| FRANKLY SPEAKING is a lively talk
show featuring “engaging writers, cutting-edge artists,
original thinkers, and engaging cultural personalities.”
The program celebrates the eclectic, the diverse, the stories
of passionate people doing impressive and creative things.
Recorded live in Paris. Aired on Sunday evenings and re-broadcast
three times during the week.
Paris expat David Applefield conducts engaging and timely
interviews with writers, artists (plastic and performance),
entertainers, and public figures from around the world.
Interspersed between penetrating questions and lively responses,
the FRANKLY SPEAKING format inserts relevant tracks of music,
readings from new books, selected performances, and other
intelligent surprises that contribute to the originality
of the show.
FRANKLY SPEAKING is an outgrowth of the international cultural
journal FRANK, publishing in Paris in English since the
early 80s. Applefield, a self-proclaimed cultural guerilla
committed to combating ethnocentricity and other forms of
closed-mindedness, has published over 1000 writers, poets,
and artists in the pages of FRANK, and has conducted cultural
interviews with leading literary figures, heads of state,
and literary celebrities including:
Vaclav Havel, Alpha Konaré, Dipak Chopra, George
Plympton, Raymond Carver, Isabelle Adjani, William Styron,
Rita Dove, Jim Haynes, Lewis Lapham, Billy Collins, Thomas
E. Kennedy, Duff Brenna, Bernard Pivot, John Calder, Arthur
Miller, George and Sylvia Whitman, Octavio Paz, Jacques
Coustaud, Edmund White, Dennis Hopper, Robert Coover, Stephen
Dixon, James Salter, Sony Labou Tansi, Ralph Petty, Dale
Gershwin, Amadeus Wolfgang Bruelhart, Harriet Rowley, Diane
Johnson, Marilyn Yalom…
FRANKLY SPEAKING is a David Applefield Production produced
for Paris Live Radio by Dinah Nuttall.
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