Radiolab remains one of my favourite podcasts, and I’d thought about including Radiolab’s Musical Language episode here (and I still heartily recommend it!) – but opted for this short podcast special, Happy Birthday Bobby K, because it digs up some decades-old work made by Robert Krulwich. What’s most interesting about it to me is how creatively he was able to play with journalism and sound, even back when it was presumably more challenging (at least technically) to do so. We often talk about a new age of audio while caricaturing old radio – and yes, there’s some truth to that too – but here, I believe we hear stuff that we still aren’t really hearing done well in this ostensibly freer environment.

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