Complete Run of All My Science Fiction Podcast Episodes

 reviews of TV series and movies, readings, songs, interviews ...

The Irishman - A Podcast Review

Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 120, in which I review The Irishman. I thought it was fabulous, perhaps Scorsese's best.  If you'd like to read along, you can find my written review here, but I always put something extra into the podcast.



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The Man in the High Castle: podcast review of extraordinary final Season 4

Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 119, in which I review The Man in the High Castle - final Season 4. I thought it was the best season so far, which is high praise indeed, since I thought the first three seasons were outstanding.

You can find my written reviews of all four seasons here - The Man in the High Castle on Amazon (pilot)... The Man in the High Castle 1.2-1.10: Timely Alternate Reality Par Excellence ... The Man in the High Castle in Reality -- Well, on NYC Subway Cars ... The Man in the High Castle 2.1-2.3: My Heimisch Town ... The Man in the High Castle 2.4-2.6: Rails and Realities ... The Man in the High Castle 2.7-2.10: Alternate Reality to the Rescue, Literally... The Man in the High Castle 3.1: Real People in Alternate History ... The Man in the High Castle 3.2-3: Alternate Realities, Frederic Brown, and Rockwells ...  The Man in the High Castle 3.4-6: "Tis Death that's Dead" ... The Man in the High Castle 3.7-10: The Metaphysics of Alternate Realities ... The Man in the High Castle season 4: Alternate Realities and Alternate Fulfillment

My podcast review of Season 3 is here and Season 2 is here and the Season 1 pilot is here.
And here are my books and my videos.

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Captain Phil interviews Paul Levinson about his New Music, Science Fiction, and Trump

Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 117, in which the notorious Captain Phil (on WUSB Radio) interviews me about my new music, latest science fiction, and Donald Trump's current assaults on democracy.  Phil also plays, at the start of the episode, two rough mixes from my forthcoming Welcome Up album of science fiction songs, to be released by Old Bear Records this Fall: "Alpha Centauri" and "Samantha".  We discuss such topics as the return of Jeff Lynne and the re-launch of Amazing Stories, in which several of my new science fiction stories have appeared. I always have a good time talking to Phil, and this interview was one of the best.

Helpful links:

1. Robinson Calculator
2. more on anniversary issue of Amazing Stories
3. my review of Jeff Lynne at Prudential in Newark
4. my review of The Loudest Voice
5. Levinson on television about Trump

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Levinson News Clips podcast reviews of Lost, 24, Fringe, Battlestar Galactica, Big Love, Weeds, more

I thought you might enjoy this Levinson News Clips podcast player, where you can hear my 5-10 minute reviews and analyses of Lost, 24, Fringe, Battlestar Galactica, Big Love, Weeds, Californication, The Closer, and more ... including, starting next month, True Blood...

You can put this player right on your own site, by clicking the embed button on the right side, and copying the code. (You first click to start the podcast. Look for the < > icon on the right - it's the third one down - and it contains the embed code.)

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Lost 4 and 8: A Special, Jumbo Podcast

Enjoy Lost?

How could you not? It's easily one of the best shows ever on television. The first season took the world by magnetic storm. The finale of the third season is still being talked about. And most people, including me, think the fourth season - which just concluded its first part, consisting of eight episodes - is at least as good as the first season, and, in my opinion, in some respects even better.

I've been reviewing every episode on my weekly Levinson news clips podcast.

I've compiled them all into a special 68-minute jumbo episode of my Light On Light Through podcast. Plus, I've added a little special commentary at the end.

If you like Lost - or just want to know what all the sensation is about - sit back, kick back, and enjoy the podcast below...

And, hey, if you have a car that's Bluetooth enabled - like my Prius - just call the following number, and you can hear this entire podcast on your car radio ... 415-223-4122 ... Enjoy...



special 60-minute jumbo podcast reviewing first 8 episodes of Season 4

My 20-Minute Interview with Mad Men's Rich Sommer (Harry Crane)

Hey all of you Mad Men fans ... the season is over ... it will be replayed soon, and the second season will be on AMC next summer ... but in the meantime-

Check out my 20-minute interview with Rich Sommer aka Harry Crane! We did this just two days ago, had a great time, and covered such topics as the "joys" of wearing real 1960 clothing ... what are they really smoking on the show? ... what does Rich think happened with Harry between episodes 12 and 13 of the show? ... how does Rich explain Harry's uncanny resemblance to Isaac Asimov (see my review of Episode 8) ... how does Rich account for the rare anachronisms on the show ... and much more ...

You can listen to the interview and read the complete show notes at Light On Light Through ...

Or just click and listen to it right here ...

my 20-minute interview with Rich Sommer

See also reviews of every Mad Men episode: Mad Men Debuts on AMC: Cigarette Smoke and Nixon ... Mad Men 2: Smoke and Television ... Mad Men 3: Hot 1960 Kiss ... Mad Men 4 and 5: Double Mad Men ... Mad Men 6: The Medium is the Message! ... Mad Men 7: Revenge of the Mollusk ... Mad Men 8: Weed, Twist, Hobo ... Mad Man 9: Betty Grace Kelly ... Mad men 10: Life, Death, and Politics ... Mad Men 11: Heat! ... Mad Men 12: Admirable Don ... Mad Men 13: Double Endings, Lascaux, and Holes ...

1st Anniversary Party for LightonLightThrough now live! win free copy of novel!

Come listen in on our celebration ... our guest lists includes....

# James Harris ... singing Looking for Sunsets
# Shaun Farrell ... from Adventures in SciFi Publishing
# Jason Rennie ... from the Sci Phi Show
# Jake Cordova ... from Just Not Right
# Dave Worley ... blog, soundcast, more
# Norman the Movie Guy ... from That Movie Critic Show
# Scott Sandridge ... from Everyday Fiction
# Michael Burstein ... award-winning short fiction
# Diana Liwen ... from Fire of Spring
# Mike James ... from MikeThinks
# Gabriel Llanas ... from the Punk Horror Podcast
# Nathan Rivera ... from Podcast Pendulum
# Tina ... my wife ... from home

and much more ...

Plus ... a chance to win a free, autographed copy of my current novel, The Plot to Save Socrates...

->And listen for debut play of promo for Diane Kreinbring's RonPaulFanCast podcast at end....


hey, you can listen to the podcast right here!

Podcast with the Entire Sloan Ranger Interview of Paul Levinson About Media Misreporting of Ron Paul

Hey - if you missed this Tuesday's Sloan Ranger show on WGNU Radio - out of St. Louis and live-streaming everywhere - and his interview with me about the media misreporting of Ron Paul, I have it all for you here in this podcast:

Light On Light Through podcast page, with show notes and mp3 player

or just the mp3, that you can listen to right here

The full 20-minute interview, no commercials, in which I discuss four examples of ABC News misreporting and worse. Lloyd Sloan - aka the Sloan Ranger - and a Jeffersonian like me, offers an example of his own, and we also discuss media bias in general, its history and its ubiquity. The discussion inevitably touched on the First Amendment (I admire Ron Paul's rare, unstinting support of it), and I offered my view that the FCC, in daily abrogating this crucial part of our Constitution, is treasonous.

More soon...