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* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Pretender "The Great Pretender"] - unknown karaoke version | * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Pretender "The Great Pretender"] - unknown karaoke version | ||
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Revision as of 15:29, 26 March 2021
Series | |
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Work In Progress | |
Original Broadcast Date | |
1986 | |
Cast | |
Joe Frank | |
Format | |
Serious Monologue, Narrative Monologue, 1 hour | |
Preceded by: | Rain |
Followed by: | Talking About Love |
Ok, here I am, four years old, sitting on the handlebars of our lawnmower.
Pretender is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series Work In Progress. It was originally broadcast in 1986.
Synopsis
Joe narrates a slide show of his life. He describes having an affair with fellow teachers: a woman with scars on her face who later marries a rich man, a woman who has her teeth capped, a half deaf hypochondriac librarian for whom he later pretends to be obese, an overweight woman who goes to gyms. "History is other people," and ending up "only a teacher." The fictionalized story of Marmouth, illegitimate son of the king and pretender to the throne of England, who lead a failed revolution in 1685. The story is interspersed by the song "the great pretender." Slide show includes women in nude magazines. Woman speaks a brief second person monologue to her lover. Sounds of battle.
Music
- "The Great Pretender" - unknown karaoke version