Selected Radio

• I talk about the period in the 1960’s when my mother started wearing a wig that I called “Estelle” (Intro by Dean Olsher) (6 minutes. “The Next Big Thing”)
  
• I ask people on the street to sing whatever they can remember of the musical, “Oklahoma!” (6 minutes, including 1 minute-long show introduction. “The Next Big Thing”)
• I take an actual former gang member to see the Broadway production of “West Side Story” (8 min., “Studio 360″, intro. by Kurt Andersen)
• I go to a singing coach and unveil an unusual song choice (9 minutes. “The Next Big Thing”)
• I start my own artists colony (9 minutes. “Studio 360″)
• I ask Sandra Tsing Loh, Ben Schott, and Patricia Marx what literary classics they would re-write (5 minutes. “Studio 360″)
• Why I like to read the Tao Te Ching (4 minutes. “All Things Considered”)