“The Radio Hour brings the best of the magazine plus real insight into the thinking behind the articles and profiles, and the process the writers and editors go through to produce the thoughtful articles. But this is so much more than an audio version of the finished printed magazine. The snippets of conversations with writers, authors, cartoonists and editors for the departments bring the listener into the whole process of creation. There is humour and ernest enquiry brought to each story. The mixture of content provides something for everyone, but with that particular New Yorker view of the world. And the decision to make the magazine’s editor David Remnick the voice of the podcast is the right and perfect choice. So in keeping with the history of the magazine and its iconic editors from the beginning.
I have been reading the New Yorker pretty much my whole life, starting with anthologies of cartoons from the earliest days, to the cartoons in my parent’s subscription to my own print subscription first in the USA and then in Australia. Now reading on the iPad. The Radio Hour is both the perfect introduction to those who are not readers as well as an now indispensable new dimension to the experience of readers — both old and new.
Well done.”
Terry Flander via Apple Podcasts ·
Australia ·
01/31/16