Detailed Notes on Joe Frank radio shows

Various NPR / WBAI Productions

1978

• monolog - one hour

• drama - one hour
• cast: Timothy Jerome, Arthur Miller, Eric Sears & Joe Frank
• comment: just taking some calls. Never (re?)broadcast as a Joe Frank show, but available at joefrank.com

1979

• drama - one hour
• cast: Beth Dixon, Eric Sears, Arthur Miller, Bernie Mantell, Irene Wagner & Joe Frank
• comment: a remix version was produced in 1997

• drama - one hour
• cast: Annalee Jefferies, Arthur Miller, Bernie Mantell, Rosemary Foley, Eric Sears, Joe & Tim Jerome
• comment: a remix version was produced in 1996

• monolog - one hour
• music: Miles Davis, "Solea", from "Sketches of Spain"
• comment: the 'nada poem' can also be found in Ernest Hemingway's "Clean, Well-Lighted Place"

• drama - one hour
• cast: Arthur Miller, Robin Bartlette, Tim Jerome, Bernie Mantell, Irene Wagner, Eric Sears, Rosemary Foley, David St. James, Marcel Rosenblatt & Joe Frank

• drama - one hour
• cast: Tim Jerome, Beth Dixon, Arthur Miller, Lester Nafzger, Rosemary Foley, Bernie Mantell, Fran Dorn, David St. James & Joe Frank
• comment: a remix version was produced in 1997

1980

• drama - half hour
• cast: Bernie Mantell, Eric Sears, Arthur Miller, Irene Wagner, F. Murray Abraham, Christina Moore & Joe Frank

• monolog - half hour
• comment: live segments recorded at Bushido, a gallery in NYC.

1982

• drama - one hour
• cast: Joe Frank, Barbara Sohmers, Joseph Palmieri, Lester Nafzger, Irene Wagner, Tim Jerome, Leslie Katz (or Cass), David Rapkin, Rosemary Foley, Charles Potter, Arthur Miller & Brother Theodore
• music: Steve Reich, from "Music for Eighteen Musicians"

• drama - one hour
• cast: Joe Frank, Mark Hammer, F. Murray Abraham, Barbara Sohmers, Christina Moore, Tim Jerome, Arthur Miller & Jane Hunt
• music: Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Company, "Ceres Motion"; Philip Glass, "Part One" from "Music In Twelve Parts"; Mantovani, "I Will Wait For You"; and Steve Reich, from "Music for Eighteen Musicians"
• comment: contains "The Night Watchman", which concluded All Things Considered on Halloween, 1979
• audio sample: The Night Watchman.au file, 425K .wav file, 860K

1983

• drama - half hour
• cast: Paul Mantell, Robin Goodman, Arthur Miller, Annalee Jefferies, Irene Wagner, Brother Theodore, Joe Frank & Tim Jerome

• drama - half hour
• cast: Barbara Sohmers, Clark Gordon, Paul Mantell, Larry Block, Irene Wagner, Joe, Arthur Miller & Tim Jerome

• monolog - half hour

• monolog - half hour
• music: Steve Tibbetts, "Walking" from "Northern Song"

• drama - half hour
• cast: Lester Nafzger, Paul Mantell, Arthur Miller, Mark Hammer, Irene Wagner & Joe Frank

• drama - half hour
• cast: Tim Jerome, Mark Hammer, Arthur Miller, Paul Mantell, Eric Sears, Irene Wagner & Joe Frank
• music: Pat Metheny, "Are You Going With Me?"

1984

• drama - part 1 one hour, part 2 half hour
• cast: Alan Hunter, Marilyn Casky, Barbara Sohmers, Arthur Miller, Richard Bower, Tim Jerome, Mark Hammer, Joseph Palmieri, Larry Block & Joe Frank
• music: Steve Reich, from "Six Marimbas"; Harold Budd, "Flowered Knife Shadows" from "Lovely Thunder"; Brian Eno, from "On Land"; Tangerine Dream, "Remote Viewing", from "Exit"; and Popol Vuh, "Brothers of Darkness - Sons of Light" from the soundtrack of Herzog's "Nosferatu"

