WBAI 99.5 FM Folio: October 1975

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how the city has grown in that time. You 
ww what I mean, just in terms of 
—population and garbage and stuff like 
it. And we still have the same number of men. 
W in hell can there be any fat? 

_ Cox: What did you do? What was your job? 
ae I was a sanitation man. I was on the 
wae or I was sweeping or I was—just a general 

nm man. 

C: There was a lot of talk about how there 
were. too many men, that people weren’t 
aore Would you describe what your day was 


si We'll talk just in terms of what an aver- 
age guy did. He’d have to get in there around 
six, six-thirty to get a parking spot ‘cause 
it’s horrible parking. It’s roll call at seven o’ 
clock and you get on the trucks and go out and 
pick up garbage until two o’clock in the 
afternoon and you'd sign out at two, two-fifteen, 
whatever it happened to be. I don’t think a lot of 
people actually realize exactly how much 
garbage you put on that truck. The average guy 
puts between five and six tons on that truck. 
Twice a day, two different times a day. That’s a 
hell of a lot of garbage. You’re out there and 
you're doing a good day’s work. 
_ C:If these cuts hold. . . I know what it means 
to you, it must mean disaster, In terms of your 
income. 

S: Yeah, it does, I know what you’re saying, 
that’s obvious, but as far as in relation to the 
city. . 

C: What does it mean to the city? What’s 
going to happen? 

'S: Total chaos. 

C: Apart from the strike, even if you go back, 
with those cuts, what’ll it mean for the garbage? 

S: If everybody went back that was not laid 
off, and they did an average day’s work. . . It’s 
obvious, you lose three thousand men, you’re 
going to fall behind further each week, each 
week, each week. And the unfortunate part of it 
all is, and human nature being what human 
nature is, you know who’s going to get hurt the 
most? The ghettos. They’re damn well going to 
get Park Avenue and Fifth Avenue. You see, if 
they would leave the goddam garbage out on 
Park Avenue and Fifth Avenue and Madison 
Avenue and concentrate on the ghettos, you’d 
see how fast Warren Anderson and the rest of 


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Richie Chambers was interviewed on the second day of the wildcat sanitation 
strike this July. Chambers was one of the 1,500 men laid off, but he was confident 
at this point that all the men would win their jobs back. The views expressed by 
Chambers seemed to be held by many, if not all of the men, who were picketing 


outside a sanitation garage in mid-Manhattan. 


them assholes would come around. You 
understand? All of a sudden the people that 
really tell Warren Anderson what to do would be 
saying, Hey pal, I walked in my house and there 
was a rat outside, and some rich bastard would 
almost faint. All of a sudden Warren Anderson 
and Rockefeller and the rest of these crumbs 
would now come around. But unfortunately, 
what’s going to happen, even if the strike is 
over, they'll go into Park Avenue and clean that 
up first and Wall Street will be cleaned up and 
the unfortunate areas, the ghetto area, it’ll get 
worse and worse and there’!l be riots and they'll 
blame the people instead of blaming the 
goddamn politicians who are to blame. 

C: Do you think they’Il also try to speed up, try 
to get guys that are left to do more work? 

S: I don’t think it’ll work, because thete are 
certain technicalities and rules and regulations. 
But it can be worked both ways, you know. 
There are technicalities, for example, there are 


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three men on a truck. A rule, a very specific 
safety rule states clearly and unequivocally that 
the driver is not supposed to get out of that 
truck. And generally the driver will stay in the 
truck when there are small stops. But it he 
comes to a big stop and he backs up to one of 
these big huge stops, he’ll get out and help. 
Consequently the work gets done faster and 
more of it. So now the driver can stay in the truck 
at all times. Now all you have to do, so nobody 
gets hurt, you can rotate drivers. Okay, so that 
means there’s less work and that’s within the 
rules. There’s also a rule that says that 
somebody’s supposed to stay by the hopper 
when the thing cycles. Okay, that’s another 
technicality, you stand there’ and send that 
hopper up. The other thing is, many times you 
grab two or three bags or a can and a bag, or 
something like that. As long as you were 
working at a minimum speed and so cn and so 
forth; you take one can, one bag, as long as 


you’re not deliberately ... 

C: What you’re saying is, that if they try to 
make fewer guys do more work, do the work that 
the other guys would have done if they’d been 
there, people would resist. There are ways to get 
out of it. 

S: Without a doubt. 

C: Why do you think of all the unions the 
sanitation workers are the only ones that have 
actually gone on strike? 

S: It’s always been that way, it really has. 
Secondly of all, you have to remember 
everybody takes electricity for granted until your 
lights go out some night—and then you realize 
how desperate you are. Everyone takes the cops 
and the firemen for granted, you understand? 
They’re there, they’re supposed to do their job, 
but unless you really happen to see a fire, which 
is really limited in a lot of ways, or unless you 
see a cop arrest somebody which doesn’t happen 
to the average person; but just leave that 
garbage out on the street, it’s there, it’s 
tangible, it’s there. And you have to step around 
it. And all that goddamn odor. And if it really 
gets bad, the rats will be coming right out to 
greet it. They said there’s eight million rats in 
New York City. That’s probably about one tenth 
of what there really is. And don’t let anybody tell 
you that the National Guard or the Reserves are 
going to pick up garbage. You get a guy making 
three hundred dollars on Wall Street and it’s bad 
enough he’s making seventy-five a month as a 
guardsman. He’s going to be picking up filthy 
garbage that’s been there? Come on—rats, 
maggots, waterbugs, roaches—you name it. No 
way. 

C: What about all the talk that’s been pushed 
in some of the papers; that what ought to happen 
is there ought to be a wage freeze instead of 
layoffs. Do you buy that? 

S: I would buy that if it was a wage freeze for 
everybody. I have two children; you have to eat 
and I have to try to compete with the prices that 
are going there. This crap of a wage freeze for 
city workers—I didn’t see the politicians taking 
any cuts and freezing their salaries and their 
little rake-offs and their little side deals that 
nobody even knows about ’til they’re out of 
office already. First of all, there’s talk on one 
hand that there’s no money. There’s always 
money and everybody’s damn well aware that 
there’s money. Secondly of all, the people who 
are responsible are the seven Republicans. 
Critically. Crucially. Senator Goodman of all 
people, the big ultra-liberal, going along with 
Mr. Anderson. Aid to upstate. Aid for the ghetto 
schools, never mind for upstate where they don’t 
need it. I’m not saying they shouldn’t get 
something, but give where the hell it’s needed. I 
see the unions as being negligent in that area for 
not going after them publicly and telling them. 
Let the people know, ’cause I hardly read these 
names in print. And this is where this all could 
have been resolved, this is all politics. It’s as 
simple as that. 


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X. Blyden, Bernie Brightman, Courtney Callender, (The) Laughing Cavalier, Joan Carra, Lucian 
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(J.D.) Davis, Ken Davis, Larry Davis, Carlos De Jesus, Jim Demetropoulos, Robin Dodds, Robbie 
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Davis, KPFT; Ralph Engelman, WBAI; David B. Finkel, KPFK (President); Peter Franck, KPFA; 
George A. Fox, WBAI; Edwin A. Goodman (Chairperson); Oscar Hanigsberg, WBAI (Treasurer); 
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Report to the 
ubscriber 


State of the Station 


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The Folio 


born [at KPFA]: April 15, 1949 
[at WBAI]: January 9, 1960 
died [at WBAI]: August 31, 1974 
reborn [at WBAI]: October 1, 1975 


The return of the Folio is like the birth of a child that one desperately wants and needs, but really 
can’t afford; an occasion of both joy and anxiety. Due to ever declining income and rising costs (see, 


“State of the Station,’’ below), there is no room in our budget for the $25,000 it will cost to edit, print 


address and mail the Folio this year. Thanks to a one-year, $18,700 grant from the Corporation for 
Public Broadcasting, we are able to resurrect the Folio on an experimental basis this year. 

Bringing back the Folio is frankly a gamble: that it will bring in at least as much in new 
subscriptions and renewals as it costs. If not, the inexorcisable demons of economics will cause the 
Folio to disappear again. Moral (in case you missed it): subscribe and renew (get your friends to do 
the same). Please return the coupon in this Folio. 


The Carlin Case 
Pacifica Foundation vs. the Federal Communications Commission 
and the United States of America 


- On August 8, 1975, Pacifica’s Washington attorneys, Arent, Fox, Kintner, Plotkin and Kahn, filed 


a brief in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, asking the Court to 
set aside and annul an Order of the Federal Communications Commission declaring certain words to 
be ‘‘indecent’’ within the meaning of Section 1464 of the United States Criminal Code (which 
prohibits the utterance of ‘‘any obscene, indecent or profane language by means of radio 
communication. . .’’). The Order further prohibits the broadcast of such language during times of 
the day when children may be expected to be in the audience. This FCC Order was occasioned by the 
complaint of one citizen about a WBAI broadcast of October 30, 1973 (‘‘Lunchpail,”’ with Paul 


Gorman), in which a satirical monologue by George Carlin entitled ‘‘Filthy Words’’ was played as 


part of a serious discussion on contemporary use of language. : 

The FCC’s Order prohibits as ‘‘indecent’’ the broadcast, by WBAI or by any other radio or 
television station, of words which ‘‘depict sexual or excretory activities and organs in a manner 
patently offensive by contemporary community standards. . . ,”’ at times when children are likely to 
be in the audience. (1) Seven words were consecrated to the FCC’s Index Verborum Prohibitorum: 
“‘Fuck,’’ “‘shit,’’ “‘piss,’’ ‘“‘motherfucker,’’ ‘‘cocksucker,’”’ ‘‘cunt,’’ and ‘‘tit.”” (‘‘Blow job’’ has 


already been conditionally added to the original list after it was characterized as ‘‘may be indecent” _ 


by the Chief of the FCC’s Complaints and Compliance Division.) The FCC supplied neither an 
exhaustive list, nor a definitive time-of-day when children may be presumed to be fast in their beds, 


their transistors safely off. Not that any added precision would, in our opinion, make their order any ; 


less unconstitutional. (The Commission would profit from a tour of any New York City schoolyard.) 
The FCC’s creative definition of broadcast ‘‘indecency’’(2) (released for the first time ever in the 
“*Carlin’’ Order) cavalierly discards even consideration of one of the Supreme Court’s major tests for 


obscenity: an utterance must be utterly without redeeming social yalue (Roth vs. U.S., 1957). Under ; 


“Carlin,” if one of the seven (now eight, soon to be ten?) words is broadcast at a time when children 


may listen, that utterance is per se ‘‘indecent.’’ The Commission has said that it will not listen to — 


claims that the offending language has literary, artistic, political, or si 


at night. 


