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* "First Light" - Harold Budd & Brian Eno (from ''Ambient 2: The Plateaux Of Mirror'', 1980) | * "First Light" - Harold Budd & Brian Eno (from ''Ambient 2: The Plateaux Of Mirror'', 1980) | ||
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*The text from this program is re-recorded with different background music in [[Death In The Family, A|A Death in the Family.]] | *The text from this program is re-recorded with different background music in [[Death In The Family, A|A Death in the Family.]] | ||
*Portions of this material were performed live in NYC in October 2011. | *Portions of this material were performed live in NYC in October 2011. | ||
Revision as of 13:22, 2 March 2021
| Series | |
|---|---|
| Work In Progress | |
| Original Broadcast Date | |
| 1987 | |
| Cast | |
| Joe Frank | |
| Format | |
| Serious Monologue, 1 hour | |
| Preceded by: | Dear Annie |
| Followed by: | Pretender |
The development is called The Fountains...
A Pact With God is the name of a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series Work In Progress. It was originally broadcast in 1985.
Synopsis
- Joe narrates a home movie documenting a visit to his parents.
- A repeated passage: diving in the ocean, racing through country roads at night and driving into a telephone pole. Thunder as the voice of Joe's father. "He'd speak softly, if he could."
- A man Joe's parents admire suffers from a brain disease, degenerates, and is institutionalized.
- The life of Joe's mother, and her youth in Europe.
- Freddy's illness.
- Making a deal with god; jogging to prevent Freddy from having cancer.
Music
This is an incomplete record of the music in this program. If you can add more information, please do.
- "First Light" - Harold Budd & Brian Eno (from Ambient 2: The Plateaux Of Mirror, 1980)
Miscellanea
- The text from this program is re-recorded with different background music in A Death in the Family.
- Portions of this material were performed live in NYC in October 2011.
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