Produced by:
KBOO
Program::
Air date:
Tue, 08/07/2012 - 11:00am to 12:00pm
Saluting the life of Gore Vidal with excerpts from recorded talks
Both Stage and Studio and Art Focus are off today.
We'll hear "From The Vault," from the Pacifica Radio Archives, a program saluting the life and work of a great American playright, author, actor and commentator Gore Vidal, who died on July 31st, 2012.
This program features an excerpt from a talk by Gore Vidal in 1966 called "The New Novel in the Age of Science," another excerpt from a talk on January 12, 1991 a few days before President George Herbert Walker Bush began operation Desert Storm, and an excerpt from the final recording of Gore Vidal in the Archives. Conducted by Pacifica Radio producer Maria Armoudian in October of 2008 just before the election of President Barack Obama over Republican Candidates John McCain and Sarah Palin.