The political effect of ‘‘Carlin’”’ is to suppress the natural speech of just about every racial, political _ 


and artistic subculture in America, while establishing the (public) linguistic pieties of the straight 
white middle class as the only legal mode of communication on the public airwaves. The effect of 
“Carlin’’ on art is equally devastating; the Order makes it almost impossible to broadcast most 
modern, and much classical, drama, literature or poetry. 
Pacifica Foundation strongly believes that the FCC’s Order in ‘‘Carlin’”’ is both unconstitutional 
under the First Amendment, as well as contrary to Section 326 of the Communications Act (which 
denies the Commission the power of censorship over radio communications as well as denying them 
power to make rules which interfere with the right of free speech by means of radio). We intend to 
fight this repressive Order all the way, whatever the cost. And cost it will: an estimated $50,000 at 
pro bono rates to take the case to the Supreme Court. So far, Pacifica is almost alone in this fight. We 


expect some supportive amicus briefs, but so far no one has offered to help bear the cost. The _ 


National Association of Broadcasters has declined Pacifica’s request for amicus and financial aid. We 
have yet to hear from the large group broadcasters, the commercial networks, or from the public 
broadcasting establishment. (Even though none of them may even want to broadcast a discouraging 
word, it is firmly in their interest to oppose weakening of their First Amendment rights. But 
unfortunately, they apparently cannot see the forest for the dirty words. Violent television programs 
and cigarette commercials are another story. Broadcasters will give your life to broadcast these.) 
Basically, it’s up to us, and to you, as usual. Please use the coupon in this Folio to make an extra 
donation to help fight the ‘‘Carlin’’ Order. (For donations of $50 or more, I will send you a copy of 
Pacifica’s Brief and Appendix, which contains the FCC’s Order and a list of specific works, from the 
Bible to the White House Tapes, that we may not broadcast during most of the day under ‘‘Carlin.”” 
It’s very interesting reading; this article only touches on the legal issues involved.) ; 

Let us band together to fight this repressive decision, so that we will no longer be required to filter 
the raw outrage of reality through the sieve of established sensibility. 


State of the Station: Perilous _— 
WBATI is at a peril point caused by steadily declining income and ever-rising costs. If this deadly 
trend is not soon reversed, WBAI may not survive in its present form. If income keeps falling, the 
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WBAI MUST HAVE A NET INCREASE OF 5,000 SUBSCRIBERS BY 
YEAREND TO SURVIVE IN ITS PRESENT FORM 


WBATI is at a peril point. Paid subscribers are down to 13,892 as of August 8th. 
Income has declined every year since 1971, while expenses have risen relentlessly. 
We have lost money every year since then, for an aggregate that‘exceeds'$150,000. 
This pattern must be reversed if the.BAI you’ve known for the past 10 years is to 
survive in recognizable form. The details are contained in my Report to the 
Subscriber: State of the Station. We must get 5,000 new or renewal subscribers 
without losing any of the nearly 14,000 now on the rolls. 

If only 50 per cent of the 11,584 lapsed subscribers would renew, we would 
instantly exceed our goal. (This first Folio is being mailed for one time only to all 
lapsed subscribers at no cost to the station thanks to an Incentive Grant from the 
Corporation for Public Broadcasting.) A mix of new and old subscribers would also 
do the trick. 

Please read my Report, then use the Coupon in'this Folio on page 15; to 
re-subscribe or to become a subscriber. (You can determine your computed state of 
grace by checking the mailing label of this Folio.) Please do it right now. Your 
subscription today may save a lot of organizing and agonizing later. 

Thank you. —LJ ‘ 


Program 
otes 


A whole year has passed since we made the decision to take all programming off the air and to 
entirely rethink and revamp what was being broadcast over 99.5 FM. We made certain promises to 
you, and to ourselves, at that time. We promised to bring new voices and a quality of maturity and 
professionalism to the air; to cut down on easy rhetoric and concentrate on doing our 
research—bringing you programs thick with information and new ideas. 

We believe we have done far better in just one year than our limited resources and finite energies 
would have indicated. In this year you’ve heard Lindsay Audin, with his in-depth and alternate 
analysis of the energy situation; Courtney Callender on the arts; Viv Sutherland on Women; Martin 
Sokol with his ‘‘Through the Opera Glass’’; Bill Farrar with ‘‘Jazz Sampler’’; Ron Gold on 
Alternative Gay Life Styles; voices of working people on Bonnie Bellow’s ‘‘The Workplace’; Liz 
Christy helping us with the greening of New York; Charles Ruas and his new Arts programs; ‘‘Latin 
Music’’ with Max Salazar, Dr. Kenneth leo Rosa, and Carlos De Jesus; and Barry ‘Rubin on the 
International situation. These are just some of the new voices you’ve become acquainted with in the 
past year. New ideas were presented to you in the form of Paul Mclsaac’s in-depth studeis of the 
American Revolution, the Science Establishment and Cancer causes and care; the Public Affairs 
Department’s focus on Labor, the Economy, Food and Energy; the Music Department’s focus on 
Jazz, just at the time that it was reemerging as a highly respected indigenous American artform (see 
Bill Farrar’s article) without abandoning our special way of presenting Classical Music; Deloris 
Costello’s coverage of struggles and victories of Third World peoples and nations; the Drama and 
Literature Department’s extensive presentation of current thought in Poetry, Theatre, Fine Arts, 

* etc., etc. 

_____Wealso continued to do the things we are best at and have become known for over the years: Live 
Radio, all day coverage of historic events (for example, the end of the War in Indochina, Nixon’s 

- resignation and the Labor Rally), radio drama and the Free Music Store. 

And much to our relief, in the process of becoming more professional, we never lost our funkiness. 

Fora while I feared that might happen, but then one day I realized that no one could ever control the 
incorrigibility of James Irsay, or assure that the record inside an album was the one indicated on the 
cover, or that a volunteer announcer wouldn’t inadvertently erase the program scheduled to go on in 
five minutes. All that’s the price and prize of freedom and its inevitable companion, poverty. 

We’re now beginning a new year. We come to you again with promises of new ideas, even more 
new voices, and continued improvement. We’ ve laid a very strong foundation this past year, in terms 
of people, standards of excellence, and the ability to work together creatively. My theory is that good 

__ stuff attracts good stuff in geometric progressions; and because of that you’re in for a treat this next 
_ season. és 
' We’re also providing you with a long promised aid to listening—the Folio. Thank you for being so 
tolerant this past year while suffering through missed programs or worse, hearing the tail end of 
something you would have been supremely interested in hearing. In this New Folio,although there is 
quite a bit of specific information, you will notice that much of the copy gives you only a general idea 
__ of what the program will be and also that we’ve left a number of open spaces. Let us know how it 
works for you. 


Good listening, 
—Marnie Mueller 
Program Director 


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The City In Crisis 
y' 
J and the desperate attempt by city officials to find the revenues to pay the city’s bills. Last 
summer, threatened with default, Mayor Beame instituted a series of budget cuts on the insistence 
of the Municipal Assistance Corporation, to prove to hesitant investors that New York City was 
willing to “‘cut to the bone.”’ ‘“We will sacrifice and change our life-style,” said Beame, ‘‘but we will 
not cripple our great city.” Yet, for many New Yorkers it was their lives and budgets, not the life of 
the great city that had been cut to the bone. Thousands of people lost their jobs, services in all areas 
__were severely reduced, subway and bus fares rose to 50 cents, and municipal employees were forced 
to wait indefinitely for wage increases promised them under their contracts. 

_ In planning our fall programming last summer, it was difficult to forecast how the city’s fiscal crisis 
might develop in October. We were confident that New York’s economic troubles would not be over 
and we had many questions about the budget crisis and its implications for the future of New York and 
other urban areas. Throughout the month of October, we will present The City In Crisis, a series of 
programs that attempt to answer some of these pressing questions: 

What are the roots of the crisis and who is to blame? What is the conflict between the growing 
need and demand for services and the city’s inability to finance these services? And, what role have 
the banks played in this conflict? How have city workers been affected and how have the cuts hurt 
those people who depend on the city’s services? In what way have the unions responded to the attack 
from the city government and the financial community? And, what tensions have developed between 
rank and file union members and their union leadership, between permanent city workers and 
provisionals, and between city workers and city residents. Why have the state and. federal 
governments refused to come to New York’s aid? And, what does this mean for the future of all urban 
areas? And, finally, what is the relationship between New York’s budget crisis and the general state 
of the nation’s economy? 

Every Thursday evening at 7:30, and at additional times scheduled throughout the month, we’ll be 
bringing you a series of interviews discussions, documentaries and debates on The City In Crisis. 
We'll also be focusing on the specific affects of the budget crisis on municipal employees and all 
working people living in New York, on our regular series, The Workplace, Tuesday evenings at 7:30. 
That program follows Labor News, a special news report that will keep you up to date on similar 
problems facing working people throughout the country. 

And, of course, WBAI’s News and Public Affairs Department will continue to broadcast our 
regular series: A.E.C. Alternative Energy Committee, a look at energy and alternate sources of 
energy, Sundays at10:00 p.m.;Washington Report, a weekly wrap-up of the news from our nation’s 
capital, alternate Wednesdays at 7:15 p.m.; International News, in-depth news and analysis of 
international events, also alternate Wednesdays, at 7:15 p.m.; and The Evening News, WBAI’s 
award-winning newscast, heard every evening at 6:30 p.m. 

Bonnie Bellow 
ie Director, Public Affairs Dept. 


A TIME TO CHANGE, A TIME TO GROW 


From the mind flows, consciousness, ideas, opinions, purpose, goals, faith, and will. 

These are some of the basic ingredients that went into forming the Third World Communications 
Vanguard here at WBAI-FM radio. September of 1975, the Third World Communications Vanguard 
started four years of our existence. During that time we have exposed a number of myths concerning 
the BP es of Black and Third World people in radio communications and communications in 
general. 

In addition, the Vanguard has mastered the techniques of engineering, editing, writing, 
producing, etc. Most importantly the Third World Communications Vanguard utilized their air time 
for Black and Third World people to speak for and about their own, instead of others trying to speak 
for us. 

The time has now come for the members of T.W.C.V. to go to another level of radio 
communications, even though the basic foundation, purpose and reasons for the Vanguard formation 
will be preserved and will always be there. The body politic being what it is, we intend to grow and 
we are concerned for our growth. 

Therefore the T.W.C.V. will be changed to T.C.B. Productions of WBAI. Moreover the program 
format has been changed and our programs will be on every Tuesday from 12:00 Midnite till 5:00 
A.M. and every Wednesday 12:00 Noon till 2:00 P.M. It is our goal to bring to you not only unique 


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programs content wise, but programs of high quality that you will not hear any place else but on 
WBAI-FM radio. 

To all those who gave their support and constructive criticism to the Vanguard, I want to thank 
you. Your concern enabled us to go forward and overcome many obstacles in our path. I therefore 
ask you to hang in there with us once again while we explore some new ground, and you can be rest 
assured that WE WILL TAKE CARE OF BUSINESS! 

Aluta Continua, 
THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES, 
Deloris Costello 


Music 


Over the past year we have tried to bring to our music programming a kind of focus that would 
allow us to do certain things well rather than many things not so well. Our purpose of reorganization 
has brough classical music and jazz people out of the woodwork in droves. Many of them are 
professional musicians whose experiences in their field bring a few unexpected twists to their sound 
on the air. In fact, the job of music director here consists of choosing the most qualified people and 
helping them to do what they want with the music they know best rather than picking out records for 
a play list. 

Afthoeeh our main efforts go to jazz and classical, you can find traditional country and bluegrass 
on Grassroots of Music (Sundays 8:30 PM) or music of other cultures including a new bi-weekly 
series on Indian music by Ravi Shankar (alternate Sundays, 11 PM). And on Friday evenings the 
Music and Drama-and-Literature Departments will present fare for the end of a hard week: plays, 
poetry, stories, music. 

