American Women — Authors and journalists
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Women in films / Marjorie Rosen ; interviewed by Jena Blumenfield.
Jena Blumenfield speaks with feminist film critic Marjorie Rosen, author of “Popcorn Venus: women, movies and the American Dream” (New York: McCann and Geoghegan, 1973). They discuss the role of women in the film industry, how most women’s dialogue was scripted to be witty in the early days of talkies, how women’s roles in the…
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Literary censorship in Iran, Korea and Ghana / Muriel Rukeyser ; interviewed by Anne Fremantle. (Episode 1)
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Penelope Gilliatt interviewed by Anne Fremantle (Episode 5 of 5)
Anne Fremantle interviews Penelope Gilliatt (1932 – 1993) — film critic for the New Yorker, fiction writer, and screenwriter about her work and career. She talks about her recently published book on Jean Renoir, and how she manages to be both creative and a critic. Produced by WBAI’s Drama and Literature Department under the auspices…
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The Book of hags / by Deena Metzger ; adapted and directed by Everett Frost.
A novel-in-progress by Deena Metzger dramatized for radio by Everett Frost. The work is a feminist testament to the attempt by women to join inner to outer experience so as to overcome a world conditioned by murder, rape, death, cancer and madness. The drama focuses on four women – Diana, the writer; Arda, the witness;…
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Theo Wilson ; interviewed by Danice Bordett. (Episode 6 of 6)
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Gail Sheehy / interviewed by Danice Bordett. (Episode 5 of 6)
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The Diary of Alice James / read by Eleanor Sully ; introduced by Erik Bauersfeld.
Three readings of the diary of Alice James, the invalid sister of author Henry James and psychologist William James. She kept her journals from the year 1889 until a few days before her death in 1892. The journals tell the story of a woman struggling against life during the Victorian Era, and the experience of…
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The History of England / Jane Austen ; read by Penelope Dellaporta.
Penelope Dellaporta reads Jane Austen’s “The history of England from the reign of Henry IV to the death of Charles I” (1791). Written when she was fifteen, Austen characterized the work as written “by a partial, prejudiced and ignorant Historian,” and “N.B.: There will be very few dates in this history.”
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The Three Marias: New Portuguese Letters / by Maria Isabel Barreno, Maria Theresa Horta, and Maria Fatima Velho Da Costa ; directed by Rena Down. (Part 2 only)
Reading of the book “The Three Marias: New Portuguese Letters.” The book is a collection of letters written by three Portuguese women authors about their lives, relationships, and about being women, which exposed the oppression of women in Portugal. Their work was seized by the government and banned, and the authors arrested. The part of…
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Sweetest smelling baby in New Orleans / Lillian Hellman ; interviewed by Jan Albert.
A documentary about the life and work of playwright and author Lillian Hellman (1905 – 1984). Includes an interview with Hellman by WBAI’s Jan Albert, readings from Hellman’s memoirs, Hellman speaking before a live audience (venue not identified) and snippets of dialogue from the film versions of Hellman’s plays The Little Foxes and The Children’s…