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"Pledge This!"
Airing nationally, January 3rd-5th, 2003
© 1998 by Bob Garfield and Brooke Gladstone
January 4, 2003
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"Pledge This!" chronicles the tribulations of a struggling public-radio station, W-ACLU, in a rigorously controlled planned community called Blandon Park, itself an outer suburb of the gigantic city called Metroplex.
W-ACLU ("87.1--All the way to the left") broadcasts out of small studios in the Blandon Park Mall with a news-and-dulcimer-music format. Its centerpiece local program is a daily cut-in to the evening news magazine of the Universal Public Radio network. Considering the financial straits the station is constantly mired in, and the quirks of the W-ACLU news department, it's a miracle "Blandon Park Edition" ever gets on the air.
"Pledge This!" was written by Bob Garfield and Brooke Gladstone. The sole exception was Porfyria's commentary about ice-skating - that remarkable bit of prose was penned by Lisa Gladstone, who also played Porfyria.
Dylan Keefe was the sound designer and production engineer.
Read the transcript
Principal characters:
· Mary Demarest, producer of Blandon Park Edition (Janeane Garofalo)
· Trent Rosenblitt, host of Blandon Park Edition (Fred Willard)
· Mr. Pringle the gung-ho, mercenary president of W-ACLU (Tony Shalhoub)
· Porfyria Stoltzfuss-Hawkfeather, the excitable commentator (Lisa Gladstone)
· Scooter Pyle, the slightly vague and vaguely dangerous engineer (Scott Stickland)
· Courtney Jenkins, Blandon Park Girl Scout Cookie Sales Champ (Faye Shneider)
· Faye McVeigh, ex-W-ACLU reporter, now a commercial DJ (Sharon Ball)
· Leona Krump, UPR executive (Karen Trott)
Additional characters and vocal talent in order of appearance:
· Voices in Radio Montage (Karen Trott, Polly Humphries, Stephen Day)
· Trudy the Receptionist (Amy Pearl)
· Horatio Chung, Representative of "The Middle Kingdom" (Peter Pringle)
· Voice in "Middle Kingdom" funding credit (Arun Rath)
· Voice of announcer in Blandon Park Mall (Rex Doane)
· Hostess in World O' Cuisine (Sophie Kaplan)
· UPR automated telephone message (Karen Trott)
· UPR "Temp" telephone receptionist (Stephen Day)
· Hank Arama, of "Skate-arama" (Scott Simon)
· Supreme Neighbor, Thad Von Dachau (Arun Rath)
· W-ACLU Radio Announcer (Chris Reilly)
copyright 2003 WNYC Radio
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