Add to all this the diverse talents to be heard on the Free Music Store and a variety of wonders that 
occasionally spring forth from many talented outrigger producers and you have a cheese dip that is 


sure to make your next party a success. 
Your music director, 
r Judy Sherman 


Drama and Literature 


In 1959 Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky and Gregory Corso read their poetry in an 
historic gathering at Columbia. The ‘‘beat poets’’ took their name from the word 
beatitude, but to the academic establishment they were outcasts. Sixteen years later, 
their credentials now accepted, the poets, with the addition of William Burroughs (who 
this year returned to live in the United States), reunited to give another equally historic 
reading. In the interim they'd established themselves as the leaders of a literary 
movement. In the following conversation, which took place at WBAI this spring, just prior 
to the second reading, Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs discuss the literary and 
philosophical origins of the ‘‘beats,’’ their individual writing methods and how beat 


witnessed the continuous deterioration of New York City’s 


poetry has evolved from a literary conceit into a literary tradition. 


Allen Ginsberg: Now, we’re at 1975. So it’s 
now, what is it, sixteen years later. The situation 
that we’re in is interesting in this reading, in 
that the thing that we were proposing in ’59 was 
the availability and usability and the viability of 
spontaneous mind; and of some deeper, more 
individual perception than what was being 
presented to us by the Party Line, and 
Encounter and in Time magazine and in Life. 

William Burroughs: And in the academic 
establishment, as represented, at least to some 
extent, by Trilling in Partisan Review. 

AG: Yeah, yeah, ’cause I think they thought 
that we were without any tradition. Particularly 
that was their complaint—we were without any 
tradition. So the reading now, the reprise of 1975 
is interesting because it’s under the auspices, 
for the benefit of, and working in conjunction 
with one of the oldest poetic traditions surviving, 
which is that of Buddhist Tantric poetics. 

WB: And also, you stem really from the 
troubadors, in a sense. 

AG: Yeah, but what I’m really interested 
in—this reading has sort of like the official 
imprimature of the tradition of Milarepa, the 
eleventh century poet-yogi, and the inheritors of 
his method. His method was similar to 
Kerouac’s. What we were talking about was 
spontaneous bop. Or I was talking about 
spontaneous bop prosody as a kind of catch 
phrase to describe Kerouac’s rapid transcription 
of his thoughts and imagery onto a page, which I 
learned from and which was very much on my 
mind when we gave the early reading. We were 
really trying to get Kerouac to come out and be 
the strong leader, or the strong prophet, or the 
strong troubador. But now, the tradition of 
Milarepa is being practiced here exactly in the 
direction that Kerouac prophesied and pro- 
posed, which was: Speak now, or forever hold 
your peace. Speak as if this were the last 
moment of existence. So that what you had to 
say was your moral, ultimate, yalp, yawp. And 
rely on the movement of the mind to provide the 
structure for the artwork. Which is what the 
tradition of Milarepa proposed and_ still 
proposes. So it’s really nice that we’re sort of 
like the older tradition and what we were doing 
intuitively and out of our common sense have 
joined forces. That’s why I really like the 
context. 

WB: Yes; that’s a very good point. 

AG: By spontaneous mind I mean just a total 
frankness as far as is possible. And the use of 
accident to trap yourself even in a public place, 
to tip you mit, so to speak and be passionate if 
passion is there and not to be attached to the last 
thought that you had, but move on to the next 


thought. Not to try and fill out a thought to - 


justify it; but jump ahead to the mind moving 
forward as the working basis for both prose and 
poetry. Cause that, to a great extent, that’s 
your method. 

WB: Not altogether so, Allen. You see, I had 
many discussions with Jack Kerouac on this 
point. He says the first version is always the 
best. Well, it may work for him, but it doesn’t 
work for me. I have to do three, as a rule. The 
first version I get the picture. It’s sort of just a 
sketch. The second, I fill it in and the third, I 
whittle it in still further. 

AG: I think the point that Jack was making 
was first version was best ’cause he felt he could 
reveal himself best and any revision he did 
would tend to hide what embarrassed him; 
which I found operating when I revised, which I 


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do quite a bit. But I find very often the revisions 
I make cover my tracks rather than reveal them. 
The ultimate point actually is just to reveal the 
movement of the mind, which can be done with 
your method or very much with: your method, 
inasmuch as your primary method is, as I seem 
to remember from Tangier, around that time 
... You were sitting at the typewriter looking 
into space ahead and I was wondering how you 
wrote, or what process you used. And I 
remember you’d always said that your 
imagination was primarily visual, whereas mine 
was always auditory. You thought in pictures 
rather than words. And so I asked you what you 
were thinking about just that minute when you 
were hovering with your fingers over the 
typewriter. And you said hands pulling in nets 
from the sea. You remember that? 

WB: Yes. 

AG: AndI thought that was like a great image 
from Saint-Pierre or something and so I said 
where did that come from. So he said, well in the 
morning you go down to the beach at Tangier 
and the fishermen are there at dawn pulling in 
the nets from the sea—hands pulling in nets 
from the sea in the darkness before dawn. So it 
was actually a very naturalistic, practical 
picture. 

WB: Yes, what I essentially see when I’m 
writing is a moving film. 

AG: In total silence? 

WB: No, not anymore than a film is in total 
silence. It has sound effects and it has dialogue. 
I have to see it. If I can’t see it, I can’t write it. 
(ve always thought that way and many of my 
characters come from dreams, which is—a 
dream is actually a film. Sometimes Ill get a 
whole chapter in a dream and I just have to sit 
down and transcribe. 

AG: So then you don’t have to work it, your 
mind in a sense is there in terms of dream or 
picture imagery while you’re writing. So it’s a 
question of accurate transcription and selection. 

WB: Exactly. 

AG: Jack and i had a hypertrophic auditory 
sensibility in the sense that we were, Kerouac 
particularly ... When you ge that Okie-Black- 
Kerouac-y ‘‘bop’’ sound of the extree special 
super high job oh one sixty nine be flound’rin’ 
down to kill Roy. That’s got rhythm and vowels 
that come out of Black music and comes out of 
his ear—attention to the vowel sounds. And 
coming to the end of a sentence with an 
emphasis, an upward emphasis. He always said 
he was a great musician. I never believed him 
until I began doing some jazz singing myself and 
realized how good he was. It affected his prose. 
Jack always though that Burroughs arrived at 
great music. His favorite early line was Motel, 
motel, motel, loneliness, moans across still oily 
tidal waters. That’s what really turned him on to 
your prose, that one sentence. As music—in his 
own ear, 

‘WB: I see it before I hear it, as it were. 
Normally I will see a character before I hear 
them and then it’s a point of what will this 
character I see say and how would he say it. 

AG: Well, you’re seeing as strongly now as 
you’ve ever seen, I guess, from ‘‘Cities of the 
Red Night,’’ which is sort of an apocalyptic play 
. . » popslifsive play . . . pospiscle play. Popsicle 
popped into my mind. I didn’t see a popsicle, nor 
an apocalypse for that matter. So it’s just that 
language. ... 

WB: ... also a pirate story. It’s set in the 
early eighteenth century. 


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Wednesday, October Ist 


5:00 MORNING WATCH 
Live radio with Bill Monaghan. 


7:00 ROOM 101 
With Steve Post. 


9:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 


9:05 NEWS 
A rebroadcast of the Tuesday Evening 
News. 


10:00 MORNING MUSIC 

This morning presented by Jim Theobald. 
Twentieth Century Music complete with 
discord, anarchy, rude noises, artistic 
irresponsibility and even a little beauty. 


12:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 


12:05 THE FORUM 
African-Americans and the Republican 
Party? Produced by D. Costello. 


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


4:00 PRAXIS 

Prax’is : 1)practice:distinguished from 
Theory; 2) a set of examples or exercises, 
as grammar; 3) Live radio with Paul 
Melsaac. 


6:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS. 
COMMUNITY BULLETIN BOARD 
6:05 MISCELLANY 


6:30 NEWS 
A report of the day’s events. (Rebroadcast 
tomorrow morning at 9:05.) 


7:15 INTERNATIONAL REPORT 

A series of interviews and reportage on 

major international developments, and 

the international stories that often go 

unnoticed by the press. (Rebroadcast 
October 2 nd) 


8:30 WIDE WORLD OF MUSIC 

North Indian Classical Music featuring the 
famous shenai (the Indian version of the 

oboe) player Bismillah Khan. Presented 

by Marc Gold. 


9:00 

This slot has been left open to broadcast a 
program of special interest. For details, 
listen to Program Announcements at 9 
AM or 6 PM, or call Folio-by-Phone, 
826-1818. 


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


12:00 RADIO UNNAMEABLE 
Live radio with Bob Fass. 


Thursday, October 2nd 


PAYDAY 
(formerly Subscription Day) 


Today is payday at WBAI. Most of us 
will not get our checks because there is 
not enough money. So today we will be 
asking you to pay us our pittances in 
exchange for the programs you've 
already heard. Some of us are six weeks 
behind in pay. Almost no one is paid up. 
How long could your personal economy 
tolerate such a condition? 

Tasteful appeals for money will be 
mixed with some of the programs listed 
below; others will be pre-empted. Listen 
to Program Announcements or call 
Folio-by-Phone to find out which. 


We thank you in advance for your 
generous response. 
— The Staff of WBAI 


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


7:00 ROOM 101 
With Steve Post, 


9:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Page 4 


9:05 NEWS 
A rebroadcast of last evening's News. 


10:00 MORNING MUSIC 

Alexandre Cesar Leopold (1838-1875). 
Manya LaBruja explores the most popular 
opera by this composer. Included in her 
analysis will be a look at the tenor’s 
attachment to his mother, the mezzo’s 
viewpoint of fate and the baritone’s love 
for animals. 


12:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 


12:05 LUNCHPAIL 
Live radio with Paul Gorman. 


2:00 GRASS ROOTS OF MUSIC 
(A rebroadcast from September 28th.) 


3:00 INTERNATIONAL REPORT 
(A rebroadcast from October 1st.) 


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


6:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 


6:05 MISCELLANY 


6:30 NEWS 
A report of the day’s events. 


7:15 THE CITY IN CRISIS 

A special series examining New York 
City’s fiscal crisis and its implications for 
the future of all urban areas. Produced by 
the News and Public Affairs Department. 
(See the program notes for details, also 
listen to Program Announcements, or call 
Folio-by-Phone, 826-1818.) 


8:30 MISCELLANY 


8:45 WAR BABIES 

Improvisational theatre. See the “War 
Babies Instructions” in this Folio, and 
then call 371-5200 to participate. 


9:45 MISCELLANY 


10:00 TALKING ABOUT ART 


Tonight poet and art critic John Perreault 
talks with artist Betty Parsons. 


11:00 FILMS 

This new weekly program will explore 
films as entertainment, as big business, as 
art, and finally, as the prime cultural force 
in molding the consciousness of our 
society. 


12:00 RADIO UNNAMEABLE 
Live radio with Bob Fass. 


Friday, October 3rd 


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 
With Steve Post. 


9:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 


9:05 NEWS 
A rebroadcast of fast evening’s News. 


10:00 MORNING MUSIC 
With James Irsay. 


12:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 


12:05 THE WORKPLACE 

A series on work and working people 
produced by Bonnie Bellow. (A 
rebroadcast from September 30th.) 


