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Friday Podcast 4/12/13

April 12, 2013 9:22 am by: Mike Lee

So here's the deal with RTÉ Radio 1, Ireland - Documentary on One: they're from Ireland, they've got a really unwieldy name, and they produce some pretty great radio. The radio's so great, in fact, that we're willing to type in that unwieldy name just so we can bring you their stuff on this here podcast. And it's also so great that we're going to bring you two, count 'em, two RTÉ Radio 1, Ireland - Documentary on One pieces in just one podcast. That's right, this podcast is all RTÉ Radio 1, Ireland - Documentary on One all the time. We'll kick things off with their piece Survival of an Island and then wrap things up with their Through a Chink Too Wide. And in between? Just a few short seconds of Hawk Mendenhall. A small price to pay....
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Tuesday Podcast 7/31/12

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Tuesday Podcast 7/31/12

You know, if there's one small downside to working in public radio, it's dealing with all the starstruck fans. "Your job is so glamorous and fascinating!" they say. "Tell us how you do it, and don't spare any details, because nothing's as interesting as you and people like you!" It's nice to hear,...
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Tuesday Podcast 7/24/12

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Tuesday Podcast 7/24/12

Around here at O'Dark Central, we're all fans of Miles Davis, so we were pretty jazzed (get it? pun!) when the Views and Brews gang decided to do an extra-long show about the making of his seminal album Kind of Blue. That show was pretty great, featuring Rabbi Neil Blumofe and...
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Tuesday Podcast 7/17/12

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Tuesday Podcast 7/17/12

If you've been on YouFace or the interwebs lately, there's a pretty decent chance you've stumbled across a little viral audio tidbit about two little girls explaining the world's worst haircut. But keen-eared O'Dark listeners will recall that same little nugget of radio from its broadcast debut (we...
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Tuesday Podcast 7/10/12

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Tuesday Podcast 7/10/12

We've got three little pieces of audio goodness for you today on the big podcast. Batting lead off is our old buddy Jake Warga, who headed down to Cancun recently to try and get to the bottom of this whole end-of-the-world-in-2012 thing. We won't spoil the ending for you. Then it's another blast...
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Tuesday Podcast 7/3/12

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Tuesday Podcast 7/3/12

A happy July 3 to you all. You're probably getting ready for a big holiday celebration tomorrow, baking apple pies and preparing meats for the grill and buying fireworks and so forth. And if so, you probably need a little something to listen to while you do all that. Why not try this delightful...
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Tuesday Podcast 6/26/12

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Tuesday Podcast 6/26/12

Hoo boy, it's gonna be hot today. We're looking at a high of 102, with a UV index of, according to weather.com, "11 - Extreme." I don't even know what that means, but it just sounds awful. For the most part, if someone tells you anything is going to be extreme, you're not gonna like that thing. And...
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Tuesday Podcast 6/19/12

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Tuesday Podcast 6/19/12

This past Sunday on the Big Big Show, we brought you three episodes of two of our favorite newish radio shows, State of the ReUnion and Snap Judgment. And since we like those shows so, so much, we're bringing them to you again, this time in podcast form. Today's 'cast features...
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Friday Podcast 7/27/12

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Friday Podcast 7/27/12

Hello friends! What you are downloading and/or listening to today is the final O'Dark podcast of the Communication Building B era. Today's pod is being cast from the dark, subterranean office that has been home to the O'Dark 30 bi-weekly podcast for lo these many years, but starting next...
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Friday Podcast 7/20/12

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Friday Podcast 7/20/12

Today on the podcast, we've got two pieces of audio goodness from O'Dark regulars. The fine folks at Lean and Hungry Theater have become favorites of O'Dark host Hawk Mendenhall since he discovered their updated radio play takes on the works of William Shakespeare. We've brought you a few of...
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Friday Podcast 7/13/12

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Friday Podcast 7/13/12

Happy Friday the 13th, everyone! We're gonna keep it non-scary today, mainly because we put this podcast together before it occurred to us that it'd go up on Friday the 13th. So no real frights for you today on the 'cast, but we do have a couple of new installments of a couple of our favorite...
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Friday Podcast 7/6/12

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Friday Podcast 7/6/12

Have we got a humdinger of a podcast for you guys today. Clocking in at a whopping hour and thirty-nine minutes, this thing is over half an episode worth of O'Dark, and all at the low, low cost of zero dollars. We'll start off with KUT's recent Views and Brews program which concentrated...
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Friday Podcast 6/29/12

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Friday Podcast 6/29/12

We bring you How Sound pretty often on the big big show and the not-as-big podcast, but the one we're bringing you today is a little different. How Sound always gives you an inside look at the radio-producing process, but today's episode, “A Square Meal, Regardless” gives you...
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Friday Podcast 6/22/12

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Friday Podcast 6/22/12

As we mentioned on Tuesday, we're bringing you new installments of a couple of our favorite shows this week on the big 'cast. Today, we've got a new (or new-to-us and therefore new-to-you) episode of Snap Judgment, which is a really great storytelling show hosted and produced by Glynn...
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Friday Podcast 6/15/12

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Friday Podcast 6/15/12

On today's podcast, we're doing something a little special. Today's cast is dedicated entirely to the work of our dear, dear pal Graham Shelby. Is it Graham's birthday? Nope. Well, maybe it is. We can't remember when Graham's birthday is, so we've got a 1 in 365 chance that it's today. That's right...
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