WBAI 99.5 FM Folio: November 1975

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Who is Jerzy Kosinski? ‘‘I am only what 
I know I am,” he answers during an 
interview with Charles Ruas, director of 
WBAI’s Arts Department. And he is also 
the person we see, a master at evasion. 
This mastery has enabled him to remain 
free, quite literally, to create characters 
with just enough similarities to himself to 
trick critics into confusing him with all of 
them. 

What we know of Kosinski’s past can 
quickly be summarized. He was born in 
, in 1933 and came to this country in 

1957, By 1958 he had won a fellowship 
from the Ford Foundation. He holds 
degrees in both political science and 
history and has authored, under the pen 
name of Joseph Novak, two. non-fiction 
works, The Future is Ours, Comrade (1960) 
and No Third Path (1962). In 1965, a year 
filled with news of political reprisals 
exacted by the Soviet Union on writers for 
publishing critical works, Kosinski, who 
writes exclusively in English, published his 
first novel, The Painted Bird, which won 
him instant international acclaim as a 
major new contemporary writer. In 1969, 
his second novel, Steps, won the National 
Book Award. On the strength of these two 
works alone, his stature as a writer is 
secure and he has been likened to Kafka, 
Camus and Celine. His third and fourth 
novels, Being There (1971) and The Devil 
Tree (1973), seemed, however, to disap- 
point the critics, unprepared as they were 
for Kosinski’s satirical mimicry of Ameri- 


1} can life. Then, last spring, he published 


Cockpit. It should also be mentioned that, 
from 1973 to June of this year, Kosinski 
served as president of P.E.N., an 
international organization fighting for 


Jerzy Kosinski 


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freedom of expression by defending 
writers throughout the world. 

Like the human race, he has _ his 
pre-historic time. As enigmatic clues to the 
twenty-four years between his birth and his 
arrival in America, we have only the myths 
he has created in The Painted Bird and 
Steps. The former is a picaresque novel of 
a small boy hiding from the Germans 
during World War II and at the mercy of 
East-European peasants; the latter, an 
episodic work in which the unnamed 
protagonist, who bears some unspecified 
university affiliation in a similarly un- 
specified totalitarian state, leaves his past 
behind and journeys ultimately to a new, 
suspiciously familiar, though unnamed, 
city. One hesitates, however, to assume 
Kosinski’s past is contained in his novels, 
for, in the few interviews Kosinski has 
granted in the past, and in the series of 
conversations Charles Ruas has so artfully 
engaged him in for WBAI (and which will 
be broadcast throughout November), 
Kosinski repeatedly warns against confus- 
ing the-author with his creations. 

The tenets of the aging New Criticism 
aside, this curiosity about Kosinski’s- past 
has some justification. The obliteration, or 
obfuscation, of the past is a recurring 
theme in his work and one, which draws us 
into Kosinski’s personal system of 
individual power and identity. His latest 
book, Cockpit, which he feels to be the 
summation of his quintet, has this as its 


most central theme. The story concerns a 
man escaping from his profession as a 
secret agent and taking with him his 
dossier containing all the documented 
particulars about his past. Only with the 
possession of his dossier can the agent, 
Tarden, remain free from capture, free to 
create a new self, adopt a new system of 
personal values, a new language for 
survival. In Cockpit, private control over 
the past leads to freedom in the present for 
the wary, the sly, the surreptitious. and the 
amoral. For, naturally, one can’t possess 
one’s past wholly, and dictate the terms of 
one’s present, if one permits oneself to be 
perpetually trapped in the vocabulary of 
values imposed on individuals from the 
larger society. Societal values exist to 
perpetuate society, the collective, and 
Kosinski dreads collectivity. He has, one 
imagines, seen the totalitarian state 
first-hand and has decided never to 
relinquish his destiny to it again. But he is 
not so naive as to imagine that 
totalitarianism exists only behind the “‘Iron 
Curtain;’’ he justifiably distrusts ll 
collectivities, all institutions, from the 
family, to the church, to the school, the 
corporation, in fact, all group minds. 

A brief essay of Kosinski’s appeared in 
1970, I believe, on the Op-Ed page of the 
Times. Entitled ‘‘Dead Souls on 
Campus,’’ the essay began with a most 
memorable and telling anecdote of 
Kosinski, incarnated as a professor of 
writing at Princeton, receiving a story from 
one of his students who hands it to him 
with the cryptic remark, ‘‘You won’t like it 
because in your work people die.’’ The 
result of the student’s apparent self- 
effacement is instant and unforgettable. 
Kosinski immediately replies: ‘‘You know 
the very first time I saw you I got the 
strange felling that you were going to die 
young.’’ Naturally, this deeply rattles the 
student who protests that that is a ‘‘terrible 
thing to tell a man’’ only to receive 
Kosinski’s crushing retort: ‘‘. . .To tell a 
man? But I am talking about you. Didn’t 
you say you were going to Vietnam?”’ 

Later on in the essay, Kosinski admits 
that he had had no such premonition at all, 
but had ‘‘simply wanted to shock him, to 


Kosinski: THE CULT OF THE COSTLY VICTIM 


get an intense personal reaction out of him 
by making him aware of the one individual 
experience he could not escape: his own 
death.’’ I’m sure he achieved his objective, 
nevertheless I’d like to know that his 
ex-student is alive and well and living in 
Canada. The rest of his essay goes on to 
deplore what Kosinski sees as the atrophy 
of the individual mind in American youth. 
Wasted by thousands of hours spent 
passively absorbing the sterile pap of 
television, and’yet so fearful of awakening 
to emptiness, American youth, he claims, 
resort to drugs which will hide them in a 
junky fuzz or artificially alter their 
consciousnesses, in effect, turning the 
channel to a new reality. : 

But the inclusion of the momento mori 
anecdote illustrates a side of Kosinski 
much more than it tells us about the 
collective escapism of young Americans. It 
clearly demonstrates one of Kosinski’s 
most characteristic traits as an author, his 
depiction of the use of cruelty for achieving 
personal ends. Now, it’s true, cruelty 
exists in many, many works, but rarely 
does one come across novels told in the 
first person whose protagonists are as 
premeditatively brutal and vengeful as 
those in Kosinski’s work. His protagonists, 
particularly in Steps and Cockpit, per- 
petrate the most horrible acts of personal 
retribution seemingly without any after- 
effects of guilt or remorse. In this respect, 
perhaps they are lacking in some creative 
dimension, yet somehow the usual 
dimensions of character simply do not 
apply to Kosinski. There are no 
Raskolnikovs in Kosinski’s system; there is 
cold-blooded evil, or what we, in the 
societal collective, mean by the term 
“evil.’’ The young boy in The Painted 
Bird, victimized repeatedly, eventually 
reduces all he has witnessed into his own 
most singular morality: 

Only those with a_ sufficiently 
powerful passion for hatred, greed, 


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November 1975, Folio 


Political Economy 


People’s growing desire to learn about 
economics does not come exclusively from 
their “‘bread-and-butter’’ concerns during 
a period of economic crisis. More fun- 
damentally, many working people are 
beginning to share a suspicion that what 
they have been taught about the economy 
doesn’t “‘explain’’ much anymore. They 
sense that the United States is moving 
quickly toward some new institutional 

_ forms. Phrases like ‘‘state planning’’ and 
“social contract’’ are beginning to perco- 
late through the labor movement and the 
community. What do these phrases mean? 
Who is going to plan for whom? People 
want some tools for thinking about these 
kinds of questions. 

POLITICAL ECONOMY—A _ TEN 
WEEK COURSE is designed to respond to 
this growing demand. It was tested on a 
pilot basis with a group of oil and chemical 
workers in New Jersey during the winter of 

' 1974-75. The pilot course appears to have 
succeeded by almost every available 
indication. 

Economists David Gordan and William 
Tabb have adapted this course for presen- 
tation over WBAI’s air. They describe the 


A Ten Week Course 


Conducted by economists, David Gordan of the New School for Social Research, and William 
Tabb of Queens College. Both Gordan and Tabb are members of URPE, the Union for 
Radizal Political Economics. 


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discussing the implications of those 
features of our system. It does not mean, 
however, that we substitute our own fixed 
views of the economy for other fixed views. 
Throughout, the course materials seek to 
stimulate debate and exchange. 

The course curriculum builds from a 
historical framework. We believe that 
people can best understand both the 
continuities and the discontinuities of the 
current crisis by tracing the historical 
development of our economic system. 
While many of the ‘‘lessons’’ of the course 
are more timeless, they emerge through 
concrete historical discussion. We think 
that this kind of historical grounding 
provides the best means of encouraging 
the critical perspective we seek. 

The course content emphasizes analysis. 
Although both historical and current 
“‘facts’’ are presented throughout, we 
emphasize the problem of interpreting 
those facts. The actual pedagogy of the 
course helps reinforce this kind of 
orientation. The first forty-five minutes will 
be devoted mostly to lecture—with the 
course’s point of view predominating. The 
second forty-five minutes is devoted 
exclusively to discussion, designed to 


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wget encourage questions, debate and dialogue 
with the ‘‘teacher.’’ Different interpreta- 
tions of case studies sharpen some of the 
analytic differences. 


The course materials return continually 


William Rockefeller advises us to work hard and save our money. 


from and where it’s going. The course has 
four main aspects which frame our effort to 
provide that stimulation—and which also 
differentiate this course from most other 
courses in the conventional curricula. 

The course content assumes a critical 
perspective. This means that we do not 
defend or apologize for the system as it 
currently operates. It means that we 
assume that social structures change his- 
torically and that we must all reflect 
carefully on the concrete causes and 
implications of those changes. It means 
that we attempt to distinguish between 
what different people ‘‘believe’’ to be true 
about our economy and what we can 
demonstrate factually to be the case. It 
means that we do not shy from discussing 
issues like power, inequality, wealth and 
poverty—materials often missing from 
more conventional curricula—or from 


POLITICAL ECONOMY—A TEN WEEK 
COURSE will be held on Thursdays, 
beginning November 6th, from 8:30 p.m. 
until 10:00 p.m., and will continue on 
Thursday evenings on the following 
schedule: 


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November 6 - Session One: What Kind of Economic System Do We Have? 
November 13 - Session Two: The Origins of Our Economic System 
November 20 - Session Three: What Makes the Economy Change? 
November 27 - THANKSGIVING BREAK 


December 4 - Session Four: The Rise of Monopolies 


December 11 - Session Five: Spreading Out Over the World 


December 18 - Session Six: Business Cycles and Their Consequences 
December 25 - CHRISTMAS BREAK 
January 1 - NEW YEAR’S BREAK 


January 8 - Session Seven: A Moment of Stability - The Post World 


War Il Era 
-January 15 - Session Eight: The Causes of the Current Economic Crisis 
January 22 - Session Nine: Alternative Proposals for Solving the Crisis 


January 29 - Session Ten: How Other Economic Systems Work 


to the perspectives of working people. 
Throughout this course, we emphasize the 
position and lives of workers within the 
economic system. Both history and the 
current crisis are viewed in terms of their 
impact on workers, on the nature of work 
itself, on the organization and structure of 
jobs, and on the political struggles of 
workers to organize in their own interests 
and for their own protection. 

Since no previously published textbook 
was suitable, the designers of the course 
are developing a special WORKBOOK 
with modules to supplement each session. 
We hope to make these materials available 
for purchase by our listeners. If the 
materials have not been completed, we wil 
provide a supplementary reading list. 
Listen to WBAI’s air for more information. 


' And, of course, we want to encourage our 


listeners to participate in the discussions 
by telephone during the final half hour of 
each session. The phone number to call is 
371-5200. 

POLITICAL ECONOMY—A _ TEN 
WEEK COURSE is produced by Bonnie 


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In looking over the programs in this 
folio, it seems to me that November is the 
month we’ve all been waiting for and 
working toward this last year and three 
months. It’s the month in which all the 
tedious and at the same time emotion- 
charged work of the past 15 months has 
finally paid off. 

We now have a station we can be deeply 
proud of: one that analyzes the stresses of 
our time, as in the special series for this 
month entitled Going Crazy: The Politics of 
Madness, an attempt to de-mystify our 
accepted models of behavior, produced by 
Paul Mclsaac and David Metzger; one that 
invites the great writers of the day to come 
to the station and participate in an in-depth 
study of their works, their being and their 
craft, as Charles Ruas does in this month’s 
survey of Jerzy Kosinski’s work; a place 
that brings radical economists to the air to 
teach a ten session Economics Course in a 
way that all of us can finally find 
comprehensible. The course is conducted 
by David Gordon and William Tabb and is 
produced by Bonnie Bellow. 

WBALI is a place (under the direction of 
Music Director Judy Sherman) that is 
intensely responsive to contemporary 
musical movements and dedicated to 
providing living musicians with a forum for 
their work. The November schedule for 
The Free Music Store (produced by Ira 
Weitzman) illustrates this commitment. In 
one month, performances as diverse as 


Program Notes 


Lucy Lowe, a former vaudeville performer; 
the Johnny Colon Orchestra; an original 
musical radio romance with songs by Galt 
McDermott; contemporary composers 
David Gibson and Anna Lockwood; and 
singer songwriters Sammy Walker and 
Eric Fransden are being offered. We’re a 
station that brings you two courses in one 
month, the second being a ten part course 
on African History, Produced by Deloris 
Costello. 

This month we'll also be looking at the 
state of feminism today with the first in a 
new series by Nanette Rainone. In this 
same area, there will be two panels from 
the Antioch Socialist-Feminist Conference 
brought to you by Bonnie Bellow. And of 
course the ongoing series, Women’s 
Studies, produced by Viv Sutherland. 

Not to mention our continuing weekly 
poetry series (with the addition of our new 
Dial-a-Poem Poets), our almost daily Jazz 
programming, and the Saturday Night 
Special featuring interviews this month 
with E.L. Doctorow and Michael Korda. 


We are also inaugurating a new series 
entitled Friday Night Live Theater, with 
contributed works by Tennessee Williams 
and a special on-location recording of 
“‘Louise Bogan: What the Woman Lived.”’ 

