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"Warheads"
Drama :: Thirty Minutes
Series: NPR Playhouse, 1983
#16 Aired
Weapons dealers and a low level terrorist in a conference call: Hair gas, petty revenge via cab driver, electric and electromagnetic warfare, sterility warfare and unborn casualties, boomerang missiles, uniforms that look like civilian clothing, psychological warfare by placing speakers under children's pillows, getting recognition for killing people; a strange woman gets mixed up in the phone call. Monologue: description of Kathmandu: animals are allowed to do whatever they want, finding a cheap hotel, an English and a Malay drug dealer get into a fight in the lobby. Monologue: Joe is picked up by a hippie while hitchhiking across the country, argues with truck drivers, gets into a chase.
Cast: Lester Nafzger, Paul Mantell, Arthur Miller, Mark Hammer, Irene Wagner, and Joe Frank
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"Questions"
Drama :: Thirty Minutes
Series: NPR Playhouse, 1983
#17 Aired
Is there free will? Determinism versus existentialism. Did you choose your identity? Interview with government spokesman and torture victim, using Hegel to disprove Hegel, the feeling of the earth moving beneath your feet, everything is true speech.
Cast: Tim Jerome, Mark Hammer, Arthur Miller, Paul Mantell, Eric Sears, Irene Wagner, and Joe Frank
Music: Pat Metheny Group, "Are You Going With Me?" from "Offramp"
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