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== Interesting Facts ==
== Interesting Facts ==
Shares material with [[Other Side, The (Show)|The Other Side]]  
Shares material with [[The Other Side (Show)]]
 
 


== Commentary ==
== Commentary ==

Revision as of 10:32, 29 February 2020

Across The River[1]
Series
WBAI and NPR Playhouse
Original Broadcast Date
1984
Cast
Arthur Miller, Paul Mantell, Lester Nafzger, Avery Hart, Joe Frank
Format
Improv Actors, 30 minutes
Preceded by: A Tour Of The City (Part 2)
Followed by: Dreams Of The River

"About ten, fifteen years ago there was a great scare that strontium ninety was going to cause cancer..."

"Across The River" is the name of a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series WBAI and NPR Playhouse. It was originally broadcast in 1984.


Synopsis

A bad folk singer sings about strontium, owning the sun. Men at a table discuss Strontium-91, the positive aspects of radioactive materials. A nightclub MC talks about living forever, his agent, a blind man and a cripple, etc. Panel discussion on alternative power sources: sports, human waste. A list of sound effects against a woman humming. Panel discussion: the benefits of radiation. Monologue: The trees are hung with objects. . . "on the other side" . . . "the wind does not feel the wind." Panel discussion: cancer as pure growth, progress; treadmills powering an apartment building. MC asks the time.


Interesting Facts

Shares material with The Other Side (Show)

Commentary

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External Links

WBAI And NPR Playhouse

Across The River | Adventures Along The Spectrum | An American Hero Workshop | Arena | Bedtime Stories | A Call In The Night | The Death Of Trotsky | The Decline Of Spengler | The Eighty Yard Run | The End | Jewish Blues | Joe Frank In Concert | Laughing Back - A Movie For Radio | Lies | Pilot | The Queen Of Puerto Rico (Show) | Questions | The Rare Recording | Sales | Summer Notes | Till You're Gone | A Tour Of The City (Part 1) | A Tour Of The City (Part 2) | Warheads | White Elephants