This podcast is like a dispatch, with meal-sized discussions fit for a lunch break - musical refreshments included. The host is very experienced and keeps the energy crisp and moving, even when the topics are quite sophisticated or high-intensity. Rarely is the content “too much to handle”, but almost always the guests nurture my intelligence. The material may be kept to a 25-minute se’ment, with a wizened interviewer, but I never feel I am being fed simplified or boring material.
If someone listens to this long-running show continuously for a year, they’ll come out much smarter from it, without getting lost. And maybe with an appreciation for some different musicians and composers, and more enthusiasm for music (never a bad thing)
