The occasion for the discussion is the 40th anniversary of Dylan's Halloween concert at Philharmonic Hall in New York City and of the release of the live concert cd (Bootleg series, Volume 6). I listened over a long car ride and found it to be mostly interesting. I kept waiting for the conversation to take off in a kind of free for all and away from the controlled Q followed by A format. One of the panelists, the historian Dave Marsh I think, quotes the line "talking about songwriting is like doing card tricks on the radio." This is much livlier than that and it's also instructive for thinking about how to turn a live event -- a lecture or discussion, say -- into an hour or two of radio. This program had the music going for it and the conversational thread about the impact of music in the turbulent period of the 1960's as compared to the times that are a changin' in America right now. The radio hour could have been improved with more post production -- more songs, more music intervals, funkier opens, breaks and closes and voice overs that let us keep track of who the speakers were -- but that's probably not what the producer had in mind; more likely it was to simply let us listen to an event we couldn't attend. So for that I was grateful and I think lots of other listeners would be too.