1:00 A PROGRAM OF SPECIAL 


INTEREST 
For details, listen to Program Announce- 
ments or call Folio-by-Phone at 826-1818. 


2:00 ECHOES IN BLACK MUSIC 

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


Jerzy Kosinski 


4:00 UNSTUCK IN TIME 

Live radio with Margot Adler. 1) Rumors 
circulate of Neo-luddite unrest in 
Mid-West Hinterland. 


6:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 


COMMUNITY BULLETIN BOARD 
6:05 MISCELLANY 


6:30 NEWS 
A report of the day’s events. Rebroadcast 
tomorrow morning at 8:00. 


7:30 TWELFTH NIGHT 

With Siobhan McKenna, Paul Scofield, 
John Neville and Vanessa Redgrave. With 
typically Shakespearean ent’ractes of 
music, songs and jesters of the period. 


12:00 RADIO UNNAMEABLE 
Live radio with Bob Fass. 


Saturday, October 4th 


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


8:00 NEWS 
A rebroadcast of Friday night’s News. 


9:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 


9:05 THE SATURDAY MORNING 
SHOW 
A mix of kids - foods - comedy - plants - 
music - poetry and other snappy talk. This 
program marks the start of a new feature 
- “Kids Radio,” with kids (and adults) from 
the Teachers and Writers Collaborative at 
P.S. 75. 


12:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 


12:05 LUNCHPAIL 
Live radio with Paul Gorman. 


~ Jesus. 


Scientia 


2:00 THE CITY IN CRISIS 
A special series examining New York q 
City’s fiscal crisis and its implications for 
the future of all urban areas. (A 
rebroadcast of the October 2nd program.) 
3:00 WOMEN’S STUDIES © 
Aggression: Carefully Taught. Tapes of 
conversations with, and lectures by, 
anthropologists, sociologists, etc., on 
aggression as a non-natural function of 
humanity. : 


4:00 LATIN MUSIC | 
Sometimes live, sometimes on recording. 
Producers of this series are: Max Salazar, 

Dr. Kenneth Leo Rosa and Carlos De 


6:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
6:05 MISCELLANY 


6:30 NEWS 
A report of the day’s events. (Rebroade 
October 5th.) ‘ 


7:00 SALUD 

Each week on this series, we will be 
exploring the areas which affect the 
quality of life and lifestyles that are 
common to all of us. This week, 
TRANSFUSIONS, hosted by Richard 
Rosenblum, will be exploring Institutional _ 
Health. By that we mean those places 
where we go to get health care, whether it 
be private doctor, a hospital, or 
neighborhood health clinic. Tonight we 
will examine the effects of New York City 
cutbacks on our system of health care 
delivery. a 


8:00 MARION’S CAULDRON a4 
Occult and magical information, including 
the astrological transits for the coming _ 
month. Produced by Marion Weinstein. — 


9:00 FREE MUSIC STORE 

Opening Night! Mother Mallard’s Portable 
Masterpiece Company. Have we got an 
opening night for you! David Borden, __ 
Steve Drews and Judy Borscher dasioury: a 


electronic music on fiveMoog © :2 
 synt rs. Definit ee (and _ 
hear!) You're invite ee 
- the aridionte a8 Studio C,3 i 

Street, just west of Ist ‘Avenue. P: od iced 

bylIra Weitzman. Stereo. ts” ¥ 

ro a) 


11:00 SATURDAY NIGHT SPECIAL 
Jerzy Kosinski, Cockpit. The author will 
read a selection from this novel, in which 
the central character discovers survival is ' 
equatable to the ability to endure. 
Versatile and elusive Jerzy. Kosinski is" 
interviewed by Charles Ruas. a 
12:00 RADIO UNNAMEABLE _— 
Live radio with Bob Fass. 


Saaae October sth 


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


8:00 NEWS 
A rebroadcast of last evening’s News. 
\, 


8:30 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS : 


8:35 HERE OF A SUNDAY MORNING 
J.S. BACH, Cantata#5; VARIOUS 
ANONYMOUS COMPOSERS, The 
Worcester Fragments; TALLIS,. we 
Lamentations Jeremiae; BYRD, Missa — 
Tres Vocum. 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, 826-1818. 4 

j 


12:30 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS | 
12:35 MISCELLANY 


1:00 A PROGRAM OF SPECIAL 

INTEREST ; 
For details, listen to Program Announce- 
ments or call Folio-by- Phone at as 8. 


4:00 UNSTUCK IN TIME % 
2) Sierra Club confirms rumors: uprising 


Folio, October 197: 


in Minnesota by Neo-luddite forces. 


Processed cheese industries in Wisconsin 
paralyzed. Live radio with Margot 
Adler. 


\ 
6:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
6:05 MISCELLANY 


6:30 NEWS 
A report of the day’s events. 


7:00 [AJLTERNATE [E]NERGY 
[CJOMMITTEE 

As part of WBAIT’s focus on cities this 

month, this evening’s AEC covers mass 

transit and its effect on pollution and 

energy conservation. Produced by 

Lindsay Audin. 


8:15 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 


"8:20 MISCELLANY 


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


9:30 THE RADIO 


10:30 REMOTES 
In the comfort of your own home, listen to 


. _ lectures, discussions, forums, etc., of 


special interest, recorded in and around 
_New York. For details, listen to 


_ PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS, or call 
_ Folio-by-Phone at 826-1818. 


11:00 MUSIC OF INDIA 
_ RAVISHANKAR, Part one. Prayer to 
~ Guru; Raga Puriya Dhanashri, Malkash, 


a 


Lalit and Bhimpalasi; Discussion of tal 
_ (rhythm), that (scales) and the scale 
syllables i in Indian style. 


< , 12:00 RADIO UNNAMEABLE 
__ Live radio with Bob Fass. 


ve: dio with Larry Cox. 


“3 8 :00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 


. 


¢ 


. 


9:05 NEWS. 


A rebroadcast of last evening's News. 


10:00 MORNING MUSIC 
THROUGH THE OPERA GLASS, 
presented by Martin Sokol. This morning, 


_ Mascagni’s “Guglielmo Ratcliff.” 


12:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 


12:05 This hour 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. 


2:00 ADVENTURES IN JAZZ 
Presented by Mickey Bass. 


4:00 IRSAY IN THE AFTERNOON 
October is “Shellfish Month.” Today—live 
crabs. Presented by James Irsay. 


6:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 


COMMUNITY BULLETIN BOARD 
6:05 MISCELLANY 


6:30 NEWS 
A report of the day’s events. 


7:30 GETTING AROUND 

(Formerly Callendar of Events.) 
Discussions, whispers, and guffaws on 
artists and arts. Moderated and produced 
by Courtney Callender. Guest moderator, 


Andre Bishop. (Rebroadcast October 7th.)’ 


8:30 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. < 


10:30 ELECTRONIC MUSIC 

Electronic Music placed in a 

socio-economic context: emphasizing 
isolation of musical creativity in a cultural 

environment conditioned by today’s music 
{ 


October 1975, Folio 


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 these programs. 


12:00:SWAN SONG 
Live radio with Mickey Waldman. 


Tuesday, October 7th 


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


7:00 THE MORNING SHOW 
With Larry Cox. 


9:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 


9:05 NEWS 
A rebroadcast of last evening’s News. 


10:00 MORNING MUSIC 
Composers whose names begin with B. 


Presented live by Judith Sherman. 


12:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 


12:05 LUNCHPAIL 
Live radio with Paul Gorman. 


2:00 [AJLTERNATE [E]NERGY 
[CJOMMITTEE 

This week AEC focuses on mass transit 

and its effects on pollution and energy 

conservation. Produced by Lindsay 

Audin. (A rebroadcast from October 5th.) 


3:00 GETTING AROUND 

[Formerly Callendar of Events] 
Discussions, whispers and guffaws on 
artists and the arts. Produced by 
Courtney Callender. Guest moderator, 


Andre Bishop. (A rebroadcast from 
October 6th. 


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 
6:05 MISCELLANY 


6:30 NEWS 
A report of the day’s events. 


7:15 LABOR NEWS 

A weekly report of news and events of 
special interest to working people and the 
working community. Produced by Bonnie 
Bellow and Philip Mattera. 


7:15 THE WORKPLACE 
This series on work and working people is 
an examination of almost every aspect of 
people’s working lives - the struggles to 
organize; the rich history of the labor — 
movement; the fights of union workers 
for better wages and working conditions 
and their demands for more responsive 
union leadership; and of course, the 
personal feelings people have about the 


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work they do each day. This month, THE 
WORKPLACE will focus on the problems 
confronting city workers as part of our 
special series, THE CITY IN CRISIS. 
Produced by Bonnie Bellow. (Rebroadeast 
October 10th.) 


8:30 MISCELLANY 


9:00 POETRY 

I should have worn a different 
tameness so far do I hardly 
remember fishes as smudges, or 
the rootlike organ called holdfast 
a clearcold morning so far 

I hardly remember by light 

of the moon O arable turf 

O the soft shelter of home 
where dreams of obscurity 

slam the dawn, and after we go 
lives on in the great cathedral 
choir and song remember 

before and after rubbed clean 
who can read again the soft 

rock shadow, and the space 

of a closing door. 


By Susan Howe, producer of the poetry 


Joan Schwartz 


series, an artist and poet. She has 

ublished The Circumnavigator, and has 
ad numerous shows of her work, which 
combines experiments with the visual and 
the verbal, in such concepts as word 
maps. 


9:15 GAY ALTERNATIVES 

Gays and the Sexual Revolution: a 
discussion of such matters as promiscuity 
and monogamy as they apply to gay 
women and men. Guests are Kathy 
Maorisi and Jean O'Leary of Lesbian 
Feminist Liberation; Rich Wandel, former 
president of the Mattachine Society and 
the Gay Activist’s Alliance; and David 
Tesdell of the Ninth Street Center. 


10:00 UNWRAPPING A BEAUTIFUL 
STRANGER 
This program contains frank language. If 
you feel you might be offended by such 
language, please tune away for the next 
two hours and rejoin us again at midnight. 
Jan Albert talks with Rosalyn Drexler, 
artist, ex-lady wrestler, sometime 
chanteuse, and author of J am the 
Beautiful Stranger, To Smithereens and 
The Cosmopolitan Girl. Mixed with 
readings from her books and with super 
technical direction by David Rapkin. 


12:00 REFLECTIONS 
Boxing: an Anthology. Produced by 
Deloris Costello. 


Wednesday, Oct 8th 


5:00 MORNING WATCH 
Live radio with Bill Monaghan. 


7:00 ROOM 101 
With Steve Post. 


9:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 


9:05 NEWS 
A rebroadcast of last night’s News. 


10:00 MORNING MUSIC 

This morning presented by Jim Theobald. 
Twentieth Century Music complete with 
discord, anarchy, rude noises, artistic 
irresponsibility and even a little beauty. 


12:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 


12:05 EYE ON THE LAW 
Produced by Conrad Lynn. 


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


4:00 PRAXIS 

Prax’is is: 1)Practice: distinguished from 
Theory; 2)A set of examples or exercises, 
as in grammar; 3) Live radio with Paul 
Mclsaac. 


6:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 


COMMUNITY BULLETIN BOARD 
6:05 MISCELLANY 


6:30 NEWS 
A report of the day’s news. (Rebroadcast 
tomorrow morning at 9:05.) 


