Back in 1998, Bob Garfield and Brooke Gladstone of WNYC wrote a short radio play about a struggling public radio station in a dismal suburb of an anonymous urban area.
NPR’s weekly On the Media program replayed it today.
The play’s a cross of Harry Shearer meets Firesign Theatre, and features Janeane Garofalo, Fred Willard, Tony Shalhoub, and a few NPR program hosts in the cast.
The play manages to predict our own governor Schwarzenegger with a tyrant of the homeowners’ association called Supreme Neighbor Thad Von Dachau, who wants to deport anyone with non-earth tone mailboxes.