# This Is Hell!

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This article is about a radio show. For other uses, see [This Is Hell](/source/This_is_Hell_(disambiguation)).

***This is Hell!*** is a weekly Saturday morning four hour radio show hosted by Chuck Mertz on [WNUR-FM](/source/WNUR-FM) in [Chicago, Illinois](/source/Chicago,_Illinois). It has been broadcasting regularly since 1996. In addition to the live broadcast the show provides a [podcast](/source/Podcast) with archives going back to 2001.

## Format

Each show consists of four or five long interviews with academics, authors, or activists. Each interview ends with the *question from hell*; "a question we hate to ask, you may hate to answer, or our audience may hate the response*".*

Other features include pieces by a range of *irregular correspondents* from around the world, the most frequent being playwright and screenwriter [Jeff Dorchen](/source/Basmati_Blues), whose *Moment of Truth*[1] closes the show, and less frequently Kevan Harris *The Radical Pessimist*, and [Elvis deMorrow](/source/No_Doctors) from the *Konspiracy Korner*. [URL Labs'](http://www.urllabs.com) LaddieO.com regularly delivers a *Website of the Week*. The guests and irregular correspondents are interspersed with local, national and international information and news stories, as well as informed commentary on a range of subjects.

The show also typically includes a segment about hangover cures, both dubious and credible, and an ad for National Beer which culminates in the host deciphering a [rebus](/source/Rebus) puzzle.

## Guests

Notable guests have included [Dan Ellsberg](/source/Dan_Ellsberg), [G. Flint Taylor](/source/G._Flint_Taylor), [Sami Al-Arian](/source/Sami_Al-Arian), [Scott Ritter](/source/Scott_Ritter), [Noam Chomsky](/source/Noam_Chomsky), [Greg Palast](/source/Greg_Palast), [Juan Cole](/source/Juan_Cole), [Naomi Klein](/source/Naomi_Klein), [Christopher Hitchens](/source/Christopher_Hitchens), [Ray McGovern](/source/Ray_McGovern), [Alexander Cockburn](/source/Alexander_Cockburn), [Thomas Frank](/source/Thomas_Frank_(political_commentator)), [Dean Baker](/source/Dean_Baker), [Glenn Greenwald](/source/Glenn_Greenwald), [Bill McKibben](/source/Bill_McKibben), [Stephen Walt](/source/Stephen_Walt), [Rami Khouri](/source/Rami_Khouri), [James Galbraith](/source/James_K._Galbraith), [Barbara Ehrenreich](/source/Barbara_Ehrenreich), [Immanuel Wallerstein](/source/Immanuel_Wallerstein), [Dahr Jamail](/source/Dahr_Jamail), [Paul Craig Roberts](/source/Paul_Craig_Roberts), [Andrew Bacevich](/source/Andrew_Bacevich), [Chris Hedges](/source/Chris_Hedges), [John Mearsheimer](/source/John_Mearsheimer), [Deepak Tripathi](/source/Deepak_Tripathi) and [Seymour Hersh](/source/Seymour_Hersh), many of whom have been on the show multiple times.

## References

1. Dorchen, Jeff. ["Moments of Truth"](http://www.mejeffdorchen.oblivio.com/moments/). *Jeff Dorchen's acerbic essays and enchanting almanac*. Retrieved 10 December 2016.

## External links

- [This is Hell! website](http://thisishell.com/)

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