The Rare Recording

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The Rare Recording
Series
WBAI And NPR Playhouse
Original Broadcast Date
10/15/1980
Cast
Eric Sears, Arthur Miller, Irene Wagner, Christina Moore, David Rapkin, Paul Mantell, F. Murray Abraham, Joe Frank
Format
Panel Discussion, Absurd Monologue, 30 minutes
Preceded by: Adventures Along The Spectrum
Followed by: Joe Frank In Concert

...Could you tell me about some of your early experiences, that is, when you first recognized that you did have this particular gift of extra sensory perception?"

The Rare Recording is the name of a program produced by Joe Frank in 1980.

It aired on NPR as "The Radio Experience Special: The Rare Recording".

Material from this show was used in Five Part Dissonance

Synopsis

  • A panel discussion about esp: learning esp, picking up on thoughts, an esp demonstration, psychodynamic juggling.
  • Communication throughout history, smoke signals, heliography, semaphore, alpine horns, speaking tubes.
  • "Don't make me do it"
  • More about speaking tubes
  • The rare recording of the 'Orchestral Suite in A Minor for Alpine Horns and Violins' by August Blenheim.
  • Being buried alive
  • Paul Mantell describes traveling in search of death
  • A woman moans
  • What if it's neither/nor, either/or?

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