Podcast Edition: Oscar Wilde's Salome full production & interview w/ director Leonard Nimoy

Podcast Edition: Oscar Wilde's Salome full production & interview w/ director Leonard Nimoy

Author: Overnight Productions, Inc. October 30, 2025 Duration: 1:36:01
We commemorate the birthday of the renowned gay Irish writer Oscar Wilde (October 16, 1854- November 30, 1900) with the play he was writing in October, 1891 — Salomé. Before we get to the play, listen to Brian DeShazor’s 2014 interview with the erudite Mr. Nimoy and his wife Susan more than fifty years after the play’s original broadcast, and learn how a chance encounter on the sidewalk outside of KPFK Los Angeles with the station’s Arts and Literature Director Ruth Seymour developed into almost certainly the first radio broadcast performance of Wilde’s 1891 classic tragedy. In this extended podcast edition, we feature the full-length production directed for Pacifica Radio by a “pre-Spock” Leonard Nimoy. Cast: Gail Kobe, Barry Atwater, Jeanne Bates, Andre Tayir, Peter Baldwin, Susan Bay, Gerald Renolds, Alan Montaigne, Lee Whiting, Marcel Ober, Milt Kogen, Charles Reyolds Produced for Pacifica Radio Gerald Zellinger Courtesy of Pacifica Radio Archives

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Podcast Episodes
A Wilde Tribute to “Salome” [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 28:58
We commemorate the birthday of the renowned gay Irish writer Oscar Wilde with an excerpt from the play he was writing in October, 1891 — a scene from a production directed for Pacifica Radio by a “pre-Spock” Leonard Nimo…
Jennie Arnau: A Rising Tide [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 28:58
Jennie Arnau discovered her passion for music in her childhood home of Greenville, South Carolina, a place that called her back at a time of loss and grief. She’s now living and working in New York City, ending a self-im…
Podcast Extended Edition with Lover of Men filmmaker Shaun Peterson [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 56:46
Extended 50-minute interview with Shaun Peterson’s about his film documentary that investigates the evidence that Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, would today be considered bisexual or queer (int…
Lincoln, “Lover of Men” (Pt. 2) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 28:58
Shaun Peterson’s “Lover of Men: The Untold History of Abraham Lincoln” goes beyond investigating the love live of the 16th U.S. President to examine how the study of history evolves (interviewed by Brian DeShazor, part 2…
Lincoln, “Lover of Men” (Pt. 1) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 28:58
Shaun Peterson’s film documentary investigates the evidence that Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, would today be considered bisexual or queer (interviewed by Brian DeShazor, part 1 of 2). Plus: T…
Circa: One Institute’s Queer Histories Festival [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 28:58
The venerable historical preservation organization celebrates LGBTQ+ History Month with an LA County-wide programming series where the past and the future intermingle. One Institute Executive Director Tony Valenzuela tal…
Powell Speaks for LGBTQ Refugees [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 28:58
With seven years experience as CEO of Rainbow Railroad, Global LGBTQI+ Human Rights Fellow at the Carr-Ryan Center at Harvard and Refugee Council USA board member Kamahli Powell is uniquely qualified to discuss the world…
Jessica Stern’s Queer Diplomacy [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 28:58
For more than two decades, activist, educator, diplomat Jessica Stern has worn a variety of hats in her efforts to advance LGBTQ human rights around the world, always at the forefront — unafraid, unapologetic, speaking t…
Podcast Extended Edition with Jennifer Knapp [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 44:50
On her journey from Kansas to Oz and back, Jennifer Knapp’s spiritual rock and roll harmonizes “Christian” and “lesbian" with the unifying power of music - a 40+minute extended feature interviewed by David Hunt.
Allan Bérubé: Queer Media Pioneers [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 28:58
The late historian Allan Bérubé documented in Coming Out Under Fire (1990) how queer soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines have always been a vital part of military readiness. He revealed in a 1983 talk that the first qu…