‘Get inside the creative mind,’ urges the website of Studio 360, an innovative radio programme based in New York.
‘Get inside the creative mind,’ urges the website of Studio 360, an innovative radio programme based in New York. Set up by Kurt Andersen (of Spy magazine), it offers a weekly magazine programme about the arts, a sort of Front Row crossed with Night Waves. It’s intriguing, thought-provoking and just as good as anything produced by the BBC. The trouble is you have to be a wireless genius to work out how to listen to it if you’re driving through New England and don’t have access to a podcast or computer.
Listening to radio in the USA is a frustrating business. You know there are good programmes out there: This American Life produced in Chicago is another one, or Lost & Found Sound, created by the Kitchen Sisters who are based in California, but how do you track them down on the airwaves? All I seemed to tune in to was 1970s heavy rock or hell-bent Christian sermons.
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