Support Public Media Before It’s Gone
Do you remember where you first heard about Oliver Sacks? Chances are pretty good it was on public television or radio. Perhaps on Science Friday or Radiolab? Morning Edition? A Fresh Air interview with Terry Gross? For so many of us, life without NPR or PBS is impossible to imagine, but we cannot take it for granted.
Public media was important to Dr. Sacks on a personal level. He listened to his local classical station, WQXR, as he wrote each day. In the evenings he often tuned in to “Nova” or a David Attenborough documentary. (He rarely switched to commercial television, but made an exception for “Star Trek.”)
Top image: Oliver Sacks with Ira Flatow, host of Science Friday. Here are four minutes of video from Science Friday guaranteed to make you smile, featuring Oliver giving a tour of his desk.
To the left he is pictured with Robert Krulwich, the host of Radiolab, who had been interviewing Oliver since the mid 1980s.
If you depend on your favorite show or podcast to learn about the world and your fellow humans and other creatures, please, please call your representatives in DC right now and tell them how you feel about this essential lifeline to education and source of community news. Here’s how you can find their numbers. Call them often. It’s that important.
You can also use a form to send your congress member an email about this issue here. To help public media directly, you can donate to support PBS here, and NPR here.
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