7:15 WASHINGTON REPORT 

A close look at interesting national news, 
produced by Pacifica’s Washington 
Bureau. (Rebroadcast October 9th.) 


8:30 THE RADIO 


9:00 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. 


10:00 JAZZ 


12:00 RADIO UNNAMEABLE 
Live radio with Bob Fass. 


Thursday, October 9th 


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


7:00 ROOM 101 
With Steve Post. 


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seat: 


9:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 


9:05 NEWS 
A rebroadcast of last night’s News. 


10:00 MORNING MUSIC 
Richard Harris plays music to help the 
trees hibernate. 


12:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 


12:05 LUNCHPAIL 
Live radio with Paul Gorman. 


2:00 GRASS ROOTS OF MUSIC 
(A rebroadcast from October 5th.) 


3:00 WASHINGTON REPORT 
(A rebroadcast from October 8th.) 


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


6:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
6:05 MISCELLANY 


6:30 NEWS 
A report of the day’s events. 


7:15 THE CITY IN CRISIS 

A special series examining New York 
City’s fiscal crisis and its implications for 
the future of all urban areas. Produced by 
the News and Public Affairs Department. 
(Listen to Program Announcements, or 
call Folio-by-Phone, 826-1818.) 


8:30 MISCELLANY 


8:45 CONVERSATION PIECE: With 
Hugh Fordin and the Freed Unit 
In this first of three programs, host Bruce 
Kenyon talks with film historian Hugh 
Fordin about his book, The World of 
Entertainment. Featured are interviews 
with Fred Astaire, Johhny Mercer, Ralph 
Blane, and an hilarious extended anecdote 
by Kay Thompson. Part 2 will be 
broadcast October 23rd. 


9:45 MISCELLANY 


_ 10:00 ART TALK 
_ Cindy Nemser, author of Art Talk, 


will interview Diane Burko, a 
photo-realist painter of mountainscapes. 


11:00 FILMS 

This new weekly program will explore 
films as entertainment, as big business, as 
art, and finally, as the prime cultural force 
in molding the consciousness of our 
society. 


12:00 RADIO UNNAMEABLE 
Live radio with Bob Fass. 


Friday, October 10th 


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 
With Steve Post. 


9:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 


9:05 NEWS 
A rebroadcast of last night’s News. 


10:00 MORNING MUSIC 
Presented by James Irsay. 


12:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 


12:05 THE WORKPLACE 

A series on work and working people 
produced by Bonnie Bellow. (A 
rebroadcast from October 7th.) 


1:00 A PROGRAM OF SPECIAL 
INTEREST 

For details, listen to Program 

Announcements, or call Folio-by-Phone at 

826-1818. 


2:00 ECHOES IN BLACK MUSIC 

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


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4:00 UNSTUCK IN TIME 

3) More Machine smashing news from 
Neo-luddite rebels. Oregon secedes from 
the Union, establishes stone-age 
democracy. Live radio with Margot Adler. 


6:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
COMMUNITY BULLETIN BOARD 
6:05 MISCELLANY 


6:30 NEWS 
A report of the day’s events. (Rebroadcast 
tomorrow morning at 8:00.) 


7:30 LOTUS EATERS 

Romantic, Pre-Raphaelite, Symboliste, 
Decadent poets and musicians who 

produced works of exalted 

consciousness: Thomas de Quincey, Wilkie 
Collins, Berlioz, Coleridge, Baudelaire, Dante 
Gabriel Rosetti, Paganini, Oscar Wilde,... 


12:00 RADIO UNNAMEABLE 
Live radio with Bob Fass. 


Saturday, October 11th 


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


8:00 NEWS 
A rebroadcast of Friday night’s News. 


9:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 


9:05 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 


12:05 LUNCHPAIL 
Live radio with Paul Gorman. 


2:00 THE CITY IN CRISIS 

A special series examining New York 
City’s fiscal crisis and its implications for 
the future of all urban areas. (A 
rebroadcast of the October 9th program.) 


3:00 WOMEN’S STUDIES 
A discussion of the rapid rise of women as 
criminals. Produced by Viv Sutherland. 


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 
6:05 MISCELLANY 
6:30 NEWS 


A report of the day’s events. (Rebroadcast 


October 12th.) 


7:00 SALUD 
Each week on this series, we will be 
exploring the areas which affect the 


Thor Heyerdah! 


quality of life and lifestyles that are 
common to all of us. This week Essential 
Amino Acids, hosted by Richard Harris. 
“In these more than Modern Times, 
Nutrition is more than the study of what 
foods are naturally good for you.” With 
this in mind, we will be discussing who has 
done what to which foods and what you 
can do about it. 


8:00 THE READING EXPERIMENT 
Miss, MacIntosh, My Darling, by 
Marguerite Young was selected for the 
experiment because it is the longest epic 
novel exploring consciousness by an 
American woman. As in a poem, the 
novel’s imagistic style takes language to 
its extremes—with metaphors growing, 
reappearing, and transforming 
themselves, until, dream-like, the images 
take on life within the universe of the 
unconscious. 

Each Program is a reading by a 
professional actress or actor, scored with 
concrete sound effects, atonal and 
harmonic music. The effect is to make 
language exist both as meaning and as 
breath, rhythm and sound—that is, 
music. Because of the cyclical design of 
the novel, and the nature of the 
experiment, each reading is a complete 
program. Peter Zanger, technical 


director; Rob Noah Wynne, musical 
director; Charles Ruas, producer and 
director. za 
This evening: Dolores Brandon, actress, — 
reads Part I of Chapter 6, about the young 
bride wishing she were the other girl who _ 
had the whole football team. (Rebroadcast _ 
October 12th.) ; 


9:00 FREE MUSIC STORE 

A program of classical chamber music 
performed by the Boehm Quintet: Susan 
Stewart, flute; Phyllis Bohl, oboe; Don 
Stewart, clarinet; Joseph Anderer, horn; 
Richard Vrotney, bassoon. Join us in _ a 
Studio C, 359 East 62nd Street, just west 
of 1st Avenue. Broadcast live and in ; 
stereo. Produced by Ira Weitzman. 


10:00 GREAT AMERICAN WRITERS 
William Burroughs 
The Last Words of Dutch Schultz. This 
program contains frank language. Ifyou 
feel you might be offended, tune out and 
rejoin us at midnight. ; 
William Burroughs film script was 
published by Viking Press in Art Deco — 
style with period documentation. " 
Selections from the work have been 
adapted for radio by james Grauerholtz. _ 
This satire is composed of flashbacks 
through the stream of consciousness of 
gangster Dutch Schultz on his hospital — * 
deathbed. 
Narrated by William Burroughs. 
Performed by members of the Chicago — 
Project, directed by Don Sanders. — 
Technical direction by David Marx. 
Produced by Charles Ruas and Bill © 
Kortum. 


12:00 RADIO UNNAMEABLE 
Live radio with Bob Fass. : 


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


8: Pe 


Arpbresdens of la 


J. S. BACH, Cantata #49—Ich Geh Und 

Suche Mit Verlangen; The Organ Works ~ 
of J.S. BACH, part 6. Presented ay Chris — 
Whent. 


11:00 IN THE SPIRIT ie 
Varieties of religious experience. For 
details, listen to Program Announce- 
ments, or call Folio-by-Phone at 826-1818. 


12:30 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 4 
12:35 MISCELLANY , 


1:00 THE READING EXPERIMENT 
Miss MacIntosh, My Darling, by 
Marguerite Young. For details see 
October 11th 8PM listing. 


2:00 A PROGRAM OF SPECIAL 
INTEREST 

For details, listen to Program — 

Announcements or call Folio-by-Phone at - 

826-1818. oe 


3:00 FATU-HIVA 

In 1938, Thor Heyerdahl (author of 
Fatu-Hiva) and his bride exiled ats. 
themselves t Fatu-Hiva, breaking with 
their past and isolated from civilization. 
This experience was seminal in developing - 
his later theories, which led to expeditions 
on the Kon-Tiki, Aku Aku and Ra. In this © 
program, Charles Ruas and Bill Monaghan 
explore, with Mr. Heyerdahl, the “4 
implications of Heyerdahl’s experience _ 
with reference to the movement towards a 
return to nature, comparative social 
systems and the myth of the cycles of 
racial migration. 


4:00 UNSTUCK IN TIME 

4) “Neo-luddites for Nixon” take over 
Arizona. Phoenix in flames. Live radio 
with Margot Adler. 
6:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
6:05 MISCELLANY a 


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12:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 


12:05 This 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. 


2:00 ADVENTURES IN JAZZ 
Presented by Mickey Bass. 


4:00 IRSAY IN THE AFTERNOON 


October is “Shellfish Month.” Today—an 


egg sac— yes or no? Presented by James 
Irsay. 


6:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
COMMUNITY BULLETIN BOARD 


6:05 MISCELLANY 


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6:30 NEWS 
A report of the days events. (Rebroadcast 
tomorrow morning at 9:05.) 


7:30 GETTING AROUND 

_ [Formerly Callendar of Events] 
Discussions, whispers and guffaws on 
artists and the arts. Moderated and 
produced by Courtney Callender. Guest 
moderator, Andre Bishop. (Rebroadcast 
October 21st.) 


" 8:30 MISCELLANY 


8:45 A program of special interest will be 
broadcast in this time slot. For details, 
listen to Program Announcements or call 
Folio-by-Phone at 826-1818. 


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- 10:30 BILL HOWLE’S MAGGOTS 
_ Friendly competition. Spanish singers 
_ take turns singing Italian music (Caballe, 


_ de los Angeles, Berganza-Donizetti, 


_ Rossini, Puccini). 


12:00 SWAN SONG 
__ Live radio with Mickey Waldman. 


| Tuesday, October 21st 


os 


MORNING WATCH 


9:05 NEWS 
_ Arebroadceast of last night’s News. 


_ A program that asks the question: “What 


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; : 12:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 


12:05 LUNCHPAIL 


Live radio with Paul Gorman. 


2:00 [AJLTERNATE [EJNERGY 
[C]JOMMITTEE 

Lindsay Audin analyzes the energy 

transmission and distribution systems of 

cities and how urban expansion demands 

excessive energy. (A rebroadcast from 

October 19th.) 


3:00 GETTING AROUND 
[Formerly Callender of Events] 

Arts reportage. (A rebroadcast from 
October 20th.) 


4:00 JAZZ SAMPLER 

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


:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
COMMUNITY BULLETIN BOARD 
6:05 MISCELLANY 


6:30 NEWS 
A report of the day’s events. 
(Rebroadcast tomorrow morning at 9:05.) 


7:15 LABOR NEWS 

A weekly report of news and events of 
special interest to working people and the 
labor community. Produced by Bonnie 
Bellow and Philip Mattera. 


7:15 THE WORKPLACE 

A series on work and working people 
October 1975, Folio” 
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produced by Bonnie Bellow. This month 
The Workplace will focus on the problems 
confronting city workers as part of our 
special series, THE CITY IN CRISIS. 
(Rebroadcast October 24th.) 


8:30 MISCELLANY 


8:45 POETRY 

Produced by Susan Howe. For details, 
listen to Program Announcements or call 
Folio-by-Phone at 826-1818. 


9:15 GAY ALTERNATIVES 

The Ninth Street Center. Five members 
of this experimental community of gay 
men discuss the ideas they use in their 
attempts at personal psychological 
growth. Produced by Ronald Gold. 


