Selected Shorts; Three marriages.
- Series
- Selected Shorts
- Program
- Three marriages.
- Producing Organization
- WNYC (Radio station : New York, N.Y.)
- Contributing Organization
- WNYC (New York, New York)
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip/80-80ht8060
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- Description
- Program Description
- 58:10 total, mid-break @ 27:00 w/ :65 music in the clear FAMILY PLANNING by Elizabeth Hunnewell, read by Dana Ivey GRAVITY by David Leavitt, read by Andrea Marcovicci SAY YES by Tobias Wolff, read by Chris Sarandon
- Program Description
- May 24, 1995 6:30 pm THREE MARRIAGES Why Must the Show Go On?. Noel Coward sung by Steve Ross Stop Me If You've Heard It...... Noel Coward read by Steve Ross The Interview. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala read by Tirlok Malik 'INTERMISSION* The Student'sWife Raymond Carver read by Jane Curtin Isaiah Sheffer, Director Katherine Minton, Producer Members of the audience are requested to turn off watch beepers for the duration of the program. TONIGHT'S ARTISTS RAYMOND CARVER (1939-1988) was born in Clatskanie, Oregon and lived in Port Angeles, Washington until his death. He devoted most of his career to the art of the short story and the poem. His short story collections include Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Cathedral and Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories. His poetry collections include Winter Insomnia, Ultramarine and the posthumously published A New Walk to the River. His work has been translated into more than 20 languages. NOEL COWARD (1899-1974) was a playwright, composer, novelist, performer, director and screenwriter. His works include the plays Fallen Angels, Design for Living, Hay Fever, Private Lives, Blithe Spirit and Present Laughter, the films Brief Encounter and In Which We Serve; and innumerable songs for his revues, musicals and operettas. His books include two volumes of autobiography, Future Indefinite and Present Indicative; one novel, Pomp and Circumstance; and The Noel Coward Diaries, which were published posthumously. JANE CURTIN starred on Saturday Night Live for five years. She won Emmy Awards in 1984 and 1985 as Leading Actress in a Comedy for her work on Kate and Allie. Her movie credits include How to Beat the High Cost of Living, Suspicion and Coneheads. She appeared on Broadway with Joanne Woodward in George Bernard Shaw's Candida, and later reprised her role on television. Her other theatre credits include the Off-Broadway musical revue Pretzels, which she also, co-authored. She can be heard on Volume II of Selected Shorts on Audiocassette reading Gail Godwin's "St. George" and on Volume VII reading Tobias Wolffs "In the Garden of the North American Martyrs."
- Genres
- Performance
- Rights
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- Media type
- Sound
- Credits
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Director: Sheffer, Isaiah
Performer: Ross, Steve (Steven R.), 1938-
Producer: Minton, Katherine
Producing Organization: WNYC (Radio station : New York, N.Y.)
Reader: Curtin, Jane
Reader: Malik, Tirlok
Writer: Coward, Noel, 1899-1973
Writer: Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer, 1927-
Writer: Carver, Raymond, 1938-1988
- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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WNYC-FM
Identifier: 70348.1 (WNYC Media Archive Label)
Format: DAT
Generation: Original
Duration: 01:38:46
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WNYC-FM
Identifier: 70348.2 (WNYC Media Archive Label)
Format: audio/vnd.wave
Generation: Dub
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- Citations
- Chicago: “Selected Shorts; Three marriages.,” WNYC, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed April 27, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-80-80ht8060.
- MLA: “Selected Shorts; Three marriages..” WNYC, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. April 27, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-80-80ht8060>.
- APA: Selected Shorts; Three marriages.. Boston, MA: WNYC, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-80-80ht8060