On Sylvia Plath

Program Title:
On Sylvia Plath
PRA Archive #: 
BC0389
Description: 

Actresses Sondra Lowell, Jay MacIntosh, Juliana McCarthy, Constance Pfeiffer, Judith Roberts, Joanne Strauss, and Sherry Tyler read examples of the work of writer and poet Sylvia Plath (1932 - 1963), who committed suicide at age 30. Actress Dorothy Dells reads the profile by Elizabeth Hardwick from the New York Review of Books which includes an analysis of the prose and poetry of Plath. Produced and directed by Constance Pfeiffer.

Original tape box image: 
Station: 
KPFK
Date Recorded on: 
Sept. 1971
Date Broadcast on: 
KPFK, 1 Oct. 1971.
Item duration: 
2 reels (90 min.) : 7 1/2 ips, mono.
Keywords: 
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Poetry.
Women authors
Hardwick, Elizabeth.
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
Plath, Sylvia
Contributor: 
Sondra Lowell
Role: 
Reader
Contributor: 
Jay MacIntosh
Role: 
Reader
Contributor: 
Juliana McCarthy
Role: 
Reader
Contributor: 
Judith Roberts
Role: 
Reader
Contributor: 
Joanne Strauss
Role: 
Reader
Contributor: 
Sherry Tyler
Role: 
Reader
Contributor: 
Constance Pfeiffer
Role: 
Producer
Genre: 
American Women -- Poetry
American Women -- Autobiographies and Biographies
Distributor: 
Los Angeles : Pacifica Radio Archives, 1971
Rights Summary: 
RESTRICTED. Permissions, licensing requests, Curriculum Initiative, Campus Campaign and all other inquiries should be directed to: Mark Torres, Archives Director, 800-735-0230, Mark@PacificaRadioArchives.org
View Folio here (at Archive.org): 
KPFK Folio, October 1971, p. 7
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This recording has been digitally preserved as part of Pacifica's American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 grant preservation project, and is available for research and reference . Please contact the archives via telephone: 818-506-1077 or email:  americanwomen at pacificaradioarchives dot org for information on how to obtain a copy of this program. Thank you.



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