Looking for Your Radio Nightlight

November 5, 2009 5:59 AM

Looking for Benjamen Walker's Your Radio Nightlight archive.

Long ago, like in 2006 or something, the entire archive of Your Radio Nightlight was available to download at toeradio.org. That website no longer exists and as far as I can search, the archive doesn't either.

Seems like this should exist somewhere though and I am just lacking the intrepid search abilities required to find it.

Here is the episode listing: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AoeYwddciGBVdENfZWkxRUJMSEJIeVZ0Ynd0YmVvWkE&hl=en

posted by panoptican to media & arts (5 comments total)

Donno, but you could try mailing Benjamen via WFMU, as that seems to be the place he now works out of.
posted by the dief at 6:44 AM on November 5

There are some archived shows located here but it doesn't seem to be a complete list, and some of the links don't play anything - but it's the best I could come up with so far.

Back when the TOE radio website was still live, I used the 'Contact Me' link to try and get in touch with him and ask about the availability of a specific episode. Never got a response, unfortunately. Both Nightlight and Theory of Everything were great shows.
posted by Rewind at 7:21 AM on November 5

@the dief: thanks for the contact info. Sent him a message and will follow up if he shares.

@Rewind: hopefully my luck is better.
posted by panoptican at 7:40 AM on November 5

He seems to have largely disappeared from the web. I remember listening to some of his shows live on the radio when he was at WZBC. His old website can be found on archive.org:

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://yourlight.org

Selected episodes used to be available there for streaming (in RealPlayer!) but archive.org apparently didn't save any of them.

I remember this seven-part series he did called "Last Days" not long after the 2003 Iraq invasion began. At one point on his defunct toeradio blog he offered to burn the series onto CDs and mail them to anyone for $100. I still wish I'd done it.
posted by Dixon Ticonderoga at 9:10 AM on November 5

Thanks to knave, the archive is restored.

Anybody interested can download from [SELF LINK ALERT!!!] my website.
posted by panoptican at 3:41 PM on November 5