Cover to Cover Open Book – August 8, 2008

Part one of Murshroom Cloud In "Enola Alone" Antenna Theater interviews bomber pilots, bombing victims, and Colonel Paul Tibbets, pilot of the Enola Gay. Political speeches and popular songs chart our changing attitudes towards the "Atomic Age." Residents recall the 1950s Nevada and Utah nuclear bomb tests in Claes Andreasson series "Downwinder Diaries." Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti has "Wild Dreams of a New Beginning." Americans across the country answer Scott Carrier’s question: "What Are You Afraid Of?" The band Lemon Jelly presents "Page One," presents the Big Bang with a beat. And we select some "Atomic Platters: Cold War Music from the Golden Age of Homeland Security" compiled by CONELRAD.com. Produced by Hearing Voices The post Cover to Cover Open Book – August 8, 2008 appeared first on KPFA.