Morning Becomes Eclectic is an influential, three-hour triple-A radio program broadcast live every weekday from KCRW in Santa Monica, California. Nic Harcourt has hosted the program since 1998; previously it was hosted by Chris Douridas and Tom Schnabel. The program was created by Isabel Holt. The show is repeated twice on KCRW's Music webcast, and live performances are also sometimes available as audio and video podcasts. Typically, the show features two or three live performances each week during the last hour of the day's broadcast. Sounds Eclectic, a two-hour mix of the week's MBE output, is broadcast by KCRW on Sundays and syndicated by Public Radio International. The show's name is a pun on Eugene O'Neill's trilogy of plays, Mourning Becomes Electra. The show is described by Joan Didion as "a sedate morning show" in her National Book Award winning memoir, The Year of Magical Thinking.
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- Morning Becomes Eclectic
- "KCRW — A Tradition of Excellence", Santa Monica College, Profiles, 2002, cover story. Cf. part on Nic Harcourt and Morning Becomes Eclectic.
- Archive of live performances
