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The No Show Archive
April 2006
Radio Daze Redux
Sunday, April 30, 2006
Steve Post, the host with the most, recounts his first job in radio as bookkeeper for a public radio station whose name cannot be mentioned so it is identified only by its initials: WBAI. Be listening as Steve trashes Quakers, the former president of Pacifica, and much of the 1960’s. The music will make you feel young again, momentarily. But first, The Broken News.
The Corrections
Sunday, April 23, 2006
A bad time is had by all as Steve Post marshals all his resources to puzzle over the New York Times’ distinctions among “Corrections,” “For the Record,” and “Corrections for the Record.” Also covered: crosses as ads for Christianity; the New York Mimes’ Conference; sex and marriage in America. Finally (very finally(, Gene Pitney and Don Alias are inducted into the NO SHOW “Musical Necropolis.”
Old Acquaintances
Sunday, April 16, 2006
Steve Post recounts his acquaintance with the late Bayard Rustin, who was a singer as well as a major civil rights activist. Steve plays several of his pieces and many more spirituals and gospel songs by other artists, including Paul Robeson, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Aretha Franklin, Mavis Staples and more.
[This program first aired April 10, 2004.]
Apotheosis
Sunday, April 09, 2006
A brief report on “Steve Post Week,” celebrating his 25 years at WNYC and his attendant elevation to the status of a god, or apotheosis, if you will (and maybe even if you won’t). The Broken News awards its first Bogus News Award, and the Musical Necropolis celebrates a new citizen: saxophonist and educator, Jackie McLean.
From High Atop...
Friday, April 07, 2006
In the final No Show Special Edition and conclusion of Steve Post’s “work no longer in progress,” Steve relates a tale of derring-do and –don’t which leaves him outside looking in despite the heights he has attained. He is now on air at a prestigious arts-oriented broadcaster where he….well, we don’t want to give too much away. Anyway, the name of the radio station has been changed to protect both the guilty and the innocent; it will be very difficult to figure out what radio station it was.
Slideshow: 25 years of Steve Post
Get the Post-cast a limited edition Podcast featuring Steve Post presenting excerpts from his ever-evolving biographical excursion - “A Work No Longer in Progress.”
Air:The Manager
Thursday, April 06, 2006
The fourth No Show Special Edition offers two chapters from Steve Post’s “work no longer in progress” describing his accidental career in broadcasting. After several months as Mailroom Supervisor at WPFR -- Peace & Freedom Radio, Steve's big break comes when the station's sole on-air personality goes on a two-week vacation, and Steve is selected from a field of one to be the substitute host of his show. The two weeks go by as the blink of an eye, and as we resume our story (well, Steve's story actually), his bid for fame, fortune, and female companionship is nearing its end. Be listening as Steve answers a few questions we have all pondered in the winter of our souls: Who let him out of the mailroom? Will he ever lose his virginity? Will he find it again?
In the next chapter in Steve’s story, he has been working for some years at WPFR where he has served in a number of positions including mail room supervisor and on-air personality. Now he has reached the apotheosis of his career at WPFR: THE MANAGER. Tomorrow: FROM HIGH ATOP.
Slideshow: 25 years of Steve Post
Get the Post-cast a limited edition Podcast featuring Steve Post presenting excerpts from his ever-evolving biographical excursion - “A Work No Longer in Progress.”
Peace & Freedom Radio, pt. 2
Wednesday, April 05, 2006
In the third of five No Show Special Editions, Steve Post concludes the chapter from his “work no longer in progress” describing his first on-the-air days at WPFR: Peace & Freedom Radio. Be there as Steve experiences his first recorded technical disaster -- with an addressograph machine. Be listening as Steve attempts to find his voice, and forgets where he lost it.
Tomorrow’s episodes: AIR and THE MANAGER
Slideshow: 25 years of Steve Post
Get the Post-cast a limited edition Podcast featuring Steve Post presenting excerpts from his ever-evolving biographical excursion - “A Work No Longer in Progress.”
PEACE & FREEDOM RADIO, pt. 1
Tuesday, April 04, 2006
The second in a five-day series of No Show Special Editions reprising
Steve Post’s adventures in radioland. This episode takes place sometime in a remote past when the United States was waging war against a country that had never attacked it. (We know it's a stretch, but this is satire.) As we join Steve, he has just left his job as mimeographer for the "Committee to Wipe out Poverty," or CWOP—under the direction of obsessive-compulsive Reverend Thornhill--to follow his bliss as mailroom supervisor for WPFR (Peace & Freedom Radio), a job he saw advertised in the "Society for World Reconciliation Newsletter," or SWERN. All caught up? Good. Let’s go.
And tune in tomorrow for the conclusion of this chapter.
Slideshow: 25 years of Steve Post
Get the Post-cast a limited edition Podcast featuring Steve Post presenting excerpts from his ever-evolving biographical excursion - “A Work No Longer in Progress.”
Radio
Monday, April 03, 2006
A Special Edition of the No Show to mark Steve Post’s 25 years with WNYC – the first in a five-day series reprising five chapters of “A Work No Longer in Progress.” Today’s chapter is entitled, appropriately enough, RADIO.
Return with us to the distant antiquity of Steve's childhood, when he first discovered the romance of radio. Learn how his love for the medium overcame parental displeasure, personal misgivings, and public indifference. Listen while he says the fateful words, "Well, that's all the time we have...."
Tune in again tomorrow when we hear another selection from Steve Post's no-longer-in-progress-but-encyclopedic-in-scale non-novel on The NO SHOW Special Edition. Tomorrow: PEACE & FREEDOM RADIO.
Slideshow: 25 years of Steve Post
Get the Post-cast a limited edition Podcast featuring Steve Post presenting excerpts from his ever-evolving biographical excursion - “A Work No Longer in Progress.”
Steve Post Week
Sunday, April 02, 2006
This week Steve Post observes his 25th anniversary with WNYC, launching a station celebration of epic proportions. Steve reminds us not to feed the mouth that bites us, and he inducts three new members into the NO SHOW Musical Necropolis. The Broken News features sex notes from around the world, but the music will serve as an effective anti-aphrodisiac.