As you look for end of summer programming, or new ways to plant seeds in your listeners hearts and souls as fundraising season returns in September and October, I wanted to get in one additional recommendation about the mindblowing six-part series, The Nerve - Music and the Human Experience, from the CBC.

The series investigates the "how and why of music" in fresh, new ways and means. To get all that this program offers requires a mostly "sit down and give all your attention to the radio" commitment. And it's a sit down experience you can, without hesitation, tell your listeners is well worth their time and attention.

Even if you don't get all of the information and understanding of the music-brain-body interaction, the mix of voices, information, music and radio craft is so pleasing to the ear. Still, your listeners will still walk away with plenty.

(Repeating each show in the series is worth considering.)

Some people (and radio producers) know how to make far away worlds -- the mystery of science, music, the cochlea, spinal column, and the cerebral cortex -- accessible, beautiful, fun, interesting and entertaining.

The presenters and producers of this series are those people.

Highly recommended.

(More detailed reviews of Programs 1 and 3 in the series are included in the "Music Station Picks for August" Playlist.)