Program

Eleanor Sully talks with Ella Leffland (born November 25, 1931), author of a recently published first novel, "Mrs. Munck." Woman author discusses her life and writing and reads the prologue to the book. Mrs. Munck (1970) was made into a film adapted, directed, and starring Diane Ladd in 1995.

Variations on themes from Virginia Woolf, read by Eleanor Sully with the musical support of diverse poets and performers. Co-produced by Eleanor Sully and Sue Blumenberg. Excerpts from "A room of one's own" by Virginia Woolf, "She wept, she railed" a poem by Stanley Kunitz, and "Fourth meditation" a poem by Theodore Roethke were read by Eleanor Sully.

Eleanor Sully talks with Ishmael Reed, author of "The Free-Lance Pallbearers" and "Yellow Back Radio Broke Down," about his own work in relation to the tradition of black writing in America. Possibly first aired during Sully's "New Writers" series on KPFA.

A panel discussion held at the Environmental Teach-in on the University of California campus in Berkeley. Panelists are Dr. Sidney Liebes, a research physicist in the genetics department of Stanford University Medical Center and director of Planned Parenthood in San Mateo; Dr. Ron Hoy, neurophysiologist and post-doctoral fellow in the U.C.

Colin Edwards interviews Miss Leila Khaled, a young Palestinian woman who has become a heroine to the whole Arab world through leading a two-man team in taking over a TWA airliner between Rome and Athens and ordering it to proceed first to Lydda, to circle over her homeland to challenge the Israelis, and then to Damascus where she blew up the entire front end.