Gay Alternatives with Ron Gold con- 
centered around the first anniversary of 
atomic worker Karen Silkwood’s death. 
Most of the regular programming initiated 
in October such as Films, Salud, and War 
Babies will continue in November. 
And. . . if you missed it you’ll get to hear 
Steve Post’s wonderful documentary on the 
last days of Nixon. 

I’m blowing our horn, I realize that. But I 
don’t see any reason to apologize for doing 
so. We’ve all worked very hard to get to 
this place and it’s only right that we should 
take the time to pat ourselves on the backs 
before moving on to make the station really 
soar. The mix is there, the quality and 
tinues on a weekly basis, as does AEC, 
Lindsay Audin’s in depth Sunday evening 
program on energy. This month there will 
be a special emphasis on nuclear power 


integrity are there, the artistry is there and 
the responsiveness to our times is there; 
now all we have to do is to concentrate on 
being even better. 

We need your help, as always, in making 
this next step. We, of course, need your 
money and the money of your friends. I 
must tell you that the one thing that 
saddens me about this month is the 
necessity to once again interrupt program- 
ming to raise money on the air. We all hate 
it—you who listen as well as those of us 
who produce programs—so please help us 
to get it over with as painlessly as possible. 
Talk your friends, neighbors, and co- 
workers into subscribing to the station. 

We also need to hear from you about 
programming, The long promised survey 
of subscribers will be coming out in the 
January Folio. But that’s two months 
away. Also, that information comes back to 
us in an easily codable form and as such 
can never give us an in-depth feeling for 
your concerns, needs, and ideas. More 
immediately, I’d be interested in hearing 
from you in the form of a letter about what 
you think are the issues of the day, what 
you and your friends talk and argue about, 
and what human needs you think we 
should be responding to. It would be most 
helpful to us. I look forward to hearing 
from you. 


- Marnie Mueller 
Program Director 


Produced and Coordinated by Ira Weitzman 


The WBAI FREE MUSIC STORE con- 
tinues in November, and below is the 
schedule of concerts. You are invited to 
join us in Studio C, at the BAI church, 359 
East 62nd Street, just west of Ist Avenue, 
on any Thursday or Saturday evening at 
9:00 P.M. (or at other times, when noted), 
as the spirit moves you. When you can’t 
make it in person, listen to the Live 
Broadcast of the Free Music Store every 
Saturday, at 9:00 P.M. on WBAI, 99.5 FM. 


SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1: 

THE ANNEX PLAYERS. 

The Annex Players are a Boston based 
avant-garde performance group concerned 
and dedicated to the performance of works 
by living composers, authors, and play- 
wrights. This program will presént the 
New York Premieres of works that received 
awards in the ‘‘Events in Time Inter- 
national Composition Competition’’ spon- 
sored by Creative Media, Inc. Among the 
composers are Fernando Grill, David 
Koblitz, Tung Shen, and Donald Daily. 
Broadcast Live. 


THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6: 

HARRIET McDONALD. 

Studio Radio Arts iii present Harriet 
ET musical radio 
romance with songs by Galt McDermott (of 
Hair fame). Radio Arts, the people who 
bring you The Radio (see program listings) 
will join the Free Music Store with an all- 
star cast and live sound effects, to present 
this unique event in Radio Music Drama: 
Harriet McDonald, A Mind’s Eye Musical. 


aAvicina: 


Venger 


LUCY LOWE 


SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8: CONCERT 
TO BE ANNOUNCED. Listen for details. 
Broadcast Live. 


THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13: 
COMPOSER’S FORUM. 

The second in the series of six concerts (the 
next one is Thursday, December 11.) which 
focus on the work of two contemporary 
composers, who will be present to discuss 
their work afterwards. Composers who will 
be presented in this concert are David 
Gibson and Anna Lockewood. The Com- 
poser’s Forums begin at 8:30 P.M.! 


SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15: 

THE VOICE GROUP. 

A group of singers who explore sounds of 
the voice through improvisation, and use 
these sounds in collective composition. 
They also perform works by other com- 
posers who use the voice in a new way. The 
Voice Group consists of Jay Clayton, 
director; Jeanne Lee, Joan La Barbara, Ed 
Hasselbrink, Fred Farell, Carol Framm, 
Alexandra Stavrou, Shelley Hirsch, and 
John Fisher. Broadcast Live. 


THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20: 
SINGER-SONGWRITER SAMMY 
WALKER AND ERIC FRANDSEN. 
Sammy Walker was heard by New York 
probably for the first time on Bob Fass’s 
Radio Unnameable. His album is “‘Song for 
Patty.’’ Eric Frandsen has done his share 
of Free Music Stores, and we’re glad he’s 
back. 


SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22: 

LUCY LOWE SINGS AMERICA! 

Lucy Lowe, whose programs Lucy Lowe 
Sings America, covers our popular songs 
from 1776 to 1976, returns to the Free 
Music Store. Her last Free Music Store 
concert won the Corporation for Public 
Broadcasting Award of 1975 for the Best 
Public Performance. Lucy Lowe was the 
first person to present a formal recital of 
our popular ‘songs. in the then highly 
classical Town Hall in November of 1936. 
At that time her program was considered 
so revolutionary in style and content that it 
was necessary to get permission from the 
Board of Directors to use her flyer—a 
saucy soubrette picture—in the lobby. In 
this, the first of three Holiday Concerts 
(the others on Saturdays, December 27, 
and February 21), Miss Lowe is accom- 
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revenge, or torture to obeati some 

objective seemed to make a good 

bargain with the powers of Evil. 

Others, confused, uncertain of their 

aim, lost between curses and 

prayers, the tavern and the church, 
struggled through life alone, without 
help from either God or the Devil. 

If threatened, one must be willing to 
strike first with lethal aim, to be, if 
necessary, a “‘costly victim.’’ There is no 
point in empty pieties, if such pieties get in 
the way of survival on one’s own terms. 
Kosinski darkly underlines this point by 
forcing us to see the cattle cars filled four 
times over with Jews bound for meaning- 
less slaughter. In the face of such a vision 
all espousals of all moralities, all reticence 
born of pious passive acceptance of 
suffering, fade like shamefaced specters of 
night-time fog, lingering beyond their time 
in the light of another day. If the rest of the 
world wishes to be led to slaughter, 
shackled by the links of some tarnished 
Golden Rule, so be it. Kosinski’s 
pl onists escape from the Collectivity of 


Kathryn Tidyman 


Souls, into a world of private | 


less victories. 


wang and meal then’ t that there is no love in 


_ Kosinski’s works. Instead, he lacerates us 


with numerous scenes of bestial horror; 


again, as seen by the boy in The Painted 
Bird: 


So that’s what love was: savage as 

a bull prodded with a spike; brutal, 

_ smelly, sweaty. This love was like a 
brawl in which man and woman 
wrested pleasure from each other, 
fighting, incapable of thought, 
half-stunned, wheezing, less than 


human. 

Needless to say, there is no ecstatic 
Laurentian coupling in Kosinski’s quintet. 
But there is a sadistic sexual ecstasy which 
in its own calculatedly distant, voyeuristic 
way establishes the individual as both 
victim and opponent of a similarly brutal 
society. It is the complete underside of 
Lawrence’s vision that increased tender- 
ness would undermine the rape of the 
British countryside by industrial capital- 
ism. Yet, in both Lawrence and Kosinski, 
the self seeks desperately to break free 
from what is collectively considered the 
norm; consequently, it can be argued that, 
in sexuality, both tenderness and brutality, 
a yin-yang of the human spirit, are actually 
a tautology for an even more basic drive 
towards liberation. Their differences, 
however, cannot be ignored, for, while 
sexual tenderness increases one’s vul- 
nerability, brutality reduces sexuality to a 
desire for domination. Tarden, in Cockpit, 
realizes that, while he can possess, or 
control, his past, he must deal with his 
sexual desire. Yet, his ultimate expression 
of this desire is enslavement, sexual 
humiliation, blackmail, and murder. In 
other words, he cannot afford vulner- 
ability, so, as with the protagonist in Steps, 
he liberates his desire through a rapacious 
exercise of power. 

The dynamics are familiar to everyone. 
They are the harrowing dynamics of war, of 
economic exploitation, of sexism, of racial 
prejudice. But for the typical Kosinski 
protagonist, these dynamics are liberating 
forces of personal expression, the weapons 
of an individual, a single self, like Alex in A 
Clockwork Orange, a horror, but a human 
horror, fighting for survival by resisting 
the sonambulistic collective blur. 

During his odyssey, the boy in The 
Painted Bird is initiated into more than the 
value of evil; he discovers also the value of 
life and the tremendous power of the will. 
His rite de passage takes place when he 
proves to himself, his friend, the Silent 
One, and the other boys from the 
orphanage that he has the courage to 
flatten himself between railroad tracks and 
allow a train to roar over him: 

In the moments between the passing. 

of the locomotive and the last car I 

felt within me life in a form as pure 

as milk carefully strained through a 

cloth. During the short time when 

the carriages roared over one’s body, 

nothing mattered except the simple 

fact of being alive. 
He emerges with a sense of life condensed 
into one luminous memory which he can 
aim, like sharp laser light, to pierce, at 
will, the heavy dross of most human 
experience. This single shining momemt is 
reminiscent of Alan Strang, the stable boy 


in Peter Shaffer’s play Equus, who 
similarly experiences the height of life in 
the ecstasy of riding through the night on 
the galloping god Equus. In _ both 
instances, the protagonists reach for and 
achieve the highest level within their 
personal value system. And, in both 
instances, the arrival at this level prohibits 
their ever returning to the constrained 
predictability of the family’s, the society’s, 
world. If we understand this, we can 
sympathize with the psychiatrist in Equus 
who realizes that to “‘cure’’ Alan means to 
kill that most vital part of him, and, 
likewise, we can sympathize with the boy 
in The Painted Bird who, when he looks 
into the faces of his new found parents, 
realizes he is no longer their little boy. 
Kosinski’s symbolic system, then, is a 
darkly emotional one, lit more clearly when 


contrasted with its antithesis, the 
blanched, spectral alternative of an 
emotion-less Andy Warhol. Are both 


systems locked in a single embrace? Do 
they require each other to define 
themselves? Perhaps so, but there is at 
least one important distinction: while 
Kosinski perpetually holds a mirror to the 
self, Warhol’s philosophy, or perhaps anti- 
philosophy is more appropriate to its 
essential negativity, is an acute mirror- 
image of the American society’s over- 
whelmingly characteristic passivity. For 
Kosinski, emotions are active agents 
urging action and reaction; to eliminate 
emotions, as Warhol attempts to advocate, 
is to abort the will, and without will, there 
is no singularity of self. 

Kosinski has satirized this peculiar 
American passivity in his third novel, 
Being There, in which all that is required of 
his protagonist, Chance (his name is 
misinterpreted by society as Chauncey 
Gardiner), is that he be there, ‘‘there’’ 
referring primarily to face-front before a 
television. He learns all he knows about 
society from television, and, when 
circumstances force him to ‘‘leave his 
garden,’’ in which he grew up and beyond 
which he has never been; he finds he 
enters society surprisingly well. In fact, 
although (again) he has no past, and he can 
speak of nothing but the rudiments of plant 
growth and inevitable decay (‘‘In a garden, 
things grow. ..’’), he does so well that 
“‘the President’? adopts him as an 
economic adviser. Eventually he finds 
himself on a TV talk show. Naturally, since 
he has been virtually incubated by the blue 
light of televised images, his own image 
comes across perfectly on TV. Eventually, 
he is sought as a perfect political 
candidate. And he Js the perfect American 
candidate: he looks good on television, and 
he has no past. 


Similarly, the theme of American 


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passivity is central to Kosinski’s fourth 
work, The Devil Tree, in which the wealthy 
protagonist, Jonathan James Whalen, 
renounces all responsibility for the 
featureless impoverishment of his self. 
While speaking continually in the worn-out 
cliches of popularized psychology, he 
claims to have been bred by the complexes 
imposed upon his psyche from without. 
When The Devil Tree first came out, 
Kosinski was chided by critics for what 
appeared to them to be his glib 
over-reliance on cliche-ical figures of 
speech. Yet, now that the quintet has been 
tied together with the publication of 
Cockpit, it seems clear that the dimension- 
less quality of the language in The Devil 
Tree underscores another of Kosinski’s 
most important points, that individuals are 
victimized further by society in direct 
proportion to the bleaching of their 
language. 

And so, with the communicative value of 
language deteriorating rapidly, Kosinski 
has experimented with the value of 
abstaining from it altogether. Language is, 
after all, a collective invention; its use is 
limited by societal preconceptions of 
connotation. At times communication may 
even be facilitated by muteness, as 
Kosinski surprisingly reveals in one of the 
recently taped conversations with Charles 
Ruas in which he matter-of-factly admits to 
posing as a deaf-mute in Turkey, Greece, 
and New York as well, in order to enter 
more fully into contact with people whose 
language he did not know. Anyone familiar 
with his work recognizes the theme of 
muteness from The Painted Bird and, to a 
lesser extent, in Steps. As the boy in The 
Painted Bird reflects: ‘‘It mattered little if 
one was mute; people did not understand 
one another anyway.’’ The main point is 
again, the individual’s freedom of choice; 
in any given situation he can choose 
whether to risk communication through 
words or through gesture alone. Gesture 
may reduce communication to demon- 
strables, but language invariably traps the 
individual in other people’s interpretations 
and conditioned responses. 

Jerzy Kosinski’s visions of self-freedom 
provoke more than they resolve. Today, his 
views may appear to find concurrences in 
the exploits of a Charlie Manson, or the 
SLA. But, Kosinski’s characters, while 
engaged in similar moral ambiguities, 
would never surrender their freedom to 
other ‘‘Families’’ or ‘“‘Armies.’’ Perhaps 
the kind of freedom Kosinski dreams of is 
an alluring ideal state, one that can never 
be even approximated in reality. Perhaps 
the greatest need we have of Kosinski’s 
fiction is to remind us to be relieved at his 
idealism. 
© Lin Harris, 1975 


Highlights 


SATURDAY, NOVEMBER Ist 

2:00 PM WOMEN’S STUDIES: THE 
EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT 

Viv Sutherland talks with Dian Terry, 
of the New York State Equal Rights 
Coalition; Myrna Lamb, feminist 
playwright; and a surprise guest, on 
the amendment to come before the 
public on November 4, election day. 
Phone calls to be taken on the air by 
those present. 


SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2nd 

1:00PM A BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE TO 
WANDA LANDOWSKA 

Presented by the Laughing Cavalier. 
Rebroadcast from July 7, 1975, by 
popular request. All of the recordings 
on this program are currently unavail- 
able in any form. 


10:00 PM SOCIALIST-FEMINIST 


THEORY 


A rebroadcast of the panel discussion | 


on that subject, recorded at the first 
national Socialist-Feminist Conference 
during the July 4th weekend. The 
panelists are Barbara Ehrenreich of 
the New American Movement; Susan 
Lawhorn of the Berkeley-Oakland 
Women’s Union; and Michele Russell, 
formerly with the Motor City Labor 
League. Produced by Bonnie Bellow. 


MONDAYS, NOVEMBER 3rd, 17th, 
24th 

10:30 PM MAJOR CONTEMPO- 
RARY WRITERS 

Jerzy Kosinski, ‘‘The Painted Bird,’’ 
Part I. See article in this issue. 


ery Ge NOVEMBER 4th, 18th, 
7:15 PM GOING CRAZY! 
POLITICS OF MADNESS) 

A series focusing on the number-one 
health problem in america, Mental 
Illness. See article in this issue. 


(THE 


THURSDAYS, NOVEMBER 6th, 13th, 
27th 

7:30 PM BETWEEN THE LINES 
An in-depth exploration of current 
events, issues, and phenomena in New 
York and around the country. Histori- 
cal roots, future implications. 


THURSDAYS, NOVEMBER 6th, 13th, 
20th 

8:30 PM POLITICAL ECONOMY: A 
TEN WEEK COURSE 

See article in this issue. 


FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7th 

7:30 PM AN EVENING WITH 
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS 

Part I: Tennessee Williams and Bill 
Lentsch, director of Mr. Williams’ 
more recent works, discuss, in an 
interview with Charles Ruas, the 
development of Mr. Williams’ style as 


playwright and the radical change of 
his artistic perspective. 


Part II: Tennessee Williams’ ‘‘The 
Two Character Play.’’ This is a 
previously unproduced version of 
“Out Cry’? with Maryellen Flynn as 
Clare and Robert Stattel as Felice. 
Directed by Bill Lentsch, with Debbie 
Tanklow. ‘“‘The Two Character Play’’ 
premiered this August at the Quaigh 
Theatre, 808 Lexington Avenue. This 
performance was recorded in our 
studios by Dave Marx. 


SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8th 

11:00 PM SATURDAY NIGHT 
SPECIAL: E.L. DOCTOROW, 
‘“RAGTIME”’ 

In an interview with Judith Sherman 
and Charles Ruas, E.L. Doctorow 
discusses the use of history and 
romance in his novel, ‘‘Ragtime.’’ The 
problems of writing, as well as the role 
in which the public casts. the. writer, 
are explored. 


SATURDAY, 
29th 
8:00PM THE READING 
EXPERIMENT: JOHN GIORNO’S 
‘‘DIAL-A-POEM”’ POETS, PART III. 
John Giorno transfers his concept for 
the phone to radio. See article in this 
issue. 


NOVEMBER 8th, 15th, 


SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9th, 10th, 


11th, 12th 

10:00 PM AT THIS POINT IN 
TIME. .THE LAST NIXON 
SHOW 


As a special reward to our listeners for 
enduring and responding to our 
manic-depressive appeals for your 
support, we bring you a bit of Nixon. 
The program is in four parts on 
successive evenings. It is a historical 
documentary tracing the last seven- 
teen days of the administration of the 
37th President of the United States. 


THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13th 
AFTER THE NEWS PM THE 
DEATH OF KAREN SILKWOOD 

A year ago, a young atomic worker, 
Karen Silkwood, was killed in a 
‘‘mysterious’’ car accident on her way 
to disclose evidence that her employer, 
Kerr McGee, was manufacturing 
faulty nuclear elements and distorting 
their records to cover up this fact. Her 
death has spurred further investiga- 
tions into the dangers of nuciear 
power. Tonight, on the anniversary of 
her death, a special report on the 
investigation into her death and the 
broader questions raised bv the case. 


FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14th 
12:00 NOON ‘ALL THE LIVELONG 
DAY”’ 


Bonnie Bellow talks with Barbara 
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Saturday, Nov. Ist 


5:00 THE MORNING AFTER THE NIGHT 
BEFORE 
Live radio with Gary Fried. 


8:00 NEWS 
Rebroadcast from October 31st. 


9:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 

THE SATURDAY MORNING SHOW 
A mix of kids-foods-comedy-plants-music- 
poetry and other snappy talk; and featuring 
“Kids Radio,’’ with kids and adults from 
the Teachers and Writers Collaborative at 
Emily Dickinson (P.S. 75). 


12:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
LUNCHPAIL 
Live radio with Paul Gorman. 


2:00 WOMEN’S STUDIES: THE EQUAL 
RIGHTS AMENDMENT 
Viv Sutherland talks with Dian Terry, of 
the New York State Equal Rights Coalition; 
Myrna Lamb, feminist playwright; and a 
special surprise guest, on the amendment 
to come before the public on election day, 
November 4th. Phone calls will be 
cheerfully taken by those present. 


4:00 LATIN MUSIC 

Sometimes live, sometimes on recording. 
Producers of this series are: Max Salazar, 
Dr. Kenneth Leo Rosa, and Carlos De 
Jesus. 


6:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
MISCELLANY 


6:30 NEWS 
A report of the day’s events with Abraham 
Aig. (November 2nd.) 


7:00 SALUD 

TRANSFUSIONS: 
As health care becomes more and more 
expensive, and money becomes more and 
more scarce, it is vital to know how to 
spend your health dollar wisely. Richard 
Rosenblum talks with Dr. Arthur Levin, 
whose new book, Talk Back to Your Doctor, 
tells how to know what to expect in the way 
of health care. Dr. Levin believes that an 
informed patient will always be a healthier 
person, for who will look out for your 
welfare better than you? No longer need 
patients be overwhelmed by the doctor’s 
knowledge, and intimidated by his 
position. Listener phone calls are invited 
(371-5200). 


8:00 MARION’S CAULDRON 

Occult and magical information, including 
the astrological transits for the coming 
month. Presented by Marion Weinstein. 


9:00 THE FREE MUSIC STORE 

The Annex Players. 
The Annex Players are a Boston-based, 
avant-garde performance group. This 
concert presents the New York Premieres 
of works that received awards in the 
‘‘Events in Time International Composition 
Competition,’’ sponsored by Creative 
Media, Inc. Among the composers are 
Fernando Grill, David Loblitz, Tung Shen, 
and Donald Daily. You’re invited to join us 
in Studio C, 359 East 62nd Street, just 
West of First Avenue. Broadcast Live in 
Stereo. Produced by Ira Weitzman. 


11:00 SATURDAY NIGHT SPECIAL 
Craig Nova, ‘‘The Geek.”’ 


Young novelist Craig Nova discusses the 
Geek, a person who entertains others by 
degrading himself, in an interview with 
Charles Ruas. Mr. Nova’s concept of the 
novel is revealed as he discusses his novel 
about the adventures of a romance caught 
in a timeless order of opium-smuggling on 
a barren Greek island. 


11:55 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
RADIO UNNAMEABLE 
Live radio with Bob Fass. 


Sunday, Nov. 2nd 


5:00 THE MORNING AFTER THE NIGHT 
BEFORE 
Live radio with Gary Fried. 


8:00 NEWS 
Rebroadcast from November Ist. 


8:30 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 

HERE OF A SUNDAY MORNING 
Words and music to wake up to ona 
Sunday morning. The program starts with 
J.S. Bach’s Cantata #80, ‘‘Ein Feste Burg 
Ist Unser Gott.’’ Presented by Chris 
Whent. 


11:00 IN THE SPIRIT 


Explorations into a broad range of religious 
philosophies. For details, listen to Program 


Announcements or call Folio-by-Phone at 
826-1818. Produced by Lex Hixon. 


12:30 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
POETRY 


1:00 A BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE TO WANDA 
LANDOWSKA 

Presented by the Laughing Cavalier. 

Rebroadcast from July 7, 1975, due to 

popular demand. All of the recordings on 

this program are currently unavailable in 

any form. 


8:15 MISCELLANY 


8:30 GRASS ROOTS OF MUSIC 
Produced by Tom Whitmore. (November 
6th.) 


9:30 THE RADIO 

‘Barnett Frammer’’—A Militant Under- 
achiever. Adapted from the book by Calvin 
Trillin. Comedy, if you can laugh through 
your tears. Directed by Timothy Jerome; 
produced by Charles Potter; technical 
direction by David Rapkin. All star cast! 
Plus a second feature. 


10:00 SOCIALIST-FEMINIST THEORY 
A rebroadcast of the panel discussion on 
that subject, recorded on the July 4th 
weekend at the first national Socialist- 
Feminist Conference. The panelists are 
Barbara Ehrenreich of the New American 
Movement, Susan Lawhorn of the 
Berkeley-Oakland Women’s Union, and 
Michele Russell, formerly with the Motor 


Viv Sutherland, Women’s Studies, Saturdays at 2pm 


3:30 A program of special interest. For 
details, listen to Program Announcements, 
or call Folio-by-Phone at 826-1818. 


4:00 UNSTUCK IN TIME 

Live radio with Margot Adler. If you 
missed the October Folio, pick one up. This 
program continues to bring you the latest 
news of Neo-Luddite revolutionary 
activities in the U.S. Stay Tuned. 


6:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
MISCELLANY 

6:30 NEWS 

A report of the day’s events with Abraham 

Aig. (November 3rd.) 


7:00 (A)LTERNATE (E)NERGY 
(C)OMMITTEE 

Completing a four-part series on cities, 

tonight AEC rebroadcasts’a prior program 

on wasted recycling in the urban 

environment. Produced by Lindsay Audin. 

(November 4th.) F 


City Labor League. Produced by Bonnie 
Bellow. 


11:00 MUSIC OF INDIA 

With Ravi Shankar. Third program in a 
12-part series broadcast on alternate 
Sundays. Tonight: Indian scale system 
(including a section in which Ravi Shankar 
sings and teaches these scales to his 
students), tala (Indian rhythms), sargam 
(raga exercises), and a question and 
answer period. 


11:55 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENT 
RAvIC UNNAMEABLE 
Live radio with Bob Fass. 


Monday, Nov. 3rd 


5:00 COUNTING SHEEP 
Live radio with Jan Albert. 


7:00 THE MONDAY MORNING SHOW 
With Larry Cox. 


Marilyn Schwarz 


9:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
NEWS 
A rebroadcast from last night. 


10:00 MORNING MUSIC 
Through the Opera Glass. Giordano’s 
Siberia, presented by Martin Sokol. 


12:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
MAG TIME #6 
Pacifica’s literary magazine of the air. 
Presenting work from the Fiction 
Collective: excerpts from novels by B.H. 
Friedman and Peter Spielberg, a story by 
Russell Banks. Narrated and produced by 
Leonard Chabrowe with the help of a grant 
from the National Endowment for the Arts. 


1:00 THE FOUNDATIONS OF AFRICAN 
HISTORY: An Overview of the 
African Historical Scene 

Participants: Prof. J.H. Clarke, Prof. Keith 

E. Baird, and Richard B. Moore, Senior 

Historian. 


2:00 ADVENTURES IN JAZZ 
Presented by Mickey Bass. 


4:00 IRSAY IN THE AFTERNOON 
November is poetry month. Today, “‘Blind 
pelts sneaking tub infestation.’’ — 


6:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
COMMUNITY BULLETIN BOARD 
Have your announcements to us at least 10 
days in advance of broadcast, and in 
writing. No phoned-in announcements 
accepted. 
MISCELLANY 


6:30 NEWS 
A report of the day’s events by Marty 
Goldensohn. (November 4th.) 


7:30 GETTING AROUND 

Discussions, whispers, and guffaws on 
artists and arts. Moderated by Courtney 
Callender. Guest moderator, Andre 
Bishop. (November 4th.) t 


8:30 MISCELLANY 


8:45 ELECTRONIC MUSIC. ; 
Electronic music placed ina socio- © 
economic context, emphasizing isolation of 
musical environment conditioned by Er 
today’s music industry. Musical selections 
consist mostly of compositions that are 
either commercially unrecorded or 
unavailable in the U.S. Many composers 
and musical personalities from the U.S. 

and abroad are often guests on this 
program. Produced and presented by Ilhan 
Mimaroglu. 


10:30 MAJOR CONTEMPORARY 
WRITERS 
Jerzy Kosinski, ‘‘The Painted Bird,”’ 
Part I. 
[This program contains controversial sub- 
ject matter. If you feel you might be 
offended by such subject matter, please 
tune away for the next hour and thirty 
minutes and rejoin us again at midnight. 
Jerzy Kosinski reads the chapter dealing 
with Lekh and the game of painting birds. 
In the following conversation with Charles 
Ruas, Kosinski explains the image of the 
title by revealing the alternate nature of 
outsider as aggressor and victim. 
Executive producer, Charles Ruas; 
co-producer, Bill Kortum and Lin Harris; 
technical supervision, David Marx. 


11:55 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
SWAN SONG 
Live radio with Mickey Waldman. 


Tuesday, Nov. 4th 


5:00 MORNING WATCH 4 
Live radio with Bill Monaghan. 


7:00 THE TUESDAY MORNING SHOW 


slab Are rs 
With Larry Cox. 


9:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
NEWS 
A rebroadcast from November 3rd. 


10:00 MORNING MUSIC 

A reading of the minutes of the annual 
meeting of the Society for the Preservation 
of Irrelevance and Uselessness. With 
Judith Sherman. 


Net 


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12:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
LUNCHPAIL 
Live radio with Paul Gorman. 