• drama - half hour
• cast: Arthur Miller, Paul Mantell, Lester Nafzger, Avery Hart & Joe Frank

1985

• monolog - one hour

• monolog - one hour

• monolog - one hour

• monolog - one hour

• monolog - one hour

Work In Progress

1986

• drama - one hour
• cast: Tim Jerome, Nick Aulette, Sandy Fazin, David Rapkin, Lester Nafzger, Arthur Miller & Joe Frank

• drama - one hour
• cast: Angel, Shawn, Dinah, Chantell, Lester Nafzger, Larry Massett, Scott Carrier & Joe Frank

• drama - one hour
• cast: Dennis, Doug, Danny, Bobby & Craig

• monolog - three hours
• music: Philip Glass, "Facades", from "Glassworks" and Eno/Byrne, "Qu'ran" from "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts"

• drama - one hour
• cast: Joe Frank with Lester Nafzger, Fred Coffin and Arthur Miller
• music: Eno/Byrne, "Regiment" from "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts"

• monolog - two hours
• comment: subsequently edited and broadcast as a one-hour version
• music: Gavin Bryars, from "Hommages"

• monolog - one hour
• music: Brian Eno, from "Thursday Afternoon"

• drama - one hour
• cast: Arthur Miller, Nick Aulette, Tim Jerome & Joe Frank

• monolog - one hour
• music: Jon Hassell, "Power Spot" and "Wing Melodies" from "Power Spot"

• monolog - one hour

• monolog - one hour
• music: Ry Cooder, from the soundtrack of "Paris, Texas"
• comment: also broadcast as "Rose"

• monolog - one hour
• music: Popul Vuh, "Woe Be To Khorazin" from the soundtrack of "Fitzcarraldo"

• monolog - one hour

• monolog - one hour
• music: Fred Simon, "Time and the River" from "Usually/Always" and Brian Eno, "Always Returning", from "Apollo"

• drama - one hour
• cast: Tim Jerome, Mark Hammer, Joseph Palmieri, Alan Hunter, Lester Nafzger, Annalee Jefferies, F. Murray Abraham, Arthur Miller & Joe Frank
• music: Steve Reich, from "Six Marimbas"; Gavin Bryars, from "The Sinking of the Titanic"; and Harold Budd, "Flowered Knife Shadows" from "Lovely Thunder"
• comment: continuation of A Tour of the City

1987

• drama - three hours
• cast: Barbara Sohmers, Mark Hammer, Arthur Miller, Tim Jerome, Nick Aulette, Carolyn Swift, Larry Block, Lynn, Sarah, Carmen, Thomas, Timo, Sharon, & Christa
• music: Harold Budd, "Gypsy Violin", from "Lovely Thunder"
• comment: remixed in 1997 into a one-hour Somewhere Out There show

• drama - three hours
• cast: Tim Jerome, Larry Block, Arthur Miller, Laura Esterman & Ryan Cutrona
• music: Andreas Vollenwieder, "The Stone" from "White Winds"

• drama - one hour
• cast: Tim Jerome, Arthur Miller, Nick Aulette, Larry Block, Barbara Sohmers, Steve Friedman, Denny Partridge & Joe Frank
• music: Rossini's "William Tell Overture" performed by the Portsmouth Sinfonia
• comment: a remix version was produced in 1997

• monolog - one hour
• music: Eno/Moebius/Roedelius, "Foreign Affairs", from "After The Heat" and Frank Sinatra, "All My Tomorrows", from the soundtrack of "A Hole in the Head"

• monolog - one hour
• music: Popol Vuh, "A Different World" from the soundtrack of "Cobra Verde"
• comment: a remix version was produced in 2000

• drama - one hour
• cast: Laura Esterman & Joe Frank
• music: Popol Vuh, "Brothers of Darkness - Sons of Light" from the soundtrack of Herzog's "Nosferatu" and Harvey Sachs: "What the World Needs Now"

• drama - one hour
• cast: Joe Frank, Larry Block & Ryan Cutrona
• music: Penguin Cafe Orchestra, "Rosasolis" from "Signs Of Life"

1988

• drama - one hour
• cast: Arthur Miller, Tim Jerome, Larry Block, Paul Mantell, Lester Nafzger & Joe Frank

• monolog - one hour

• drama - one hour
• cast: Tim Jerome, Tess, Arthur Miller, Richard Eisner & Joe Frank
• music: Bill Nelson, "West Deep" and "The Spirit Cannot Fail" from "Chance Encounters in the Garden of Lights"

• drama - one hour
• comment: vocalists unidentified
  (This program is so popular at KPFA they use dubs for premiums during the pledge drive.)

