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6 days ago | 
ctpublic.org | Jonathan McNicol
Published May 9, 2025 at 1:00 PM EDT Mark Mirko / Connecticut PublicSinger-songwriter Jill Sobule photographed during her last visit to our studio, on Thursday, September 15, 2022. Our friend, the singer, songwriter, and performer Jill Sobule, died May 1 in a house fire in Woodbury, Minnesota, near Minneapolis. She was 66.
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1 week ago | 
ctpublic.org | Jonathan McNicol
Published May 7, 2025 at 1:00 PM EDT Peter Dazeley / The Image Bank RF / Getty ImagesAre you the same person, today, that you were when you were a little kid? Are you the same person, right now, that you will be in the last years of your life? Are you the same person, today, that you were when you were a little kid? Are you the same person, right now, that you will be in the last years of your life?
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1 week ago | 
ctpublic.org | Jonathan McNicol
Published May 2, 2025 at 1:00 PM EDT Courtesy of / Warner Bros. PicturesFrom left: Michael B. Jordan, Wunmi Mosaku, Hailee Steinfeld, Michael B. Jordan, Miles Caton, and Omar Miller in Ryan Coogler’s ‘Sinners.’ Listen live Friday at 1 p.m.Sinners is the fifth feature film written and directed by Ryan Coogler and starring Michael B. Jordan.
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2 weeks ago | 
ctpublic.org | Jonathan McNicol
Published April 25, 2025 at 1:00 PM EDT Luke Varley / Paramount+Pierce Brosnan, Helen Mirren, Paddy Considine, and Tom Hardy in ‘MobLand.’ With rare exceptions, The Nose doesn’t usually cover movies from the previous Oscar season once the actual Oscars have happened.
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3 weeks ago | 
ctpublic.org | Jonathan McNicol
Published April 24, 2025 at 1:00 PM EDT This hour, it’s our show on the relationship and chemistry between Burt Bacharach and Dionne Warwick (and the lyricist Hal David) recorded live onstage at Watkinson School in Hartford. It’s an hour of music, conversation, and demonstrations of how GPS can help you find the way to San Jose.
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3 weeks ago | 
ctpublic.org | Jonathan McNicol
Published April 18, 2025 at 1:00 PM EDT The movie musical died a long, slow death a long time ago. Right? Well, except that there’s Wicked. And Spielberg’s West Side Story. And Hamilton and In the Heights and Tick, Tick… Boom! And Encanto and Moana 2 and Mufasa. Oh, and Elvis and A Complete Unknown. And those are just from the last five years. And I could keep going. This hour, a long look at the long-dead movie musical. Long live the movie musical.
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1 month ago | 
ctpublic.org | Jonathan McNicol
Published April 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM EDT Bill Murray, Eddie Murphy, Chevy Chase, Steve Martin, John Belushi, John Candy, Rick Moranis. Animal House, The Blues Brothers, Beverly Hills Cop, Caddyshack, The Jerk, Ghost Busters, ¡Three Amigos!, Funny Farm, Spaceballs, Stripes. We maybe didn’t properly appreciate it at the time, but the 1980s were one of the most fertile periods ever for screen comedies and screen comedians.
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1 month ago | 
ctpublic.org | Jonathan McNicol
Published April 8, 2025 at 1:00 PM EDT Finally, baseball is back!This hour, a look at all the fun, weird, interesting storylines in this new season — including, yes, the so-called torpedo bats. Plus: Is Aaron Judge the best right-handed hitter … ever? Is Shohei Ohtani the best baseball player … ever? How the A’s lost their Oakland. How the Rays lost their ballpark. The future of umpires and umpiring … And more.
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1 month ago | 
ctpublic.org | Jonathan McNicol
Published March 24, 2025 at 1:00 PM EDT We’ve been doing these shows where we don’t book any guests, where we fill the hour with your calls. And your calls have been interesting and surprising and amusing. This hour, the conversation winds around to the zipper merge, Don McLean’s “American Pie,” our 15th anniversary party, model trains (again), music streaming services, advice for caregivers in times of grief … Anything. (Seemingly) everything.
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1 month ago | 
ctpublic.org | Jonathan McNicol
Published March 21, 2025 at 1:00 PM EDT This week, we’re celebrating the show’s 15th anniversary (which was last year, but never mind about that part). Over those 15+ years, we’ve done something north of 3,000 shows. And every one of those shows was intended, more or less, to be about some … thing. Towels or Trump or toast or television or whatever. This hour we do the opposite thing: a show not about a specific something — tapirs.