10:15 This time 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. 


11:15 GREAT AMERICAN WRITERS: 
William Burroughs 

Junkie. This program contains frank 

language. If you think you might be 

offended, tune out and rejoin us at 

midnight. 

William Burroughs reads selections 
from Junkie originally published under a 
pseudonym, since it was the first 
autobiographical work portraying the life 
and milieu of a drug addict. A discussion 
of the book and the junkie’s world from 
which it sprang features Burroughs, Allen 
Ginsberg, and Carl Solomon. Produced by 
Charles Ruas and Bill Kortum, with 
technical direction by Peter Zanger and 
David Marx. 


12:00 WONDERS OF MUSIC 
Produced by J. D. 


Wednesday, Oct 22nd 


5:00 MORNING WATCH 
Live radio with Bill Monaghan. 


7:00 ROOM 101 
With Steve Post. 


"9:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 


9:05 NEWS 
A rebroadcast of last night’s News. 


10:00 MORNING MUSIC 

Twentieth century music complete with 
discord, anarchy, rude noises, artistic 
irresponsibility and even a little beauty. 
Presented by Jim Theobald. 


12:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 


12:05 T. C. B. MAGAZINE 

A monthly round-up of local, national, and 
international news; interviews with 
newsmakers; and an extra feature of the 
program: 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 Ronald 
Francis. 


Courtney Callendar 


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 McIsaac. 


6:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
COMMUNITY BULLETIN BOARD 
6:05 MISCELLANY 


6:30 NEWS 
A report of the day’s events. (Rebroadcast 
tomorrow at 9:05 AM.) 


7:15 WASHINGTON REPORT 

A close look at the news from the capitol. 
Produced by Pacifica’s Washington 
Bureau. (Rebroadcast October 23rd.) 


8:30 THE RADIO 


9:00 

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


10:00 JAZZ 


12:00 RADIO UNNAMEABLE 
Live radio with Bob Fass. 


Armstrong Prod. 


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Thursday, Oct 23rd 


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


7:00 ROOM 101 
With Steve Post. 


9:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 


9:05 NEWS 
A rebroadcast of last night’s News. 


10:00 MORNING MUSIC. 
Presented on tape by Mickey Waldman, 
who will probably be asleep. 


12:00 LUNCHPAIL 
Live radio with Paul Gorman. 


2:00 GRASS ROOTS OF MUSIC 
A rebroadcast from October 19th. 


3:00 WASHINGTON REPORT 
A rebroadcast from last night. 


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


6:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
COMMUNITY BULLETIN BOARD 


6:05 MISCELLANY 


6:30 NEWS 
A report of the day’s events. (Rebroadcast 
tomorrow morning at 9:05.) 


7:15 THE CITY IN CRISIS 

A special series examining New York 
City’s fiscal crisis and its implications for 
the future of all urban areas. Produced by 
the News and Public Affairs Department. 
(Rebroadcast October 25th.) 


8:30 MISCELLANY 


8:45 CONVERSATION PIECE 

Host Bruce Kenyon talks with film 
historian Hugh Fordin about the Freed 
Unit at MGM, makers of some of 
Hollywood's best film musicals. Today’s 
segment features Lena Horne, Frank 
Sinatra and Judy Garland in out-takes . 
from their films. This is the second in a 

series of three programs. Part 3 will be 

broadeast November 6th. 


9:45 MISCELLANY 


10:00 TALKING ABOUT ART 

Cindy Nemser talks with a figure from the 
art world. For details, listen to Program 
Announcements or call Folio-by-Phone at 
826-1818. 


11:00 FILMS 

This new weekly program will explore 
films as entertainment, as big business, as 
art, and finally, as the prime cultural force 
in molding the consciousness of our 
society. 


12:00 RADIO UNNAMEABLE 
Live radio with Bob Fass. 


Friday, October 24th 


5:00 A CONSORT OF EARLY MUSIC 
A program of Renaissance, Baroque and 
Medieval music designed to help you get 
out of bed. 


7:00 ROOM 101 
With Steve Post. 


9:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 


9:05 NEWS 
A rebroadcast of last night’s News. 


10:00 MORNING MUSIC 
With James Irsay. 


12:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 


12:05 THE WORKPLACE 

A series.on work and working people 
produced by Bonnie Bellow. (A 
rebroadcast from October 21st.) 


1:00 A CHORUS LINE 
The Broadway hit, A Chorus Line, is 
about the lives of dancers in the theater. 


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Ira Weitzman talks with Donna 
McKechnie and Sammy Williams, both 
from A Chorus Line, about what their lives 
are like. 


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 

7) Primitive Communists and 
Neo-Lithic-Anarcho-Syndicalists oust 
“Neanderthals for Nixon” in Arizona. 
Another Utopia. Phoenix rises from the 
ashes. Live radio with Margot Adler. 


6:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
COMMUNITY BULLETIN BOARD 


6:05 MISCELLANY 


6:30 NEWS 
A report of the day’s events. (Rebroadcast 
tomorrow at 8:00 AM.) 


7:30 BOSWELL IN LONDON 

The Grand Tour—from Newgate to St. 
James: Dr. Johnson’s Dictionary, 
Tristam Shandy, Gibbons, Pamela, J. C. 
Bach, Jonathan Wilde, W. Boyce, Fanny 
Burney on George III and G. F. Handel. 
Produced by the Music and Drama and 
Literature Departments. 


12:00 RADIO UNNAMEABLE 
Live radio with Bob Fass. 


Saturday, October 25th 


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


8:00 NEWS 
A rebroadcast of last night’s News 


9:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 


- 9:05 THE SATURDAY MORNING 
SHOW 
A mix of kids - foods - comedy - plants - 
music - poetry and other snappy talk. This - 
menth a new feature—“Kids Radio,” with 
kids and adults from the Teachers and 
Writers Collaborative at P. S. 75. 


12:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 


12:05 LUNCHPAIL 
Live radio with Paul Gorman. 


2:00 THE CITY IN CRISIS 

A special series examining New York 
City’s fiscal crisis and its implications for 
the future of all urban areas. 

(A rebroadcast from October 23rd.) 


3:00 WOMEN’S STUDIES 
Prostitution. Interview and discussion 
with Susan Maurer, chair of 
N.O.W.—N.Y.’s Ad Hoc Committee on 
the Decriminalization of Prostitution. 
Moderated by Viv Sutherland. 


4:00 LATIN MUSIC 

Sometimes live, sometimes on recording. 
The hosts of this series are Max Salazar, 

Dr. Kenneth Leo Rosa and Carlos De Jesus. 


6:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
COMMUNITY BULLETIN BOARD 


6:05 MISCELLANY 


6:30 NEWS 
A report of the day’s events. (Rebroadcast 
tomorrow morning.) 


7:00 SALUD 

Each week, we will be exploring the areas 
which affect the quality of life and 
lifestyles that are common to all of us. 

On Beating the System, we will try to help 
you to fight back against the pollution of 
your physical and psychological 
environment. Hosted by Gerry Hatch. 


8:00 THE READING EXPERIMENT 
Miss MacIntosh, My Darling by 
Marguerite Young. (For a description of 
the Reading Experiment, see the October 
11th program listing. ) Tonight, Daisy 
Aldan, poet and actress, reads part I of 
chapter 82, about the storm that destroys 
the opium paradise, thus striking the 
Opium Lady with sudden old age. 
(Rebroadcast November 2nd.) 


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9:00 FREE MUSIC STORE 

Broadcast live from Studio C. Join us at 
359 East 62nd Street, just west of 1st 
Avenue. Stay tuned for details. Produced 
by Ira Weitzman. STEREO. 


11:00 SATRUDAY NIGHT SPECIAL 
Ed Sanders, Tales of Beatnik Glory. Ed 
Sanders, leader of “The Fugs” in the 
sixties, author of The Family—about 
Charles Manson’s butchering the spirit of 


an era—now reads a selection of tales 
from his latest book, a testimony to that 
period. The reading is followed by a 
discussion with Charles Ruas. 


12:00 RADIO UNNAMEABLE 
Live radio with Bob Fass. 


Sunday, October 26th 


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


8:00 NEWS 
A rebroadcast of last night’s News. 


8:30 HERE OF A SUNDAY MORNING 
J.S. BACH: Cantata #55; Vivaldi: 
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra. 
Presented by Chris Whent. 


11:00 IN THE SPIRIT 


Varieties of religious experience. For 
details of this week's program, call 


Mr. & Mrs. Emmett Cooper 


Marguerite Young 


Folio-by-Phone at 826-1818. Produced by 
Lex Hixon. — 


12:30 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
COMMUNITY BULLETIN BOARD 
12:35 MISCELLANY 


1:00 THE READING EXPERIMENT 
A chapter from Miss MacIntosh, My 
Darling: (From October 18th.) 


2:00 A program of special interest. For 
details, listen to Program Announcements 
or call Folio-by-Phone, 826-1818. 


Joan Schwartz 


3:00 FAMILIES: A MEMOIR AND A 
CELEBRATION 

Wyatt Cooper is interviewed by Charles 
Ruas about his examination of the 
institution of the family. He contrasts 
working toward a close relationship with 
his own sons to the conflicting 
relationships with his father, which was in 
turn determined by an authoritarian 
grandfather. A mellow portrait of 
generations of a modest southern family — 
and its changing mores emerges from this 


program. 


4:00 UNSTUCK IN TIME 

8) Tim Leary released from jail as gesture 
of conciliation: Kissinger denies 
negotiating with rebels. Live radio with 
Margot Adler. 


6:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS | 
COMMUNITY BULLETIN BOARD 
6:05 MISCELLANY 4 


6:30 NEWS 
A report of the day’s events. (Rebroadca 
October 27th.) 


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7:00 RANK AND FILE MEETING 

Over the last year, rank and file workers 
in a variety of trades have been i 
increasingly outspoken about their 5 
disagreements with their employers and 
their own union leadership. This 
program will take a look at some of the 
major questions facing rank and file 
workers—what is the role of rank and file 
caucuses? Is it divisive to fight the union 
instead of the boss? How can workers 
pressure their union leadership to be 
responsive to the membership? How 


‘can radical political organizations work 


within the union structure? Rank and file 
workers and representatives of rank and 
file caucuses are invited to WBAI’s Studio __ 
“C” to participate in this meeting andlive 
discussion. Produced by Bonnie Bellow. — 

(To be rebroadcast in November.) 5 
9:00 GRASS ROOTS OF MUSIC 

Produced by Tom Whitmore. a 
(Rebroadcast October ee DY NEI 2m 


. a6) ‘Mi a 
Completing a four-part series 0 on cities, 
tonight AEC is a rebroadcast ofa prior — 
program on waste recycling in the urban 
environment. Produced by beate emt 
Audin. 


11:00 ECHOES FROM TARA 
The lyric and music of Celtic peoples. 
Produced by Bill Monaghan. 


12:00 RADIO UNNAMEABLE 
Live radio with Bob Fass. 


Monday, October a7 mn 


5:00 COUNTING SHEEP 
AKA “Take 2, and call me in the 
morning.” Live radio with Jan Albert. 


7:00 THE MORNING SHOW 
Live radio with Larry Cox. 


9:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 


9:05 NEWS F 
A rebroadcast of last night’s News. 


