Program

  • Vanessa Redgrave: candidate for Parliament / Paul McIsaac

    Vanessa Redgrave, campaigning for a seat in Parliament for the Worker’s Revolutionary Party (Redgrave is a Marxist and a famous actress), canvasses council housing, or low income houses, in Great Britain and is recorded doing so and defending her politics to a reporter in this program by Paul McIsaac (WBAI reporter) during his visit to…

  • Adrienne Rich, Audre Lorde, and Kate Millett

    Poetry readings by Adrienne Rich and Audre Lorde, recorded at St. Peter’s Church in New York City, March 7, 1979, and a talk by Kate Millett recorded at Judson Memorial Church, May 4th, 1979. Poems read by Rich include: 2:21–“For Julian in Nebraska”, 5:32–“The Image” (1976 trip to Crete), 13:20–“Spring 1979” (unfinished poem). Poems read…

  • Malvina Reynolds and Bill Schechner

    Malvina Reynolds, folksinger, plays her songs live in studio for Bill Schechner and audience. Songs included on this reel: The Albatross; Turn Around; Little Boxes; The New Restaurant; Tokyo Farewell (aka Goodbye Joe). Reynolds talks to Schechner between songs about her songs, her hits, and how to order them. No dates on tape box, taken…

  • Malvina Reynolds sings El Cortito

    Malvina Reynolds, folk singer, sings different cuts of her song, “El Cortito” about the short 12-inch hoe she used by Mexican field workers and allowed by California and Governor Ronald Reagan.

  • Joan Jara and Quilapayun interviewed by Kathy Jarvis

    Joan Jara, wife of Victor Jara, a Chilean folksinger who was executed during the September 11, 1973 coup d’etat that toppled Salvador Allende; and members of the folksinging group Quilapayun are interviewed by Kathy Jarvis[?]. The folk music as protest weapon is discussed and how the Chilean women have responded to the executions of their…

  • Erica Jong reads her poetry

    Erica Jong reads her poems. Included are Mother, at 2:47 Paper Cuts, at 5:14 The Evidence, at 10:13 For Marriage, at 11:47 The Sendoff. Some of these poems were published in her book of poetry “Half-Lives” in June 1973. This recording may be from that time. Contains sensitive language.

  • Marge Piercy reading her poems

    Marge Piercy, poet and novelist, reads her poems at Goddard College, Plainfield, VT and talks about poetry. She authored the novels Small Changes and Woman on the Edge of Time, and several books of poetry, including To Be of Use, and Living in the Open. Poems read: Vulture, To Be of Use, Concerning the Mathematician,…

  • Hot type / by Marjorie Lipsyte interviewed by Phyllis Kriegel

    “Hot Type” is a novel about a woman working on a newspaper in the 1960’s, struggling to get ahead but finding it very difficult. Includes discussion of early women in newspaper 1930’s, movement in 1940’s (because of war) women found jobs, but then pushed back in the 1950’s. By the 1960’s there were less women…

  • Angela Davis interviewed by Samori Marksman

    Angela Davis is interviewed by Samori Marksman, on program “Brunch”, Saturday July 19, 1980. Davis was running for Vice President of the Communist Party. Topics include Israel, Palenstine, Zionism. Some phone calls included and leader edited. Some calls are cut but Davis’ response is there.

  • Rukeyser Reading Series: Grace Paley and Allen Ginsberg interviewed by Dennis Bernstein

    Rukeyser Reading Program on the Air. Part one: [30 min.] Dennis Bernstein interviews Grace Paley about her fight against the nuclear madness in America. She talks about the big lie about civil defense and the history of struggle against the evil effects of nuclear science and what can be done. Need for renewable resource living.…