The Colin McEnroe Show

Connecticut Public Radio

The Colin McEnroe Show is public radio’s most eclectic, eccentric weekday program. The best way to understand us is through the subjects we tackle: Neanderthals, tambourines, handshakes, the Iliad, snacks, ringtones, punk rock, Occam’s razor, Rasputin, houseflies, zippers. Are you sensing a pattern? If so, you should probably be in treatment. On Fridays, we try to stop thinking about what kind of ringtones Neanderthals would want to have and convene a panel called The Nose for an informal roundtable about the week in culture.

4789 - How cowboys, action movies, and hypermasculinity can help us understand the war with Iran

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The Colin McEnroe Show

Episodes

How cowboys, action movies, and hypermasculinity can help us understand the war with Iran

What happens when we can bet on anything?

All calls: Marty the Robot is gonna kill Colin first chance he gets

Attention must be paid: A look at ‘Death of a Salesman’

How reality TV shapes our politics

From Mr. Rogers to Minneapolis, what does it mean to be a 'neighbor'?

What is the role of faith leaders right now?

All Calls: Mr. Picky wants to be a pirate, not a cowboy

The Nose looks at ‘The Secret Agent’ and ‘Network’

A look at the art of casting

All Calls: You had me at consciousness.

A refresher on your rights and why they’re worth fighting for

Alissa Wilkinson on Joan Didion, Hollywood, and American mythmaking

Love, revenge, moors: why we’re haunted by ‘Wuthering Heights’

The animating power of rivers with writer Robert Macfarlane

Shedding light on the mystery of Mary

All calls: Name a musician who is not from Connecticut

The Nose looks at ‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ and ‘Hamnet’

Why whistles are becoming the symbol of the moment

The wonder of termites

A look at the Kennedy Center, the Melania luxury brand, and more

All calls: The fleeting joy of waking up in the United States of Bunny

The Nose tries to figure out how to deal with … all this

What counts as 'classical music'?

All calls: You caught me mid-Burger

Nothing lasts forever, except maybe Stoicism

The Nose looks at ‘The Night Manager’ and ‘Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man!’

Historian Joanne Freeman on reckoning with where we are and where we want to be

Do you hear the people sing? A celebration of protest songs

All calls: Fishing for an invite to a peaceful protest potluck

The romance of the north

The Nose looks at ‘Song Sung Blue’ and ‘Merrily We Roll Along’

Kalaallit Nunaat: An exploration of Greenland

All calls: Fear and present danger: Listeners react to Trump’s obsession with Greenland

From totes to Birkins, handbags hold the keys to the world (along with your wallet and phone)

The Nose looks at ‘Marty Supreme’ and ‘Good Night, and Good Luck.: Live on Broadway’

A look at human stupidity, from Socrates to today

Two thumbs up: A show all about fingers

All calls: Boomy babers are the ones who worry about the mail

The value of expertise in a world where everybody knows everything

The Nose catches up on some of the 2025 movies it had missed

The humble fly

All calls: Spraying compressed air at anything is a good idea

What Wikipedia can teach us about truth, information, and random trivia

Historian Timothy Snyder helps us understand this current moment through the lessons of history

Our favorite jazz of 2025

List making, listicles, lists of lists: An hour devoted to list culture

Live from Watkinson, it’s part 2 of our 2025 holiday spectacular

Live from Watkinson, it’s part 1 of our 2025 holiday spectacular

Checking in on self-checkout

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