Light On Light Through – Détails, épisodes et analyse

Welcome to Light On Light Through episode 416, in which I review the The Beatles Anthology 2025 documentary.

Relevant links:

• my written review of Anthology 2025
• my 2024 podcast review of Beatles '64
• my 1972 article in The Village Voice: Murray the K in Nostalgia's Noose
• my 1971 article in The Village Voice: A Vote for McCartney
• my 1972 song Murray the K's Back In Town
• my 2024 novel It's Real Life: An Alternate History of The Beatles
• 2023 radioplay It's Real Life on Killerwatt Radio adapted from first chapter of my novel (audiobook of radioplay here)
• my 2025 written review of One to One: John & Yoko
• my 2017-2018 written reviews of Rob Sheffield's book Dreaming the Beatles (I review every chapter!)
• my 2016 review of Billy J. Kramer's book Do You Wanna Know a Secret?
• my thoughts about The Beatles' Now and Then
• "The Beatles and Podcasts" my Fall 2023 essay in the Journal of Beatles Studies
• my 2023 written review of John Lennon: Murder Without a Trial
• my 2021 podcast reviews of Peter Jackson's The Beatles: Get Back
• Chris Willman's interview with Oliver Murray in Variety
• Note added at February 10, 2026: Ten-Minute Take on Current Beatles Books and Documentaries on Rock Talk Studio podcast with Big Rick

Welcome to Light On Light Through episode 415, in which I interview Brooklyn Demme about Paul Thomas Anderson's movie One Battle After Another, in which Brooklyn played a minor role.  But in a movie this great, every role is important.

Relevant links:

• my review of One Battle After Another
• Simon Vozick-Levinson's A Guide to the Revolutionary Music in 'One Battle After Another' in Rolling Stone, September 29, 2025
• screening of That Kid (produced by Brooklyn Demme) in Nyack, NY November 1, 2025 at 12 Noon

Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 406, and my in-depth interview with Rolling Stone writer David Browne about his masterful book, Talkin' Greenwich Village. We talk at length about Dave Van Ronk, Joni Mitchell, Phil Ochs, Bob Dylan, The Blues Project, Bob Lind, and a little less about many others, including Hegel and his spirit of an age.

Relevant links:

• Get a copy of Talkin' Greenwich Village
• My review of Talkin' Greenwich Village
• Catch David Browne at Big Red Books in Nyack, NY, March 6
• Catch me at Big Red Books, Nyack, NY, February 23, doing a dramatic reading from It's Real Life: An Alternate History of The Beatles, with Anthony Marinelli and Amanda Greer, real people who appear as characters in the novel, and Frank LoBuono and Denise Reed.

Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 317, in which Captain Phil on WUSB-FM Radio (Stony Brook, New York) interviews me about the January 6 House Committee Hearings.  (This interview was conducted the Sunday after the first hearing on June 9, 2022, but we discussed issues pertaining to the continuing hearings.  We talk for the first 13 minutes about science fiction on television -- one of our usual topics of discussion -- and then begin to discuss the House Committee Hearings).

Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 316, in which I review the seventh episode of The Man Who Fell to Earth  on Showtime.

Written blog post review of this episode of The Man Who Fell to Earth

podcast reviews of The Man Who Fell to Earth  1.1 ... 1.2... 1.3... 1.5-1.6

Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 315, in which I review the fifth episode of The Time Traveler's Wife on HBO.

written blog post review of this episode

Podcast reviews of The Time Traveler's Wife 1.1... 1.2... 1.3... 1.4

Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 314, in which I review For All Mankind 3.1 on Apple TV+.

Blog post written review of this episode

Podcast reviews of prior seasons:  Season 2 ... Season 1

Further reading:

• It's Real Life (free alternate history story about The Beatles)
• The Missing Orientation (free article about why we have not yet made it further than the Moon in our own reality)

*** Note added 27 October 2023:  Check out my review of Jack Dann's new book, The Fiction Writer's Guide to Alternate History

Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 313, in which I review episode 3.2 of The Orville on Hulu

Written blog post  review of this episode

Podcast reviews of The Orville third season:  3.1

Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 312, in which I review the sixth episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds on Paramount+

Written blog post review of this episode

Podcast reviews of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 1.1-2 ... 1.3... 1.4... 1.5

Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 311, in which I review the fifth and sixth episodes of The Man Who Fell to Earth  on Showtime.

Written blog post reviews of these episodes of The Man Who Fell to Earth: 1.5 and 1.6

podcast reviews of The Man Who Fell to Earth 1.1 ... 1.2... 1.3 ... 1.4