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WGLT Program Guide, October, 1988

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. . October 1988 Program Guide

Public Radio from IS U Manager's Memo- October Schedule-

Another school-year well actually to present on the air. time well spent, well worth 23 October 23 October underway and another Extend that to 15 hours of it, when listeners respond- -SIDRAN ON RECORD Anabaptists Murial Spark's "First Year of My Life" Kyle Sessions , read by calendar-year nearing an end! music and multiply that by especially when the response Saturdays at 3:00 PM One's perspective on time is 7, and you get 105 hours per is complimentary. But it is !SU History Department Linda Hunt I October Tobias Wolfs "Rich Brother" read by subject to so many variable week. A bit more of a equally appreciated and 30 October Featured Guest: Jonathon Hidari circumstances. Years seem to challenge? Well, the next satisfying when we receive Boris Gudunov Kareem Abdul-Jabbar go by faster as you age. The step, of course, is to multiply constructive criticism. Let us Don Davis , 30 October end of a set project or, say, a by 52, and you can see what hear from you! 8 October !SU History Department Amy Hempill's "The Most Girl Part of school -year seems so far off; keeps several members of the By the way, your Featured Guest: Bruce Forman You" read by Kate Burton yet as you reach that end, the WGLTstaffbusy during the response the first week of this Barry Hannah's "Water Liars" read by time often seems to have year. Programming a variety month - October 3-9 (a 15 October -SELECTED SHORTS Steven Gilborn flown by. Where did the of tastes and moods, to shift by a week in the dates Featured Guests: Sonny Rollins Sundays at 6:00 PM Gordon Lisch's "Resurrection" read by Joseph Summer summer go? attract and maintain the previously announced)-is a 22 October 2 October For broadcasters, time interest of several thousand very tangible way to express Calvin Trillin's "Dinner at the Featured Guest: Wynron Marsalis Heinrich Boll's "The Man with the DeLaurentas" read by has additional significance. listeners is certainly time-con- your appreciation for all the Knives" read by Isaiah Sheffer 29 October The broadcast day is divided suming. But it can also be hours of news, information Charles Keating not only into hours but also very rewarding when you and music produced and Featured Guest: Archie Shepp S. J. Perelman's "Farewell My Lovely into minutes and even know that there are several aired by your public radio Appetizer" read by -NIGHTMUSIC-THE BLUES Harris Yul in seconds. A program may be thousand listeners and when station, WGLT. Thanks for Hosted by Marc Boon THE PAST JS PROLOGUE so many minutes or hours you hear from a few of them your continued pledges of - Moishe Nadir's "The Man Who Slept Sundays at 8:00 PM long; an announcement may every now and then! support. Sundays at 3:00 PM Through the End of the World" read by Eli Wallach 2 October be as long as a minute (just A similar scenario may Great Villains Moses Rascoe l0-11 PM 60 seconds) or as short as 10 be described for the news staff 2 October 9 October seconds. And it is amazing of WGLT and NPR as they Theodoric Ostrogoths john Rolfe Gardiner's "A Crossing" read 9 October by Paul Hecht how much information can be compile and present materials John Freed , TBA communicated in just 10 of some 35 hours of news and JSU History Department Marguerire Yourcenar's" How Wang Fo Was Saved" read by Marian Seldes 16 October seconds! information programs each 9 October 16 October Mississippi john Hurt Live l0-11 PM A block of 4 hours of week. And, once again, it is Clovis, King ofFrancs classical music or of jazz John Freed, James Stephens's "The Srory of a Good 23 October doesn't seem to be a difficult !SU History Department Dog" read by Eric Clapron 9- 11 PM Malachy McCourt challenge to prepare nor 16 October Eva Konrad's "Levkady and Other Sid 30 Ocrober john Calvin Chances" read by Roy Buchanon "Live Stock" I0-11 PM Kyle Sessions , Rochelle Oliver !SU History Department Roberr Olmsread's "How to Bury a Dog " read by Stephen Lang An Open Letter- Halloween Horrors- fromJohn Schafer, onWGLT Host of New Sounds

