The Anthropocene Reviewed is a WNYC podcast by the now fully grown-up writer, John Green, telling explanatory stories of the human condition to his now pretty much fully grown-up audience.
In the episode embedded below, Green tells the story of how the song 'You'll Never Walk Alone', which was written in the early 1940's by Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein for the musical 'Carousel', which itself was an adaptation Frederic Molnar's 1909 play 'Liliom', later became the favourite refrain of Liverpool soccer fans after Gerry and the Pacemakers covered it in 1963.
Green then follows this with the story of Liverpool goalie Jerzy Dudek's amazing redemption song during the 2005 Champions league final.
Even if you have no interest in musicals and/or soccer whatsoever, you will dig this, I promise...
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Mr. Greene is best known for messing around with his brother Hank online and his YA fiction, some of which has been turned into movies.
For hardcore, old-timey Vancouver Whitecaps fans there is even a bit of Bruce Grobbelaar in Greene's Liveprudlian-centric tale.
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