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Dec 19, 2020
This week, on the interview show that I host (the audio version of the First Person International Media Empire), I had a chance to chat about radio, with a man who used to work in radio, and has recently written a novel about radio. It was a very
meta moment.
Ham Martin’s new novel is called
Talk Radio, and it’s a pleasantly quirky read, written almost entirely in dialogue – calls to a small town radio station call-in show. Martin himself earned his radio chops, first through a course on radio history at St. Lawrence University in the 1960s, and then in a brief stint hosting a call-in show in Connecticut a couple of decades ago.
Dec 18, 2020
Mitch Teich
On the December edition of First Person, we start with a couple of creative ventures with interesting backstories - how a statue of John Lennon in Havana inspired an Ottawa singer-songwriter; and how a class at St. Lawrence University fifty years ago kindled a life-long interest in radio. Plus, a preview of the January episode of North Country Bookmarks, and some suggestions to broaden your board game horizons in the coming year.
Musician Lloyd Frost sits next to the statue of John Lennon in Havana, Cuba. Photo courtesy Lloyd Frost I wonder what John Lennon would think about all this?
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