Thursday Night

Program Notes S H 12-29-23



12 AM

Alan Watts

The Art of Psychoanalysis part 2

Continuing Watts’ lecture from last week, which began with a long and somewhat ironic reading by a Freudian analysis practitioner



12:30 AM

Old Radio break

The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (with Basil Rathbone as Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Watson)

The Night Before Christmas

The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes was an old-time radio show which aired in the USA from October 2, 1939 to July 7, 1947. Originally, the show starred Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson. Together, they starred in 220 episodes which aired weekly on Mondays from 8:30 to 9:00pm. Bromo Quinine sponsored some of the earlier programs on the NBC Blue Network and for a period Parker Pen was the sponsor. The show first aired on the Blue Network but later moved to the Mutual Broadcasting System.



With Rathbone and Bruce, the show exhibited an interesting introduction. The sponsor's spokesman would show up weekly at Dr. Watson's house (then retired and living in California), and share a story about Sherlock Holmes and his adventures over a glass of Petri wine. This offered them the chance to sometimes bring in other characters to contribute to the story, and also gave Watson a chance to summarize or add additional tidbits at the end. Another interesting thing about this radio show’s introductions was Watson's anecdotes and comments about his dogs usually referred to as the "Puppies".



1 AM

Sounds True – Insights from the Edge with Tami Simon

Radical Self-Care Changes Everything - Anne Lamott

Anne Lamott is the celebrated author of many books of fiction, essays, and memoirs. Her works include Bird by Bird, Hallelujah Anyway, and Crooked Little Heart. In this special edition of Insights at the Edge originally recorded for The Self-Acceptance Summit, Tami Simon speaks with Anne about acts of “radical self-care” and how they are essential for anyone’s well-being. Anne talks about self-acceptance as an innately feminist concept, especially around issues of body image and self-esteem. Finally, Anne and Tami discuss how it is necessary to fully accept oneself before being able to show up for others, and why modern society often argues the opposite.

Anne Lamott is the author of seven novels including, Hard Laughter, Rosie, Joe Jones, Blue Shoe, All New People, and Crooked Little Heart (the sequel to Rosie), as well as five bestselling books of non-fiction, Operating Instructions, an account of life as a single mother during her son's first year and Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, a guide to writing and the challenges of a writer's life, Traveling Mercies, a collection of autobiographical essays on faith, and Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith.

Anne Lamott has been honored with a Guggenheim Fellowship, and has taught at UC Davis, as well as at writing conferences across the country. Anne's biweekly Salon Magazine "online diary," Word by Word, was voted The Best of the Web by TIME magazine. Filmmaker Freida Mock (who won an Academy Award for her documentary on Maya Lin) has made a documentary on Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird with Annie (1999).

Anne's last collection of essays is Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith. In the Fall of 2010 Anne Lamott was inducted into the California Hall of Fame. She is also working on an essay collection entitled As in Life: New and Selected Pieces, about moving through grief and loss.



2 AM

Magical Mystery Tour with Tonio Epstein

Seize the Means of Computation: An Internet Big Tech Disassembly Manual with Cory Doctorow



Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, activist and journalist. He’s an award-winning New York Times bestselling author of many books. His most recent nonfiction book is The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation, a Big Tech disassembly manual. In 2020 he was inducted into the Canadian Science Fiction & Fantasy Hall of Fame. In 2022 he earned the Arthur C Clarke Imagination in Service to Society Award for lifetime achievement. He is a special consultant to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an MIT Media Lab Research Associate and a visiting professor of Computer Science at the Open University, a visiting Professor of Practice at the North Carolinas School of Library & Information Science, and co-founder of the UK Open Rights Group.



In this interview we talk about how the internet has been captured by Big Tech monopolies, and how we can dismantle their grip on the digital world and make the internet serve everyone equally again.



The Magical Mystery Tour is a show that dives into the heart of things exploring new ideas and new ways of seeing and being in this wondrous crazy world we share together. New shows are available weekly by Monday. Feel free to contact the host at 802-229-5123 or tonio@together.net



3 AM

Caroline Casey – the Visionary Activist from sister station KPFA

SOLSTICE SPARK IN THE DARK

The Spark in the Dark – from which necessary miracles be born… Winter Solstice.

Caroline & bard wizard, Seán Pádraig O’Donoghue proffering astro*mytho narrative to magnetize*animate all of our participatory skills …

Inviting ancestral support, Mythic allies, that the desirable story of Kindom be born into incarnational actuality born from the spark in the dark…. this Sacred Night…

https://otherworldwell.com/

The following link is not live, it was from last week’s solstice on 12/21 from Seán Pádraig O’Donoghue, Dawn at Newgrange will be 8 am there 3 am east coast US:


https://www.gov.ie/en/news/dda54-live-streaming-link-winter-solstice-at-newgrange-2023/



4 – 6 AM
The final two hours of Thom Hartmann Program from 12-28-23