2:00 (A)LTERNATE (E)NERGY 
(C)OMMITTEE 
Rebroadcast from November 2nd. 


3:00 GETTING AROUND 
Rebroadcast from November 3rd. 


4:00 JAZZ SAMPLER 

A usually free-associative, more-or-less 
historically-inclined, approximate two- 
hours of recorded jazz. Presented by Bill 
Farrar. 


6:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
COMMUNITY BULLETIN BOARD 
MISCELLANY 


6:30 NEWS 
A report of the day’s events by Marty 
Goldensohn. (November Sth.) 


7:15 GOING CRAZY! (THE POLITICS OF 
MADNESS) 
The first in a series which will focus on the 
number-one health problem in America, 
Mental Illness. We begin with those that 
have lived through institutional care, 
chemical therapy, shock therapy, 
psychiatry. This program presents the 
scope of mental illness today, along with 
the promise and limitations of current 
therapy. Produced by Paul Mclsaac and 
Dave Metzger. (November 7th.) 


8:30 MISCELLANY 


8:45 POETRY 

John Ashberry reads the title poem of his 
recent book, Self Portrait in a Convex 
Mirror. Critic John Russell has called this 
“one of the finest long poems of our 
period.’’ Produced by Susan Howe. 
(November 16th.) 


_ 9:15 WAR BABIES 


nprovisational theatre with War Babies. 


371-5200 to cipate in tonight’s 
special Election Night Production. Live. 


10:15 ELECTION NIGHT REPORT 

A summary of the election night returns in 
New York and around the country, with a 
special emphasis on the results of the New 
York vote on the Equal Rights 
Amendment. Produced by the Public 
Affairs Department. 


11:00 GAY ALTERNATIVES 

Why Gay Politics? The rationale for gay 
political action, and its relevance to the 
lives of gay people, is discussed by 


Eleanor Cooper, spokeswoman for Lesbian 


Feminist Liberation; Arthur Goodman, 


president of the Gay Activists Alliance; and 


Nathalie Rockhill, Legislative Director of 
the National Gay Task Force. The host and 
producer of this repeat program is Ronald 
Gold. . 


11:55, PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS. 
12:00 TCB (TAKING CARE OF 
BUSINESS) 


Wednesday, Nov. 5th 


5:00 MORNING WATCH 
Live radio with Bill Monaghan 


7:00 ROOM 101 
Steve Post. 


9:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
NEWS 
Rebroadcast from last night. 


10:00 MORNING MUSIC 

Enlarge your ear size in only a couple of 
hours a week! With simple applications of 
contemporary music to the tympanic 
membrane, you too can have ears you can 
be proud of. Presented by Jim Theobald. 


11:55 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 


THE FORUM 
Internationally famous entertainer James 
Brown, who is referred to as the Godfather 
of Soul, along with Saidi Hekimu and 


Deloris Costello explore the lifestyle of an 
entertainer and the price that a Black man 
must pay in order to stay independent and 
retain his individuality in the world of show 
business. Produced by Deloris Costello of 
TCB. 


2:00 THIS IS JAZZ 
Host Larry Davis presents a variety of jazz 
and often talks with guest artists. 


4:00 PRAXIS 
Live radio with Paul Mclsaac. 


6:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
COMMUNITY BULLETIN BOARD 
MISCELLANY 


6:30 NEWS 
A report of the day’s events with Marty 
Goldensohn. (November 6th.) 


7:30 WASHINGTON REPORT 

The Washington Bureau cleans its ears and 
out fall interviews, outtakes, strange 
grumblings, and more ‘‘Economics for the 
Dummy.’’ (November 6th.) 


10:00 MORNING MUSIC 

Hats off to the women who wear the pants 
in the operatic world. With Manya La 
Bruja. 


12:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
LUNCHPAIL 
Live radio with Paul Gorman. 


2:00 GRASS ROOTS OF MUSIC 
(November 2nd.) 


3:00 WASHINGTON REPORT 
(November Sth.) 


4:00 WEATHERBIRD 
Gary Giddens presents jazz recordings 
from New Orleans to Avant Garde. 


6:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
COMMUNITY BULLETIN BOARD 
MISCELLANY 


6:30 NEWS 
A report of the day’s events with Marty 
Goldensohn. (November 7th.) 


Tennessee Williams, An Evening with Tennessee Williams, November 7th at 


7:30pm. 
9:30 THE RADIO 


9:00 TALKING ABOUT ART 

Poet and art critic John Perreault discusses 
the relationship of art and politics with Leo 
Golub, May Stevens, Raphael Ferrer, and 
Peter Saul. 


10:00 A DELICATE BALANCE 
Marian McPartland shares music and 
reminiscences with fellow musicians. 


11:55: PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
NUANCES 
Live radio with Pepsi Charles. 


Thursday, Nov. 6th 


5:00 HOUR OF THE WOLF 
The Thursday Morning Science Fiction 
Extravaganza. With Jim Freund. 


7:00 ROOM 101 
Steve Post. 


9:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
NEWS 
Rebroadcast of yesterday’s events. 


LABOR NEWS 
A weekly report of news, events, and 
information of special interest to working 
people and the labor community. Produced 
by Bonnie Bellow. 


7:30 BETWEEN THE LINES 

An in-depth exploration of current events, 
issues, and phenomena in New York and 
around the country. Historical roots, future 
implications. Produced by Gail Pellett. 
(November 8th.) 


8:15 MISCELLANY 


8:30 POLITICAL ECONOMY: A 

TEN-WEEK COURSE 

Session One: What Kind of Economic 

System Do We Have? 
WBAI begins this weekly course on 
political economics, which has been 
designed to stimulate critical discussion 
about the economic system—about where 
it’s come from and where it’s going. The 
course is taught by economists David 
Gordan and William Tabb. Supplementary 
written materials will be made available, 
and audience participation by telephone is 
encouraged. Produced by Bonnie Bellow. 


Fred Ohringer 


10:00 A program of special interest. For 
details, listen to Program Announcements, 
or call Folio-by-Phone at 826-1818. 


11:00 FILMS 

This new weekly program éxplores films as 
entertainment, as big business, as art, and 
finally, as the prime cultural force in 
molding the consciousness of our society. 
For details, listen to Program Announce- 
ments, or call Folio-by-Phone at 826-1818. 
Produced by Paul Mclsaac. 


11:55 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
RADIO UNNAMEABLE 
Live radio with Bob Fass. 


Friday, Nov. 7th 


5:00 A CONSORT OF EARLY MUSIC 

A program of Renaissance, Baroque, and 
Medieval music designed to help you get 
out of bed. The best way in the world to 
start the day if you have to get up early. 
Presented by Ted Cohen. 


7:00 ROOM 101 
Steve Post. 


9:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
NEWS 
Rebroadcast from last night. 


10:00 MORNING MUSIC 
Presented by James Irsay. 


12:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
GOING CRAZY! (THE POLITICS OF 
MADNESS) 

Rebroadcast from November 4th. 


1:00 CONVERSATION PIECE 

In this, the third and final program in the 
series devoted to the fantastic Freed Unit, 
host Bruce Kenyon and film historian 
Hugh Fordin discuss the final phase of 
Freed’s career. Featured are interviews 
with Comden and Green, director Stanley 
Donen, and an extended segment with 
Nanette Fabray. 


2:00 ECHOES IN BLACK MUSIC 

Jazz from past years, with a sprinkling of 
blues, gospel, rock, and current releases. 
Presented by Gene Lewis. 


4:00 UNSTUCK IN TIME 

Live radio with Margot Adler. Blackout! All 
reports from rebel areas have been 
censored. Until this is corrected, this 
program will bring you words of religious 
inspiration from the Disciples of Eris: the 
words from their sacred book, Principia 
Discordia. 


6:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
COMMUNITY BULLETIN BOARD 
MISCELLANY 


6:30 NEWS 
Report of the day’s events with Marty 
Goldensohn. (November 8th.) 


COMMUNITY NEWS REPORT 
A weekly roundup of news on the 
neighborhood level, selected primarily 
from the various community newspapers in 
the city’s boroughs. Presented every 
Friday evening following the regular news, 
and produced by Nathan Weber. 


7:30 AN EVENING WITH TENNESSEE 

WILLIAMS 
[This program contains frank language. If 
you feel you might be offended by such 
language, please tune away for the next 
four and one-half hours and rejoin us 
again at midnight.] 

Part I: Tennessee Williams and Bill 
Lentsch, director of Mr. Williams’ more 
recent works, discuss, in an interview with 
Charles Ruas, the development of Mr. 
Williams’ style as a playwright and the 
radical change of his artistic perspective. 

Part II: Tennessee Williams’ The Two 
Character Play. This is an unproduced 
version of Out Cry with Maryellen Flynn as 
Clare and Robert Stattel as Felice. Directed 
by Bill Lentsch, with Debbie Tanklow. The 
Two Character Play premiered this August 
at the Quaigh Theatre, 808 Lexington 
Avenue. This performance was recorded in 
our studios by Dave Marx. 


11:55 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
RADIO UNNAMEABLE 
Live radio with Bob Fass. 


Folio, November 1975 Page 8 


GOING CRAZY! 
(The Politics of Madness) 


This month a special series, 
Going Crazy! (The Politics 
of Madness), will be aired 

on Tuesday evenings at 
7:30. Paul Mclsaac and 
David Metzger, producers 
of the series, asked that we 
include Antonin Artaud’s 
‘*Letter to the Medical Di- 
rectors of Lunatic Asy- 
lums’’ in this month’s 
Folio. 


Gentlemen, 

Law and Custom allow you the right to 
evaluate human minds. You are supposed 
to exercise this sovereign, redoubtable 
jurisdiction with discernment. You won’t 
mind if we laugh. The credulity of civilized 
peoples, scholars and administrators, 
endows psychiatry with limitless super- 
natural wisdom. Your profession’s case is 
awarded the verdict in advance. We have 
no intention of discussing the validity of 
your science here, nor the doubtful 
existence of mental sickness. But for a 
hundred pretentious pathogenic diagnoses, 
in which confusion between mind and 
matter runs wild, for a hundred _classifica- 
tions only the vaguest of which are still any 
use, how many noble attempts have been 
made to approach the world of the mind, in 
which so many of your prisoners live? For 
instance, for how many of you are a schizo- 
phrenic’s dreams and the images which 
haunt him anything more than a jumble of 
words? 


A mental asylum under cover of 


science and justice, is comparable 
to a barracks, a prison, or a slave 
colony. 


We are not surprised to find you unequal 
to a task for which few are preordained. 
But we vigorously protest against the right 
attributed to certain men, narrowminded 
or not, to sanction their investigations into 
the domain of the mind with sentences of 
life imprisonment. 

And what imprisonment! We all know— 
no, it is not widely enough known—that 
asylums, far from being asylums, are 
fearful jails, where the inmates provide a 
source of free and useful manpower and 
where brutality is the rule, all of which you 
tolerate. A mental asylum under cover of 


science and justice, is comparable to a 
barracks, a prison, or a slave colony. 

We will not raise the question of 
arbitrary confinement. This will save you 
the trouble of making hasty denials. But we 
categorically state that a great number of 
your inmates, quite mad by official 


Madmen, above all, are individual 
victims of social dictatorship. In the 
name of individuality. . .we 
demand the liberation of these 
people convicted of sensibility. . . 
no laws are powerful enough to 
lock up all men who think and act. 


definition, are also arbitrarily confined. We 


protest against any interferences with the 
free development of delirium. It is as 
legitimate, as logical as any other sequence 
of human ideds or acts. The repression of 
anti-social reactions is as chimerical as it is 
unacceptable in principle. All individual 
acts are anti-social. Madmen, above all, 
are individual victims of man, we demand 
the liberation of these people convicted of 
sensibility. For we tell you no laws are 
powerful enough to lock up all men who 
think and act. 

Without stressing the perfectly inspired 
nature of the manifestations of, certain 
madmen, in so far as we are capable of 
appreciating them, we simply affirm that 
their concept of reality’ is absolutely 
legitimate, as are all the acts resulting 
from it. 

Try and remember that tomorrow 
morning during your rounds, when, 
without knowing their language, you 
attempt to converse with these people over 
whom, you must admit, you have only one 
advantage, namely force. 

—Antonin Artaud 


Page 9 


November 1975, Folio 


Ican never forget I was living on this loft 
on Fifth Avenue and Twenty-third Street. 
The loft was on the second floor with big 
windows looking out on the street. There 
was a subway station on the corner. It was 
winter and it was gloomy and the street 
was empty. Then all of a sudden little 
sah people started eine 


"scattering like ants going to work. We were 
sailing on orange Sunshine. Then again 
more people came out of the subway. Fat 

_ugly people stuffed in big bulky clothes, 
and it was cold. We started laughing and 
laughing and laughing, and it was that 
total complete laughing joy of LSD. Then 

_ more and more came out of the subway 

filling the streets and it got lighter and 

lighter. All of a sudden it began to seem 
totally horrible. These poor pathetic people 
totally imprisoned, going through some 
ghastly routine. Slowly we started to cry. 
Ignorance. It seemed more horrible and 
more horrible and totally hopeless, and we 
started to cry more and more. Insects 
crawling out of the ground and scurrying 
away. Then we collapsed to the floor, 
screaming and crying and writhing in great 
convulsions of grief. Great fat heavy tears. 

It was like your best friend died. Actually 

everyone’s just got to look out the window. 

In New York it just happens to be very 

intense, but it’s the same all over the 

- country. It tends to slow down into the 

innocuous American style. 

Now, I live in a loft in a building that 
used to be a YMCA. It’s on the Bowery, 
which is the skid row of all times. So 
outside the building are all these drunk 
derelict bums, lying all over the sidewalk 
or lying passed out on the curb with their 
legs sticking into the street and cars come 
by and don’t see them and run over their 
legs, which get all crushed. Or in the 
winter the bums just pass out drunk and 
freeze to death. Or they just die like flies in 
the flop houses. Where I live is next door 
to the Prince Hotel and the walls of my 
building are 4 foot thick brick. So just a few 
more feet away from my head all the time 
is this flophouse with totally penniless old 
men frozen in a booze stupor, crowded 
together lying in their own piss and shit. 
Totally hopeless. 

