The Beat Goes On - part 1
Series: The Beat Goes On - "On the Road" at 50
From: 90.9 WBUR - Boston's NPR News Station
Length: 00:07:46
More than fifty years after the publication of Jack Kerouac's "On the Road," the definitive novel of the Beat Generation still enthralls readers with its call to the road. In this five-part series Charles Sennott of The Boston Globe retraces the path of "On the Road's" Sal Paradise across America. Part one finds Sennott in Lowell, Massachusetts, which has come to hold Kerouac in the same high regard as the author had for the city of his birth. It is here in Lowell that Sennott hears the invitation fto the road for the second time in his life, and takes it. Each segment is designed as a drop-in to NPR's Morning Edition segment E. Included here are scripts for suggested host intros and tags. The total duration of each piece with intro and tag is ~7:15 and there is plenty of great music to fill under the rest of the segment.
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More than fifty years after the publication of Jack Kerouac's "On the Road," the definitive novel of the Beat Generation still enthralls readers with its call to the road. In this five-part series Charles Sennott of The Boston Globe retraces the path of "On the Road's" Sal Paradise across America. Part one finds Sennott in Lowell, Massachusetts, which has come to hold Kerouac in the same high regard as the author had for the city of his birth. It is here in Lowell that Sennott hears the invitation fto the road for the second time in his life, and takes it. Each segment is designed as a drop-in to NPR's Morning Edition segment E. Included here are scripts for suggested host intros and tags. The total duration of each piece with intro and tag is ~7:15 and there is plenty of great music to fill under the rest of the segment.
Broadcast History
first broadcast WBUR's Morning Edition 9/17/07
Timing and Cues
PART 1
INTRO: This month [September] marks the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Jack Kerouac's "On the Road," the novel that defined the Beat Generation.
The author's hometown of Lowell, Massachusetts is paying tribute to its native son with poetry slams, jazz concerts...and a special exhibit, featuring a huge scroll on which Kerouac typed his entire manuscript. Recently, The Boston Globe's Charles Sennott set out on the road to retrace Jack Kerouac's coast-to-coast odyssey.
All this week on [your program,] Sennott takes us down the same highways and back roads that Kerouac traveled. His journey begins in a cafe on Lowell's Market Street, at a marathon reading of the novel on September 5th, the day the book was published a half-century ago.
OTR1
*opens with mux [:05] then cafe ambi*
IN: (ACT) "So in America..."
OUT: (READING) "...and confidently started." Mux post - Charlie Parker's famous alto sax break - cue tag announce after 6:05. Mux to fill under rest of segment.
OUT TAG: That's a reading from Jack Kerouac's "On the Road." Tomorrow, Charles Sennott begins his journey across the heartland...where he finds a new generation following in Kerouac's footsteps.
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