Comments for HEAT -- The Contenders

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This piece belongs to the series "HEAT with JOHN HOCKENBERRY"

Produced by Murray Street Productions with WNYC for PRX / Murray Street with KQED-FM

Other pieces by Murray Street Productions

Summary: Singer/Songwriter Billy Bragg rewrites "The Internationale", Joyce Carol Oates spars with George Foreman, and Spalding Gray turns the tables on John Hockenberry.
 

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My now-wife and I were wholehearted _Heat_ fans back in the day, and got sad for a long time when the show stopped. Finding it here has made my week.

Howard Runyon
Lake Placid, New York (but lived in Chicago back in the day)

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Review of HEAT -- The Contenders

"Radio is strange." Deft interviewer and journalist John Hockenberry effortless updates material from his series "Heat" produced way back in the 90's. The effect is that of someone carefully re-editing a vintage magazine and finding that the really relevant stuff doesn?t change. Calm, confident, patient, intimate, this is radio conversation at its best and its most unexpected.

Listening to Spalding Gray and Hockenberry switch host/guest roles is a rare gift to the audience.

Programable anywhere, but deserving of careful placement. Weekends and overnights would permit the pieces the space they need to breathe.