I must say living there is very refreshing. 
It keeps you on very real ground. Pain and 
suffering and death. You might say it’s a 
charnal ground. But somehow we live in 
the middle of it in this heaven world. All 
these famous artists and poets, stoned out, 
with everything they want, and most of the 
time totally unaware of what’s a few feet 
away from them. It freaks me out some- 
times. Then a short block west of the 


‘out of the subway 
‘entrance. Short ‘squat and ugly people 


oe a ut Suge RY fee os 


THE BIG AGRT 
€@nyway You Want 


We asked John Giorno, creator of Dial-A-Poem for his thoughts 
on the subject of insanity. 


Bowery starts Little Italy, which is head- 
quarters for the Mafia. It’s great, beautiful 
Italian boys hanging around street corners 
and restaurants riddled with bullet holes 
from the Mafia murders. Then a couple of 
blocks south is Chinatown and the great 
Chinese food. 

So you might say it’s a great teaching to 


~ live in New York. There are all the realms 


of Samsara in vivid color. The heavens and 
hells and hungry ghosts and pollution in 
the air and the pollution which keeps 
people from being enlightened. I love New 
York, because there’s this incredible 
amount of energy to work with. I’m into 
poetry, and I work. with media, the 
electronic approach of communications and 
media techniques for making it happen. 

New York is the best place to do it, because 
everything is at your fingertips. All the 
manufacturers or engineers or fabricators 
or whatever you need is there. 

New York is visionary, ahead of its time, 
avante garde, precursor of things to come. 
New York going bankrupt or not being able 
to pay its bonds or running out of money 
means the United States government will 
be doing the same S years hence. It always 


takes time for culture to seep out into the 
sticks. Cleveland gets hip. The United 
States Treasury can’t pay the bonds, but 
instead of defaulting, it just prints more 
money, only making things worse. As New 
York cut back the welfare rolls, so the 
United States starts to abandon the rest of 
the world. People starve in Asia, the way 
people are fired from the New York City 
payroll. New York in 1975, bankruptcy and 
depression, is in the same relation as New 
York in 1965 was to Pop Art, Hip Culture 
and expanded awareness. 

Trungpa Rinpoche says New York is a 
holy place and people should come do 
pilgrimage to New York. What more can 
you ask for, all the god-worlds and hell- 
worlds and the hungry ghosts and cruising 
and wanting and needing and totally being 
unable to be satisfied. Plus an added 
attraction is all the riches and power of the 
world. Then there’s the human world, all 
these millions of people who live and work 
and go through all the emotions we’ve 
been talking about. 

But they haven’t gotten anywhere. 

The whole American trip tends to be 
anesthesia. Relieves Pain Fast. America’s 


Peter Hujar 


the master of anesthesia. 

But if there is still pain, then you know 
where it came from, from your fucked up 
neurotic mind. If you realize what causes 
it, then you can let it fall away. Or you 
can breathe into it and transform it. 

All pain manifests itself in a billion 
different ways: the Ajax woman on TV 
scrubbing away at her sink, or cancer in 
your tit, or you’re waiting for the subway at 
14th Street and you’re freaking out on a 
January night. You name it, you got it. 
Neurotic pain is that you can’t see the sky 
from the clouds of pollution in your mind. 


Poets give you precise information about 
this condition, and using media extends 
this information. Dial-A-Poem invented a 
new way to communicate with people 
directly, by dialing a certain number in 
New York City: and getting a poem and 
hearing different poems every time they 
call. While there was funding the phones 
rang like crazy. The equipment worked at 
maximum capacity receiving 60,000 calls a 
week and giving qut three times that many 
busy signals. If we would have had more 
lines, we would have received 200,000 calls 
a week, or more people would have heard 
poetry. It turns people onto listening to 
poetry, which is the point. It should get 
through to some of them. An opening of 


It’s interesting why people call Dial-A- 
Poem. It seems that they call out of loneli- 
ness, out of some anxiety about being 
bored. They are alone in their space and 
they want to fill it up, or they’re bored 
where they are and Dial-A-Poem can 
change it for them. The majority of the 
calls came between nine in the morning 
and five in the afternoon, which means in 
New York people imprisoned in their glass 
office buildings, sitting behind desks 
nervously dialing. It would taper off around 
six o’clock, then it would pick up strongly 
after dinner around eight or eight-thirty. It 
would taper off again around one-thirty in 
the morning. Between one and three A.M., 
there’d be a burst of calls, until about five, 
between five and eight A.M. would be the 


quietest time. When I programmed what 
poems went on, sometimes I did it for the 
people who called between five and eight 
A.M. 

Everyone calls Dial-A-Poem out of lone- 
liness. They’re in this space, and there's 
nobody there, and they’re lonely, and they 
try and get out of it, and they pick up the 
telephone and dial-a-poem. They haven't 
gotten anywhere, except maybe the poets 
are saying where they are. 

—John Giorme 


* 


Share. 


Folio, November 1975 


Page 10 


Saturday, Nov. 8th 


5:00 THE MORNING AFTER THE NIGHT 
BEFORE 
Live radio with Gary Fried. 


8:00 NEWS 
Rebroadcast from November 7th. 


9:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
THE SATURDAY MORNING SHOW 
A mix of kids-foods-comedy-plants-music- 
poetry and other snappy talk. Also ‘‘Kids 
Radio,”’ with kids and adults from the 
Teachers and Writers Collaborative. 


12:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
LUNCHPAIL 
Live radio with Paul Gorman. 


2:00 BETWEEN THE LINES 
A rebroadcast of the November 6th 
program. 


3:00 WOMEN’S STUDIES 

The politics of Feminism. Viv Sutherland 
interviews feminist sociologist Jo 
Freeman. Phone calls are cheerfully taken. 


4:00 LATIN MUSIC 

Sometimes live, sometimes on recording. 
Producers are Max Salazar, Dr. Kenneth 
Leo Rosa, and Carlos De Jesus. 


6:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
MISCELLANY 


6:30 NEWS 
A report of the day’s events with Abraham 
Aig. (November 9th.) 


7:00 SALUD 

Essential Amino Acids. This month we 
explore further aspects of a dirt-free, 
balanced diet. Produced by Richard Harris. 


8:00 THE READING EXPERIMENT: 
John Giorno’s Dial-A-Poem Poets 
- Part I 
““Giorno Poetry Systems has essentially 
been working with the idea that you have a 
poet and you have an audience, and at 
' some point between the two, they make 
contact. . . and that point of 
communication is open to endless 
possibilities.’’ - John Giorno 
In a conversation with Charles Ruas and 
Lynda Perry, John Giorno talks about both 
the concept and the work of the poets 
reading: Dianne diPrima, William 
Burroughs, John Perreault, Anne 
Waldman, John Giorno, Allen Ginsberg. 
Produced by Lynda Perry. Executive 
Producer Charles Ruas. (Rebroadcasst 
November 16th.) 


9:00 THE FREE MUSIC STORE 

Concert to be announced. Listen to 
Program Announcements or phone Folio- 
by-Phone (826-1818) for details. In any 
event, you’re invited to Studio C, 359 East 
62nd Street, just West of First Avenue. 
Broadcast live in stereo. 


11:00 SATURDAY NIGHT SPECIAL 

E.L. Doctorow. ‘‘Raytime.”’ 
In an interview with Judith Sherman and 
Charles Ruas, E.L. Doctorow discusses the 
use of history and romance in his novel, 
Ragtime. The problems of writing, as well 
as the role in which the public casts the 
writer, are explored. 


11:55 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
RADIO UNNAMEABLE 
Live radio with Bob Fass. 


Sunday, Nov. 9th 
Monday, Nov. 10th 
Tuesday, Nov. 11th 
Wednesday, Nov. 12th 


WBAI’s Annual Minithon begins today. 
This year we’re trying something new to 
reduce the pain for you and for us. In past 
years, the entire month of November, and 
occasionally part of December as well, was 
dominated by on-the-air fund-raising 
appeals. And we all agreed:there had to be 


a better way. So instead, we plan to make 
our goal of $100,000 in a total of 15 days of 
intensive on-air fund-raising spread out 
over November and December. We can do 
it, but only with your help. We don’t like 
incessant ‘‘Thonning’’ any more than you 
do, In fact, it’s probably more disgusting to 
us, as we can’t tune to another station 
when things get boring, or frustrating, or 
depressing. So don’t let them. Help us stop 
the Creeping Thon Syndrome by 
supporting Minithon -by-Mail. Make your 
donation or give a gift subscription toa 
friend via the coupon on page 15. Do it 
NOW. And then, after you’ve pledged, 
make your pledge good by sending the 
money to: WBAI, P.O. Box 12345, Church 
Street Station, New York, N.Y. 10249. For 
more information, or to find out what a 
Minithon is, anyway, see the explanation 
on page 00. 

There will be some programming over 
the next four days, but it will be scarce. 
The only regularly-scheduled programs are 
as follows: 


Sunday, November 9th 


5:00 AM THE MORNING AFTER THE 
NIGHT BEFORE 
Live radio with Gary Fried. 


8:00 AM NEWS 
Rebroadcast from November 8th. 


6:00 PM PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
MISCELLANY 


6:30 PM NEWS 
A report of the day’s events with Abraham 
Aig. (November 10th.) 


Photo by Gale Pellett, producer of Between The Lines, Thursdays at 7:30pm. 


7:30 PM (A)LTERNATE (E)NERGY 
(C)ommittee 
Activism on Nuclear Power. Lindsay Audin 
interviews Sam Lovejoy, Massachusetts 
representative of the Alternate Energy 
Coalition. Also discussed are details of the 
Karen Silkwood Rally to be held November 
13th at Columbus Circle. Karen Silkwood 
was a nuclear technician who died 
mysteriously while protesting safety 
features where she worked. (Rebroadcast 
November 13th.) 


10:00 PM AT THIS POINT IN TIME .. . 
THE LAST NIXON SHOW 
As a special reward to our listeners for 
enduring and responding to our manic- 
depressive appeals for your support, we 
bring you a bit of Nixon. Tonight, Part I of 
At This Point in Time . . . The Last Nixon 
Show, an historical documentary tracing 
the last seventeen days of the administra- 
tion of the 37th President of the United 
States. Parts II, Ill, and IV will be 
broadcast over the next three evenings in 
this time-slot. A Post/Barr Production. 


Monday, November 10th 


9:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
NEWS 
Rebroadcast from last night. 


we 
6:00 PM PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
COMMUNITY BULLETIN 
BOARD 
MISCELLANY / 


6:30 PM NEWS 
A report of the day’s events with Marty 
Goldensohn. (November 11th.) 


10:00 PM AT THIS POINT IN TIME ... 
THE LAST NIXON SHOW 

Part II. See November 9th for details. Parts 

III and IV will follow on consecutive nights 

in this time-slot. A Post/Barr Production. 


Tuesday, November 11th 


9:00 AM PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
NEWS 
Rebroadcast from last night. 


6:00 PM PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
COMMUNITY BULLETIN 
BOARD 
MISCELLANY 


6:30 PM NEWS 
A report of the day’s events with Marty 
Goldensohn. (November 12th.) 


10:00 PM AT THIS.POINT IN TIME ... 
THE LAST NIXON SHOW 

Part III. See November 9th for details. The 

fourth and final part of this program will be 

broadcast tomorrow night in this time slot. 

A Post/Barr production. 


Wednesday, November 12th 


9:00 AM PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
NEWS 
A rebroadcast from last night. 


hs 


6:00 PM PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
COMMUNITY BULLETIN 
BOARD 
MISCELLANY 


6:30 PM NEWS 
A report of the day’s events with Marty 
Goldensohn. (November 13th.) 


10:00 PM AT THIS POINT IN TIME ... 

THE LAST NIXON SHOW 
Part IV, ‘‘The End?’’ Production 
assistance by Marjorie Waxman and 
Mickey Waldman. Technical direction by 
Dave Marx. Written and produced by 
Steve Post and Richard Barr. 


12:00 REFLECTIONS 
This program will deal with the images that 
we see, the thoughts that we perceive, the 
idesas with which we struggle through life. 
The spiritual concepts that engulf us from 
day to day. Reflections all. We will reflect 
through music, discussion, sounds, etc. 
Tonight, a broadcast of very rarely heard 
speeches by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 
which are just as timely today in a land that 
seems to be more troubled as time goes by. 
Produced by Deloris Costello of TCB. 


Thursday, Nov. 13th 


5:00 THE HOUR OF THE WOLF 
The Thursday Science Fiction extrava- 
ganza. With Jim Freund. 


7:00 ROOM 101 
Steve Post. 


9:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
NEWS 
Rebroadcast from November 12th. 


10:00 MORNING MUSIC 

Ira Weitzman presents, among other 
things, some live-on-tape performances 
from the WBAI Free Music Store. 


12:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
LUNCHPAIL 
Live radio with Paul Gorman. 


2:00 This slot has been left open to 
broadcast a program of special interest. 
For details, listen to Program Announce- 
ments, or call Folio-by-Phone at 826-1818. 


3:00 (A)LTERNATE (E)NERGY 
(C)OMMITTEE 
A rebroadcast from November 9th. 


4:00 WEATHERBIRD 
Gary Giddens presents recordings from 
New Orleans to Avant Garde. 


6:00 program announcements 


6:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
COMMUNITY BULLETIN BOARD 
MISCELLANY 


6:30 NEWS 
A report of the day’s events by Marty 
Goldensohn. (November 14th.) 


THE DEATH OF KAREN 

SILKWOOD 
A year ago, a young atomic worker, Karen 
Silkwood, was killed in a ‘‘mysterious’’ car 
accident on her way to disclose evidence 
that her employer, Kerr McGee, was 
manufacturing faulty nuclear fuel elements 
and distorting thei records to cover up this 
fact. Her death has spurred further _ 
investigations into the dangers of nuclear 
power. Tonight, on the anniversary of her 
death, we present a special report on the 
investigation into her death and the | 
broader questions raised by the case. 
Produced by Bonnie Bellow. 


