Love and Radio

Infobox Radio Show
show_name = Love and Radio


imagesize = 200px
format = Short stories/collage
runtime = ca. 30 mins.
creator = Nick van der Kolk
home_station = alt.NPR
country = USA
first_aired = October 18, 2005
last_aired = present
website = [http://loveandradio.org]
podcast = [http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=510064]

Love and Radio is an American audio podcast created by the radio producers Nick van der Kolk and Adrianne Mathiowetz in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. The show is sponsored by National Public Radio as part of the alt.NPR podcast series.cite web|title=alt.NPR Podcasts|work=NPR.org|date=2007|url=http://alt.npr.org/|accessdate=2007-12-11] Each episode of Love and Radio consists of a mixture of fact and fiction, presented in a series of short interviews and stories related to a theme.cite web|last=Noyes|first=Jesse|title=A Podcast Actually Worth Listening To|work=Boston|date=July 2007|url=http://www.bostonmagazine.com/arts_entertainment/articles/podcasts/|accessdate=2007-11-23]

Past themes have included guns, ghosts, secrets, fights, and online dating. Love and Radio is sometimes compared to the show This American Life, but employs a looser, more free-form editing style and does not have a regular host. Its creators claim that (as of May, 2006) it is the only listing in the NPR podcast directory with an "explicit" tag.cite web|last=van der Kolk|first=Nick|title=What the Crap?!|work=Love and Radio blog|date=May 2006|url=http://www.loveandradio.org/2006/05/what-crap.html|accessdate=2007-11-23]

Episodes of Love and Radio have aired on WGBH,cite web|title=License history for "Ghost Stories"|work=Public Radio Exchange|url=http://www.prx.org/pieces/6925/buyers|accessdate=2007-11-23] KUOW-FM,cite web|title=License history for "Tell Me the Future"|work=Public Radio Exchange|url=http://www.prx.org/pieces/16305/buyers|accessdate=2007-11-23] Oregon Public Broadcasting, and Connecticut Public Radio,cite web|title=License history for "With a Bullet"|work=Public Radio Exchange|url=http://www.prx.org/pieces/7459/buyers|accessdate=2007-11-23] as well as other American public radio stations.

References

External links

* [http://loveandradio.org Love and Radio Website]
* [http://bostonist.com/2006/10/18/wednesday_webcast_review_love_and_radio.php Review of Love and Radio on Bostonist.com]