https://s3.amazonaws.com/radiofivesixeight/Bar+Crawl+Radio/BCR13-Part1b-MP3.mp3 Conversations with two “crime” writers. In Two Acts.  In Act 1 of BCR13, hosts — Rebecca McKean and Alan Winson — talked with Michael Wilson who wrote the “Crime Scene” column for the NY Times from 2011 to 2017.  In over 300, well-formed narratives, Wilson covered the human-side of crime from both sides of […]

https://s3.amazonaws.com/radiofivesixeight/Bar+Crawl+Radio/BCR13-PT2-MP3.mp3 Becky and I had such a blast talking with Mike Wilson — NY Times “Crime Scene” writer — that we went over our 20 minute conversation limit. So, we broke the podcast into two acts.  BCR13-Act 2.  Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich is the author of “The Fact of a Body” — a memoir about child murder, […]

https://s3.amazonaws.com/radiofivesixeight/Bar+Crawl+Radio/BCR12-Total.m4a BCR12 brought together local mead makers and beer brewers to talk about their craft. Becky and I spoke with Raphael Lyon of Enlightenment Wines and Honey’s tasting room, Brian Sullivan of Capital Meads, Walter Lee (not a mead maker but a mead scholar and epicure) of the Pagan Mead Society. And — we spoke […]

https://s3.amazonaws.com/radiofivesixeight/Bar+Crawl+Radio/BCR12-Extra-taste-off.m4a After hours at Bar Crawl Radio:  Following BCR12 recording — our beer brewing and mead-making guests and friends stuck around the porch at Gebhards Beer Culture Bar and tasted a variety of meads and craft beers.  This recording is a bit of a free-for-all as I wondered from taster to taster and talked about […]

https://s3.amazonaws.com/radiofivesixeight/Bar+Crawl+Radio/BCR12-Schramms-Interview5.m4a Extra — Featured on BCR12: Ken Schramm is the owner and head mead maker at Schramm’s Mead in Ferndale, Michigan, and he is the author of The Compleat Meadmaker (2003) — as such, he is an expert in the field.  In this interview, Ken talks about how he got started in the mead-making business, his […]

https://s3.amazonaws.com/radiofivesixeight/Bar+Crawl+Radio/BCR11-Amer-Score-Background-Guns-TOTAL.m4a EXTRA – Featured on BCR11: Excerpt from Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing held on Dec. 6, 2017 on establishing effective policy on gun purchase background checks.  American Scoreboard producers Fran Kirmser and Christopher Burney are the readers — followed by their commentary.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/radiofivesixeight/Bar+Crawl+Radio/BCR11-EXTRA-COMPUTER+SCHOOL+WALKOUT.m4a EXTRA – Featured on BCR11:  Students – Arijana and Hudson – of the Upper West Side Computer School talk about their experience organizing and running their school’s 17-Minute Walkout March calling for gun safety legislation.  Interview conducted at Gebhard’s Beer Culture Bar.