KPFK

Phone calls to Peking / Wina Sturgeon.

Freelance journalist Wina Sturgeon calls Beijing and asks to speak with Chairman Mao. She settles for the Foreign Minister, and follows the talk with an analysis of what was happening internally within China. She presents her theory that Lin Piao, Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China, was dead or deposed.

The wall (Episode 4 of 5)

In 1964, Leonard Brown and a team of volunteers created this five-part "audiomosaic" documentary series on the lives of African Americans in the ghettos of Los Angeles. This fourth part "The wall," focuses on the social barriers between Blacks and Whites in America.

Previously Tape A (25:45) and Tape B (29:15). The two were joined into one tape in 1997. This program is numbered BC0326, but would also fit in the catalog as BB5380.04, as part of the BB5380 series. Click on the series title above to access the other episodes of this series.

Educating women artists / Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro ; interviewed by Clare Spark.

Artists Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro discuss the state and direction of art produced by women. Schapiro describes her experiences visiting Chicago's feminist art class at Fresno State, and Chicago talks about the pervasiveness of sexist attitudes in the art world. The host of the program is Clare (Loeb) Spark.

Maureen McIlroy reads

Maureen McIlroy reads two short stories: "War" by Luigi Pirandello, and "Near a church" from "Let us now praise famous men" by James Agee.

The Enemy (excerpts) / by John Kafkaloff ; read by Mitchell Harding.

Reading of selections from Kafkaloff's anti-war novel. THE ENEMY / by John Kafkaloff read by Mitchell Harding. CONTENTS: Prologue -- Retreat -- The Crossing -- The Arrival -- The Children -- In fields of red poppies and sun -- The Lull -- The Singing of the truce -- The Last to fall -- Come with me to Bora Bora. RECORDED: 4 May 1970. BROADCAST: KPFK, 31 Aug. 1971.

Macbird! / by Barbara Garson ; directed by Phil Austin.

Aircheck of a live performance of MacBird!, by playwright Barbara Garson (1941 - ), directed by KPFK' Phil Austin (1941 - ), which opened that month (January 1967?) at the Village Gate in New York City. MacBird! is a 1967 satire by Barbara Garson that superimposed the transferral of power following the Kennedy assassination onto the plot of Shakespeare's Macbeth (from Wikipedia).

Man and the state : California Black Leadership Conference / Angela Davis ; introduced by Carleton Goodlet. (Episode 4 of ?)

Talk on the individual's role in government.|MAN AND THE STATE : CALIFORNIA BLACK LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE / Angela Davis| introduced by Carleton Goodlet. Address to the conference given by Professor Angela Davis. Talk on the individual's role in government. RECORDED: at Asilomar, California, 31 Jan. 1970. BROADCAST: KPFK, 20 Apr. 1970.

Lawrence Lipton on The Erotic Revolution / interviewed by Charles Hayden.

Lawrence Lipton (1898 - 1975), novelist, journalist and poet, talks with WBAI's Charlie Hayden about his book "The Erotic Revolution" (Sherbourne, 1965), the people who like it, and the people who don't.

Toby Lurie's sound sculptures

Clare (Loeb) Spark discusses experiments in aural art with poet and sound artist Toby Lurie. Lurie performs some of his pieces, including conversation poems between himself and a tape recorder, one-word poems and multi-part vocal experiments performed with Loeb and Jan Lurie, in studio. The two reels comprising this program are each self-contained.

Mary Holmes : art educator

Clare Loeb interviews Mary Holmes, art educator at University of California, Santa Cruz. The teacher discusses both the needs and objectives of art education.

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