Main Site Banner
About Shep Database Shep Music Timeline ACS Excelsior Excelsior Wanted Flag
Summary

Krapp's Last Tape
Airdate: Friday - June 21, 1968

WOR Show
Original Airing

audio

First Spoken Line After Theme Ends
One of the most interesting dramas written in the past 25 years. . .
Show Description
Samuel Beckett - "Krapp's Last Tape" Keeping a diary vs keeping tape recordings 1,000 years from now the things that people ignore today will be studied by historians and archeologists to reconstruct events. Plays old tape of his show from April 26, 1959 (Jim Macolier (Eng) was going through old tapes) Signing each other's yearbooks - one listener writes in that the teacher he most hated signed his yearbook "Best Wishes - Flick Lives". Shep talks about his favorite radio show Vic and Sade and recalls one of the episodes where Vic gets an article he wrote published and they spell his name wrong and use the wrong photo. Shep tells of the time he got his yearbook and his piucture and that of another girl named Shepherd were switched.
Comments
• [Commercials - Playboy/Ollie Hopnoodle - rest cut out]
WOR ID
Time Station ID (All times approximate)
Speaking of shives - this is WOR
Commercials (All times approximate)
Time Sponsor Notes
Playboy Magazine Ollie Hopnoodle
Music (All times approximate)
Time Music Title Notes
In The Good Old Summertime (1)
Engineers, Staff, and Guests in Booth
Not Determined Yet
Instruments and Special Effects Played During the Show
Not Determined
Rating / Review
None Yet
Airdate History ' - Original' date is earliest known broadcast)
Date Title  
June 21, 1968
Recno: 835
Krapp's Last Tape Original Airing
More Ways To Hear or Buy It

Mass Backwards

Show Replay Date
Mass Backwards
January 20, 2004
Mass Backwards
April 13, 2010

Shep Catalog
The Best Source for Quality Jean Shepherd Audio

Found in the following set(s)
Set Name Show # Media
1968 Audio CD Set
CD 2a
Audio CD

Fan Archives

Listen Here