Welcome to the official website of Turbow Talk&Tunes!
tt&t is coming to you this spring on WYBC AM 1340, Yale University's radio station, time and day tba.
Growing up on public radio in New York, I have come to see radio as a community space, where sound brings us together. tt&t will be an attempt to serve as such space for the Yale community -- a chance for people to have their voices heard.
Content and Concept
One part of the show will be from my own eclectic music collection -- from Frank Sinatra, Bob Dylan, Smokey Robinson, Paul Simon and Rodgers&Hammerstein musicals to Guster, Josh Ritter, Nickel Creek, Dar Williams, and Yale's own Duke's Men.
The other part of the show will be up to the Yale community. I plan to invite writers, musicians and music groups, actors and journalists to adapt and/or present their work on the show for various segments of short stories, live music broadcasts, radio plays and human-interest reporting.
The ties between these two parts will be actual as well as conceptual. If all goes well, each show will have a short, 5- to 7-minute segment from a member of the community on a piece of music that has affected them in some way -- whether it reminds them of a place, a person, a time in their life, or any other thing. The central theme of the segment will be one that we will return to throughout the show.
The overarching theme of tt&t is community -- there will be a large emphasis on the larger American community its enormous musical diversity (though a Beatles song will obviously have to be thrown in for good measure every once in a while), as well as the Yale community and its enormous diversity in talent.
Contact
If you have any ideas for the show, or wish to be contributer (regular or one-time), please shoot me an email at turbowtalktunes@gmail.com
A Little about your Host
My name is Sarah Turbow. I am a sophomore political science major at Yale. When I'm not futzing around with the radio dial, I am futzing around with the Yale College Democrats and the Roosevelt Institution, skiing in Maine, wandering the streets of New York, sitting in New Haven coffee shops, or watching old movies on Turner Classic Movies.
My radio influences, both in life and for this show are as follows:
- Garrison Keillor and Jonathan Schwartz, the men behind two of WNYC's best shows
- Ira Glass, of This American Life (the best show on radio, perhaps ever) and whose concept-themed shows are the inspiration for community reporting
- Rebecca Serbin (of serbin speak&sound fame) and the rest of Kiddish Club
- Most importantly, my father, Daniel Turbow, who taught me to keep time by radio.
