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A travel journal with many stories. Among them: Life in a cave, dysentery in a hotel with one busy toilet, garbage dumped on a poor village, a health club trial, and many more.

Series: Work in Progress
Show Type: Monologue
Cast: Joe Frank
Air Date: 1988
Digital Audio Bit Rate: 128kbps

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A travel journal with many stories. Among them: Life in a cave, dysentery in a hotel with one busy toilet, garbage dumped on a poor village, a health club trial, and many more.

Series: Work in Progress
Show Type: Monologue
Cast: Joe Frank
Air Date: 1988
Digital Audio Bit Rate: 128kbps

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Reviews of Joe’s Work

"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

"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

"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

"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] 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

"[Joe Frank] is one of the great, original radio performers. He's created a sound and style for himself - a complete aesthetic that's entirely his own. I first heard him when I was 19 and it changed everything for me. His work demonstrated the intensity and emotion that the medium is capable of; ingenious…fantastic."

Ira Glass, This American Life

"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

"Joe Frank is a singular voice in radio. What he has done is hypnotic, psychotic, neurotic, sad, terrifying, and some of the funniest stuff I have ever heard anywhere. I can't think of another radio performer who has come close to achieving this kind of alchemy."

Charlie Kaufman, filmmaker

"Frank has created a series of dead-pan radio monologues so sharp and intelligent that during the quiet bits you can almost hear God taking notes."

The UK Guardian

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Stories for Nothing

Series: Work in Progress

Show Type: Monologue

Cast: Joe Frank

Air Date: 1988

Digital Audio Bit Rate: 128kbps

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Series: Work in Progress

Show Type: Monologue

Cast: Joe Frank

Air Date: 1988

Digital Audio Bit Rate: 128kbps

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Stories for Nothing

Series: Work in Progress

Show Type: Monologue

Cast: Joe Frank

Air Date: 1988

Digital Audio Bit Rate: 128kbps

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Series: Work in Progress

Show Type: Monologue

Cast: Joe Frank

Air Date: 1988

Digital Audio Bit Rate: 128kbps

Reviews

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