interstitial or variety show

Radio is great co-pilot for the long commute, and I did enjoy listening to pure news broadcasts with the occasional searching of the spectrum for a good classic rock song when the Headline News effect, repetition, set in. I was afraid, however, I was always missing something and was never wholly satisfied with the same programme selection of pop. State broadcasters, who also offer the news station and one of the ubiquitous tiger beat stations, feature a channel (DE) that I usually passed over, thinking it was exclusively jazz or Volksmusik (Volxmusik), nothing against either genre, however dithered over it for a while one morning to discover that the bulk of the daytime line-up is brilliant and exactly the sort of stream-of-consciousness narrative on the news and cultural items that I was looking for. The reporting is more in depth and based on expert interviews and there’s a real mix of talk and interstitial (dazwischenliegend) music. “We’ll be discussing Obama’s embarrassing stage-whisper to Dmitri Medvedjev, which he will transmit to his once-and-future president, and then the continuing public-service sector strikes, but first we have two more hot mics for you: Johnny and June Carter-Cash performing their number Jackson.” That’s fantastic and the whole day’s stories are punctuated like that--with a clever soundtrack.