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...Perhaps NPR's liveliest offering is Afropop Worldwide, which is buoyed by the wide knowledge, melodious voice and infectious enthusiasm of host Georges Collinet, a Cameroon native. The program explores contemporary African music and its influence on pop sounds. Among performers recently featured: Brazil's Gilberto Gil, the Ivory Coast's Alpha Blondy and the "Lion of Zimbabwe," , Thomas Mapfumo...
...thing, NPR is expanding its lineup of ethnic-, jazz- and folk-music offerings. In addition to Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz, which for 13 years has featured guests such as Dave Brubeck, Chick Corea and Peter Schickele (P.D.Q. Bach), two new shows are getting funkier and further afield. BluesStage transports listeners to down-and-dirty locales to hear rhythm-and- blues stars, including the Persuasions. A recent episode highlighted veteran Little Milton from the gritty B.K. Lounge in Rochester. The emcee and commentator for the weekly program is Grammy-winning R.-and-B. soul sister Ruth Brown, who also earned...
Traditional radio drama is also getting a wider airing on NPR. The network broadcast Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis' novel of Main Street shenanigans, complete with music, sound effects and a cast of 34 readers, including Ed Asner (as George Babbitt), Richard Dreyfuss, Amy Irving and John Lithgow. Among future projects: Arthur Kopit's play Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Momma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad and muckraking novelist Frank Norris' McTeague. Asner, who was paid a mere $2,300 for his work, which stretched over nine months, finds it satisfying nonetheless. Says he: "I grew...
Over the past couple of years, NPR has been adding to its lineup of talk shows. Fresh Air, the most insightful and entertaining interview program on radio, features an eclectic mix of authors, artists and performers. Host Terry Gross has discussed with John Updike his love of faces ("a dermal sin") and explored comedian Martin Short's unusual adolescent fantasies. She got tough with Nancy Reagan over her memoirs but allowed actor Bob Hoskins (Who Framed Roger Rabbit?) to wax lyrical about Laurence Olivier. Gross is just one of a notable number of female voices at NPR. Unlike the commercial...
...Talk, NPR's offbeat call-in show, gets as much mileage out of the jokes as the information. Boston's Tappet brothers -- actually two M.I.T. grads named Ray and Tom Magliozzi, who own an auto-repair shop and drive U.S. models -- have turned America's love-hate relationship with the automobile into a stand-up routine. "Do you know why they call the Volvo the poor man's Mercedes?" Ray once asked a perplexed caller. "Because the repair bills will keep you too poor to buy a Mercedes...