Carolyn McCusker
ProducerCarolyn McCusker helps produce The Colin McEnroe Show. She loves making true radio stories and listening to fake ones. In the past, she’s worked for NPR and WNYC, and she’s glad to be back at CT Public after interning in 2019. Carolyn can be reached at cmccusker@ctpublic.org.
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This hour, the history of dinner parties and some advice from people who turn party-hosting into an art form. -
If you have an email account, you're probably familiar with scam emails. This hour, the surprising history and future of scam emails, and a conversation with an author who got caught up in an infamous email scam. -
This hour, we separate the facts from fiction about 18th century pirates. Like: did they really bury treasure? And what codes did they live by? -
This hour, the Colin McEnroe show wants to know what’s in your pockets. What do we carry with us every day and why? -
This hour, the Colin McEnroe show is investigating the product recommendation sites we know and love (and hate). How did sites like Consumer Reports and Wirecutter come to dominate our shopping carts? -
Rick Ostfeld, a scientist at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, recently joined “The Colin McEnroe Show” to talk about ticks and his own unique immunity to them. -
This hour of the Colin McEnroe Show, we’re talking about ticks. Why do they seem like they’re everywhere? And what are humans doing to fight back? -
This hour of the Colin McEnroe Show, we’re talking about lotteries. Where and when did they come from? And what could they be used for, beyond distributing large cash prizes? -
This hour of the Colin McEnroe Show is about searching for lost things! We’ll talk to pro treasure hunters and a search-and-find book photo illustrator to learn if there’s any joy to be found in the process of searching. -
This hour, secrets of all kinds: painful secrets, family secrets, secret identities, happy secrets! How do secrets affect us? And how many people can be involved in one before it all implodes?
