KPFK

On not liking kitsch

Harold Rosenberg's essay "Pop Culture: Kitsch Criticism" read by Clare Loeb and "Kitsch" by Gilbert Highet read by Ruth Buell. The first reel features Loeb's reading of Rosenberg; the second reel features Buell's reading of Highet. Produced by Clare Loeb and Ruth Buell.

Wolfiana / produced by Norman Corwin ; narrated by Charles Laughton.

Laughton portrays Thomas Wolf in a radio biography. WOLFIANA / produced by Norman Corwin| narrated by Charles Laughton. BROADCAST: KPFK, 22 November 1962.

The Stranger / by Albert Camus ; produced by William Wintersole.

Adaptation of Camus' drama for radio. Self contained.

A mersey killing

An experimental radio production edited and narrated by Mitchell Harding, featuring two high school students at Birmingham High School in Van Nuys, CA.

Lone heart mountain

A reading of Lone Heart Mountain (Los Angeles, 1972), an autobiographical account by American artist Estelle Peck Ishigo (1899 - 1990) of her experience in the Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Wyoming during WWII.

Freedom summer in Los Angeles (Part 1 of 2)

An audio mosaic of people and sounds which tells the events of the integration struggles of the summer of 1963 in Los Angeles. It represents the four areas of concern as they are met locally by Negro leaders: housing, education, employment and police practices.

Women's liberation: women in prison

Discussion of the life and conditions in women's correctional facilities, through the reading of letters, interviews and poetry by women in prison. The letters offer a glimpse of the brutality women face in prison, and also how jails reinforce the racism and sexism found in larger society.

Shirley Williams of the Angela Davis Defense Committee / interviewed by Dorothy Healey.

Shirley Williams speaks about the arrest and imprisonment of Angela Davis.|SHIRLEY WILLIAMS OF THE ANGELA DAVIS DEFENSE COMMITTEE / interviewed by Dorothy Healey. - Shirley Williams speaks about the arrest and imprisonment of Angela Davis. - BROADCAST: KFPK, 2 Dec. 1970.

Margaret Mead talks about the generation gap

Anthropologist Margaret Mead speaking on March 15, 1971 at University of Southern California about the current generation gap and the need for commitment in the post-college generation.

Women in the revolution

Gloria Roberts, a Black woman and mother of two children; Winki Takahashi, teacher and native Californian of Japanese and Irish ancestry; and Suad Cano, an Arabian woman married to a Chicano man and who lives in the barrio, discuss the dramatic changes in women's social status. Moderated by Dorothy Gilden.

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