"It's a Strange and Beautiful World."

RADIO PROGRAM CATALOGUE

"Feder's radio storytelling cuts close to heart, close to edge

Ask Mike Feder to describe his live radio program Hard Work, which has aired on the Pacifica Foundation's WBAI-FM for 22 years, and he responds, "I open the microphone and I just talk. I talk about sex, death, marriage, kids, things I read in the newspaper, things I see walking around on the street. I talk about everything and anything for an hour, usually without stopping." 
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--Jon Kalish 
Current 
November 5, 2001

Advisory: These programs (all in CD format) range between 50 minutes and 70 minutes. Most of the shows were recorded on cassette tape, so the recordings vary in quality (from just OK to pretty good). Professional touches have been added so that the final CD's are as free of glitches, hiss, static, etc., as possible. 

The programs are generally in story form, with distinguishable beginnings, middles and ends. However, they may contain preambles, and after-words that have to do with movies I saw, books I read, comments on the news of the time, odd and/or interesting music of all sorts, even the occasional call from a listener. You get the picture. 

Cost per CD is $15.00, which includes Shipping&Handling. Payment is by check. 

Select the catalogue number of the story (or stories you want), print and use this form, then enclose a check for the total amount. Mail to: Mike Feder, P.O. Box 250812, New York, NY
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Note: in addition to the programs listed below, copies of more recent programs are also available. CD's are $15.00. Send check to: Mike Feder, P.O. Box 250812, New York, NY 10025-9991. Please remember to include the date of the program you are ordering and your name and address.

General Programs/Stories:

1) 01/19/81 The Fishing Trip; A trip to New Orleans and the bayou country of Louisiana to see my always far-away father. And then...rescued by Dixieland music.

2) 09/24/81 The Hospital; The summer of 1971, going crazy and being committed to Kings County Hospital—hitting the bottom and swimming up and out.

3) 10/23/81 Laurelton At Age Ten; A day in the life of boy on the fringes of New York City.

4) 04/02/82 The Psychic; Traveling into the future by way of Washington, D.C.; A glimpse into the afterlife.

5) 06/12/82 Here's Herbie!; An adolescent Hamlet takes the express train to Manhattan and encounters a better self. (*This is a short story but well worth the money.)

6) 01/14/84 The Probation Department, A weed flowers in Brooklyn; Probation Officer Mike tries to solve the case of a boy who runs away from home and discovers a few Jewish roots in the process.

7) 12/09/84 The Affair; Committing adultery in the 2nd degree. The rewards of vanity, or, the heart-chilling tale of the boy who cried "fuck."

8) 06/09/85 Rambo, War and Red-Blooded Americans; The bull in the cosmic china shop.

9) 11/01/85 Tibetan Sand Painting; Throwing everything away for fun and no profit--a tale of Buddhism in New York; Tibetan monks and the meaning of life and art.

10) 03/27/87 Cravath, Swaine and Grandparents; The apple falls pretty far from the tree. Looking for a job in corporate-land with a detour to the Lower East Side.

11) 06/16/91 Bad Debt Carried Forward; Emotional reflections on Father's Day.

12) 03/01/92 Lone Star State; Psychological revelations while traveling in the great state of Texas.

13) 02/28/93 Bombing of The World Trade Center 1993; First act in an inevitable war.

14) 11/05/98 Minnesota, The Wounds of Love; Visiting my daughter in the fall of her first year in college; the inevitable bitter-sweet experience of closeness and separation.

15) 07/23/99 Dad's Weekend, Vacationing in Maine; visiting my son's camp--fatherhood as an instrument of torture.

16) 07/30/99 John Kennedy Jr.'s Plane Crash; Mass celebrity poisoning (A.K.A. Schwarzennegger's Syndrome)--is there any cure?

17) 01/07/00 Y2K; The Great Disappointment; Comments on the end of the world; or, Another millennium, another dollar.

18) 09/08/00 Memories of Mother; One step before forgiving.

19) 03/02/01 Dead Storage; A journey into the afterlife; The old book business; buying and selling and digging through the archaeological layers of love and regret.

20) 09/07/01 Rituals and Symbols; the dissolution and disappearance of meaning; The Style Section of The New York Times--how we are spending our way to the end of civilization

21) 09/21/01 The World Trade Center Attacks; First show back after WBAI's transmitter is knocked out by the planes; What is there about The USA that inspires such hatred in the world?

22) 4/26/02 An interview with Steve Post, Radio Personality; Steve Post's personal history of radio.

23) 6/16/02 To Err is Human, To Forgive is The Job of Christianity; Comments on the necessary renovation of The Catholic Church.

24) 7/7/02 One Nation Indivisible, or One Nation Under The Thumb of The Rich; An Independence day reflection on a country that has abandoned its original aims.

25) 9/1/02 Free Speech in the United States; A marked down luxury item.

26) 9/8/02 Why Do They Hate Us? Americans, Muslims and the sham of money, power and religion.

27) 9/15/02 Yom Kippur, The Day of Atonement; Forgiving and being Forgiven...Is it possible there are some people you could never forgive? Does that include yourself?

28) 10/06/02 The Art of War; What is a Broadcaster's responsibility in time of War?

29) 11/03/02 Republicrats or Demublicans; Is there really a distinction between the two major parties?

30) 11/24/02 Turkey Explodes, Millions Killed...More at Eleven! Thanksgiving, an American perennial.

31) 12/01/02 Macdonald's Made Me Fat! Locating responsibility outside the self and other popular pastimes.

32) 12/29/02 "Dealing" With People Rather Than Relating To Them.

33) 04/06/03 CNN: Coalition Network News; How America is programmed to accept lies cheerfully.

34) 04/13/03 Whose Dictator? Our Dictator!; Private self interest vs. public professions of altruism and patriotism on the Left and Right.

35) 04/20/03 Poetry in Time of War: Three poets, Jackie Sheeler, Lawrence Joseph and Angelo Verga, read their poetry and talk about the importance of poets and poetry in a totalitarian state.

36) 8/31/03 Off To College; My son goes to college and once again I ponder the ways of separation


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