Podcasts by The Bat Segundo Show
The Bat Segundo Show was a long-running cultural radio program devoted to quirky and very thorough long-form interviews with contemporary authors, idiosyncratic thinkers, and other assorted artists. Guests included David Lynch, Octavia Butler, John Waters, John Updike, Stephen Fry, Marilynne Robinson, Karen Russell, Weird Al Yankovic, Robert A. Caro, and more than 500 others. There was also a program called Follow Your Ears, which was a thematic investigative counterpart, in which I pursued a specific subject through several angles. The entire archive of what I did from 2005 to 2014 is included here.
Further podcasts by Edward Champion
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My Henry James Problem: Dinitia Smith and Susan Mizruchi (The Bat Segundo Show #553) from 2022-03-17T15:07:41
This Bat Segundo special chronicles Our Correspondent’s indefatigable and good faith efforts to find appreciation for an author he does not care for — namely, Henry James. Our Correspon...
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5. Compassion Fatigue (The Gray Area) from 2017-08-01T18:47
Emma is a top-notch psychiatrist who can change the lives of the most difficult patients imaginable. But there's a great personal cost to her formidable talents that she's not telling anyone about,...
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4.5. The Waiting Room (The Gray Area) from 2017-08-01T18:44:40
Virginia Gaskell finds herself on the other side of the portal that lured her in, greeted by an extremely exuberant (and strangely familiar) receptionist, some squawking avians that aren't quite ok...
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4. Loopholes (The Gray Area) from 2017-07-03T23:46:59
As a thriving empire faces war with ferocious barbarians, a mischievous scholar named Minerva hopes to bring law and civilization to a great realm populated by talking birds, giant rats, gregarious...
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3. Fuel to the Fire (The Gray Area) from 2017-06-06T20:31:24
An artisanal mustard retailer from Astoria finds herself in a strange realm with the ability to set things on fire. Meanwhile, Ed Champion continues his investigation into Miss Gaskell's disappeara...
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2. Brand Awareness (The Gray Area) from 2017-05-16T23:15:03
Joanna loves Eclipse Ale. It's the best beer in the world. She has boxes of Eclipse memorabilia. She regularly wears Eclipse baseball caps. But on one rainy night, Joanna discovers that this happy ...
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1.5. Dissociation (The Gray Area) from 2017-05-02T14:07:24
Greg Sutton, a fidgety young man who is a little too fixated on selling himself, sees his psychiatrist for the first time in months, hoping to find answers about his lost childhood and how to get b...
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1. Hello (The Gray Area) from 2017-04-19T02:43:02
A man wakes up in his apartment with a hazy memory of the night before. He's greeted in bed by a mysterious woman who keeps saying, “Hello.” But she seems to know far more about his life than he ev...
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0. Prologue (The Gray Area) from 2017-04-04T16:30:03
Virginia Gaskell, an underappreciated 66-year-old cult writer forced into a rest home, contends with mysterious voices summoned from her typewriter and an obscure literary interviewer named Ed Cham...
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The Gray Area–Season One Trailer from 2017-03-23T11:45:14
Strange voices, agitated psychiatrists, giant rats, magical couriers, mysterious women, and loud and disheveled men. This 90 second trailer serves as a teaser for the first season of The Gray Area,...
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Loser: A Report from the Trump Tower Protests from 2016-11-11T15:09:17
On Thursday, November 10, 2016, I attended the protests that had unfolded across the street from Trump Tower after Donald Trump had been elected the 45th President of the United States. I talked w...
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Disappearing Act from 2016-09-14T16:10:35
This five minute radio play deals with mortality, connection, and who we choose to leave behind as we continue our tricky march through life.
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The Mark Twain Special (BSS #552) from 2016-01-20T04:28:04
This special program devoted to Mark Twain features editor Benjamin Griffin (The Autobiography of Mark Twain), Ben Tarnoff (The Bohemians), and Adam Nee and Kyle Gallner (Band of R...
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Season of the Witch (Interstitial Mix #4) from 2015-10-30T14:43:46
Just in time for Halloween, this is the fourth in a series of interstitial mixes. I recently worked a gig to provide a 50 minute Halloween AV mix for a party. The audio version can be enjoyed in ...
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Vibes, Liebe, Plucks, Horns, and Kazoos Yodeling in the Deep (Interstitial Mix #3) from 2015-10-09T04:29:55
This is the third of a series of interstitial mixes, this one very heavy on Germanic influence (although featuring many others!) and designed with the changing seasons, both in year and in life, in...