Dear Listeners , New Sounds also deals unfamiliar territory to music The thrilling drama that Phillips, the first news- Although New Sounds has with recordings, of course. listeners. By calling the show terrified many radio listeners person to see the been coming to you from Some of October's features New Sounds, we leave the door 50 years ago is coming to Martian invaders. National Public Radio for include new works by Lou open for ancient music that WGLT in October. A new The 50th more than two years , this Harrison , new instruments the classical tradition has version of "The War of the anniversary October is almost like a new like the Baschet Crystal (a passed by (Hildegard von Worlds" will be broadcast at production beginning for us . This bowed glass instrument Bingen or music from the 7:00 PM, Friday, October 30 will take month, NPR begins offering played by composer Michael Crusades) and such things as and rebroadcast Halloween place over a five-night-a-week service Deneuve), and private tapes 1930's electronic experi­ night at 11:00 PM on WGLT. today's media - a cool and of new and peculiar music. from composers all over the ments, or an overlooked On Halloween Eve seamless flow of information . stand at attention for the Now to some people, world . outtake from an old Miles 1938, radio listeners were Director David Ossman master of horror. this is good news. To others, One basic premise of Davis album . startled and suddenly comments, "What gives At midnight on it's just one step above New Sounds - and a com­ I guess what it boils panicked at the news that Howard Koch's script its Halloween, tune to WGLT chewing tin foil. But to pletely unoriginal thought is down to is this : New Sounds Martians were invading tremendous impact is the and hear "The Black Cat ," many, it will mean having an about to come your way - is has something for everybody; Grovers Mill, New Jersey. compression of time from an the tale of a guilt-ridden, opportunity to hear some of that the world is getting but not everybody's going to Orson Welles eventually innocent beginning to the middle-aged man driven to today's most intriguing (and smaller and smaller. New have a chance to hear it. If announced the broadcast, end of the world. Also , it's murder. The man responds to often offbeat) music for the music can be found anywhere: you haven't had the chance based on a science fiction pure radio for the ear - his mid-life crisis by killing first time. The old days when in India, Ghana, or in before , I hope you' II take story by H. G. Wells, was a timeless. " Executive his wife and his cat ... bur the "modern music" meant only Western Java. In the tradi­ advantage of it now. Just be Halloween prank. No one producer Judith Walcutt cat comes back to life to one thing (usually a style that tions of the British Isles or prepared. For anything. who heard the broadcast promises, ''An exceptional torment the evil man . some cynics call "honk­ would ever forger it. event for public radio. " Our second tale is "The the Andes. And despite often John Schaefer squeak" music) are over. trying circumstances and The entirely new This thrilling event will Pit and the Pendulum" - a Today, there's a lot of music official resistance, behind the production of "The War of be broadcast at 7:00 PM, story of horror confronting a that's accessible, enjoyable, Iron curtain. Our program on Editor's Nore: You can the Worlds" will star Jason Friday, October 30, and prisoner of the Inquisition . and still intelligently crafted . October 10 is devoted to hear New Sounds with host Robards as Princeton rebroadcast on Halloween Decending from the ceiling An important part of music made in Eastern John Schaefer weeknights at astronomer Richard Pierson , night at 11:00 PM, so lock of his cell is a swinging sword New Sounds has always been Europe: Yugoslavia, Czechos­ 9:00 PM beginning October one of a handful to survive your doors and windows and which drives him inexorably the opportunity to hear live lovakia, and Poland, 10th on 89.1 FM , WGLT. the initial Martian attack on hide under your bed, but towards an aperture in the performances in our studios including a haunting tape of Grovers Mill, New Jersey. keep your radio tuned to floor - the deep pit. and to hear the composers voice and harmonium secretly Also included in the 89.1 FM. Join us - if you dare - themselves discussing their made in a church during remake are two of National Edgar Allan Poe is back midnight, Halloween, for work . For example, on martial law. Public Radio's foremost again-but only during the two tales of terror from Edgar October 14 we'll have a rare You'll notice this show is personalities: , witching hour on Halloween Allan Poe . Just keep repeating opportunity to talk with called New Sounds, nor "New host of the award-winning night! WGLT presents two to yourself "It's only radio, it's Michel Nyman. Nyman's Music. " We make this daily interview show Fresh classic Poe stories guaranteed only radio" - or is it? opera, The Man Who Mistook distinction for a reason. Air, will play a local radio to make the hair on your neck His Wife for a Hat, caused There's a lot of great music DJ, and , anchor quite a stir when performed our there that may not be all of Saturday morning's Weekend in Philadelphia last year and that new, but it's still Edition, will play Carl in New York this year. The Gardening Journal- Car Ta/k's- Puts Down Roots on 89 .1 FM Tom and Ray Magliozzi Drive Some Hard Bargains

