The Colin McEnroe Show
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Demystifying the life, and legacy, of Henry David Thoreau
50 mins; April 02, 2026
‘Murder in the Dollhouse’: Jennifer Dulos and our fascination with true crime
49 mins; April 01, 2026
Americans love the idea of royals. So why do we hate the idea of kings?
49 mins; March 31, 2026
All calls: "Let's Go Culverts!" (Is not an actual radio show)
49 mins; March 30, 2026
The Nose looks at ‘Project Hail Mary’ and ‘Saturday Night Live UK’
49 mins; March 27, 2026
How nihilism can help us find meaning in this moment
50 mins; March 26, 2026
What do rising measles cases say about public health and trust?
50 mins; March 25, 2026
The backbone of rock and roll: The drummer
50 mins; March 24, 2026
All calls: The ninjas next door took my parents’ stuffed owl
49 mins; March 23, 2026
How WWE got a chokehold on U.S. politics
50 mins; March 20, 2026
How do we calculate the cost of war?
50 mins; March 19, 2026
March Madness 2026
50 mins; March 18, 2026
All calls: Crows make better noise than Oasis
49 mins; March 17, 2026
The Noscars 2026
49 mins; March 16, 2026
What if tug of war were still an Olympic sport? And other questions with Mike Pesca
50 mins; March 13, 2026
How cowboys, action movies, and hypermasculinity can help us understand the war with Iran
49 mins; March 12, 2026
What happens when we can bet on anything?
49 mins; March 11, 2026
All calls: Marty the Robot is gonna kill Colin first chance he gets
48 mins; March 09, 2026
Attention must be paid: A look at ‘Death of a Salesman’
50 mins; March 07, 2026
How reality TV shapes our politics
48 mins; March 05, 2026
From Mr. Rogers to Minneapolis, what does it mean to be a 'neighbor'?
50 mins; March 04, 2026
What is the role of faith leaders right now?
50 mins; March 03, 2026
All Calls: Mr. Picky wants to be a pirate, not a cowboy
49 mins; March 02, 2026
The Nose looks at ‘The Secret Agent’ and ‘Network’
48 mins; February 27, 2026
A look at the art of casting
49 mins; February 26, 2026
All Calls: You had me at consciousness.
49 mins; February 25, 2026
A refresher on your rights and why they’re worth fighting for
49 mins; February 24, 2026
Alissa Wilkinson on Joan Didion, Hollywood, and American mythmaking
50 mins; February 23, 2026
Love, revenge, moors: why we’re haunted by ‘Wuthering Heights’
49 mins; February 20, 2026
The animating power of rivers with writer Robert Macfarlane
50 mins; February 19, 2026
Shedding light on the mystery of Mary
49 mins; February 18, 2026
All calls: Name a musician who is not from Connecticut
49 mins; February 17, 2026
The Nose looks at ‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ and ‘Hamnet’
49 mins; February 13, 2026
Why whistles are becoming the symbol of the moment
49 mins; February 12, 2026
The wonder of termites
50 mins; February 11, 2026
A look at the Kennedy Center, the Melania luxury brand, and more
49 mins; February 10, 2026
All calls: The fleeting joy of waking up in the United States of Bunny
50 mins; February 09, 2026
The Nose tries to figure out how to deal with … all this
49 mins; February 06, 2026
What counts as 'classical music'?
49 mins; February 05, 2026
All calls: You caught me mid-Burger
49 mins; February 04, 2026
Nothing lasts forever, except maybe Stoicism
50 mins; February 03, 2026
The Nose looks at ‘The Night Manager’ and ‘Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man!’