• drama - one hour

• drama - one hour
• cast: Evelyn, Henry Dennis and Joe Frank

• drama - one hour
• cast: Eric Sears, Arthur Miller, Avery Hart, Paul Mantell, F. Murray Abraham, Annalee Jefferies & Joe Frank
• comment: contains excerpts from Joe Frank in Concert and The Rare Recording

• drama - one hour
• cast: Fionualla Flannigan, Larry Block & Joe Frank

• monolog by Grace Zabriskie - one hour

• monolog - one hour

• monolog - one hour

1989

• drama - one hour
• cast: Lester Nafzger, Julie Renick & Joe Frank
• music: Enya, "Watermark" and "River", from "Watermark"

• drama - one hour
• cast: A. Lorey, Antony Becker & Grace Zabriskie

• monolog - one hour
• music: Country Joe McDonald, "Hold On, It's Coming"
• comment: a remix version was produced in 2001

• monolog - one hour
• music: Yello, "The Race" from "Flag"

• drama - one hour
• cast: Tim Jerome, Tess Steincolk, Arthur Miller, Larry Block, Paul Mantell & Joe Frank
• comment: essentially the same program as Building A Church

• drama- one hour
• cast: Arthur Miller, Ryan Kitrona, Tim Jerome, Julie Renick & Joe Frank
• comment: broadcast as a Somewhere Out There in 1996; a remix version was produced in 2000

• monolog - two hours
• music: Meredith Monk, "Turtle Dreams (Waltz)", from "Turtle Dreams"

1990

• drama - two hours
• cast: ?

• monolog - one hour
• music: Andreas Vollenwieder, "Flight Feet & Root Hands" from "White Winds"
• comment: a remix version was produced in 1996

• monolog - three hours
• music: Eno, Moebius & Roedelius, "Tzima N'arki" from "After The Heat"

1991

• monolog - three hours
• music: Enigma, "Principle of Lust", from "MCMXC" and David Van Tieghem,"They Drive By Night", from "Strange Cargo"

• monolog - one hour
• comment: a remix version was produced in 1999
• audio sample: Bought the Farm.au file, 365K .wav file, 360K

1992

• monolog by J. B. Allison - one hour

• monolog - one hour
• comment: vocalist unidentifed
• music: "Spanish Reggae" by The Durutti Column from "Obey The Time"

• monolog - one hour

• monolog - two hours
• comment: with Theo Mondell & Debbie Devine
• music: Thomas Newman, from the soundtrack of "The Player" and Dave Grusin, from the soundtrack of "The Bonfire of the Vanities"
• comment: a remix version was produced in 2000

• drama - two hours
• cast: Nancy Condy & Mimi Calpestory

In The Dark

1993

• drama - half hour
• cast: Joe Frank, Grace Zabriskie, Ryan Kitrona, Harvey Per & Helen Wilson

• drama - half hour
• cast: Joe Frank, Grace Zabriskie, Ryan Cutrona, Phil Procter & Alan Arbus

• drama - one hour
• cast: Joe Frank, Arthur Miller, Grace Zabriskie, Helen Wilson, Florina Federescou & Douglas Johnson

• drama - half hour
• cast: Joe Frank, Farley Ziegler, Larry Block, Arthur Miller, Grace Zabriskie, Bob Gordon, Naomi Schwarz & Mike Mallone
• music: Mark Isham's "Sextet" from the soundtrack of "Little Man Tate"

• monolog - half hour

• monolog - half hour

• drama - half hour
• cast: Joe Frank, Grace Zabriskie, Arthur Miller, Laura Esterman, Lester Nafzger, Farley Ziegler, Heidi Nordberg & Harvey Per

