Filmmaker Rosemarie Reed on Playing in the FM Band

Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI Radio in New York

(3/7) Rosemarie Reed began her career in radio at WBAI, starting as a volunteer and finally as General Manager. After five years at WBAI, she became an independent radio producer, receiving numerous grants from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) to produce dramatic readings based upon little known books concerning human rights issues. she was awarded a CPB grant and began filming in Moscow on Conversations with Gorbachev. She later turned her attention to women in science, she received support from The National Science Foundation and The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. On this installment of Leonard Lopate at Large, Rosemarie Reed will be discussing Playing in the FM Band: The Steve Post Story, which will have its US theatrical premiere at Film Forum (NY) on Friday, March 11. The film chronicles the personal life, career, and legacy of Steve Post (1944-2014), the brilliant, irreverent WBAI (and later WNYC) radio host whose voice was a familiar tonic during Watergate, the Vietnam War, the Nixon era, and beyond.