Mary, Mary, quite contrary, How do you find a good used "If you're like my brother, five grand , and then had it how does your garden grow? car? "Simple, " says Ray you want to spend twelve, checked out. Rack and pinion Well, if she listens to WGLT, Magliozzi . "Wait until it's thirteen hundred," laughs Ray. bad. Brakes bad . A lot of stuff it probably grows quite well, dark, go to a good neighbor More guffaws. "Used cars cost -all bad . Twenty-five thanks to the sage advice of hood , find a car you like, $7 500!" "Naw, you're crazy!" hundred dollars lacer, he was Ruth Page and TheGardening switch plates, and drive away! " declares Tom . "Used cars cost back on the street. Journal . Ray cracks up. He and $4000." ''And the guy he bought Each Friday evening at his brother Tom , co-hosts of "Yeah. And another it from was in Honolulu! He about 5:50 , Ruth Page fills the popular weekly NPR $3500 co fix chem up," says bought his ticket with the the airwaves with innovative program , are Ray, only slighcly sarcastically. five grand! " ideas for indoor and outdoor answering a fundamental Tom suggests $2500 co So is buying a used car gardening, reports on the question posed by Car Talk buy the car, and $1500 to fix still a good idea? "Yes, " says latest research on plant Assistant Producer Doug it. "If you're really cheap, you Tom firmly. "Unless you've genetics and amusing Mayer, following the weekly can gee a driveable and safe really got money. Bue if anecdotes on life in the taping of the show at used car for 4000 bucks, but you're crying to save money, garden . Each program is WBUR-FM in Boston. probably not less. " you should always buy a used researched and reviewed by It's been a good show, "When you buy from an car. It can never cost you less the horcicul ture expercs at and now both men are individual, you can tell if co buy a new car." National Gardening Associa­ turning their attention to a someone's been a car abuser. I "But," says Ray, "then tion, so you're guaranteed question from one of the mean, would you want a used you'll never know the up-to-date, accurate troops: Whither used cars? spores car from some kid who's excitement of smelling the gardening information each "I'd look in the Sunday 23 years old and probably beat new car smell, of making time you tune in The paper," says Tom . "I'd look in it into the ground?" chose payments to the bank Gardening Journal. the paper for a car sold not by Bue doesn't a dealer give every month, of fighting The]oumal'switty and a dealer, but by individuals." you a warrantee or guarantee? with the service manager over down-ro-earch host, Ruth "But you've got to be "Not always, " says Ray. "In something you chink needs Page, was editor-in-chief of prepared to spend a lot of time some states you do not get a fixing for nothing! " National Gardening magazine researching it," says Ray. "You guarantee. In some scares ''And besides! If there for seven years . A gardener can't buy a car in a weekend. " there's a law which allows aren't more people out there since her youth , Page spends Tom seems incredulous at dealers to sell cars in 'as is' buying new cars, where do all much of her free time tending Ray's suggestion, and brother condition, which means caveat chose used cars come from that her family's four gardens with Ray concedes chat the trans­ emptor. " we're suggesting people buy ?" her husband . Many of Page's action can indeed be completed "So have it checked out "Gee," replies Tom . "I family -rested techniques and in a weekend, but it's highly before you buy it. In face, have never thought of chat. " personal anecdotes make unlikely one will find the ideal your mechanic suggest a car co "So buy new! Go for it! " their way into the show. car in the first shoe. you, something he likes to says Ray. "So is chat it ? Can How much money work on and is familiar with ." we go home now?" should you pay? "Well, what's ''I'll give you an Certainly. And, one a new car cost ?" asks Tom. example," Ray says helpfully, hopes, in a good used car. "Twelve, thirteen grand? You and offers a sad tale about a From a good neighborhood . want to spend less than chat." fellow who bought a Volvo for Fresh- Air Staff Profile:- Host Terry Gross Kevin L. Conlin Asks Right Questiom

