Gevins, Adi.

  • Bill of Rights week: internment (Episode 6 of 6)

    This is the sixth and final episode in the Bill of Rights Week series, derived from PZ0047 Bill of Rights Radio Education Project. The topic of this episode is internment, focusing on the internment of Americans of Japanese descent. Voices heard on this episode include Ed Ennis and Boris T. Pash. Executive producer is Adi…

  • Bill of Rights radio education project: bicentennial edition

    This is a series of thirteen half-hour programs re-examining the Amendments to the Constitution of the United States of America that are explored in the award-winning series PZ0047 Bill of Rights Radio Education Project. The Bicentennial edition of the Bill of Rights Radio Education Project is produced by Adi Gevins, and the series is a…

  • Turn on turn in cop out : the real dope on Leary? / produced by Adi Gevins and Kris Welch.

    Discussion of the actions of Timothy Leary by Allen Ginsberg, Jerry Rubin, Eldridge Cleaver, Ken Kesey, Wavy Gravy, Baba Ram Dass and Michael Horowitz.|TURN ON TURN IN COP OUT: THE REAL DOPE ON LEARY? / produced by Adi Gevins and Kris Welch. – Is LSD prophet Dr. Leary turning in his friends to a federal…

  • One billion seconds later: the social history of LSD-25 (Part 1 of 2)

    This is the first half of a documentary on the hallucinogenic drug LSD, from its discovery at Sandoz Laboratories in 1943, through the halls of academe, to Golden Gate Park and beyond, told with the help of Michael Horowitz, director of the Fitz Hugh Ludlow Memorial Library. Albert Hofmann, Timothy Leary, Baba Ram Dass (Richard…

  • One billion seconds later: the social history of LSD-25 (Part 2 of 2)

    The second half of the documentary on the history and uses of Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD). Voices heard in this documentary include Albert Hofmann, Timothy Leary, Baba Ram Dass (Richard Alpert), Ken Kesey, John Lilly, Frederick Meyers, and Huston Smith. Produced by Adi Gevins; engineering by Stan Johnston, Lois Hanson, Andres Alegria; historical narrative written…

  • Bill of Rights week

    This is a series of 15-minute versions of some of the PZ0047 Bill of Rights radio education project episodes, executive produced by Adi Gevins. The Bill of Rights radio education project was sponsored by the Pacifica Foundation and the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, with major funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities. These…

  • Take back the night / reported by Adi Gevins.

    Report by Adi Gevins of KPFA of the first Take Back the Night march in San Francisco on November 4, 1978. Three thousand women marched along Broadway as part of the Women Against Violence in Pornography and the Media conference. Features interviews with people on the street, as well as excerpts of speeches by artist…

  • The Voices inside your head / produced by Adi Gevins and John Hockenberry.

    Unusual documentary which examines new ways in which people are understanding how humans think. In this program the listener is taken on a trip inside an electroencephlography research lab. The program also includes comments by the philosophers Hubert Dreyfus and John Scarlic, sociolinguist Noam Chomsky, and neurophysiologists E. Roy John and Karl Pribam.|THE VOICES INSIDE…

  • A case of artificial intelligence / produced by Adi Gevins and John Hockenberry (Episode 2 of 2)

    Unusual documentary which examines new ways in which people are understanding how humans think. In this program Adi Gevins plays a made dabbler-in-science, Hockenberry portrays her Pinnochio-like robot, Zack. Also features Marvin Minsky, head of MIT’s artificial intelligence laboratory, Stewart Brand, Terry Sejnowsky, inventor of a talking neuron network computer, and philosopher Patricia Churchland.|A CASE…

  • Public libraries and the first amendment (Episode 13 of 13)

    This is the last in a series of 13 episodes. This program contains interviews and debates with attorneys, writers, and academics which convey the controversy over the question of censorship and public libraries. Sponsored by the Pacifica Foundation and the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, with funding from the Deer Creek Foundation, St. Louis, Missouri;…