Episodes
Series | Title | First Broadcast | Comments |
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Genome: [r4 Bd=19941217] | This drama-documentary won the New York International Radio Festival Gold Medal for Best Drama Special. In August 1968, the streets of Chicago erupted into violent confrontation between police and demonstrators. There followed one of the most compelling and bizarre trials in American legal history. Peter Goodchild 's dramatisation from the trial transcripts features the voices of Thomas Foran , William Kunstler (lawyers); David Dellinger , Tom Hayden , Bobby Seale (defendants); Jean Fritz (juror) and Margie Fritz-Birch ; John Schultz (historian) ; Studs Terkel (journalist) and Allen Ginsberg (witness). The spectators are played by Brian McChristian , Chet Grissom , Michael Quaintance , Jonathan F McClain , Dayna Worland , Carl Coash and Tangy Harper. Narrated by Bob Sherman American producer Susan Albert Loewenberg Directed by Martin Jenkins and John Theocharis Recorded in the studios ofWFMT- FM Chicago Rpt | ||
Genome: [r4 Bd=19941217] | Unknown: Peter Goodchild Unknown: Thomas Foran Unknown: William Kunstler Unknown: David Dellinger Unknown: Tom Hayden Unknown: Bobby Seale Unknown: Jean Fritz Unknown: Margie Fritz-Birch Unknown: John Schultz Unknown: Allen Ginsberg Played By: Brian McChristian Played By: Chet Grissom Played By: Michael Quaintance Played By: Jonathan F McClain Played By: Dayna Worland Played By: Carl Coash Played By: Tangy Harper. Unknown: Bob Sherman Producer: Susan Albert Loewenberg Directed By: Martin Jenkins Directed By: John Theocharis Judge Hoffman: George Murdoch Thomas Foran: Gary Huston Richard Schultz: Tom Amandes William Kunstler: Mike Nussbaum Leonard Weinglass: Jeff Still Bobby Seale: E Milton Wheeler Tom Hayden: Kevin Gudahl David Dellinger: Tony Mockus Abbie Hoffman: David Schwimmer Allen Ginsberg: Richard Fire Pierson/Frapolly: Andrew White Mayor Daley/Marshall: George Czarnecki Deputy Mayor Stahl: Ron West Kristi King/Linda Morse: Christine Dunford Mrs Peterson/Clerk: Peggy Roeder | ||
SNT | 1994a12a17 | By: Peter Goodchild Starring: George Murdoch/E.Milton Wheeler/Kevin Gudahl. | |
TPTT | 20050118 | adapted from the original trial transcripts by Peter Goodchild, and starring George Murdock, Mike Nussbaum, and David Schwimmer. Reality is stranger than fiction when eight 1960's radicals refuse to behave in Judge Julius Hoffman's courtroom. Based on actual trial transcripts, this play centers on events following the protests and riots during the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago. |