Action Speaks! takes on: Conflict and Amusement in America
This year Action Speaks! examines how the border between conflict and amusement is disappearing and what it portends for good TV…are we all embedded?
The popular Action Speaks! series of specials returns in October with four one-hour programs looking at contemporary issues by using underappreciated dates of the twentieth-century that changed America.
Host Marc Levitt assembles a panel of scholars, artists, practitioners, and government officials, and adds archived sound and audience participation to create Public Radio’s most lively and entertaining discussions.
2011 topics:
1961 – President Eisenhower’s Military Industrial Complex Speech
1972 – The Birth of Pong and Video Games
1971 – The American Family; Our First Reality TV Show
1981 – President Reagan Fires Air Traffic Controllers
Make sure to stop by our booth at the PRPD Conference in the Exhibition Area!
BIRDNOTE — Daily vignettes that incorporate the rich sounds of birds with stories that illustrate the interesting and in some cases, truly amazing abilities of birds. Each show is scheduled to coincide with the time of year when you can see or hear the featured bird.
LENGTH: 2 minutes
COST: FREE
Make sure to stop by our booth at the PRPD Conference in the Exhibition Area!
Meet Jim O’Connor, the producer of the new, hit module, Sound Beat.
SOUND BEAT – A trip through the history of recorded sound. The daily, 90-second radio show highlights the holdings of the Belfer Audio Archive at Syracuse University, one of the largest sound archives in the United States. Each episode focuses on one particular recording from the archive and provides a back story detailing its place in recording history.
LENGTH: 90 seconds
COST: FREE
Calista Flockhart, star of the LA Theatre Works production of A Doll House, talked to KPCC’s Steve Julian about the launch of LA Theatre Works new season.
Starring; Calista Flockhart, Tim DeKay, Gregory Itzin and JoBeth Williams.
Nora Helmer has everything a young housewife could want: beautiful children, an adoring husband, a bright future. But when a carelessly buried secret rises from the past, Nora’s well-calibrated domestic ideal starts to crumble. Ibsen’s masterpiece is as fresh today as it was when it first stormed the stages of 19th-century Europe. Featuring: Calista Flockhart and JoBeth Williams Please Note: Although popularly known as “The Doll’s House”, translator Rolf Fjelde felt that the non-possessive use of “doll” was more in-line with Ibsen’s original intention for the title.
This year Action Speaks! examines how the border between conflict and amusement is disappearing and what it portends for good TV…are we all embedded?
2011 topics:
