HEAT -- The Contenders
Series: HEAT with JOHN HOCKENBERRY
From: Murray Street Productions
Length: 00:58:27
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Piece Description
HEAT -- WITH JOHN HOCKENBERRY Highlights from the groundbreaking 1990 series. License now and receive an ORIGINAL HEAT T-SHIRT, signed by John Hockenberry. Supplies are limited! More info at http://prx.org/articles/991 IN THIS HOUR: Singer Billy Bragg, soccer partisan and socialist, has to rewrite "The Internationale" after the Velvet Revolution. Writer Joyce Carol Oates squares off with articulate boxer George Foreman and the late writer/performer Spalding Gray excavates John Hockenberry. Funny, tough, smart talk, and music you can dance to. Murray Street's Peabody Award-winning HEAT is back to entertain, engage and encourage publisteners at the end of the day. These ten episodes drawn from our deep archives feature John Hockenberry's new introductions and all the good old sensations. Each HEAT program is self contained.
Broadcast History
Segments were originally distributed by NPR and aired nationally in 1990.
New intros and other material by John Hockenberry have been added as part of this 2007 reversioning.
Timing and Cues
PROGRAM TIME: 58:30
In cue: "HEAT with John Hockenberry."
Out cue: "...PRX DOT ORG" (music ends)
Break #1 22:29 - 23:30 (1:01)
Into break: "This is HEAT. I'm John Hockenberry."
Out of break: "The first insight I had..."
Break #2 49:58 - 50:58 (1:00)
Into break: "This is HEAT. I'm John Hockenberry."
Out of break: " You're listening to..."
Additional Files
- Suggested Promo Copy (the_contenders_promo.doc)
- Spalding Gray (spalding-gray-1.jpg)
- Joyce Carol Oates (joycecaroloates_bymarionettlinger.jpeg)
- Billy Bragg (billy_bragg.jpg)
- Reversioning Script (the_contenders_script.doc)
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Joseph Dougherty
Posted on April 02, 2007 at 06:47 PM | Permalink
Review of HEAT -- The Contenders
"Radio is strange." Deft interviewer and journalist John Hockenberry effortless updates material from his series "Heat" produced way back in the 90's. The effect is that of someone carefully re-editing a vintage magazine and finding that the really relevant stuff doesn?t change. Calm, confident, patient, intimate, this is radio conversation at its best and its most unexpected.
Listening to Spalding Gray and Hockenberry switch host/guest roles is a rare gift to the audience.
Programable anywhere, but deserving of careful placement. Weekends and overnights would permit the pieces the space they need to breathe.