I do miss my radio days. For old time’s sake, here’s my half-hour Christmas/Winter/Solstice/Kwanzaa documentary. Enjoy. Every week or so, I check Google for news of Bill Bricker, to see if there are new developments I’d been unaware of. Today I found an article in a British newspaper, of all things. The number of victims stepping forward has gone from two to three, out of a possible hundred in total. [Bricker] was later charged with immoral and indecent […]
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Radio Programs: Holidays and Special Occasions
In the late ’80s, Adi Gevins and I got a grant to produce an eight-part series of half-hour documentaries called A Gathering of Days: An American Holiday Sampler. She did Father’s Day, Independence Day, New Year’s and one other delightful program whose theme I’ve temporarily forgotten. My contributions were: 1. For Mothers’ Day, Mothers: 2. For Halloween, The Time Between: 3. For Christmas and the winter holidays, ‘Tis the Season: 4. For Valentine’s Day, Attachments: […]
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The dreaded day is almost upon us, so it’s time to put up my Valentine’s Day program. I get so gloomy at this time of hear year that I find myself chanting my grandmother’s old poem: “Nobody loves me. Everybody hates me. I’m going to the garden to eat worms …” Without further ado, here is Attachments, produced as part of the national, CPB-funded series I did with Adi Gevins which we called A Gathering […]
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How did this happen? It can’t be Christmastime already. But I know it is because there was X-mas Muzak in the Hong Kong airport and now the house down the street has its illuminated holiday sign: “Ho Ho,” it says on the roof. “Ho” it says on the porch just below. So of course I always read it as “Hoho, ‘ho.” Many years ago I produced a half-hour Christmas special for public radio. People tell […]
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