10:00 MORNING MUSIC 

The Laughing Cavalier Presents—A 
Light-Hearted Tribute to Johann Strauss 
the Younger. The 150th Anniversary of 
the birth of the Waltz King is ; 
appropriately observed with a collation of 
schlagobers and bon-bons from the pen of 
the master in performances by such = 
diverse artists as Moriz Rosenthal, Felix 
Weingartner, Emil Von Sauer, Elizabeth 
Schwarzkopf, Will Boskowsky and others. 


12:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS _ 


12:05 ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 
Barbara Londin talks with Cornell Capa, __ 
the famous photographer and director of 

the Institure Center of Photography. ’ 


1:05 A program of special interest. For 


details, listen to Program Announcements 
or call Folio-by-Phone at 826-1818. 


2:00 ADVENTURES IN JAZZ _ 
Presented by Mickey Bass. 


Folio, October 1975 


‘ 


4:00 IRSAY IN THE AFTERNOON 
October is “Shellfish Month.” The case 
for claw pegging. Presented by James 
Irsay. 


6:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 


COMMUNITY BULLETIN BOARD 
6:05 MISCELLANY 


6:30 NEWS 
A report of the day’sevents. Rebroadcast 
tomorrow morning at 9:05. 


7:30 GETTING AROUND 

Discussions, whispers and guffaws on 
artists and the arts. Moderated and 
produced by Courtney Callender. Guest 
moderator, Andre Bishop. (Rebroadcast 
October 28th.) 


8:30 MISCELLANY 


8:45 A program of special interest. For 
details, listen to Program Announcements 
or call Folio-by-Phone, 826-1818. 


10:30 A LOT OF NIGHT MUSIC 
A restful reason to be a kid 


__ again—lullabies and children’s songs of 


ar 7 * 
2:00 [AJLTERNATE [E]NERGY 
JOMMITTEE 


oh ke. 


4:00 JAZZ SAMPLER 
A usually free-associative, more-or-less 


every possible origin and persuasion. 
_ Produced by Sara feee 


_ 12:00 SWAN SONG 


_ Live radio with Mickey Waldman. 


_ Tuesday, October 28th 


” 5:00 MORNING WATCH 
- Live radio with Bill Monaghan. 


: 7:00 THE MORNING SHOW 
% , With Larry Cox. 


9:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 


9:05 NEWS 
rebroadcast of last night’s News. 


10:00 MORNING MUSIC 
hould know better than to take all 


LUNCH 
2 radio with Paul Gorman. 


{c 


a W Waste recycling in the urban 
environment. (A rebroadcast from 


_ October 26th.) 


3:00 GETTING AROUND 


_ (Formerly Callendar of Events) Arts 
_ reportage. (A rebroadcast from October 
27th.) 


_ historically-inclined, approximate two 


hours of recorded jazz..Presented by Bill 
f E Farrar. 


} 6:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 


COMMUNITY BULLETIN BOARD 
- 6:08 MISCELLANY 


= A report of the day’ s events. (Rebroadcast 


- tomorrow morning at 9:05.) 


15 LABOR NEWS 


_ Aweekly report of news and events of 
special interest to working people and the 


_ labor community. Produced by Bonnie 


4 ‘ Bellow and Philip Mattera. 


7:30 THE WORKPLACE 


_ Aseries on work and working people 


a ered by Bonnie Bellow. 


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eg October 31st.) 
8 730 MISCELLANY 


8:45 POETRY 

Produced by Paul Oppenheimer. For 

_ details, listen to Program Announcements 
or call Folio-by-Phone at 826-1818. 


_ 9:15 GAY ALTERNATIVES 
_ An examination of the ideas being used to 


- work out various gay life styles. Produced 


__ by Ronald Gold. 


3 October 1975, Folio 


10:15 GREAT AMERICAN WRITERS: 
William Burroughs. 
In Search of Yage: Correspondence 
between William Burroughs and Allen 
Ginsberg.) This program contains frank 
language. If you think you might be 
offended, tune out and rejoin us at 
midnight. 
William Burroughs reads a letter he wrote 
from Pasto, Colombia, in February 1953 to 
Allen Ginsberg in New York. Burroughs 
writes about his quest for the hallucinogen 
Yage; his ribald adventures in South 
America; and a bureaucratic error that 
caused him to be jailed. 
Also, Minutes to Go. William Burroughs 
reads from collages assembled in this. 
work. Followed by a discussion between 
Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg. _ 
Produced by Charles Ruas and Bill 
Kortum, with technieal direction from 
Peter Zanger and David Marx. 


12:00 REFLECTIONS 

THE BLACK COMPOSERS: Part 2. 
Tonight on reflections, Brother Herbert X 
Blyden will narrate this 2nd series on the 
Black Classical Composers. You will hear, 
for the first time, Jose Garcia, Jose 
White, David Baker and Talib Rasul 
Hakim perform their creations. Produced 
by Brother Herbert X Blyden. 


Wednesday, Oct 29th 


5:00 MORNING WATCH 
Live radio with Bill Monaghan. 


7:00 ROOM 101 
With Steve Post. 


9:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 


9:05 NEWS 
A rebroadcast of last night’s News. 


10:00 MORNING MUSIC: 

Twentieth Century music complete with 
discord, anarchy, rude noises, artistic 
irresponsibility and even a little beauty. 
Presented by Jim Theobald. 


12:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 


12:05 A TRIBUTE TO LEE WHIPPER 
Dr. Helen Armstead-Johnson, noted 
theatre historian, presents a tribute to 
Lee Whipper, the Afro-American 
character actor, who died July 26, 1975 at 
Harlem Hospital at the tender age of 98. 
Had he lived, October 29th, 1975. would 
have been his 99th birthday. The program 
will include Mr. Whipper’s own voice as he 
recalled for Dr. Johnson street calls and 
old songs, along with speeches from his 
plays and films. Produced by Dr. Helen 
Armstead-Johnson. 


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


4:00 PRAXIS 

Prax’is: 1)Practice: distinguished from 
Theory; 2) A set of examples or exercises 
3) Live radio with Paul Mclsaac. 


6:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
COMMUNITY BULLETIN BOARD 
6:05 MISCELLANY 


6:30 NEWS 
A report of the day’s events. 


7:15 INTERNATIONAL REPORT 

A series of interviews and reportage on 

major international developments, and 

the international stories that often go 

unnoticed by the press. (Rebroadcast 
October 30.) 


8:30 WIDE WORLD OF MUSIC 

The music of Tibet —Monks chanting 
sacred hymns and mantras. This program 
includes a special section where monks 
actually sing more than one note at a time. 
Presented by Marc Gold. 


9:00 A program of special interest. For 
details, listen to Program Announcements 
or call Folio-by-Phone at 826-1818. 


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


12:00 RADIO UNNAMEABLE 
Live radio with Bob Fass. 


Thursday, Oct 30th 


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


7:00 ROOM 101 
With Steve Post. 


9:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 


9:05 NEWS 
A rebroadcast of last evening’s News. 


10:00 MORNING MUSIC 

Ricardo Fioravanti presents obscure 
Italian Baroque composers: Vinci, 
Mancini, Aldovandini, Legreni, Marcello, 
Salieri, Trabaci, Della, Ciaia, Rossi, 
Durante, Graziani, Galuppi, Cambini and 
Ball’Abaco. 


12:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 


12:05 LUNCHPAIL 
Live radio with Paul Gorman. 


2:00 GRASS ROOTS.OF MUSIC 
A rebroadcast from!October 26th. 


3:00 INTERNATIONAL REPORT 
A rebroadcast from October 29th. 


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


6:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 
COMMUNITY BULLETIN BOARD 
6:05 MISCELLANY 


6:30 NEWS 
A report of the day’s events. Rebroadcast 
tomorrow morning at 9:05. 


Gerard Malanga 


7:30 THE CITY IN CRISIS 

A special series examining New York 
City’s fiscal crisis and its implications for 
the future of all urban areas. Produced by 
the News and Public Affairs Department. 
(Rebroadcast November Ist.) 


8:30 MISCELLANY 


8:45 WAR BABIES 

Improvisational theatre with War Babies. 
See “War Babies Instructions” in this 
Folio and then call 371-5200 to participate. 


9:45 MISCELLANY 


10:00 ARTS 

Some of the architects whose radical 
projects did not win the Roosevelt Island 
Housing Competition will discuss their 
plans for the site and how they differed 
from the winning entries. Produced by 
Judith Vivell. 


11:00 FILMS 

This new weekly program will explore 
films as entertainment, as big business, as 
art, and finally , as the prime cultural 
force in molding the consciousness of our 
society. Listen to Program 
Announcements or call Folio-by-Phone, 
826-1818, for details. 


12:00 RADIO UNNAMEABLE 
Live radio with Bob Fass. 


Friday, October 31st 


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. 


7:00 ROOM 101 
With Steve Post. 


9:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 


9:05 NEWS 
A rebroadcast of last night's News. 


10:00 MORNING MUSIC 
With James Irsay. 


12:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 


12:05 THE WORKPLACE 

A series on work and working people 
produced by Bonnie Bellow. This month 
The Workplace will focus on the problems 
confronting city workers as part of our 
special series, THE CITY IN CRISIS. (A 
rebroadcast from October 28th.) 


1:00 REPORT TO THE LISTENER 
With, believe it or not, Larry Josephson. — 


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 

9) Rebel forces gather in Minneapolis to 
unify their returnest philosophy. 
Members include Neolithic Conservatives, 
Primitive Communists, Anarchists and 
assorted Wiccan Sects. Live radio with 
Margot Adler. 


6:00 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 


COMMUNITY BULLETIN BOARD 
6:05 MISCELLANY 


6:30 NEWS 
A report of the day’s events. 


7:30 FROM NON-SENSE TO PHOBIA 
1)The poetry of Lewis Carroll and Edward 
Lear; 2) Arthur Machen’s the White 
People; 3) Henry James’ Turn of the 
Screw; 4) H. P. Lovecraft’s Pickman’s 
Model. Produced by the Music and Drama 
and Literature Departments. 


12:00 RADIO UNNAMEABLE 

A Halloween Special with Marion 
Weinstein. Appropriate guests and a 
Samhain ritual. 


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JAZZ 


And so we asked Bill Farrar why the 
resurgence in popularity for Jazz... 

I don’t know. Not only that, I have a 
deepening prejudice against rational 
analyses of anything as ephemeral as 
public taste. But let me summarize the 
most common explanation I’ve heard 
around town. The speculation goes like 
this: The generation whose musical tastes 
were formed in the ’60’s have become 
bored with the harmonic and rhythmic 
simplicity (and, therefore, inferiority the 
reasoning goes) of rock and folk music. 
They (the young’uns) are searching for 
something harmonically more advanced, 
with a. strong though more complex 
rhythmic pulse which is somewhat 
‘‘related’’ to what they are used to hearing 
and/or playing. 

