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The No Show Archive
July 2006
From High Atop
Sunday, July 30, 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. Think. Think.
The Manager
Sunday, July 23, 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, First, AIR: 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.
Peace & Freedom Radio Part 2
Sunday, July 16, 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. Next week’s episodes: AIR and THE MANAGER
Peace & Freedom Radio, Part 1
Sunday, July 09, 2006
The second in a five-part 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 next week for the conclusion of this chapter.
Radio
Sunday, July 02, 2006
This is a special edition of The NO SHOW produced to mark Steve Post’s 25 years with WNYC. Today we hear the first in a five-part 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 next week when we hear another selection from Steve Post's no-longer-in-progress-but-encyclopedic-in-scale non-novel on The NO SHOW. Next week: PEACE & FREEDOM RADIO.
