A Pact With God

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A Pact With God[1]
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)

Interesting Facts

The text from this program is re-recorded with different background music in A Death in the Family.


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