White Elephants (30 min)

Product Description

Newly discovered in 2020: Brand new show! The first eight minutes is the original first draft of the opening of “A Landing Strip in the Jungle” where Joe describes his experience in Sri Lanka with Ali, his tour guide. The rest is not in any other program: Beggars and their tactics. Disparate stories of people Joe meets: a beggar originally from Denmark who complains about how Dutch are treated in Sri Lanka, a teacher of Marxism who becomes a guru’s disciple. The “Tooth Festival” named after the Temple of the Tooth in which a chest held one of Buddha’s teeth.

• Series: NPR and WBAI

• Show Type: Monologue

• Cast:  Joe Frank

• Air Date: 1980

• Digital Audio Bit Rate: 128kbps