7:30 BETWEEN THE LINES 

An in-depth exploration of current events, 
issues, and phenomena in New York and 
around the country. Historical roots, future 
implications. Produced by Gail Pellett. 
(November 15th.) 


8:15 MISCELLANY 


8:30 POLITICAL ECONOMY: A 
TEN-WEEK COURSE 
Session Two: The Origins of Our 
Economic System. 

The second session in a ten-week course 
on political economics, designed to 
stimulate critical discussion about the 
economic system. The course is taught by 
economists David Gordan and William 
Tabb. Supplementary materials will be 
made avaiable, and audience participation 
by telephone is encouraged. Produced by 
Bonnie Bellow. 


10:00 MADMEN’S MATINEE 
Madman’s Souffle. Directions: take one 
Frank Heller with a flair for the bizarre. 
Stir in a few voices. Add a multitude of 
electronic devices, two quarts of musical 
instruments, two miles of tape, and a 
skeleton plot. Shake well. The results 
should rise, and within the half-hour ooze 
out of your speaker(s). Voila, Madman’s 
Souffle. Produced in not-quite-living stereo 
by Frank Heller. 


11:00 FILMS 

Philip Lopate, the author of Being with 
Children, makes films with kids. The films 
being discussed can be seen at WBAI’s 
Studio C this coming Saturday morning at 
Noon (that’s November 15th.) Produced by 
Paul Mclsaac. 


11:55 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
RADIO UNNAMEABLE 
Live radio with Bob Fass. 


Friday, Nov. 14th 


5:00 A CONSORT OF EARLY MUSIC 
A program of Renaissance, Baroque, and 


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Medieval music designed to help you get 
out of bed. The best way in the world to 
start the day if you have to get up early. 
Presented by Ted Cohen. 


7:00 ROOM 101 
Steve Post. 


9:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
NEWS 
Rebroadcast from last night. 


10:00 MORNING MUSIC 
Presented by James Irsay. 


12:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 

‘SALL THE LIVELONG DAY”’ 
Bonnie Bellow talks with Barbara Garson, 
the author of MacBird, about her new 
book, All the Livelong Day: The Meaning 
_ and Demeaning of Routine Work, 
published by Doubleday. They discuss 
Garson’s interviews with working people 
conducted at a wide variety of workplaces, 
and Garson reads segments from these 
interviews. 


1:00 REPORT TO THE LISTENER 
Larry Josephson, WBAI’s Station 
Manager, reviews recent developments 
and spews forth financial data of this 
station. Listener phone cafls invited. No 
rebroadcast, so you’d better catch it now. 


2:00 ECHOES IN BLACK MUSIC 

Jazz from past years, with a sprinkling of 
blues, gospel, rock, and current releases. 
Presented by Gene Lewis. 


- 4:00 UNSTUCK IN TIME 
Live radio with Margot Adler. ‘‘You will 

_ find that the state is the kind of 
organization which, though it does big 
things badly, does small things badly too.”’ 


accompanied by a kid. Produced by Paul 
Mclsaac. 


12:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
LUNCHPAIL 
Live radio with Paul Gorman. 


2:00 BETWEEN THE LINES 
Rebroadcast from November 13th. 


3:00 WOMEN’S STUDIES 

Women in Vietnam. Viv Sutherland speaks 
with Donna Futterman about her trip to the 
People’s Republic of Vietnam, Phone calls 
cheerfully taken. 


4:00 LATIN MUSIC 

Sometimes live, sometimes on recording. 
Producers of this series are: Max Salazar, 
Dr. Kenneth Leo Rosa, and Carlos De 
Jesus. 


6:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
~ MISCELLANY 


6:30 NEWS 
A report of the day’s events with Abraham 
Aig. (November 16th.) 


mystery story; but timeless mysteries swim 
just beneath. Joseph McElroy reads a 
selection from his novel, and talks with 
Risha Meledandri. 


11:55 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
RADIO UNNAMEABLE 
Live radio with Bob Fass. 


Sunday, Nov. 16th 


5:00 THE MORNING AFTER THE 
NIGHT BEFORE 
Live radio with Gary Fried. 


8:00 NEWS 
Rebroadcast from last night. 


8:30 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 

HERE OF A SUNDAY MORNING 
J.S. Bach: Cantata #90, ‘‘Es Relfet Ein 
Schrecklich Ende,’’ and the organ works of 
J.S. Bach, part 7. Presented by Chris 
Whent. 


11:00 IN THE SPIRIT 
Varieties of religious experience. For 


Aiden 


electric utilities, which has favored the 
immediate applications of solar power. 
(November 18th) 


8:15 MISCELLANY 


8:30 GRASS ROOTS OF MUSIC 
Produced by Tom Whitmore. 


9:30 THE RADIO 

‘Barnett Frummer”’ - A militant 
Underachiever. Adapted from the book by 
Calvin Trillin. Comedy, if you can stand it. 
Directed by Timothy Jerome; produced by 
Charles Potter; technical direction by 
David Rapkin. All star cast! Plus a second 
feature. (November 23rd.) 


10:00 WOMEN AND THE ECONOMY 

A discussion of women and the economy by 
Batya Weinbaum and Laurie Helmbold of 
the Union for Radical Political Economics. 
The discussion was recorded at the first 
national Socialist—Feminist Conference 
held in Yellow Springs, Ohio, over the July 
4th weekend. Produced by Bonnie Bellow. 


11:00 MUSIC OF INDIA 

With Ravi Shankar. Fourth program ina 
12-part series, broadcast on alternate 
Sunday nights. Tonight: discussion of the 
raga. 


-11:55 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
RADIO UNNAMEABLE 
Live radio with Bob Fass. 


Monday, Nov. 17th 


5:00 COUNTING SHEEP 
Live radio with Jan Albert. 


7:00 THE MONDAY MORNING SHOW 


-Principia Discordia. With Larry Cox. 
6:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 9:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
COMMUNITY BULLETIN BOARD NEWS 
_MISCELLANY A rebroadcast from last night. 
6:30 NEWS | 10:00 MORNING MUSIC 
_ Areport of the day’s events with Marty Through the Opera Glass. 
© Goldensohn. (November 15th.) _ on Beethoven’s Leonore. Presented by Martin 


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COMMUNITY NEWS REPORT 


Weekly roundup of news on the 12:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 


_ neighborhood level, selected primarily 


from the various community newspapers in 


_ the city’s boroughs. Presented each Friday 


__ evening following the regular news, and 


produced by Nathan Weber. 


7:30 WHAT THE WOMAN LIVED 
A dramatization of poet Louise Bogan’s life 
recorded in May, 1975, at the Manhattan 
Theatre Club. Actresses Marian Seldes 
and Kathryn Walker give a dramatic 
reading of Louise Bogan’s letters and 
poems. Adapted for the stage by Janet 
Sternburg and Corinne Jacker. Directed by 
Corinne Jacker. Produced by Janet 
Sternburg. Broadcast with permission from 
Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, publisher of The 
Blue Estuaries, Louise Bogan’s collected 
‘poems; and Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 
publisher of What the Woman Lived, 
Selected Letters of Louise Bogan, edited by 
Ruth Limmer. Produced for radio by Rick 
Harris and Bill Kortum. (Rebroadcast from 
May 26th.) 
11:55 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
RADIO UNNAMEABLE 
Live radio with Bob Fass. 


Saturday, Nov. 15th 


5:00 THE MORNING AFTER THE 
NIGHT BEFORE 
Live radio with Gary Fried. 


8:00 NEWS 
A rebroadcast from last night. 


9:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
THE SATURDAY MORNING 
SHOW 

A mix of kids-foods-comedy-plants-music- 

poetry and other snappy talk. Also, ‘‘Kids 

Radio,’’ with kids and adults from the 

Teachers and Writers Collaborative. 

Special Today: Join us in Studio C for a 
Festival of Super ‘‘8’’ Movies, made by 
kids. The films are: Tropicana Night Club, 
The Brothers Who Get Their Revenge, and 
The Love and Hate of Mrs, Jones. And 
More!! Adults over the age of 18 must be 


7:00 SALUD 

Each week, we explore the areas which 
affect the quality of life and lifestyles that 
are common to us all. This week, hosted by 
Liz Christy of the Green Guerillas. 


8:00 THE READING EXPERIMENT: 
John Giorno’s Dial-A-Poem Poets 
- Part 
In a conversation with Charles Ruas and 
Lynda Perry, John Giorno explains the 
wide variety of poetry being written in 
America by his contemporaries. His 
anecdotes and reminiscences introduce the 
readings: Lenore Kandel, Aram Saroyan, 
Gary Snyder, Ted Berrigan, Jack Spicer, 
Allen Ginsberg. Produced by Lynda Perry. 
Executive Producer Charles Ruas. 


9:00 THE FREE MUSIC STORE 

The Voice Group: a group of singers who 
explore sounds of the voice through 
improvisation, and use these sounds in 
collective composition. They aiso perforim 
works by other composers who use voice in 
a new way. The director of the group is Jay 
Clayton. You’re invited to join us in Studio 
C at the BAI church, 359 East 62nd Street, 
just west of First Avenue. Produced by Ira 
Weitzman. Broadcast live in stereo. 


11:00 SATURDAY NIGHT SPECIAL 
The surface of Joseph McElroy’s Lookout 
Cartridge is a literate, contemporary 


The Saturday Morning Show, Saturdays at 9am. from Studio C 


details of this program, call 
Folio-by-Phone at 826-1818, or listen to 
Program Announcements. Produced by 
Lex Hixon. 


12:30 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 


1:00 THE READING EXPERIMENT 
John Giorno’s Dial-a-Poem Poets, 
Part Il. 

Rebroadcast from November 15th. 


2:00 A special program produced too late 
for listing here. For more information, 
listen to Program Announcements or call 
Folio-by-phone at 826-1818. 


4:00 UNSTUCK IN TIME 

Live radio with Margot Adler. ‘‘Did you 
know that there is a million dollars hidden 
in the house next door? But there is no 
house next door. No? Thén let’s build 
one.’’-Marx (quoted in Principia 
Discordia). 


6:00 PROGKAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
MISCELLANY 


6:30 NEWS 
A report of the day’s events with Abraham 
Aig. (November 17th.) 


7:15 (A)LTERNATE (E)NERGY 
(C)OMMITTEE 

Utilities Back Solar Power. Lindsay Audin 

reports on recent research funded by 


MAG TIME #7 
Pacifica’s literary magazine of the air. 
Presenting work from Antaeus and the 
Ecco Press—fiction by Paul Bowles, poetry 
by Louise Gluck, an account of Ezra Pound 
in detention by Charles Olson. Narrated 
and produced by Leonard Chabrowe with 
the help of a grant from the National 
Endowment for the Arts. 


1:00 THE FOUNDATIONS OF AFRICAN 


HISTORY: The Rediscovery of 
African History 
Noted historian Basil Davidson deals with 
how and why African history has been lost 
from the ‘‘respectful commentary of the 
history of mankind.”’ 


' 2:00 ADVENTURES IN JAZZ 


Presented by Mickey Bass. 


4:00 IRSAY IN THE AFTERNOON 
Poetry month continues with ‘‘Acrid sleep 
lids folded in blue harvest.” 


6:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
COMMUNITY BULLETIN BOARD 
MISCELLANY 


6:30 NEWS 
A report of the day’s events with Marty 
Goldensohn. (November 18th.) 


7:30 GETTING AROUND 
Discussions, whispers, and guffaws on 
artists and the arts. Moderated and 
produced by Courtney Callender. Guest 
moderator, Andre Bishop. (November 
18th.) 


8:30: . MISCELLANY 


8:45 BILL HOWLE’S MAGGOTS 
‘(Happy Birthday Mr. Henry Purcell.” A 
program in honor of the English composer 
who, if not for an untimely death, would be 
311 years old this month. 


10:15 MAJOR CONTEMPORARY 
WRITERS 


Folio, November 1975 


Jerzy Kosinski, ‘‘The Painted Bird,’’ Part 
i. 
[This program contains controversial sub- 
ject matter. If you feel you might be offend- 
ed by such subject matter, please tune 
away for the next hour and forty-five 
minutes and rejoin us at midnight.] 
Jerzy Kosinski reads the chapter dealing 
with Rainbow’s rescue and the rape of the 
young Jewish fugitive. In a conversation 
with Charles Ruas, Mr. Kosinski relates 
the passage to the victim’s vulnerability as 
a potential for liberating human 
experience. Executive producer, Charles 
Ruas; co-producers, Bill Kortum and Lin 
Harris; technical supervision, David Marx. 


11:55 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
SWAN SONG 
Live radio with Mickey Waldman. 


Tuesday, Nov. 18th 


5:00 MORNING WATCH 
Live radio with Bill Monaghan. 


7:00 THE TUESDAY MORNING SHOW 
With Larry Cox. 


9:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
NEWS 
Rebroadcast from November 17th. 


10:00 MORNING MUSIC 
Sacred and profane, in languages you can’t 
understand. With Judith Sherman. 


12:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
LUNCHPAIL 
Live radio with Paul Gorman. 


2:00 (A)LTERNATE (E)NERGY 
(C)OMMITTEE 
Rebroadcast from November 16th. 


3:00 GETTING AROUND 
Rebroadcast from November 17th. 


4:00 JAZZ SAMPLER 

A usually free-associative, more-or-less 
historically-inclined, approximate 
two-hours of recorded jazz. Presented by 
Billi Farrar. 


6:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
COMMUNITY BULLETIN BOARD 
MISCELLANY 


6:30 NEWS 
A report of the day’s events with Marty 
Goldensohn. (November 19th.) 


7:30 WHAT IS MADNESS? 

What do we mean when we say someone is 
crazy (‘“mentally ill’’)? What is the medical 
model of medicine? Is madness a 
bio-chemical, genetic, behavioral, or social 
problem? On this second program in our 
mental health series, we look into the 
current theories on ‘‘madness.’’ Produced 
by Paul MclIsaac and Dave Metzger. ° 


8:30 MISCELLANY 


8:45 POETRY 

Helen Adam, the Scottish poet living in 
America, reads from her work. Produced 
by Susan Howe. (November 30th.) 


