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Revision as of 13:46, 24 February 2021

Across The River[1]
Series
WBAI And NPR Playhouse
Original Broadcast Date
3/27/1984
Cast
Arthur Miller, Paul Mantell, Lester Nafzger, Avery Hart, Joe Frank
Format
Improv Actors, 30 minutes
Preceded by: Tour Of The City, A (Part 2)
Followed by: Bedtime Stories

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

Across The River is the name of a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series WBAI And NPR Playhouse. It was originally broadcast in 1984.

Synopsis

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.

Interesting Facts

Shares material with The Other Side (Show)

Music

  • "Kissin' Cousins" - Horace Silver (from Silver 'N Brass, 1975)

Commentary

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