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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 10025
If
you want more info on ordering or want to contact Mike, just click
here.
Note: in addition to the programs listed below, copies of more recent programs are also available. CD's are $15.00 and Cassette Tapes are $10.00. 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) 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.)
4) 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.
5) 10/01/84 Hurricane Gloria; the Big Blow of 1984 (in which Jesus makes
a personal appearance)! The authorities predict disaster but they lie again!
How Sixties basic training comes the aid of a family and a company in dire
need.
6) 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."
7) 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.
8) 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.
9) 06/16/91 Bad Debt Carried Forward; Emotional Reflections on Father's
Day.
10) 07/30/99 John Kennedy Jr.'s Plane Crash; media, culture and celebrity
in the USA. Mass celebrity poisoning-is there any cure?
11) 01/07/00 Y2K; The Great Disappointment; Comments on the end of the
world, or- Another millennium, another dollar.
12) 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.
13) 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?
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