Program

Eleanor Sully interviews Leslie Perry, Black playwright and director, about his commitment to changing the order of things - not only in the theatre; but as Mr. Perry indicates, since theatre is his thing, he's trying to make it "a relevant theatre of NOW." Perry discusses his production of "The Mock Trial Of Huey Newton" in Berkeley, and certain reactions to it.

A reminiscence by Thomas Wentworth Higginson from The Atlantic Monthly for October 1891, recalling his correspondence with Miss Dickinson and her first poems. Samuel Charters reads Higginson's words. Dubbed from a Folkways recording FL-9753. Also broadcast on KPFK 1972-02-22 4PM.

Examination of New York's liberal abortion laws which went into effect on July 1, 1970. This program asks whether women are better off now under the new laws, whether poor people can now get abortions in public facilities, and what health institutions are doing to prepare for the results of the new law.

Series record for series on New York City hospitals, evaluating the affiliation program between municipal and voluntary hospitals and abuses in the system.

French novelist and dramatist Nathalie Sarraute (1900 - 1999) discusses her work and her literary ideology in a talk given at the Poetry Center of the YM-YWHA in New York City. Sarraute talks about the "nouveau roman" (New Novel) school of literature to which she belongs, which called for novelists to search for new narrative structures in their work.