Murray Street | HEAT with John Hockenberry


	I don't need time. What I need is a deadline. – Duke Ellington, (1899-1974)

Murray street Production:
HEAT with
John Hockenberry

Featured Excerpt

The End of the Beginning

In a program about the overthrow of apartheid in South Africa, famed South African playwright Athol Fugard speaks out about the power of words.

AHEAD OF ITS TIME IN 1990.
RIGHT ON TIME IN 2008!
AVAILABLE EXCLUSIVELY ON PRX

Funny, tough, smart talk, and music you can dance to. Murray Street's Peabody Award-winning HEAT is back to entertain, engage and encourage publisteners at the end of the day. Thanks to a PRX reversioning grant and collaboration with WNYC and KQED, ten hours of HEAT are now available! These carefully curated programs bring guests, performances and ideas that are still relevant and affecting. John Hockenberry's new comments and observations make them fresh and resonant.

An amazing amount of ground is covered during these ten hours, and feature...

Bluesman Mose ALLISON

Singer Amy ALLISON

Cartoonist and storyteller Lynda BARRY

Actor Raymond BARRY

The 'sisters' of BETTY

Songwriter Luka BLOOM

Singer Billy BRAGG

Archaeologist of Language George CARLIN

Raymond CARVER's "What we Talk About When We Talk About Love"

South African Zulu singer Johnny CLEGG

Harvard theologian Harvey COX

Simpson's creator Matt GROENING

Matt's father Homer GROENING

Montgomery Burns, aka HEAT regular Harry SHEARER

Master storyteller Mike FEDER

Boxer George FOREMAN

Playwright Athol FUGARD

Actress Lisa FUGARD

Performance artist Spalding GRAY

Talking blues from Vertamae GROSVENOR

Piano man Dr. JOHN

Nelson MANDELA speaks to the US

Congress USAF Col. Jim MOORE

Writer Joyce Carol OATES

The great hit songwriter Doc POMUS

The singing and traveling ROBINSON family

From Elizabeth Claire PROPHET'S Church Universal and Triumphant

Eleanor SHIFLIN

Political comedian Jimmy TINGLE

Actor David WARRILOW

Singer Nora YORK

PLUS:

Visions of ARMAGEDDON -- with music to build your fallout shelter by

John Hockenberry Earth Day in Space and other essays

CHANCE ENCOUNTERS of LOVE

The END of the BEGINNING and

Can't Live With 'Em -- Can't Live Without Em -- FAMILIES

Hear why HEAT is a pubradio LEGEND.

HEAT's WGBH pilots won a CPB Gold Award for Best Performance Program.

The 1990 series on NPR received a George Foster Peabody award. HEAT's producers, including RJ Cutler, Ira Glass, Joe Richman, Marika Partridge, Eileen Delahunty and Steve Rathe, and host John Hockenberry, helped break new ground for public radio and provided a creative spark to its sound.

Extended Program Excerpts

1. The End of the Beginning -- Athol Fugard
2. The Doctor Is In -- Dr. John and Doc Pomus
3. Families -- Matt Groening, Lynda Barry, Harry Shearer
4. George Carlin -- John and the great comic discuss language
5. John Hockenberry -- Wheelchair Ramps and the A.D.A.
6. Chance Encounters of Love -- Singer Nora York, Chef Vertamae Grosvenor
7. A Long Sweet Visit -- Mose Allison and his daughter Amy Allison
8. Jimmy Tingle -- The political comic on minimum wage
9. Lynda Barry -- "Lesbians"
10. Spalding Gray -- Interviews John Hockenberry
11. John Hockenberry Essay -- Chaos

HEAT of the Night with Marty Goldensohn (pilots) at WGBH 1987
12. Gallery of the Night: Eric Bogosian "Upstairs/Downstairs"
13. Lost on Lover's Lane - HEAT Theme "Juices" - Bob Telson and Little Village

» John Hockenberry Bio

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