Morning Becomes Eclectic

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Morning Becomes Eclectic is a three-hour music radio program broadcast every weekday from Village Recorders in Santa Monica, California on KCRW. Hosted since 1998 by Nic Harcourt, previously hosted by Chris Douridas. The show is repeated twice on KCRW's "All Music" webcast and also available as a podcast. There is also a saturday "companion" called Weekend Becomes Eclectic. The programs were created by Isabel Holt, and assisted by Tom Schnabel, who hosted them for many years. Sounds Eclectic, a two-hour mix of the week's MBE output, is broadcast by KCRW on Sundays and syndicated on other public radio stations.

[edit] Trivia

• The show's name is a pun on Eugene O'Neill's trilogy of plays, Mourning Becomes Electra.
• The show is described by Joan Didion as "a sedate morning show" in her National Book Award winning memoir The Year of Magical Thinking.

[edit] External links

• Morning Becomes Eclectic
• "KCRW — A Tradition of Excellence", Santa Monica College, Profiles, 2002, cover story. Cf. part on Nic Harcourt and Morning Becomes Eclectic.
• Archive of live performances