Live Wire with Luke Burbank
Conversation, music, and comedy: live and packed with surprises.
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Show overview
Live Wire with Luke Burbank has been publishing since 2014, and across the 12 years since has built a catalogue of 764 episodes. That works out to roughly 640 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence.
Episodes typically run thirty-five to sixty minutes — most land between 52 min and 59 min — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language Arts show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 2 days ago, with 34 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2015, with 251 episodes published. Published by Live Wire Radio.
From the publisher
Like late-night for radio, Live Wire is hosted by Luke Burbank (Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me) and artfully blends an eclectic mix of artists, musicians, writers, filmmakers, comedians, and cultural observers.
Latest Episodes
View all 764 episodesEdgar Gomez, River Selby, and Hunter Noack (REBROADCAST)
Mary Roach, Janesh Rahlan, and Amy Millan (REBROADCAST)
Paul F. Tompkins and Meklit (REBROADCAST)
W. Kamau Bell, Rick Steves, and Edna Vázquez
Sam Sanders, Sandi DuBowski, and The Lowest Pair (REBROADCAST)
Jeff Chang and Okaidja Afroso
Aubrey Gordon, Jean Grae, and Rogê (REBROADCAST)
Jamie Loftus, Daisy Hernández, and Olive Klug
Atsuko Okatsuka, Jack Balderrama Morley, and Tyler Ballgame
Melissa Febos, Evan Ratliff, and Tropa Magica (REBROADCAST)
Sarah Marshall, Camille Dungy, and Kassa Overall
J. Kenji López-Alt, Ann Powers, and Khatumu (REBROADCAST)
Earlonne Woods & Nigel Poor, Dylan Adler, and Margo Cilker
Gabe Henry, William Nuʻutupu Giles, and Sir Woman (REBROADCAST)
Avery Trufelman, Kyle Kinane, and Johnny Franco and His Real Brother Dom
Rick Steves and The Lullaby Project (REBROADCAST)
Cheryl Strayed, Skyler Higley, and Patterson Hood
"Poetry Month Special" with Paisley Rekdal, Hanif Abdurraqib, Anis Mojgani, Kaveh Akbar, and Kasey Anderson
Chuck Klosterman, Sasha Debevec-McKenney, and Laura Gibson
Ep 712Karen Russell, Sam Miller, and David Ramirez
Award-winning author Karen Russell takes us inside her "dust bowl epic" novel The Antidote, which employs the fantastical to comment on memory, climate change, and the nation's troubling history of land ownership; stand-up comedian Sam Miller finds sidesplitting humor in his own experiences with addiction and incarceration; and singer-songwriter David Ramirez explains how he pulled himself out of a rut and into solitude to write his latest album All The Not So Gentle Reminders, before performing the track "The Music Man."