Me, on NPR?

[saxikath]

So at the crossword tournament this year, there were folks from the WNYC program "The Next Big Thing" interviewing people. Including me. And, rumor has it, they actually used some of that interview. The show will be airing starting this weekend. In Boston, it's on WGBH (89.7) at the absurd hour of midnight Sunday (that is, technically, midnight Monday). I need the radio equivalent of a VCR.

Comments

[ex-colorwhe.livejournal.com]

By any chance do you remember the interviewers' names? I know a reporter for that station, Kaari Pitkin.

[saxikath]

It was the host of the show, whose name I forget, but it was not Kaari Pitkin, I'm sure.

[qarylla.livejournal.com]

Some radio shows actually also broadcast over the Internet. You might want to see if that is an option. If so, then you can at least copy it to CD.

[rikchik.livejournal.com]

If you have a VCR, you could set up your radio to feed into the audio channel (there are usually RCA plugs for left and right) and then program your VCR to record it. Then you could, er, watch your radio broadcast on TV with a blue or staticy screen, or record it back off your VCR to tape. Kind of a pain, but at least a possibility.

[navrins]

You just need someone with a radio, a tape recorder and a quiet place, who will be awake at midnight Monday. Shouldn't be that hard. Surely you know some nightshifted people. Happily for me, though unfortunately for you, I'm not one of them at the moment.

[fuldu.livejournal.com]

I would think the easiest thing to do would just be to download it from the TNBT Web site next week. The current week's program is at the link you provided in your entry and yours will presumably end up there and at http://www.nextbigthing.org/archive/episode.html?04022004 after Friday.

[bookishfellow.livejournal.com]

I never did understand why nobody came up with the bright idea of hooking a timer into a cassette recorder-cum-radio. The two devices have been built into one box since forever; you can even get cassette-radio-alarm clocks; so why didn't anybody ever figure there was a market niche who wanted to record their favorite radio shows just as they do television shows?

'Course nowadays, you'd need to go the next step and call it RadiVo (actually, RiAo would follow the paradigm better, but that doesn't seem very pronouncable).