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Adam Gopnik - writing from New York - on why he can't stop listening to call-in radio shows about sport... even when they appear to have absolutely nothing to talk about!

"In the absence of sports, sports radio thrives," writes Adam Gopnik, "and churns and heaves and roils on a diet of pure abstraction, stays awake all night on the caffeine of accelerated nothingness."

Adam examines the American fascination with call-in shows about sport - and the paradox that although they have absolutely no sport to talk about right now, the shows have never been more argumentative or more alive.

Producer: Adele Armstrong

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9 minutes

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Sun 12 Jul 2020 08:48

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  • Fri 10 Jul 2020 20:50
  • Sun 12 Jul 2020 08:48

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