49 mins; January 30, 2026
Historian Joanne Freeman on reckoning with where we are and where we want to be
41 mins; January 29, 2026
Do you hear the people sing? A celebration of protest songs
49 mins; January 28, 2026
We take your calls
49 mins; January 27, 2026
The romance of the north
49 mins; January 26, 2026
The Nose looks at ‘Song Sung Blue’ and ‘Merrily We Roll Along’
49 mins; January 23, 2026
Kalaallit Nunaat: An exploration of Greenland
50 mins; January 22, 2026
All calls: Fear and present danger: Listeners react to Trump’s obsession with Greenland
49 mins; January 21, 2026
From totes to Birkins, handbags hold the keys to the world (along with your wallet and phone)
50 mins; January 20, 2026
The Nose looks at ‘Marty Supreme’ and ‘Good Night, and Good Luck.: Live on Broadway’
49 mins; January 16, 2026
A look at human stupidity, from Socrates to today
49 mins; January 15, 2026
Two thumbs up: A show all about fingers
50 mins; January 14, 2026
All calls: Boomy babers are the ones who worry about the mail
49 mins; January 13, 2026
The value of expertise in a world where everybody knows everything
50 mins; January 12, 2026
The Nose catches up on some of the 2025 movies it had missed
49 mins; January 09, 2026
The humble fly
50 mins; January 08, 2026
All calls: Spraying compressed air at anything is a good idea
49 mins; January 07, 2026
What Wikipedia can teach us about truth, information, and random trivia
49 mins; January 06, 2026
Historian Timothy Snyder helps us understand this current moment through the lessons of history
49 mins; January 05, 2026
Our favorite jazz of 2025
71 hours 56 mins; December 30, 2025
List making, listicles, lists of lists: An hour devoted to list culture
49 mins; December 29, 2025
Live from Watkinson, it’s part 2 of our 2025 holiday spectacular
50 mins; December 27, 2025
Live from Watkinson, it’s part 1 of our 2025 holiday spectacular
50 mins; December 24, 2025
Checking in on self-checkout
49 mins; December 23, 2025
All calls: Vultures tend not to eat Episcopalians
49 mins; December 22, 2025
The Nose looks at ‘The Mastermind’ and ‘Sorry, Baby’
49 mins; December 19, 2025
The echoes of the Red Scare can be heard today
42 mins; December 18, 2025
A look at the quiet power of the Schuyler sisters, Eliza and Angelica
41 mins; December 17, 2025
Why the American dream and the tragedy of 'The Great Gatsby' still resonate today
42 mins; December 16, 2025
All calls: The thing about cats and comets is that you can’t reason with either one
48 mins; December 15, 2025
‘Love’s in need of love today’: A look at Stevie Wonder
53 mins; December 12, 2025
How robots, and our attitudes toward them, have evolved
50 mins; December 11, 2025
Nothing to see here: Erasure in history, art and more
50 mins; December 10, 2025
What the history of the McKinley era, tariffs, and the Gilded Age can teach us about the present
50 mins; December 09, 2025
All calls: Should we be less worried about the Netflix deal and more worried about the collapse of the CDC?
49 mins; December 08, 2025
The Nose looks at ‘PLUR1BUS’ and ‘Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5’
50 mins; December 05, 2025
A look at cultural manias from Liszt and orchids to the Beatles and beyond
50 mins; December 04, 2025
Trinity College's new president, Daniel G. Lugo, reflects on the transformative power of higher education
49 mins; December 03, 2025
All calls: Guess the song; Win a free starling
49 mins; December 02, 2025
Remembering Sir Tom Stoppard
48 mins; November 30, 2025
Wednesday is Soylent Day
50 mins; November 26, 2025
The art of the recipe: Gravestones, fictional worlds, and cookbooks (of course)
49 mins; November 25, 2025
‘Betcha can’t eat just one’: The science and art of snacking
49 mins; November 24, 2025
A (Paul) Winter’s Tale
50 mins; November 21, 2025
There are rules for punctuation, but we don’t always agree on them
50 mins; November 20, 2025
From spiritual to practical: We could learn a lot from modern (and Sixteenth-century!) nuns
49 mins; November 19, 2025
Happy Little Trees: The joy of Bob Ross (and Thomas Kinkade)
50 mins; November 18, 2025
All calls: Beware Pandora's crawlspace, it's FULL of sprickets
49 mins; November 17, 2025
The Nose looks at ‘SNL’s Trump, Pope Leo’s favorite movies, and ‘Death by Lightning’
48 mins; November 14, 2025
What the world needs now: The chemistry of Burt Bacharach and Dionne Warwick
50 mins; November 13, 2025
Why stories about heists, real or in movies, steal our hearts
49 mins; November 12, 2025
All Calls: Wiggingham, CT overrun with stomping, jumping spiders
49 mins; November 10, 2025
The Nose looks at ‘Blue Moon’ and ‘Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere’
49 mins; November 07, 2025
Shall we dance?
50 mins; November 06, 2025
What if we were addicted to forgiveness instead of revenge?
49 mins; November 05, 2025
From jelly beans to Diet Mountain Dew, how politicians eat and why it matters
47 mins; November 04, 2025
All calls: Does anybody even know what time it is on Lord Howe Island anyway?
49 mins; November 03, 2025
The Nose looks at ‘A House of Dynamite’ and ‘Task’
49 mins; October 31, 2025
A look back at more than 200 years of Frankenstein (and his monster)
50 mins; October 30, 2025