The Nobody Show: Your Unabashed Voice of the Left and Left Out.

• Author: Foley, Dylan
• Position: WEOS, Geneva, NY

Geneva, New York

Talk-radio host Jeremy Alderson is devoting an hour per month of his show to phone calls from America's "nobodies "--the poor, the homeless, drug users, and welfare recipients.

"I am a nobody myself," says Alderson, the host of The Nobody Show: Your Unabashed Voice of the Left and Left Out. "There are millions of nobodies, decent people who are never heard from."

On air, Alderson goes by the name "Nobody." The show can be heard on Wednesday evenings from 7:00 to 9:00 P.M. Eastern time on WEOS, the radio station of Hobart and William Smith College.

Alderson, a forty-eight-year-old freelance writer and unreformed hippie, started The Nobody Show in 1992.

Despite its limited range, he has interviewed such figures as author Noam Chomsky and Nation magazine writer Katha Pollitt.

"I have never taken the attitude that because my market is tiny, the quality should not be good," says Alderson.

Alderson got his idea for his new addition to The Nobody Show--providing an hour each month to the voices of...