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Joe Frank discusses entropy, his visit with his mother at a retirement community in Florida, the film ‘The Incredible Shrinking Man,’ and the flawed concept of ‘Progress.’

Series: WBAI
Show Type: Work in Progress
Cast: Joe Frank
Air Date: 1987
Digital Audio Bit Rate: 128kbps

Category: Work in Progress.

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Joe Frank discusses entropy, his visit with his mother at a retirement community in Florida, the film ‘The Incredible Shrinking Man,’ and the flawed concept of ‘Progress.’

Series: WBAI
Show Type: Work in Progress
Cast: Joe Frank
Air Date: 1987
Digital Audio Bit Rate: 128kbps

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Reviews of Joe’s Work

"[Frank] travels in the emotional landscape of Bergman and Fellini; there's a tension and sense of mystery halfway between Kafka and Chandler... and a satiric edge worthy of Firesign Theatre and Woody Allen... No one else in radio is doing what Frank does."

The Washington Post

"Joe Frank is an invaluable warrior who stands in defense of our fears, our vanities and our forever-eroding sense of ourselves. He transforms the everyday banality of the human comedy into an inspired weirdness that feeds on pathos and irony, and feels a lot like revelation. Sartre would have called it nausea; Frank makes it art."

Spin Magazine

"In an arena in which formats are sacrosanct, Joe Frank has charted new territory with his literate, frequently bizarre, wildly funny essays and parodies... He can be funny, poignant, serious and off the wall - sometimes within the framework of the same piece. Unique is one word to describe it. Brilliant is another."

Los Angeles Times

"Joe Frank's often bizarre scenarios for the mind are decidedly offbeat radio fare...part surreal satire, part bizarre meditation, part fever dream."

Los Angeles Daily News

"I came upon Joe Frank's work by accident a number of years ago while driving to my home in the Napa Valley late at night. I couldn't believe the originality and sheer brilliance of what I was hearing. From that moment on I became a dedicated Joe Frank fan. Joe Frank's shows raise the most interesting and enduring questions in new and original ways and are consistently thought-provoking and very funny."

Francis Ford Coppola, filmmaker

"Mixing bizarre monologues, multi-sequenced dramatic vignettes and mock-solemn critiques, [Joe Frank's work] is both sophisticated and surreal. A sizable cult has been growing around Frank...a rare radio talent."

The Village Voice

"Joe Frank is an original whose work has helped form some of the most eccentric, dark and interesting parts of public radio's personality. "

Terry Gross, Fresh Air

"Frank [is] the apostle of radio noire... His free-form radio dramas... are sometimes moving, often funny, but always manage to confound the listeners' expectations. A maestro of verité, Frank exploits the power of radio..."

Rolling Stone

"The world of Joe Frank is a wildly entertaining surrealistic universe...hilarious, unsettling, zany, powerful, moving and perhaps the most unique, inventive and effective use of radio since Orson Welles convinced much of America there was a War of the Worlds."

The L.A. Weekly

"Frank has created a series of dead-pan radio monologues so sharp and intelligent that during the quiet bits you can almost hear God taking notes."

The UK Guardian

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He Hesitated

Series: WBAI

Show Type: Work in Progress

Cast: Joe Frank

Air Date: 1987

Digital Audio Bit Rate: 128kbps

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Series: WBAI

Show Type: Work in Progress

Cast: Joe Frank

Air Date: 1987

Digital Audio Bit Rate: 128kbps

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He Hesitated

Series: WBAI

Show Type: Work in Progress

Cast: Joe Frank

Air Date: 1987

Digital Audio Bit Rate: 128kbps

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Series: WBAI

Show Type: Work in Progress

Cast: Joe Frank

Air Date: 1987

Digital Audio Bit Rate: 128kbps

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