Program

Natural sound workshop (Episode 30 of 33)

Performance by the Natural Sound Workshop, under the direction of Kirk Nurock, of experimental musical improvisations at WBAI's Free Music Store on January 10, 1973.

György Sebők (Episode 20 of 33)

An evening of solo piano music performed by György Sebők at WBAI's Free Music Store on March 22, 1972. The program included French suite in B minor by Johann Sebastian Bach; Sonata in D major by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Third mephisto waltz by Franz Liszt; and Variations and fugue on a theme by Handel by Johannes Brahms.

Suicide note from a cockroach in a low-income housing project and other poems (Episode 7 of 33)

Pedro Pietri (1944-2004), co-founder of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe in New York City, reads selections from his work at WBAI's Free Music Store, March 1972. The evening was organized by the Young Lords Party, the Puerto Rican activist group with which Pietri was affiliated.

Plea bargaining: a cop-out on justice? / produced by Sheila McAleenan

Assessment of the impact of plea bargaining on the American criminal justice system. Box notes: Plea bargaining is a shortcut to justice that settles nearly 90% of the criminal prosecutions in the United States. It works this way: the accused agrees to plead guilty, and in return, the prosecutor agrees to lower the charge he faces-- often to an extent which will bring a suspended sentence.

Yes, my darling daughter.

A teenage feminist consciousness-raising group, composed largely of students from Los Angeles' University High School, talk about repression in schools, attitudes toward sex, and the relevance of the women's liberation movement. Includes live audience participation. Hosted and produced by Barbara Spark. Contains sensitive material.

Star Trek convention / reported by Bonnie Anderson.

A report on the first Star Trek Convention held January 21-23, 1972 at the Statler Hilton in New York. Included in the program are excerpts of speeches by Isaac Asimov, science fiction writer, and Gene Roddenberry, the producer of the Star Trek TV series; interviews with the organizers of the convention; and fans of the series. Produced for WBAI by Bonnie Anderson.

Sexual slavery : alternative visions

Antoinette Bower presents a dramatic reading of differing approaches to woman's role in society from such diverse standpoints as an Italian contessa and Germaine Greer. Produced by Everett Frost. Contains sensitive language.

Women in consumer advocacy

Consumer activist Ida Honorof discusses survival on a polluted planet with Dr. Ruth Harmer, author of "Unfit for Human Consumption," and Dr. Charlotte Taylor, UCLA Biochemist. Conversations centers mostly around the food industry, food quality, and growing one's own food. Produced by Ida Honorof.

Laying down the tower / Marge Piercy.

Poet, novelist and activist Marge Piercy (1936 - ) reads her eleven-poem sequence Laying Down the Tower, a radical meditation on the ancient symbols of the tarot deck - a political reading for the overturning of a repressed society. No intro or outro, and sound mostly audible in left channel only.

Her Raven Tresses

Examination of the symbolism, mystique, sensuality, myth, and metaphor of hair in our society. Written, produced and directed by Deena Metzger. Deena Metzger talks with Dr. Barbara Meyerhoff, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Southern California.

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