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With host Jim Farmer

Edition #2: The Chef - listen | listen with RealPlayer
First broadcast February 21, 2005

In his second show for WPS1, Jim Farmer has created a 30-minute narrative that fuses the best of old time radio (sound effects, a dramatic narrative) with a postmodern, near apocalyptic tale of a diminutive and possibly deranged chef, stranded on a theoretical seaside boardwalk. The whole arena and the most unreleiable narrator seem drenched in a vividly rendered narcotic effluvium that has the echoes of Umberto, Calvino and the nature writing of Gilbert White all ground up into an audio Happy Meal at once repulsive and delicious to the ear. Produced by Max Blagg.

Jim Farmer has long been a fixture on the downtown New York music scene, playing and composing scores for television and film as well as for such plays as Susan Sontag's "Alice in Bed". His film scores include "Johnny Suede" and "Living in Oblivion" (directed by Tom Dicillo). Over the last dozen years, he also written, produced and directed a number of his own stage plays, including "When Existential Things Happen to Good People" for the American Repertory Theater, and "I've Been Drunk for a Week and I have a Gun," for the Angel Orensanz Foundation.

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Edition #1 - listen | listen with RealPlayer

Jim Farmer has long been a fixture on the downtown New York music scene, playing and composing scores for television and film as well as for such plays as Susan Sontag's "Alice in Bed". His film scores include "Johnny Suede" and "Living in Oblivion" (directed by Tom Dicillo). Over the last dozen years, he also written, produced and directed a number of his own stage plays, including "When Existential Things Happen to Good People" for the American Repertory Theater, and "I've Been Drunk for a Week and I have a Gun," for the Angel Orensanz Foundation.

Stan Harrison has played tenor sax with Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, David Bowie, Duran Duran, Serge Gainsbourg and Radiohead. In other words, he's really good. You can hear some of his own music on his CD, "Ties That Bind".

Playlist

01 You Probably Think I Understand  (From Stan's CD "The Ties That Blind")
02 The National Anthem- Radiohead (From 'Kid A' )
03 Gloomy Sunday- Serge Gainsbourg  (From 'Live at the Zenith' )
04 Jan Piece N  -  A Stan Harrison work in progress

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