The Colin McEnroe Show
Connecticut Public Radio
The Colin McEnroe Show is public radio’s most eclectic, eccentric weekday program. The best way to understand us is through the subjects we tackle: Neanderthals, tambourines, handshakes, the Iliad, snacks, ringtones, punk rock, Occam’s razor, Rasputin, houseflies, zippers. Are you sensing a pattern? If so, you should probably be in treatment. On Fridays, we try to stop thinking about what kind of ringtones Neanderthals would want to have and convene a panel called The Nose for an informal roundtable about the week in culture.
Radio: WNPR (Connecticut Public Radio)
Categories: Society & Culture
Listen to the last episode:
Marty Supreme is the first movie written and directed by Josh Safdie without his former filmmaking partner, his brother Benny Safdie. It is a sports comedy-drama-thriller about a professional ping pong player played by Timothée Chalamet, who just won the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy.
And: Good Night, and Good Luck.: Live on Broadway is the recorded version of the live television broadcast of the stage version of the 2005 film mostly about the production of a live television show. Like the movie, it is written by George Clooney and Grant Heslov, with Clooney this time starring as Edward R. Murrow. The play was nominated for five Tony Awards, including Best Actor in a Play for Clooney.
GUESTS:
- Xandra Ellin: Produces The Global Story for the BBC
- Shawn Murray: A stand-up comedian, writer, and the host of the Fantasy Filmball podcast
- Irene Papoulis: Taught writing for a long time at Trinity College
MUSIC FEATURED (in order):
- I Have the Touch – Peter Gabriel
- Change – Tears for Fears
- When I Fall In Love - Georgia Heers
- How High The Moon - Georgia Heers
- See You On The Radio – Grayson Hugh
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Previous episodes
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4754 - The Nose looks at ‘Marty Supreme’ and ‘Good Night, and Good Luck.: Live on Broadway’ Fri, 16 Jan 2026
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4753 - A look at human stupidity, from Socrates to today Thu, 15 Jan 2026
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4752 - Two thumbs up: A show all about fingers Wed, 14 Jan 2026
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4751 - All calls: Boomy babers are the ones who worry about the mail Tue, 13 Jan 2026
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4750 - The value of expertise in a world where everybody knows everything Mon, 12 Jan 2026
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4749 - The Nose catches up on some of the 2025 movies it had missed Fri, 09 Jan 2026
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4748 - The humble fly Thu, 08 Jan 2026
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4747 - All calls: Spraying compressed air at anything is a good idea Wed, 07 Jan 2026
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4746 - What Wikipedia can teach us about truth, information, and random trivia Tue, 06 Jan 2026
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4745 - Historian Timothy Snyder helps us understand this current moment through the lessons of history Mon, 05 Jan 2026
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4744 - Our favorite jazz of 2025 Tue, 30 Dec 2025
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4743 - List making, listicles, lists of lists: An hour devoted to list culture Mon, 29 Dec 2025
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4742 - Live from Watkinson, it’s part 2 of our 2025 holiday spectacular Sat, 27 Dec 2025
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4741 - Live from Watkinson, it’s part 1 of our 2025 holiday spectacular Wed, 24 Dec 2025
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4740 - Checking in on self-checkout Tue, 23 Dec 2025
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4739 - All calls: Vultures tend not to eat Episcopalians Mon, 22 Dec 2025
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4738 - The Nose looks at ‘The Mastermind’ and ‘Sorry, Baby’ Fri, 19 Dec 2025
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4737 - The echoes of the Red Scare can be heard today Thu, 18 Dec 2025
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4736 - A look at the quiet power of the Schuyler sisters, Eliza and Angelica Wed, 17 Dec 2025
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4735 - Why the American dream and the tragedy of 'The Great Gatsby' still resonate today Tue, 16 Dec 2025
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4734 - All calls: The thing about cats and comets is that you can’t reason with either one Mon, 15 Dec 2025
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4733 - ‘Love’s in need of love today’: A look at Stevie Wonder Fri, 12 Dec 2025
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4732 - How robots, and our attitudes toward them, have evolved Thu, 11 Dec 2025
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4731 - Nothing to see here: Erasure in history, art and more Wed, 10 Dec 2025
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4730 - What the history of the McKinley era, tariffs, and the Gilded Age can teach us about the present Tue, 09 Dec 2025
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4729 - All calls: Should we be less worried about the Netflix deal and more worried about the collapse of the CDC? Mon, 08 Dec 2025
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4728 - The Nose looks at ‘PLUR1BUS’ and ‘Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5’ Fri, 05 Dec 2025
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4727 - A look at cultural manias from Liszt and orchids to the Beatles and beyond Thu, 04 Dec 2025
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4726 - Trinity College's new president, Daniel G. Lugo, reflects on the transformative power of higher education Wed, 03 Dec 2025
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4725 - All calls: Guess the song; Win a free starling Tue, 02 Dec 2025
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4724 - Remembering Sir Tom Stoppard Mon, 01 Dec 2025
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4723 - Wednesday is Soylent Day Wed, 26 Nov 2025
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4722 - The art of the recipe: Gravestones, fictional worlds, and cookbooks (of course) Tue, 25 Nov 2025
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4721 - ‘Betcha can’t eat just one’: The science and art of snacking Mon, 24 Nov 2025
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4720 - A (Paul) Winter’s Tale Fri, 21 Nov 2025
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4719 - There are rules for punctuation, but we don’t always agree on them Thu, 20 Nov 2025
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4718 - From spiritual to practical: We could learn a lot from modern (and Sixteenth-century!) nuns Wed, 19 Nov 2025
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4717 - Happy Little Trees: The joy of Bob Ross (and Thomas Kinkade) Tue, 18 Nov 2025
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4716 - All calls: Beware Pandora's crawlspace, it's FULL of sprickets Mon, 17 Nov 2025
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4715 - The Nose looks at ‘SNL’s Trump, Pope Leo’s favorite movies, and ‘Death by Lightning’ Fri, 14 Nov 2025
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4714 - What the world needs now: The chemistry of Burt Bacharach and Dionne Warwick Thu, 13 Nov 2025
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4713 - Why stories about heists, real or in movies, steal our hearts Wed, 12 Nov 2025
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4712 - All Calls: Wiggingham, CT overrun with stomping, jumping spiders Mon, 10 Nov 2025
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4711 - The Nose looks at ‘Blue Moon’ and ‘Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere’ Fri, 07 Nov 2025
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4710 - Shall we dance? Thu, 06 Nov 2025
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4709 - What if we were addicted to forgiveness instead of revenge? Wed, 05 Nov 2025
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4708 - From jelly beans to Diet Mountain Dew, how politicians eat and why it matters Tue, 04 Nov 2025
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4707 - All calls: Does anybody even know what time it is on Lord Howe Island anyway? Mon, 03 Nov 2025
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4706 - The Nose looks at ‘A House of Dynamite’ and ‘Task’ Fri, 31 Oct 2025
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4705 - A look back at more than 200 years of Frankenstein (and his monster) Thu, 30 Oct 2025