{"id":676,"date":"2012-06-03T15:38:34","date_gmt":"2012-06-03T22:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=676"},"modified":"2012-06-03T15:40:19","modified_gmt":"2012-06-03T22:40:19","slug":"podthoughts-the-bike-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=676","title":{"rendered":"Podthoughts: The Bike Show"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nVital stats:<\/strong>
\nFormat: talk about all aspects of cycling and cycling culture
\nEpisode duration: typically ~30m, with occasional longer specials
\nFrequency: weekly<\/p>\n

London\u2019s Resonance FM<\/a> broadcasts not what we would think of as straightforward talk programming, and not what we would think of as straightforward music programming, but something called \u201cradio art.\u201d This broad label turns out to cover a badly underutilized patch of radio\u2019s philosophical spectrum, one safely distant from both bland jukeboxing and tiresome politicking. Eschew traditional news, sports, hits, and complaints, and you open up the creative space for shows a thinking listener might actually enjoy. This I realized when I Podthought about the podcast of every Resonance FM broadcast available in that form<\/a>. I\u2019d previously written up The Wire<\/em> magazine\u2019s Adventures in Modern Music<\/em><\/a>, the most straightforward music show I\u2019ve heard on Resonance (and The Wire<\/em> has R. Stevie Moore on its cover this month). Now I\u2019ve cycled back around, as it were, to listen hard to a program no other station has produced, or possibly could produce: The Bike Show<\/em><\/a> [RSS<\/a>] [iTunes<\/a>].<\/p>\n

When first I heard The Bike Show<\/em>, host\/producer Jack Thurston impressed me not only with his professionalism and stealthy production skill \u2014 qualities not immediately associated, alas, with freeform radio \u2014 but a dedication that had him not only chatting in the studio but recording out in the field, on long trips, and even while riding. (These signature \u201crolling interviews\u201d have their own page<\/a> on the show\u2019s site.) But back then I lived in Santa Barbara, where cycling meant only an idyllic way to commute. Now that I\u2019ve dropped myself into the vast complexity of Los Angeles with my old brown Nishiki as primary means of transport, cycling has taken a rather more essential place. An encounter with David Byrne\u2019s Bicycle Diaries<\/em><\/a> made me consciously grasp a fact my lifestyle had already incorporated: no more efficient, absorbing, and intellectually or aesthetically connected form of urban transportation exists. I had much to learn; I had to catch up on The Bike Show<\/em> immediately.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the whole thing at Maximum Fun<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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