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Pact With God, A

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The story of Joe’s step-father’s illness takes place at The Fountains, a luxury, Spanish-style compound in which Joe’s parents live. Anecdotal stories concerning Freddy’s never-ending frugality and the suffering it causes Joe’s mother; Freddy’s gaffes, like eating a fortune cookie with the fortune still in it; the progressive brain shrinkage of Freddy’s admired friend, Conrad, which reduces him to incoherence; Joe runs a marathon for Freddy’s life, as Freddy checks into the hospital. Notes: Except for re-recorded voice and music tracks, the language in this program is virtually identical to the later re-mastered A Death in the Family (an improved rendition of the material in this one).

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

Category: Work in Progress.

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

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"[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

"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

"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 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

"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

"Frank wanders deeply into the unconscious, producing Dionysian stories with a fairy-tale intensity whose effect is often funny, disturbing and deeply memorable."

Salon Magazine

"A strange, different, wondrously offbeat, frequently hilarious, altogether brilliant piece of work..There's never been anything quite like it...Joe Frank is an audio Fellini."

The Los Angeles Times

"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

"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

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Pact With God, A

Series: Work in Progress

Show Type: Monologue

Cast: Joe Frank

Air Date: 1987

Digital Audio Bit Rate: 128kbps

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Series: Work in Progress

Show Type: Monologue

Cast: Joe Frank

Air Date: 1987

Digital Audio Bit Rate: 128kbps

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Pact With God, A

Series: Work in Progress

Show Type: Monologue

Cast: Joe Frank

Air Date: 1987

Digital Audio Bit Rate: 128kbps

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Product Description

Series: Work in Progress

Show Type: Monologue

Cast: Joe Frank

Air Date: 1987

Digital Audio Bit Rate: 128kbps

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