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EPISODE · May 7, 2021 · 28 MIN

Medicine Show

from Desert Oracle Radio · host Ken Layne

We have been sick, and we need the medicine of the show. Campfire stories, tent revivals, Shakespeare in the Park, knife fights at the honky-tonk, etc.  Now that performance is returning to the stage, whether theater or movies or street dancers, we spend some time at the campfire to follow the long thread from ancient-world traveling players to the Old West medicine shows that continued into the 1940s.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=26080998See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracleSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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