This all sounds very neat and logical and 
probably is true to a certain extent, but I 
don’t believe it. (Though it is certain that 
for whatever reason increasing numbers of 
attentive listeners to other music have now 
begun to direct their aural energies toward 
jazz.) My doubts originate mostly from my 
aforementioned bias against neat, logical 
explanations of human phenomena and 
partly from my own feelings about people 
who listen to music. I believe there are 


essentially two audiences for music (and, I 
suspect, for all art): those for whom music 
is something peripheral, however pleasant, 
and those (a much smaller group) for whom 
music is something important enough to 
focus on, learn something about and care 
about. Jazz, because it requires more 
attention than those areas of pop music 
which deal mostly with melody and do not 
employ improvisation, is only really 
understood by the second group. And this 
crowd has never been large enough to 
support the music. When the mysterious, 
many-faced popularity demon lights on 
jazz (or blues or gospel or bluegrass or 
ragtime), all the fashion followers trot to 
the clubs and record retailers. The 
musically fashion conscious are always 
vastly more numerous than the real 
aficionados and are the only real mass 
audience, but they are fickle. The solid jazz 
fan who has some idea what he’s listening 
to sticks around. Which, on the elliptical 
path my mind usually takes, leads to WBAI 
and its recently extended jazz program- 
ming. 

My feeling is that WBAI is tapping 
Group II, the hard-core more-or-less 
knowledgeable fan. This group, which was 
formerly served by a number of 
knowledgeable, small audience, devotee- 
directed FM programs (the most notable 
example is Ed Beach’s monumental Just 
Jazz series) have been abandoned. Beach 
is forced to play a ‘‘formula’’ blend of what 
he likes balanced by what the program 


director at WRVR thinks will sell radio 


time. Beach’s Just Jazz series has been 
banished to the no-man’s land of 7 to 9 am 
on Saturday. And the other station which 
directs itself to my hypothetical Group II 
WKCR, though it has some excellent jazz 
programming by Phil Schaap and others, 
has not filled the gap. It is these people 
who will form WBAI’s new jazz 
audience—the same group who ten years 
ago listened to Martin Williams, Dan 
Morgenstern, Ira Gitler and the rest of the 
60’s jazz crowd at the end of that era’s jazz 


‘sound, they’ll be gone. 


renaissance on WBAI. Don’t get me 
wrong. I think these people deserve to be 
addressed; I'm one of them. But they are. 
not numerous enough to support anything 
of any size, and I don’t think they will be. 
As for Group I, I think the music and 
musicians should welcome their support 
and spend their money but not depend on 
them. They are not ‘‘listening’’ in the true 
sense and never were. And as soon as 
some musical equivalent of the platform 
shoe or hula hoop becomes the new hip 
—Bill Farrar 


How to listen and participate in War Babies. 


A ‘‘Who”’ is who the players are; not specifie people, like Jackie and Ari Onassis, but 
types of people, like the widow of an assassinated President and a deceased Greek — 


shipping magnate. 
A ‘‘What’”’ is what they’re doing. 


A ‘‘Where’’ is where they’re doing it. 


First Line-Last Line: Audience suggests Who, What and Where, and the first and last 


lines of the scene. 


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Changing Emotions: Emotions are suggested and collected before the scene ate ist 

Players play the scene and the emotions are called out from off-stage. Players must then _ 

ae the scene in the emotion called. (Audience also, of course, suggests Who, What and 
ere.) 


Couples—Present, Past and Future: Audience suggests Who, What and Where. Two ! 
players play a scene representing a-couple in the present. Two other players play that 
couple in the past. Two other players finally play the same couple in the future. 


Changing Theatre Styles: Various styles of entertainment; movies, T.V., legitimate 
theatre, etc., are collected and called out during the scene. Players then continue the 
scene in the style called. (Audience also suggests Who, What and Where; but you 
probably knew that.) fis 


Why and Therefore: This is the life-story of one of the players, (not the actor himself, but 
the character he will play). Audience suggests Who, What and Where, and the first scene 
takes place in the present. Players then come on and play characters in the past and 
| future of the player whose life it is. 


Object Focus: Audience suggests an object, and a place. Players come up and form a 
scene based on the object in that place. 


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=i Alix Elias, Susan Krebs, Carin Kaye, Marsha Meyers, Jed Mills, Peter Riegart, Renny 
Temple, John Welsh are War Babies. 


War Babies perform alternate Thursdays, (in October, the 2nd, 16th and 30th) from 8:45 
to 9:45 PM. To participate, call 371-5200. The program, obviously enough, is~ 
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_ After eight seasons (yes, this will be our ninth year), the WBAI Free Music Store remains one of 
the few-places left where performing artists both well-known and new can experiment and perform in 
“non-commercial, non-rip-off’’ atmosphere and where people can still hear and see exciting 
certs, for free (actually we encourage contributions—whatever you can afford. The money goes 

ight back into the program, and enables us to keep producing high quality concerts!) The Free 
Music Store will continue to take place every Thursday and Saturday at 9:00 PM (with Saturday 
soncerts broadcast live). WBAI is located in a deconsecrated, anonymous looking church at 359 East 
nd Street, just West of swinging 1st Avenue. Let this be your invitation to come to any or all of our 
certs, and when you can’t make it in person, listen to us at 99.5 FM on Saturday nights. Seating at 
Free Music Store is casual; we are currently shaping up our pillow and pew situation. (If you 
ld like to bring your own pillows, obviously please do; and if you’d like to donate same call me at 
80 during the week.) Watch for our posters all over the place! 
At press time (mid-August), the following concerts have been finalized and judging from where I 
tand, this promises to be one of our most exciting seasons: 


tinued from page 2_ 
acifica professionals,” WBAI'’s paid staff of producers, announcers, reporters, live-radio persons, 
ome of their support staff will surely disappear, whether gradually or at a stroke, to be replaced 
omever can afford to volunteer. 

Al’s income has declined every year since 1972, from an all-time high of $681,000 in 1971, to 
000 last year, to an estimated $525,000 this year. We have lost between $30,000 and $40,000 
year for the past three fiscal years alone, for a cumulative operating loss of over $150,000. 
ss the present trend is quickly reversed, we shall lose another $20,000 to $30,000 this fiscal year 
ch ends September 30, 1975). Subscriptions are down to 14,500 as of this July from 25,000 of a 
years ago. (Many subscribers have become donors in the absence of the Folio whose return 
d reverse that trend.) We have made severe and very painful staff cuts reflecting this decline. 
further cuts will make the station unrecognizable. At the same time that income and 
ptions are declining, costs in every area except staff salaries are rising dramatically: electric 
power has gone up 300 percent since 1969 to almost $4,500 per month; postage, insurance, printing, 
tonic parts and building repairs have increased over 100 percent. Salaries, by remaining 


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less, we do not even get our meager salaries. WBAI owes its staff over 
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al and ofessional tragedy in the forms of threats of eviction, cut-off phones, domestic 
sures, premature ‘‘burn-outs’’ due to overwork, not to mention programs unbegun, unfinished or 
rfinished. 
am confident that as long as there is liberal democracy in the United States there will be a 
r-sponsored WBAI in New York City. The real question is whether talented men and women 
li any longer be able to work here producing programs. I myself am wrestling with this problem for 
ons of both economics and personal morale. I have been station manager for over a year and a 
if now. I am proud of what we’ve all accomplished in that time, especially given the economic, 
ical and cultural blah’s of this era. But I am genuinely puzzled, and not a little depressed, by the 
continuing decline in station income. For the past year, programming has been very good and is 
ting better and better. In response to your letters, we reduced the chaff and increased the wheat. 


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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4: OPENING NIGHT!! MOTHER MALLARD’S PORTABLE 
MASTERPIECE COMPANY. Have we got an opening night for you! Live Electronic Music. David 
Borden, Steve Drews and Judy Borsher perform original music on FIVE MOOG SYNTHESIZERS, 
which they describe as being from the Hypnotic School. BROADCAST LIVE. 


SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11: THE BOEHM| QUINTET. A program of classical chamber music 
performed by Susan Stewart, flute; Phyllis Bohl, oboe; Don Stewart, clarinet; Joseph Anderer, horn; 
Richard Vrotney, bassoon. Works to be announced. BROADCAST LIVE. 


THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16: COMPOSER’S FORUM. The WBAI Free Music Store is pleased to be 
the new home of this series of concerts. Founded in 1935, as the first series of American 
Contemporary Music, it is one of the oldest of its kind. Each concert will present the work of two 
‘‘young’’ composers, and after the program there will be a discussion period with the composers 
moderated by a distinguished member of the music community. The composers who will be 
presented in the first three concerts of the series (Thursdays October 16, November 13, and 
December 11) will be Andrew Frank, Hubert Howe, David Gibson, Jon Gibson, Anna Lockwood, and 
Curtis Smith. Stay tuned for specifics on each of the concerts. The Composer’s Forum will begin at 
8:30 PM! 


SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18: SONGWRITERS LAUREN SHAPIRO AND BILL HORWITZ. Lauren 
Shapiro is no stranger to WBAI audiences and Bill Horwitz is probably best known to you for his song 
“If | Had A Friend Like Rosemary Woods.”’ Bill is one of the few songwriters to combine. wit and 
feeling with political thoughts and messages. BROADCAST LIVE. 


REMEMBER: The WBAI Free Music Store takes place every Thursday and Saturday evenings 

beginning at 9:00 PM (unless otherwise noted) starting on October 4. Listen for details and join us for 

concerts of ‘‘classical’’ music (Western and non-Western), jazz, popular and even unpopular. Expect 
anything (everything?) ; 

—IRA WEITZMAN 

Coordinator of the WBAI Free Music Store 


Steve Post’s recent 44-hour ‘‘The Last Nixon Show”’ was brilliant. Drama, literature, poetry, music, 
news and public affairs, live radio—all are first rate. And we have brought back the monthly Folio. 
We are giving you more and better programs than ever. But where is the money to pay for them? 
Where are your pledge payments, your renewals, your donations and gift subscriptions? Why is each 
month’s income less than that of the same month of a year ago? 

I cry not wolf. WBAI cannot go on losing money, paying starvation salaries (typically $150-$165 per 
week). Something must give—and soon—if more listeners do not subscribe, renew, or donate a little 
extra. We must have a net gain of 5,000 subscribers by the end of the year if the WBAI, as you’ve 
known it for the past 10 years, is to survive. If not, the station will be reorganized with unknown 
consequences. We will keep you informed of progress toward this essential goal. But in the final 
analysis, it’s up to you—your subscriptions and renewals, and those of your friends. (Unfortunately 
this article will reach only those who have already made a commitment to the station. It will not 
reach those who listen but do not subscribe. If you have friends who casually boast of listening to 
*BAI ‘‘for years’’ and not subscribing, please tell them to get off the stick, lest they no longer have all 
those good things to listen to. Post this article at your school, where you work, or around town; or 
send it to a friend.) Please return the coupon in this Folio with a subscription or a donation, plus 
something to help defray the cost of the ‘‘Carlin’’ fight. The station you save may be your own. 


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(1) Two of the seven FCC Commissioners (Reid and Quello) would ban such language from the air at 
all times. ‘‘Garbage is garbage,’’ said Commissioner Quello. If the courts uphold the Commission on 
‘‘Carlin,’’ Commissioner Quello may yet get his way. 

(2) The Constitutional difference, if any, between ‘‘indecency’’ and ‘‘obscenity’’ is not at all clear. 
The Carlin monologue was clearly not obscene, as it did not, under any stretch of the 
imagination—even the Commissioner’ s—appeal to the prurient interest (i.e., turn you on). Thus the 
FCC was forced to hang their hat on the nebulous concept of ‘‘indecency,’’ adding the concept of 
protection of the tender minds of children and subtracting the Roth redemption test from the classical 
formulation of indecency as mete offensiveness. 


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