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2007/08 Block Feeds on KET ED
- Block Feed: Programs 101-201 Program Details
- 3 hours, 59 minutes
- Tuesday, October 30 at 6:00 am on KETED
- Tuesday, April 1 at 6:00 am on KETED
- Block Feed: Programs 202-203 Program Details
- 1 hours, 59 minutes
- Tuesday, October 30 at 2:00 pm on KETED
- Tuesday, April 1 at 2:00 pm on KETED
Episodes Included in These Block Feeds
- 101. Bobbie Ann Mason
- Mason visits her hometown of Mayfield in Western Kentucky and talks about the influence of the place and its people on her work. The program includes readings from Mason's novels In Country and Feather Crowns as well as several short stories, plus an excerpt from the Hollywood film of In Country. 57 minutes.
- 102. Ed McClanahan
- The author reads from his novel The Natural Man and his humorous autobiographical work, Famous People I Have Known, and talks about his influences, ranging from Charles Dickens to Ken Kesey. Visits to boyhood haunts in Northern Kentucky prompt stories of where some of McClanahan's ideas and characters came from. 57 minutes.
- 103. Marsha Norman
- Backstage scenes of Norman working with actors, designers, producers, and others to mount a Broadway version of The Red Shoes frame the story of the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, a Louisville native. Norman and others read from 'night, Mother, which won the Pulitzer, and the Tony Award-winning musical of The Secret Garden, for which Norman wrote the script. 58 minutes.
- 201. George C. Wolfe
- The frenetic pace and artistic sophistication of the New York theater scene are literally and figuratively miles away from the segregated but nurturing African-American community of 1960s Frankfort, KY and the childhood of Tony Award-winning playwright and director George C. Wolfe. This program explores the juxtaposition of past and present in the life and work of the man who wrote The Colored Museum; wrote and directed Jelly's Last Jam and Bring In 'Da Noise, Bring In 'Da Funk; directed Angels in America; and assumed leadership of one of New York's most important cultural institutions, the New York Shakespeare Festival/Joseph Papp Public Theater. 57 minutes.
- 202. Lee Smith
- Growing up in the Appalachian mountains of southwestern Virginia, 9-year-old Lee Smith was already writing—and selling, for a nickel apiece—stories about her neighbors in the coal boomtown of Grundy and the nearby isolated hollers. Since 1968, she has published nine novels, including Fair and Tender Ladies and Oral History, as well as two collections of short stories, and has received eight major writing awards. The sense of place infusing her novels reveals her insight into and empathy for the people and culture of Appalachia. 58 minutes.
- 203. Barbara Kingsolver
- Just as the lead character in her first novel, The Bean Trees, left her small Kentucky town for adventure out West, so did Barbara Kingsolver leave Carlisle, KY to settle in Arizona, where she has written critically acclaimed novels, poetry, short stories, and nonfiction pieces. This portrait examines how the author sees her self-described "wallflower" youth as a gift that led to her "fierce wish to look inside people" as well as an "aptitude for listening" that she uses in her work today. 57 minutes.
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