Suicide. – Pacifica Radio Archives

Dying to be heard: the work of Ann Sexton

Dying to be heard: the work of Ann Sexton read by Karen Ludwig. Opens with a reading of the New York Times obituary for Jo Roman, an artist who chose voluntary suicide. This program is listed in the WBAI August 1979 Folio under the title “To die in order to be heard: women whose works…

August 24, 2025

The Burning brand : a defense of suicide / V. Thomas ; interviewed by Paul Vangelisti.

Discussion of suicide.

August 24, 2025

Thinking of suicide / Bernard Mayes interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson

Bernard Mayes was an ordained Episcopal priest, a volunteer radio producer at KPFA, and the founder of the first suicide prevention hotline in America, started in San Francisco in 1963. Mayes published his autobiography Escaping God’s Closet: The Revelations of a Queer Priest through the University of Virginia Press in 2001. In this program, founder…

August 24, 2025