HEAT with John Hockenberry
Exclusively on PRX
Right on time in 2007!
Talk, music and performance thrive on these hour-long programs from the legendary HEAT archives. Ten newly packaged hours offer listeners a chance for the left and right brain to unwind together. HEAT's WGBH pilots won a CPB Gold Award for Best Performance Program. The 1990 series on NPR received a George Foster Peabody award. HEAT's producers, including RJ Cutler, Ira Glass, Joe Richman, Marika Partridge, Eileen Delahuntyand Steve Rathe, and host John Hockenberry, helped break new ground for public radio and provided a creative spark to its sound.
Now, with support from the PRX Reversioning Project and collaboration with WNYC and KQED, Murray Street Productions offers ten hours of HEAT on PRX.
These carefully curated programs bring guests, performances and ideas that are still relevant and affecting. John Hockenberry's new comments and observations make them fresh and resonant.
Check out:>> The Doctor Is In: When the other late night news programs covered the Summit, we called the doctors: Piano man and composer Dr. John and the great hit songwriter (the late) Doc Pomus.
>> Visions of Armageddon: With music to build your fallout shelter by -- a HEAT scrapbook of the Apocalypse: John Hockenberry in space, at Harvard, theologian Harvey Cox, in New York actor David Warrilow, in Colorado USAF (NORAD) Col. Jim Moore and Eleanor Shrflin from Elizabeth Claire Proffitt's Church Universal and Triumphant.
>> Stories We Can Tell: John hosts singer songwriter Luka Bloom and the master storyteller Mike Feder. Lynda Barry tells us about the great Lesbian scare.
>> The Contenders: Singer Billy Bragg is a soccor partisan, writer Joyce Carol Oates squares off with boxer George Foreman, and the late performer Spalding Gray uncovers John Hockenberry
>> The Beginning of the End: John hosts political comedian Jimmy Tingle, South African singer and songwriter Johnny Clegg and actress Lisa Fugard just before Nelson' Mandala's release from prison.
Stay tuned for:
>> A long sweet visit with Bluesman Mose Allison and his daughter- musician and singer Amy Allison.
>> Valentines Day: Chance encounters of love, singer Nora York, talking blues from Verta Mae Grosvenor, and Raymond Carver's "What we Talk About When we Talk About Love"
>> George Carlin - the boundry breaking comedian joins John to chew on language, media and culture.
>> Families: can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em -- The Simpson's creator Matt and his father Homer Groening, storyteller Mike Feder, the singing and traveling Robinson family, the sisters of "Betty" and Lynda Barry's family on "Summer Vacation" - plus ever sardonic HEAT regular Harry Shearer.
Extras and promos:
>> John Hockenberry's bio on MSNBC
>> More coming. Check back soon!
Support services and contacts:
>> Listener Inquiries/Comments: HEAT, 69 Murray Street, New York, NY 10007
>> Email: angela@murraystreet.com
>> Station Inquiries: Contact Angela Huffstutler. Email or call 1-800-793-1MSE
>> Programming Information: 212-619-1475
>> Tapes/Transcripts: 212-619-1475
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