9:15 WAR BABIES 

Improvisational theater by the group ‘‘War 
Babies,’’ with audience participation 
invited. Phone 371-5200 to help create the 
program. Live. 


10:15 MUCH ADO ABOUT STARLINGS 
A lively discussion between author and 
naturalist John W. Miller, and Barbara 
Londin about this hardy, adaptable breed 
of birds. Produced by Barbara Londin, with 
technical assistance by Dave Marx. 


11:00 GAY ALTERNATIVES 

A Vision of Power. Can the insights and 
experiments of gay people lead to a new, 
more résponsihic way of developing 2ad 
using both personal and political power? 
This question is discussed by Barbara 
Gaines, director of the Brooklyn Women’s 
Center; Jean O'Leary, former 
spokeswoman of Lesbian Feminist 
Liberation; Tom Rauffenbart of the Ninth 
Street Center; and Bruce Voeller, 
executive director of the National Gay Task 
Force. Host and producer is Ronald Gold. 


11:55 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 


12:00 WONDERS OF MUSIC 

An attempt to introduce more people to the 
relevancy and joy of good music. Emphasis 
will be on thast form that is the synthesis of 
all performing arts: Opera. Also, 
turning-on the new listener to opera; how 
to buy opera records; as well as exploding 
some of the myths surrounding opera. 
Produced by J.D. 


Wednesday, Nov. 19th 


5:00 MORNING WATCH 
Live radio with Bill Monaghan. 


7:00 ROOM 101 
Steve Post. 


9:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
NEWS 
Last night’s news, rebroadcast. 


10:00 MORNING MUSIC 
How to answer your child’s questions 
about where music comes from, and why 


talks with members of the new generation 
of art critics: Carter Ratcliff, Phyliss 
Derfner, Mona DaVinci, and Peter Frank. 


10:00 A DELICATE BALANCE 
Marian McPartland shares music and 
reminiscences with fellow musicians. 


11:55 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
NUANCES 
Live radio with Pepsi Charles. 


Thursday, Nov. 20th 


Friday, Nov. 21st 
Saturday, Nov. 22nd 


Welcome once again to the New 1975 
Minithon. New because we’re trying to 
achieve our goal of $100,000 in a total of 15 
intensive days (more-or-less) spread out 
over November and December. Mini 


Bill Farrar, host of Jazz Sampler, Tuesdays at 4pm. 


new music sounds so funny. Presented by 
Jim Theobald. 


12:00 HOUSING NOTEBOOK 
Produced by Esther Rand. 


2:00 THIS IS JAZZ 
Host Larry Davis presents a variety of jazz 
and often talks with guest artists. 


4:00 PRAXIS 
Live radio with Paul Mclsaac. 


6:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
COMMUNITY BULLETIN BOARD 
MISCELLANY 


6:30 NEWS 
Report of the day’s events with Marty 
Goldensohn. (November 20th.) 3 


7:30 WASHINGTON REPORT 

This week, RK, PC, KF, and TC take on 
the FDA, FTC, LC, BOA, FBI, NA, DOC, 
DOT, NSA, DIA, DEA, CIA, HOR, WH, 
FEA, NSC, BIA, GAO, GSA, or something 
just like them. 


9:00 TALKING ABOUT ART 
Tonight, poet and art critic John Perreault 


because it’s 15 days, compared to former 
30-or-more-day Thons. Thon because 
things don’t change all that much. To find 
out what we made toward our goal earlier 
this month, listen to our air. And then, 
simply pledge the remainder of the money 
we need. Please help. Only you can make 
this experiment work, and help us wipe out 
the need for the Endless Thon—in addition 
to some of those endless debts. Pledge by 
phoning us at (212)826-0880. And then, 
send your money to: WBAI, P.O. Box 
12345, Church Street Station, New York, 
N.Y. 10249, or support Minithon-by-Mail 
via the coupon on page 15. 

Special programs will be announced on 
Program Announcements, and the 
following regular programs will be 
broadcast at their scheduled times. 


Thursday, November 20th 


5:00 AM HOUR OF THE WOLF 
The Thursday Morning Science Fiction 
Extravaganza. With Jim Freund. 


9:00 AM PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
NEWS 
A rebroadcast of last night’s news. 


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6:00 PM PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
COMMUNITY BULLETIN BOARD 
MISCELLANY 


6:30PM NEWS 
Report of the day’s events with Marty 
Goldensoh. (November 21st.) 


8:30 PM POLITICAL ECONOMY: A TEN- 
WEEK COURSE 
Sesson Three: What Makes the 
Economy Change? 

The third session in a ten-week course on 
political economics, designed to stimulate 
critical discussion about the economic 
system. The course is taught by economists 
David Gordan and William Tabb. 
Supplementary materials will be made 
available, and audience participation on 
the telephone is encouraged. Produced by 
Bonnie Bellow. 


Friday, November 21st 


9:00 AM PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
NEWS 
Rebroadcast from last night. 


6:00 PM PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
COMMUNITY BULLETIN BOARD 
MISCELLANY 


6:30PM NEWS 
Report of the day’s events with Marty 
Goldensohn. (November 22nd.) 


Saturday, November 22nd 


9:00 AM PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
NEWS 
Rebroadcast from November 21st. 


6:00 PM PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
COMMUNITY BULLETIN BOARD 
MISCELLANY 


6:30PM NEWS 
A report of the day’s events with Marty 
Goldensohn. (November 23rd.) 


9:00PM THE FREE MUSIC STORE 
Lucy Lowe Sings America. Lucy Lowe, 
whose programs “‘Lucy Lowe Sings 
America’’ cover our popular songs from 
1776 to 1976, returns to the Free Music 
Store. Her last concert at WBAI won the 
Corporation for Public Broadcasting Award 
for the Best Public Performance of 1975. In 
this, the first of three Holiday concerts, 
Miss Lowe is accompanied by Richard 
Eikenberry. (Her next two concerts are 
Saturdays, December 27th and February 
21st.) You’re invited to join us in Studio C, 
359 East 62nd Street, just west of First 
Avenue. Produced by Ira Weitzman. 
Broadcast live in stereo. 


Sunday, Nov. 23rd 


5:00 THE MORNING AFTER THE 
NIGHT BEFORE 
Live radio with Gary Fried. 


8:00 NEWS 
Rebroadcast from last night. 


8:30 PRGGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 

HERE OF A SUNDAY MORNING 
J.S. Bach: Cantata #54, ‘‘Widerstehe Doch 
Der Sunde;’’ and Handel: Alexander’s 
Feast. Presented by Chris Whent. 


11:00 IN THE SPIRIT 

Varieties of religious experience. For more 
information, call Folio-by-Phone at 
826-1818, or listen to Program 
Announcements. Produced by Lex Hixon. 


12:30 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
THE RADIC 


1:00. AT THE STUDIO OF... 

An interview with Jose de Creeft 
conducted by Barbara Londin. Jose de 
Creeft is the famed sculptor best known in 
N.Y. for his delightful Alice in Wonderland 
in Central Park. He remembers Rodin and 
is still active in art. Produced by Barbara 
Londin with technical assistance by Dave 
Marx. 


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2:00 A program of special interest, with 
details announced on Program 
Announcements and over Folio-by-Phone 
(826-1818). 


4:00 UNSTUCK IN TIME 

Live radio with Margot Adler. 

“* ‘Gentlemen,’ he said, ‘why does 
Pickering’s Moon go about in reverse 
orbit? Gentlemen, there are nipples on your 
chests, do you give milk? And what, pray 
tell, Gentlemen, is to be done about 
Heisenberg’s Law?’ He paused. Somebody 
had to put all of this confusion here!’’ 
-Principia Discordia 


6:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
COMMUNITY BULLETIN BOARD 
MISCELLANY 


6:30 NEWS 
A report of the day’s events with Marty 
Goldensohn. (November 24th.) 


7:00 (A)LTERNATE (E)NERGY 
(C)OMMITTEE 
Raw Materials and Raw Deals. Lindsay 
Audin covers recent studies by the National 
Academy of Sciences and the Pacific 
Science Congress, on the future availability 
of raw materials for energy and products. 
(November 25th.) 


8:15 MISCELLANY 


8:30 GRASS ROOTS OF MUSIC 
Produced by Tom Whitmore. (November 
27th.) 


9:30 POETRY IN OUR TIME 

Karen Swenson reads her poetry. Ms. 
Swenson is the author of An Attic of Ideals. 
Her poetry has appeared in such places as 
The New Yorker, The Nation, and the 
Saturday Review. Produced by Paul 
Oppenheimer. 


10:00 FEMINISM 
This ongoing series of programs considers 


_ the material, as well as the theoretical and 


Spiritual dimensions of feminism today. 
Next program: December gt Produced oy 


aa Nanette-Reinone. 


wel BON 
11:00 ECHOES FROM TARA 
The lyric and music of Celtic peoples. 


Produced by Bill Monaghan. 
11:55 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 


RADIO UNNAMEABLE 
Live radio with Bob Fass. 


Monday, Nov. 24th 


200 COUNTING SHEEP 
So who’s counting? Live radio with J an 
Albert. 


7:00 THE MONDAY MORNING SHOW 
With Larry Cox. 


9:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
NEWS 
Rebroadcast from November 23rd. 


10:00 MORNING MUSIC 

The Laughing Cavalier Presents Five 
Legendary Mozart Piano Concerto 
Recordings: #20 in D-Minor, KV466 (Dame 
Myra Hess); #21 in C-Major, KV467 
(Rosina Lhevinne); #23 in A-Major, KV488 
(Solomon); #24 in C-Minor, KV491 
(Schnabel); and #25 in C-Major, KV503 
(Edwin Fischer). 


12:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 

Followed by a special program, details of 
which are available on Folio-by-Phone 
(826-1818) or on Program Announcements. 


1:00 THE FOUNDATIONS OF AFRICAN 
HISTORY: Beginnings of Organized 
Societies in Africa 


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word. Later, numerous volumes were 
written by travelers, explorers, and 
historians. Yet, its position and importance 
to the world is generally unknown. 
Participants: Thelma Harris, James Gross, 
and Lewis Thompson. 


2:00 ADVENTURES IN JAZZ 
presented by Mickey Bass. 


4:00 IRSAY IN THE AFTERNOON 
Today, the conclusion of Poetry Month: 


“Gone but walls of envy pitted fuzzy.’’ 


6:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
COMMUNITY BULLETIN BOARD 
MISCELLANY 


6:30 NEWS 
A report of the day’s events by Marty 
Goldensohn. (November 25th.) 


7:30 GETTING AROUND 

Discussions, whispers, and guffaws on 
artists and the arts. Moderated and 
produced by Courtney Callender. Guest 
moderator, Andre Bishop. (November 
25th.) 


8:30 MISCELLANY 

8:45 HAMZA EL DIN 

The oud player from Nubia plays, sings, 
and talks with Verna Gillis about his music. 
Produced by Verna Gillis. 


10;15 MAJOR CONTEMPORARY 
WRITERS 
Jerzy Kosinski, ‘‘Steps.”’ 
[This program contains controversial 
subject matter. If you feel you might be 
offended by such subject matter, please 
tune away for the next hour and forty-five 
minutes and rejoin us at midnight.] 
Jerzy Kosinski reads a selection from 


4:00 JAZZ SAMPLER 

A usually free-associative, more-or-less 
historically-inclined, approximate 
two-hours of recorded jazz. Presented by 
Bill Farrar. 


6:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
COMMUNITY BULLETIN BOARD 
MISCELLANY 


6:30 NEWS 
A report of the day’s events with Marty 
Goldensohn. (November 26th.) 


7:30 INTHE NAME OF MENTAL 
HEALTH! 
Healing or Control? The third program in 
the Mental Health series examines the 
cultural, political, economic bias apparent 
in our society’s approach to treatment. 
Produced by Paul MclIsaac and Dave 
Metzger. (November 28th.) 


8:30 MISCELLANY 


8:45 POETRY IN OUR TIME 

Barry Wallenstein reads his poetry, which 
has been widely published in the 
Transatlantic Review, the New York 
Quarterly, and the American Poetry Review. 
He is the author of Visions and Revisions: 


Gary Azon 


James Irsay, ae In The Afternoon, Mondays at 4pm. 


Steps, a winner of the National Book 
Award for 1969. In the following 
conversation with Charles Ruas, Mr. 
Kosinski discusses the power resulting 
from abandonment of self, one’s past, and 
even one’s language. Executive producer, 
Charles Ruas; co-producers, Bill Kortum 
and Lin Harris; technical supervision, 
David Marx. This series, exploring 
Kosinski’s work, will continue in 
December, with programs devoted to 
Being There, The Devil Tree, and Cockpit. 


11:55 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
SWAN SONG 
Live radio with Mickey Waldman. 


Tuesday, Nov. 25th 


5:00 MORNING WATCH 
Live radio with Bill Monaghan. 


7:00 THE TUESDAY MORNING SHOW 
With Larry Cox. 


9:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
NEWS 
Rebroadcast from last night. 


10:00 MORNING MUSIC 


Mucieal farmc: Rando and rondeau we gO. 


Avanos ave 


With Judith Sherman. 


12:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
LUNCHPAIL 
Live radio with Paul Gorman. 


2:00 (A) LTERNATE (E)NERGY 
(C)OMMITTEE 
Rebroadcast from November 23rd. 


3:00 GETTING AROUND 
Rebroadcast from November 24th. 


An approach to Poetry and teaches poetry 
and writing at The City College. Produced 
by Paul Oppenheimer. 


9:15 NEW WRITING FROM WOMEN 
This tape of Lydia Ressner reading her 
novel-in-progress was first heard in 1973. 
On September 11, 1975, Lydia committed 
suicide. Her friends are now sifting 
through the piles of beautiful work she left 
behind, and trying to understand why so 
little of it made its way to the audience that 
would have loved it. Produced by Ann 
Snitow. 


10:15 This time slot has been left open to 
broadcast a program of special interest. 
For details, listen to Program 
Announcements, or call Folio-by-Phone at 
826-1818. 