'Tm doing what I've been degree from the University of offers new In our continuing series of aced), Kevin spun country/ think it's a good show, " he doing my whole adult life, " New York. In 1973, she perspectives on well-known WGLT staff profiles, this western tunes , fielded strange remarked . "The variety of says Fresh Air host and began her radio career at personalities and issues, but month's man o' the hour is phone calls and programmed material you get from the executive producer Terry WBFO in Buffalo where she it also seeks out the off-beat. host Kevin L. the automation equipment for network is fascinating ." Gross: asking questions on hosted and produced a The producers pride them­ Conlin. the AM station. In addition , Despite the fact the the radio of just about number of arts, women's and selves in presenting guests Born and raised in he hosted the Sunday early hours limit him from anybody she thinks might public affairs programs. In who are highly regarded in McLean, Illinois, Kevin morning church program on covering events late in the have something interesting to 197 5, Gross joined WHYY - their own fields, but not attended Olympia High WMLA. It was then his day, Kevin is very happy say. "My goal is to help that FM as producer and host of familiar to general audiences. School where he was active in nickname changed to Kevin doing Morning Edition . He person tell his or her story Fresh Air, a live, daily Newcomers also have a place theatre and speech. Some of "can I get an amen?" Conlin. enjoys the daily contact with and to learn something about interview and music program. on Fresh Air. Says Terry Gross, the high points of his theatre In February '87, Kevin WGLT listeners and wants them I didn't know before. " Ten years later, Gross and "We see ourselves as scouts, career at Olympia included returned to WGLT and to his them to feel that in addition The latest addition to producer Daniel Miller tracking the really interesting playing Pappy Yokum in Li'/ first love - news reporting . to giving them the 89 .1 FM weekday launched a weekly half-hour people who haven't yet made Abner, Titus Savage in The Although working the over­ the world view, they've got afternoon lineup, Fresh Air edition of Fresh Air which was names for themselves." Curious Savage, and Oz in The night shift had been a lot of someone tight here giving offers lively interviews, distributed by National We hope you'll join the Wizard of Oz, which gave rise to fun , he preferred news them the local views. reviews and commentaries. Public Radio. incisive Terry Gross for a bit his nickname, Kevin "pay no reporting. He also wanted a In his off hours from But, without a doubt, Fresh In the past, Gross has of much-needed Fresh Air each . · attention to that man behind chance to work again with WGLT, Kevin is a local officer Air's most valuable asset is encountered a bevy of week day at 3:30 PM on the curtain" Conlin. Kevin Mike Coslow and Carol Carey, in the Society for Creative Terry Gross. Widely regarded provocative guests from the 89.1 FM , WGLT. was captain of the speech two people for whom he has a Anachronism - a medieval as one of the most perceptive worlds of music, art, team during his senior year. great deal of respect. historical society that and informed interviewers in Ii terature, theatre, film, Kevin attended Illinois Initially, Kevin worked as a recreates the Middle Ages. the broadcast business , Gross journalism and politics, State University, initially as a general assignment reporter An avid history buff, Kevin has helped Fresh Air carve out facing writer John Updike computer science major. How­ during the mid-day and acknowledges two historical a reputation for substance , and comic Emo Phillips with ever, he admitted he just didn't covered such things as events he would love to have originality and wit. equal ease. fit into the program , so he County Board meetings and covered as a reporter. First, Born in Brooklyn, New switched to speech "so I could the ISU Board of Regents . the signing of the Magna York, Gross received a bache­ communicate with people Although he enjoyed his Carta, because it changed the lor's degree and a graduate instead of machines ." Kevin work as a reporter, Kevin way we look at government explained he just naturally missed being on the air with - and the way we report it. fell into radio - and landed a regular show. In November The second event, in a series on his feet at WGLT in 1983 . '87, he got his chance. of in-depth articles, is the After 2 years of news When Carol Carey fall of the Roman Empire. reporting and part-time departed WGLT, Kevin took Ancient history aside, classical announcing , Kevin over as the local host of you'll always get the most graduated from ISU and Morning Edition . As you can up-to-the-minute news each joined the ranks ofWMLA expect, he wasn't thrilled weekday morning, thanks to AM/FM. As host of "The about getting up at 3 :00 Kevin "sleep, those little Midnight Choir" show (that's AM , but on the whole he was snatches of death-who 12 AM-6AM for the uniniti- looking forward to the job. "I needs 'em?"Conlin. WGLT Week At A Glance Thanks To Our Underwriters fm89.1 Send questions, comments, or donations co: - WGLT, 310 Media Services Building, ISU, Normal, IL 61761 (309) 438-2255 Let them know you appreciate their support ofyour public radio station . SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY

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