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An Elemental Race Between a Nice Guy and a Duck (Interstitial Mix #2) from 2015-09-18T15:08:18
This is the second of a series of interstitial mixes, this time imagining a race between two very strange imaginary figures.
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Robert Smiths Slightly Mad Pop Pop Canon Cannon Bang Bang Wake (Interstitial Mix #1) from 2015-08-27T21:47:15
This is the first of a series of interstitial mixes that will be rolled out as I continue to develop some future projects. What follows is a descent into the contradictions of pop music, initiated ...
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Merritt Tierce (BSS #551) from 2014-09-25T13:58:38
There are 2.4 million waiters and waitresses now working in America. Why have our narratives failed to confront the realities of working in a restaurant? Merritt Pierce, author of LOVE ME BACK, j...
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The Cultural Redemption of Stefan Zweig: Anthea Bell and George Prochnik (BSS #550) from 2014-09-17T11:37:26
This special two hour episode of The Bat Segundo Show details the life and work of Stefan Zweig in considerable detail. It may be the most epic radio program ever devoted to Stefan Zweig. It inclu...
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Amanda Vaill (BSS #549) from 2014-06-27T22:31:54
Martha Gellhorn and Ernest Hemingway headed to Spain to help the Loyalists during the Civil War. Gellhorn was to transform into one of the 20th century's best war correspondents. Hemingway needed ...
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Mimi Pond (BSS #548) from 2014-06-19T22:50:39
Cartoonist Mimi Pond spent a good chunk of 1978 working as a dishwasher and a waitress in an Oakland diner. Thirty-six years later, she's collected her experiences in the graphic novel, OVER EASY....
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Joanna Rakoff (BSS #547) from 2014-06-05T13:05:55
Joanna Rakoff spent 1996 working as an assistant for Harold Ober Associates, overhearing the likes of J.D. Salinger and Judy Blume talking shop. This 75 minute conversation, which discusses Rakoff...
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Paula Bomer III (BSS #546) from 2014-05-28T14:32:01
Author Paula Bomer has dedicated her fiction career to staring inside the abyss and seeking the human. We discuss her new short story collection, INSIDE MADELEINE, and discuss everything from Flann...
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Porochista Khakpour II (BSS #545) from 2014-05-14T11:50:16
In this wide-ranging 79 minute conversation, Porochista Khakpour discusses how she fused the romantic with the grotesque for her second novel, THE LAST ILLUSION, birds as an inevitable cultural sym...
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Nikil Saval (BSS #544) from 2014-05-13T13:27:05
Was there ever an age in which the office provided reasonable security for the worker? Is it possible for the office worker to be given respect and adequate compensation in the 21st century? We tal...
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Evie Wyld (BSS #543) from 2014-04-29T14:35:50
Evie Wyld is the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize-winning and Granta 20 author of ALL THE BIRDS, SINGING -- a novel that is arguably more alive than most of the dull literary books about flatware and chal...
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Yiyun Li II (BSS #542) from 2014-04-28T20:36:49
In this vivacious chat with MacArthur fellow Yiyun Li (and on the occasion of her latest novel KINDER THAN SOLITUDE), we discuss nothing less than the mysteries that humans impose upon the universe...
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Ben Tarnoff (BSS #541) from 2014-04-23T00:41:31
More than a century after his death, Mark Twain is often portrayed as a jolly and avuncular figure. Yet the truth is that Twain was a savage wit and an incendiary figure, and it took this free-spir...
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Islamophobia, Extremism, and the War on Terror: Arun Kundnani (BSS #540) from 2014-04-03T14:42:19
Twelve and a half years after 9/11, Islamophobia remains alive and well. Where did it come from? Why does it perpetuate in American and British culture? And what effect does it have on our democra...
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Dinaw Mengestu (BSS #539) from 2014-03-25T17:42:25
MacArthur Fellow Dinaw Mengestu's novels have been needlessly categorized as "immigrant fiction" when his work is about so much more. On the publication of his third novel, ALL OUR NAMES, Mengestu...
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Dorthe Nors, Save NYPL, and Blake Bailey (BSS #538) from 2014-03-19T16:13:54
In this triple-decker edition of Bat Segundo, we talk with author Dorthe Nors about Denmark, emotional connections to animals, the dangers of self-destruction and how folks songs fused with Swedish...
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