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Natural Disaster, A (30 min)

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A program about natural catastrophes. A man trapped in his house after an earthquake, calmly telephones for help and describes the advantages of making love in the rubble. Joe takes vengeance on nature by stabbing the earth with a knife and imprisoning air in a balloon and passing it through a filthy vacuum cleaner. Joe reads a long list of historical earthquakes and their death tolls.

Series: In the Dark
Show Type: Comedy
Cast: Arthur Miller, Larry Block, Joe Frank
Air Date: 1994
Digital Audio Bit Rate: 128kbps

Category: In the Dark.

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Series: In the Dark
Show Type: Comedy
Cast: Arthur Miller, Larry Block, Joe Frank
Air Date: 1994
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

"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

"[Joe Frank is] the most imaginative, literate monologist in radio today... If a microphone could capture the nether recesses of the modern psyche, it would sound like Frank's absurd comical excursions: Radio Vertigo."

The Village Voice

"The perfect Joe Frank experience is driving down an unfamiliar highway alone at night. You turn on your radio and are greeted by a lush, resonant voice that lulls you into a seemingly simple tale of love: a man at an airport saying goodbye to his wife over the phone, which abruptly turns into a vision of betrayal, alienation and death - often from obscure disease - all brought about by some profound personal failing, which is redeemed at the last moment by a nearly transcendent moment of joy."

Salon

"Although commonly categorized as radio drama, Frank's work bears very little resemblance to the stagy artifice of plays performed over air. Frank wanders deeply into the unconscious, producing Dionysian stories with a fairy-tale intensity whose effect is often funny, disturbing and deeply memorable."

Salon

"To me, he's what radio is really for... his show makes me think he's getting to some great truth... so completely captivating and just unlike anything else."

David Sedaris, writer

"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

"You don't have to close your eyes to appreciate Joe Frank's dense audio universe cascading out of your radio. It helps, though, because there are so many layers - of sound, philosophy, of reality-coursing through his dramas... Come to think of it, after awhile, you won't want to close your eyes because in Frank's short stories for the radio, the tension and pathos are as enveloping as they are intriguing... "

The Washington Post

"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

"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

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Natural Disaster, A (30 min)

Series: In the Dark

Show Type: Comedy

Cast: Arthur Miller, Larry Block, Joe Frank

Air Date: 1994

Digital Audio Bit Rate: 128kbps

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Series: In the Dark

Show Type: Comedy

Cast: Arthur Miller, Larry Block, Joe Frank

Air Date: 1994

Digital Audio Bit Rate: 128kbps

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Natural Disaster, A (30 min)

Series: In the Dark

Show Type: Comedy

Cast: Arthur Miller, Larry Block, Joe Frank

Air Date: 1994

Digital Audio Bit Rate: 128kbps

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Series: In the Dark

Show Type: Comedy

Cast: Arthur Miller, Larry Block, Joe Frank

Air Date: 1994

Digital Audio Bit Rate: 128kbps

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