• drama - half hour
• cast: Joe Frank, Grace Zabriskie, Patrick Buche & Larry Block
• music: Harold Budd/Brian Eno, "The Silver Bell" from "The Pearl"

• monolog - half hour

• monolog - half hour
• music: Brian Eno, "Thursday Afternoon"

1994

• monolog - half hour

• monolog - half hour

• monolog - half hour

• drama - half hour
• cast: Joe Frank, Arthur Miller, Ryan Kitrona & Larry Block
• music: William Orbit, "Atom Dream" from "Strange Cargo 2"

• monologs - half hour
• cast: many Joe Franks

• drama - half hour
• cast: Joe Frank, Grace Zabriskie, Ryan Kitrona, Harvey Per, Carol Katz, Helen Wilson, Donna Hardy, Mark Henning & Douglas Johnson

• monolog - half hour
• music: William Orbit, "Water From a Vine Leaf" from "Strange Cargo III"

• monolog by Tim Jerome - half hour
• comment: also broadcast as "A Trip to Hawaii"

• monolog by Laura Esterman - half hour
• comment: remixed in 1997 into a one-hour Somewhere Out There show

• drama - one hour
• cast: Arthur Miller, Joe Frank & Maude Davis

• drama - one hour
• cast: Part 1 - Tim Jerome & Beth Dixon, Part 2 - Tim Jerome & Arthur Miller

• drama - 1.5 hours
• cast: Jerry Klein, Mannie Klein, Meryl
• during a KPFA fundraiser telephone interview Joe was aked who Jerry was, and what it was all about. His response was "Jerry was a man who lived in New York City. He lived in an apartment, alone and was very depressed; and what he did was record his phone conversations, with everybody, for years. and when people came over to visit at his apartment he'd record them, too. He bacame so depressed he couldn't leave his apartment. His brother Mannie (who you also hear in that show) would come to his place with food, to keep him alive; and ultimately he died, a relatively young man in his early forties, of a brain aneurysm. After he died, his brother had all these tapes, hundreds of tapes of these phone conversations and he knew that his brother Jerry had been a fan of my program and he thought 'Well, maybe Joe can use some of this material maybe he'll put it on the air.' So he sent me a excerpts ... and I found this material very compelling and decided to make a radio series based on those recordings. So what you hear in 'Jerry's World' is Jerry, who is now dead, and his brother Mannie who very much admired him... and this girlfriend earlier of Jerry and then of Mannie and now she was going out on her own, and her name was Meryl, and there was another woman involved, but these were all tapes of real conversations and real life being played out from various times in the life of a man who died rather tragically."

• drama - half hour
• vocalists unidentified

• drama - half hour
• cast: David Cross, Ryan Cutrona & Joe Frank

• drama - half hour
• cast: Grace Zabriskie & some unidentified voices
• comment: contains material first heard in A Natural Disaster

• drama - half hour
• cast: Rick Overton, Paul & Sonya Verdiya, Tucker Smallwood, Irving Gelman, David Rapkin & Joe Frank

• drama - half hour
• cast: David Cross, Bob Odenkirk, Marty Castor & Joe Frank

1995

• monolog - half hour

• monolgue by Dana Gould - half hour

• monolog - half hour

• drama - half hour
• cast: Davis Black

• monolog by Julia Sweeney - half hour

• monolog - half hour
• comment: excerpts from Iceland

• monolog - half hour
• cast: William Reinart & J. P. Fenyo

Somewhere Out There

1996

• monolog - one hour

• monolog - one hour
• music: "Isa Lei" by Ry Cooder and V. M. Bhatt from "A Meeting By The River"

• monolog - one hour

• monolog - one hour

• monolog - one hour

• monolog - one hour

• drama - one hour

• monolog - one hour
• music: "The Lower We Fly" by Outside from "The Rough And The Smooth"

• monolog - one hour
• music: "The Veldt" by Combustible Edison from "I, Swinger"

• monolog - one hour

• monolog - one hour
• music: "Freestyle Linguistique" by The Mighty Bop from "La Vague Sensorielle"

• monolog - one hour
• music: "Go Faster" by the Propellerheads from the "Dive" EP

• monolog - one hour

• monolog - one hour

• monolog - one hour

• monolog - one hour

1997

• monolog - one hour
• comment: contains retellings of material from At The Border and Case Studies

• monolog - one hour
• comment: new stuff plus retelling of private school teaching & Kim memories, first covered in Pretender

• drama - one hour
• comment: contains stuff from Works In Progress: Warheads, Across the River, Lines, etc.