11:00 GAY ALTERNATIVES 

A Lesbian Video Collective. Members of 
Lesbians Organized for Video Experience 
(LOVE) discuss the need for gay-run media 
efforts and the role that their group plays 
in their own lives. Host and producer is 
Ronal Gold. 


11:55 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
12:00 FREEDOM’S JOURNAL 

‘*We wish to plead our own cause. Too long 
have others spoken for us.’’ (Freedom’s 
Journal. March 16, 1872.) Freedom’s 
Journal is believed to have been New York 
City’s first Black newspaper (1872). 
Tonight, Freedom’s Journal will feature 
spoken poetry, views on the arts, and a 
continuing history of Black American 
music. Produced by Clayton Riley of TCB 
Productions. 


Wednesday, Nov. 26th 


5:00 MORNING WATCH 


Live radio with Bill Monaghan. 


7:00 ROOM 101 
Steve Post. 


9:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
NEWS 
Rebroadcast from last night. 


10:00 MORNING MUSIC 

All New! All Different! All Sonic! New 
music to delight the ear and numb the 
senses. With a Special Surprised Guest, 
maybe. Presented by Jim Theobald. 


11:55 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 


12:00 T.C.B. MAGAZINE 

A monthly roundup of local, national, and 
international news; interviews with 
newsmakers; and Speaking Out - a 
segment where women/men from all walks 
of life will comment on various subjects 
and issues as they view them. Produced by 


2:00 THIS IS JAZZ 
Host Larry Davis presents a variety of jazz 
and often talks with guest artists. 


4:00 PRAXIS 
Live radio with Paul Mclsaac. 


6:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
COMMUNITY BULLETIN BOARD 
MISCELLANY 


6:30 NEWS 
A report of the day’s events with Marty 
Goldensohn. (November 27th.) 


7:30 INTERNATIONAL REPORT 

A series of interviews and reportage on 
major international developments, and the 
international stories that often go 
unnoticed by the press. (November 27th.) 


8:30 WIDE WORLD OF MUSIC 

Indian classical music played on the sitar 
and surbahar, and accompanied by the 
tablas. With special guests Raja Mrigendra 
Singh and Iqbal Singh. Produced and 
presented by Marc Gold. 


9:00 TALKING ABOUT ART = 


Judith Vivell talks with architect Hugh 
Hardy; architectural historian and 
documentarian John Margolis; and 
architectural critic Paul Goldberger. The 
subject is Vernacular Architecture and 
some of the issues surrounding it. 
Produced by Judith Vivell. 


10:00 This time slot is left open for a 
program of special interest. Details 
available on Program Announcements, or 
via Folio-by-Phone (826-1818). 


11:55 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
12:00 NUANCES 
Live radio with Pepsi Charles. 


Thursday, Nov. 27th 


5:00 HOUR OF THE WOLF 
The Thursday Morning Science Fiction 
Extravaganza. Win Jim Freund. 


7:00 ROOM 101 
Post. 


9:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
NEWS 
Rebroadcast from last night. 


10:00 MORNING MUSIC 
Requiem Aeternam: be glad you woke up 
for this one. With Kathy Kurs. 


12:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
LUNCHPAIL 
Live radio with Paul Gorman. 


2: 00 GRASS ROOTS OF MUSIC 


Kevroaucase as November 2 23rd. 


3:00 INTERNATIONAL REPORT 
Rebroadcast from November 26th. 


4:00 WEATHERBIRD 
Gary Giddens presents jazz recordings 
from New Orleans to the Avant Garde. 


6:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 


COMMUNITY BULLETIN BOARD 
MISCELLANY 


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6:30 NEWS 
A report of the day’s events with Marty 
Goldensohn. (November 28th.) 


7:30 BETWEEN THE LINES 

An in-depth exploration of current events, 
issues, and phenomena in New York and 
around the country. Historical roots, future 
implications. Produced by Gail Pellett. 
(November 29th.) 


8:15 MISCELLANY 


8:30 INDIAN RITUALS 

Native Americans observe Thanksgiving 
Day as a Day of Mourning. Jack Preston, of 
the Seneca Nation, talks about the various 
beliefs and ways in which the Nations of 
the Iroquois Confederacy and other Native 
American Nations offer thanks. Songs, 
poetry, and chants offering thanks are 
included. The program is produced by 
Natasha and Ralph Friar. [NOTE: 
POLITICAL ECONOMY: A TEN-WEEK 
COURSE is pre-empted by this program in 
honor of Thanksgiving Day. Session Four 
will be broadcast next Thursday, 
December 4th, at this time.] 


9:45 A GLUTTON’S GALLIMAUFRY 

A montage of music and dramatic reading 
devoted to the engrossing subject of food, 
opening with the banquet scene from 
Verdi’s MacBeth and taking it from there. 
Produced by Lin Harris. 


11:00 FILMS 

A program that explores film as 
entertainment, as big business, as art, and 
finally, as the prime cultural force in 
molding the consciousness of our society. 
For details, listen to Program 
Announcements or call Folio-by-Phone 
(826-1818). Produced by Paul Mclsaac. 


11:55 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
RADIO UNNAMEABLE 
Live radio with Bob Fass. 


Friday, Nov. 28th 


_ 5:00 A CONSORT OF EARLY MUSIC 

A program of Renaissance, Baroque, and 
Medieval music designed to help you get 
out of bed. The best way in the world to 
start the day if you have to get up early. 
With Ted Cohen. 


7:00 ROOM 101 
Psts 


9:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
NEWS 
Rebroadcast from last night. 


10:00 MORNING MUSIC 
With James Irsay. 


12:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
IN THE NAME OF MENTAL 
HEALTH! 

Rebroadcast from November 25th. 


1:00 CONVERSATION PIECE 

Host Bruce Kenyon talks with Ethel 
Barrymore Colt, a member of the famous 
Drew-Barrymore acting family. Miss Colt 
talks frankly about her family, her own 
disappointments, and her concepts of 
Living Theatre. 


2:00 ECHOES IN BLACK MUSIC 


4:00 UNSTUCK IN TIME 

Live radio with Margot Adler. ‘‘We 
Erisians seldom pray; it is much too 
dangerous. Charles Fort has listed many 
instances of ignorant people confronted 
with, say, a drought, and then praying 
fervently, and then getting the entire 
village wiped out in a torrential flood.”’ 
-Principia Discordia 


6:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
COMMUNITY BULLETIN BOARD 
MISCELLANY 


6:30 NEWS 
Report of the events of the day with Marty 
Goldensohn (November 29th.) 


COMMUNITY NEWS REPORT 
Weekly roundup of news on the 
neighborhood level, selected primarily 
from the various community newspapers in 
the city’s boroughs. Presented each Friday 
evening following the regular news, and 


produced by Nathan Weber. 


7:30 JOHN G. NEIHARDT, ‘‘FLAMING 
RAINBOW.”’ 
Mr. Neihardt, author of Black Elk Speaks, 
speaks of his life and writings. He 
describes his early life; his meeting Black 
Elk; Wovoka and the Ghost Dance 
Religion; Crazy Horse and his death; 
Sitting Bull and his death; and the 
Massacre of Big Foot’s band at Wounded 
Knee in 1890. Throughout, Mr. Neihardt 
reads from his poetry about the 
momentous events in Native American 
history involving these leaders. Produced 
by Natasha and Ralph Friar. 


11:55 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
RADIO UNNAMEABLE 
Live radio with Bob Fass. 


Saturday, Nov. 29th 


5:00 THE MORNING AFTER THE NIGHT 
BEFORE 
Live radio with Gary Fried. 


Producers of this series are Max Salazar, 
Dr. Kenneth Leo Rosa, and Carlos De 
Jesus. 


6:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
MISCELLANY 


6:30 NEWS 


A report of the day’s events with Abraham 
Aig. (November 30th.) 


7:00 SALUD 

Each week, we explore the areas which 
affect the quality of life and lifestyles that 
are common to us all. On Beating the 
System, we try to help you fight back 
against the pollution of your physical and 
psychological environment. Hosted By 
Gerry Hatch. 


8:00 THE READING EXPERIMENT: 
John Giorno’s Dial-A-Poem Poets 
-Part Il [Disconnected] 

John Giorno transfers his concept for the 

phone to radio in a conversation with 

Charles Ruas and Lynda Perry. John 

Giorno’s reminiscences and anecdotes 

introduce readings by: Anne Waldman, 


Smithsonian Institution 


John G. Neihardt, author of Black Elk Speaks, Flaming Rainbow, November 28th at 
7:30 pm. 


8:00 NEWS 
Rebroadcast from November 28th. 


9:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 

THE SATURDAY MORNING SHOW 
A mix of kids-foods-comedy-plants-music- 
poetry and other snappy talk. This program 
features ‘‘Kids Radio,’’ with kids and 
adults from the Teachers and Writers 
Collaborative. 


12:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
LUNCHPAIL 
Live radio with Paul Gorman. 


2:00 BETWEEN THE LINES 
Rebroadcast from November 27th. 


3:00 WOMEN’S STUDIES 

Jewish Feminists. Viv Sutherland 
interviews members of the Jewish 
Feminist Organization and others on the 
ethnic dichotomy faced by Jewish 
feminists. Phone calls are cheerfully taken. 


4:00 LATIN MUSIC 
Sometimes live, sometimes on recording. 


Dianne diPrima, Bernadette Mayer, John 
Giorno, Gregory Corso, Ed Sanders, 
Charles Olson, Clark Coolidge, Frank 
O’Hara. Produced by Lynda Perry. 
Executive Producer Charles Ruas. 
(Rebroadcast December 7th.) 


9:00 THE FREE MUSIC STORE 

Salsa: An Evening of Latin Music. The 
Johnny Colon Orchestra and Tres (Guitar), 
Bass, Bongos, Trumpets, Trombone, 
Conga, Guiro, and Timbali drums. Guest- 
produced by Verna Gillis. You’re invited to 
join us in Studio C, at the BAI church, 359 
East 62nd Street, just west.of First 


Avenue. Broadcast live in stereo. 


11:00 An hour left open for a program of 
special interest. For details, listlen to 
Program Announcements, or call 
Folio-by-Phone at 826-1818. 


11:55 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 


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12:00 RADIO UNNAMEABLE 
Live radio with Bob Fass. 


Sunday, Nov. 30th 


5:00 THE MORNING AFTER THE NIGHT 
BEFORE 
Live radio with Gary Fried. 


8:00 NEWS 
Rebroadcast from November 29th. 


8:30 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 

HERE OF A SUNDAY MORNING 
J.S. Bach: Cantata #61, ‘‘Nun Komm Der 
Heiden Heiland.”’ Today’s program looks 
back over the past year of ‘‘Here of a 
Sunday Morning.’’ If you would like to 
hear again a work you hear during the 
year, please send a postcard with your 
request to the program’s producer: Chris 
Whent, WBAI, 359 East 62nd Street, New 
York, N.Y. 10021. 


11:00 IN THE SPIRIT 

Varieties of religious experience. For 
details, call Folio-by-Phone (826-1818), or 
listen to Program Announcements. 
Produced by Lex Hixon. 


12:30 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 


A program of special interest. For - 
details, listen to Program Announcements, 
or call Folio-by-Phone at 826-1818. 


4:00 UNSTUCK IN TIME 

Live radio with Margot Adler. “‘I am chaos. 
I am the substance from which your artists 
and scientists produce rhythms. I am the 
spirit with which your children and clowns 
laugh in happy anarchy. Iam chaos. Iam 
alive, and I tell you that you are free.”’ -The 
Goddess Eris [Principia Discordia] 


_ 6:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS = — 


MISCELLANY 


6:30 NEWS 
A report of the day’s events with Abraham 
Aig. (December Ist.) 


7:00 (A)LTERNATE (E)NERGY 
(C)OMMITTEE 

Sources of Energy: Who Profits? A speech 

by Linday Audin recorded September 24th 

before the Yonkers People for Peace. 

(December 2nd.) 


8:15 MISCELLANY 


8:30 GRASS ROOTS OF MUSIC 
Produced by Tom Whitmore. (December 
4th.) 


9:30 THE RADIO 
Stay tuned to it, for it. (December 7th.) 


10:00 JACK SPICER 
[This program contains frank language. If 
you feel you might be offended by such 
language, please tune away for the next 
hour, and rejoin us again at II o'clock.) 
The late poet Jack Spicer, one of the 
original members of the San Francisco 
renainssance, talks poetry and reads his 
poems The Holy Grail and Billy the Kid, 
and sections from The Book of Magazine 
Verse. Spicer’s poetry has been 
unavailable until the recent publication by 
Black Sparrow Press of his complete works. 
Produced by Susan Howe and Mark Weiss, 
with technical direction by Dave Marx. 


11:00 MUSIC OF INDIA 

With Ravi Shankar. Fifth program ina 
12-part series broadcast on alternate 
Sunday evenings at this time. Tonight: 
continuation of the study of Raga with 
important examples, pitches that do not 
exist in Western scales, and an example of 
Shenal (Indian oboe). ; 


11:55 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
RADIO UNNAMEABLE p 
Live radio with Bob Fass. 


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Native Americans observe Thanks- 
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Confederacy and other Native Ameri- 
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Adapted from the book by Calvin 
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Directed by Timothy Jerome; pro- 
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cast! Plus a second feature. 


MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24th 

8:45 PM HAMZA EL DIN 

The oud player from Nubia plays, 
sings, and talks with Verna Gillis 
about his music. 


THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27th 
8:30 PM INDIAN RITUALS 


writings. He describes his early life, 
his meetings with Black Elk; Wovoka 
and the Ghost Dance Religion; Crazy 
Horse and his death; Sitting Bull and 
his death; and the Massacre of Big 
Foot’s band at Wounded Knee in 1890. 
Throughout, Mr. Neihardt reads from 
his poetry about the momentous 
events in Native American history 
involving these leaders. 


SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 30th 

10:00 PM JACK SPICER 

The late poet Jack Spicer, one of the 
original members of the San Francisco 
renaissance, talks about poetry and 
reads his poems, ‘‘The Holy Grail,’’ 
“‘Billy the Kid,’’ and sections from 
“The Book of Magazine Verse.”’ 
Spicer’s poetry has been unavailable 
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