we'll talk about Ben Rothenberg's Serena-driven body image piece, and the stir it caused. Mark Leibovitch's peice on Support the show:...
What Happened to the Great American Songbook?
16 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
This hour, author Ben Yagoda joins us as we explore the rise, the fall, and the rebirth of the Great American Songbook. Support the show: http://...
The Allure of Gold Throughout History and the Modern Age
15 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
The history of gold is a history of beauty, bloodshed and obsession. Gold has been fought for, worn ornamentally, traded as tender and at times even w...
Stalin's Ghost
14 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Joseph Stalin's only daughter grew up the beloved pet of a man responsible for a decades-long campaign to arrest, torture, execute or forcibly impriso...
The Scramble: Big Week in the Book World
13 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
This week, the long-awaited sequel to Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird hits bookshelves. Since it was announced, questions were raised abo...
The Nose Takes a Selfie With Donald Trump
10 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Univision and NBC cut ties to Donald Trump and he won't be returning to The Apprentice, his long-running television show, because of the inflammatory ...
You Have How Many Kids?
08 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
When I was a child in the 1960's, it was not uncommon to have friends with 5 or 6 siblings. I was one of 4.But, times have changed. For all sorts of r...
The (Sort of) Growth of the Podcast
08 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Podcasts weren't born last year with the arrival of Serial, the wildly successful story of an unsolved 1999 murder that you could hear solely on ...
Which Writers Get Museums?
07 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Twain has many literary sites; yet Henry James has none. You can visit Edith Wharton's house but not Shirley Jackson's. You can walk where Wallac...
Think You Can Write a Broadway Song?
06 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
So, you think it's easy to write a Broadway song? I say not so fast. The four aspiring writing teams that attended Goodspeed's Festival of New Mu...
Innovation in the Arts: The Search Continues
02 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
It's hard to imagine: the idea that the arts, the grand bastion of our creative genius, may soon be bankrupt. But are new ideas really an unlimited co...
Life, Death, Church, and ALS: a Conversation With Nancy Butler
01 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Once upon a time Nancy Butler lived in the Beltway and used her MBA to secure a high paying job with a defense contractor. But Butler had consid...
A Portrait of the "Bro" as a Young Man
30 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In some ways, the 'bro' is not new. He's there, for example, in Philip Roth's "Goodbye Columbus" as Ron Patimkin, the big athletic empty-headed brothe...
Recovering From a Brain Aneurysm With the Power of Cooking
29 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
At 28, Jessica Fechtor suffered a life-threatening brain aneurysm that knocked out some of her senses. Now she has written Stir: My Broken Brain and t...
The Nose: Did Clarence Thomas Watch "GWTW" One Too Many Times?
26 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
The U.S. Supreme Court has affirmed the right of gays and lesbian to marry, as a matter of equal protection. In New York City, the cops were closing o...
I'm "Tryin" to "Take It Easy" But Everyone's Fighting Over The Eagles
25 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
The Eagles first album touched a cultural nerve in 1971, with songs like "Peaceful Easy Feeling" and "Witchy Woman," a prelude to the hits to come. An...
The Insidiousness of Propaganda
23 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
We usually think of propaganda as a tool used by autocrats eager to manipulate minds and limit rights we take for granted in the West. Vladimir Putin,...
Fighting Climate Change Could Involve Changing Your Lifestyle
23 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In 1997, more than 180 nations signed the Kyoto Protocol. The idea was clear and ambitious: Begin the process of saving the planet from global warming...
The Continuum of Racism in America
22 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In the wake of another mass shooting, President Barack Obama took the podium in the White House press briefing room to address reporters. The shooting...