• drama - one hour
• comment: contains portions of A Tour of the City, Photography, The Truth About Women, and the phone calls from No Show and Let Me Not Dream

• drama - one hour
• comment: retelling of a Dreams Of The River

• drama - one hour
• comment: contains material from Either/Or

• monolog - one hour

• monologs - one hour. First segment by Tim Jerome?, then the 'invisible man' sequence from the beginning of White Moon followed by the 'K2 climb' from Mountain Rain.

• drama - one hour
• comment: contains the "Joseph's POV" sequence from God Only Knows as well as that 'phone-preacher' business from In The Dark programs A Natural Disaster and Prayer:
  "Louder brother I can barely hear you"

• drama - one hour
• comment: contains material from at least one In the Dark show (Hotline)

• one hour
• cast: Joe Frank; Shannon, Hillary, Carol, Lester, Lisa, Yasinia, Larry, Diane, and Gustavo Estoran

• one hour
• comment: a selection of old material

• one hour
• comment: retrospective, narrated by Joe

1998

• monolog/drama - one hour or 90 minutes
• cast: Joe Frank
  comment: subjective retelling of The Queen of Puerto Rico

• drama - one hour
• cast: David Cross, Bob Odenkirk, Marty Castor & Joe Frank
• comment: just The Last Run followed by A Hearing

The Other Side

1999

• monolog - one hour

• drama - one hour
• cast: David Cross, Larry Block and Joe Frank

• drama - one hour
• cast: Joe Frank, Larry Block, ?

• monolog - one hour

• drama - one hour
• cast: Joe Frank and ?
• comment: contains Prayer material once again: "Louder Brother I can barely hear you" (like Bible Stories, only different)

• monolog - one hour
• comment: stories first heard in Nausea and Islands

• drama - one hour
• cast: Joe Frank, Larry Block

• one hour
• Joe Frank, ?
• comment: Some new stuff, later, older repeats; including that dialog with the lowered-frequency voices from Words

• one hour
• comment: Interesting new monologs by an unidentified British actor and Joe Frank, plus the tiresome old Thank You, You're Beautiful/Soulmate whining by Laura Esterman.

2000

• monolog - one hour

• drama - one hour
• cast: Larry Block, Joe Frank and Debi Mae West
• comment: pre-Karma, Larry describes troubles with Zachery

• drama - one hour
• cast: Milton Schindler, Milio Brodski, Tamar Braut, Laura Esterman, Arthur Miller, Grace Zabriskie, Larry Block, Kiei Talbot, Helen Wilson, Buddhist Teacher Jack Kornfield of Spirit Rock, and Joe Frank.

• drama - one hour
• cast: Joe Frank, Larry Block, and Jack Kornfield
• comment: pre-Karma, Joe flashes back, Larry describes the play he's doing

• drama - seven hours
• cast: Joe Frank, Larry Block, Jack Kornfield; Zachery Block (parts 3 & 4), Kristine McKenna (parts 5 & 7), Debi Mae West (part 7)

• drama - one hour
• cast: Jack Kornfield, and Joe Frank in phone dialog with Larry Block and others including Ruth Seymour and the guy having heart surgery

• drama - one hour
• cast: Joe Frank, Larry Block, Jack Kornfield, Kristine McKenna, Debi Mae West, Mike Malone
• comment: contains retelling of Pretender material, and some other segments from Work in Progress

• drama - one hour
• cast: Joe Frank, Larry Block, Jack Kornfield, Kristine McKenna, Debi Mae West

• one hour
• comment: contains a retelling of the He Hesitated "Incredible Shrinking Man" story

• drama - one hour
• cast: Joe Frank, Larry Block (offstage), Jack Kornfield, Zachery Block (offstage), Debi Mae West

• one hour
• comment: the story of Freddie covers A Pact With God territory

• drama - one hour
• cast: Joe Frank, Larry Block, and buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield

