Lessing, Doris, 1919-2013 – Pacifica Radio Archives

Pacifica Radio Archive sampler.

Collage of historically significant interviews, speeches and interviews produced from programs in the Pacifica Radio Archive. |89 cent testimonial dinner / Pat Paulsen, 1968 — Peanuts and the security blanket / Charles Schultz — Chicago 7 interview / Jerry Rubin, 1970 — Anais Nin reads her prose, 1960 — Novelist Carlos Fuentes interview, 1962 —…

August 24, 2025

Archive restoration promo / produced by Richard Mahler.

Montage of historically significant interviews, speeches and readings. Produced from materials found in the Pacifica Radio Archive.|ARCHIVE RESTORATION PROMO| Produced and narrated by Richard Mahler. – CONTENT: Montage of historically significant interviews, speeches and readings made from tapes contained within the Pacifica Radio Archives. pt.1. HUAC hearing in San Francisco/ Berkeley in 1960 pt.2. Mahler’s…

August 24, 2025

Memoirs of a survivor / by Doris Lessing ; read by Helene Rosenbluth.

A novel.

August 24, 2025

Doris Lessing interview / interviewed by Josephine Hendin.

Josephine Hendin, Current Fiction teacher at the New School for Social Research and author of “The World of Flannery O’Connor,” interviews writer Doris Lessing (1919 – 2013), who discusses her work and the life of a woman author. The discussion mostly focuses on her forthcoming collection of short stories, The Temptation of Jack Orkney. She…

August 24, 2025

The Golden Notebook / Doris Lessing ; read by Mary Roman.

Reading from Doris Lessing’s “Golden Notebook.” Read by Mary Roman.

August 24, 2025

A conversation with Doris Lessing / interviewed by Richard Keffler

Doris Lessing, the author of The Golden Notebooks and other novels, talks with free-lance writer Richard Koffler about society and writing. The program was specially recorded for Pacifica at the London studios of the BBC. RECORDED: by the BBC in London, England. BROADCAST: WBAI, 13 Oct. 1963.

August 24, 2025