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

'''Across The River''' is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[WBAI And NPR Playhouse]]. It was originally broadcast in [[:Category:1984|1984]].

== Synopsis ==
A panel discusses the dangers of strontium-90 and -91 fallout over the
sounds of a crowd and a folk singer with a guitar singing badly.

3:00: Joe comes on as an energetic MC, backed by Horace Silver's
<i>Kissin' cousins</i>, talks nonsense, closes the show.

8:10: Panel discusses alternative forms of energy, such as
playing football games on treadmills, other sports to capture the
energy of.

10: Guy announces sound effects, numbered (gun shots,
breaking glass...)<ref> Sounds like a sound-effects album </ref>

12: Panel discusses new energy bar and nuclear energy.

14:40: Joe talks nonsense, 'The trees are hung with women's braids,
children's shoes, telescopes, and violins.  There are reindeer in the
windows of steaming Chinese laundries...'

16:00: Panel discusses nuclear radiation to create mutants,
other uses of nuclear energy.

22:10: Joe the MC is back, yells at the audience for trying to leave.
He pleads to be told the time.

23:10: A guy on the panel ([[Lester Nafzger]]?  He mentions Woodstock)
claims that there are 50 million fewer people in the country since the
invention of nuclear energy, ascribes the decrease to it.  They
discuss more alternative forms of energy.


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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.
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== Music ==
{{Kissin' Cousins (Horace Silver)}} [3:18]
{{Lantern Marsh (Brian Eno)}} [12:23]

== Shared material ==
* [[The Other Side (Show)]]

== Miscellanea ==
* Joe re-used almost all (possibly all) of this show, in pieces, in [[The Other Side (Show)|The Other Side (Show)]]

== Additional credits ==
The original broadcast credits state: "[M]ixed by Jim Anderson. The performers were [[Arthur Miller]], [[Paul Mantell]], [[Lester Nafzger]], [[Avery Hart]], and Joe Frank."

== Footnotes ==

[[Category:Improv_Actors]]
[[Category:Panel_Discussion]]
[[Category:Absurd_Monologue]]
[[Category:Arthur Miller]]
[[Category:Paul Mantell]]
[[Category:Lester Nafzger]]
[[Category:Avery Hart]]
[[Category:1984]][[Category:Show]]
[[Category:Show_by_date|19840327]]	{{Airdate|airdate=1984-03-27}}
[[Category:WBAI And NPR Playhouse]]
{{Series|series=WBAI And NPR Playhouse}}{{Cast|cast=[[Arthur Miller]], [[Paul Mantell]], [[Lester Nafzger]], [[Avery Hart]], Joe Frank}}