• drama - one hour
• cast: Debi Mae West, Larry Block, David Rapkin, and Joe Frank.
• Poetry by T.S. Elliot (more Karma)

• drama - one hour
• cast: Roy Eisenstein, rabi Niles Goldstien, Jack Kornfield and Joe Frank with excerpts from a speech by Kolid Mohammed

• drama - one hour
• comment: Jerry's World edited down to an hour

• one hour
• cast: Joe Frank, Larry Block, Gaines

• drama - one hour
• cast: Debi Mae West, Larry Block, Officer Joe, Maude Gains, Kelley Kidnigh

• one hour
• music: "The Virgin Suicides" (soundtrack) by Air
• cast: Joe Frank, Larry Block, Debi Mae West, Milton Schindler, and Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield
• comment: punctuated with the multiple Joes from Joe Frank's America

• one hour
• comment: first segment is the first part of The Truth About Women

2001

• drama - one hour
• cast: Joe Frank, Larry Block and Jack Kornfield

• drama - one hour
• cast: Joe Frank, Larry and Zachery Block
• comment: no relation to the In the Dark program with the same name.

• drama - one hour
• cast: Joe Frank & the dog guy, Larry and Zachery Block (more Karma)

• drama - one hour
• cast: Joe Frank, Larry Block, Jack Kornfield, Debi Mae West, Everton Sylvester
• comment - more Karma

• drama - one hour
• cast: Debi Mae West, Joe Frank, Larry Block and Kristine McKenna

• drama - one hour
• cast: Larry Block, Jack Kornfield and Joe Frank

• monolog - one hour
• comment: "selected monologs from the series" including "Love Is"

• monolog - one hour
• retelling of A Pact With God

• drama - one hour
• cast: Laura Esterman, Arthur Miller, Grace Zabriskie, Keith Talbot, Larry Block, Helen Wilson, Walica Fuller, Lester Nafzger, Farley Ziegler, Heidi Nordberg, Harvey Per, Jack Kornfied & Joe
• comment: Initial monolog from Lover Man then excerpts from Zen and Obsessions interrupted by that tiresome Thank You, You're Beautiful/Soulmate whining.

• one hour
• A lot of Let Me Not Dream and a little 'Night Watchman'

• one hour
• aka "What Do Women Want"
• cast: Joe Frank, Larry Block, Debi Mae West and Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield

• drama - one hour
• cast: Joe Frank, Larry Block, Gregory Poe and Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield

• drama - one hour
• cast: Joe Frank, Larry Block, Jack Kornfield, Debi Mae West

• drama - one hour
• cast: Joe Frank, Larry Block, Gregory Poe, David Rapkin and Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield

• drama - one hour
• cast: Joe Frank, Larry Block, Gregory Poe, David Rapkin and Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield

• drama - one hour
• cast: Joe Frank, Larry Block, Gregory Poe, David Rapkin, Victoria, Henry D, and Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield

• drama - one hour
• cast: Debi Mae West, Larry Block, Henry Dennis, Kelley Kidnigh, buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield, and Joe Frank

• one hour
• cast: Larry Block, David Rapkin, Kristine McKenna, Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield and Joe Frank

• drama - one hour
• cast: Joe Frank, Larry Block, Debi Mae West, David Rapkin and Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield

• drama - one hour
• cast: Debi Mae West, Joe Frank, Larry Block and Kristine McKenna

• drama - one hour
• comment: A Tour of the City remix

• drama - one hour
• cast: Larry Block, Zachery Block and Joe Frank
• comment: too 'profane' for broadcast

2002

• drama - one hour
• cast: Joe Frank, Larry Block (and Zachery), Michael Mallone, Kristine McKenna, Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield and Joe Frank
• comment: new intro, then excerpts from Karma (3, ?)

• drama - one hour
• cast: Larry Block, Kristine McKenna, Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield and Joe Frank
• comment: more Karmic selections

• drama - one hour
• comment: some new material, with retellings of stuff from Pretender and A Tour of the City

• drama - one hour
• comment: excerpts from The Dictator

• comment: retelling of To The Bar Life