Program

The original radio adaptation of John Hersey's Hiroshima stars Tyne Daly, Ruby Dee, Daniel Benzali, Roscoe Lee Browne, Esther K. Chae, Michael Chinyamurindi, Tony Plana, Jeanne Sakata, Chris Toshima and John Valentine. Produced by Brian DeShazor and Mark Torres, in association with Artists United and The Feminist Majority. Adapted for radio by John Valentine.

Listen to the people's historian, Howard Zinn, and his friends during a very special night of dramatic readings from Voices of a People's History of the United States. Voices is the long-awaited primary-source companion volume to Zinn's A People's History of the United States. It features words of rebels, dissenters, and visionaries from our past -- and present.

A documentary produced by KPFK's Ruth Buell concerning popular American views about the problem of overpopulation. Includes an interview with Dr. Paul Ehrlich, author of "The Population Bomb", as well as music, readings and street interviews with the people of Los Angeles.

Kate Millett speaks about Simone de Beauvoir as a biographer (38 min.). After some blank spots in the recording, there is a question and answer session to 62 minutes. Ambient noise follows, rest of tape is blank. Likely recorded at a colloquium on Simone De Beauvoir held at The French House at Columbia University April 4-6, 1985.

Ruth Hirschman produced and narrated this biography of French singer Edith Piaf (1915 - 1963). The documentary moves from her difficult childhood in a working-class neighborhood in Paris, her rise to fame and stardom, her relationship with the boxer Marcel Cerdan, her struggle with drug addiction, and her early death at the age of 47 from liver cancer. Features clips of many of her songs.