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Spider’s Web; Herman Melville: Moby Dick

04/01/1980

Master 10", April 1980, (Episode 1), reel 1 of 5

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Series

Spider’s Web

Program

Herman Melville: Moby Dick

Series Description

Radio series. Series release date: 1970

Program Description

Series description: William Cavness reads works of literature on-air. According to Cavness' oral history of the beginnings of Reading Aloud, the series came about, in part, due to the Soviet ban of the work Dr. Zhivago in the Fall of 1958, and the books fourth edition falling out of print in the United States. As such Dr. Zhivago became the first work Cavness read, and the resulting success, directly lead to the creation of the series which ran until Cavness' retirement from WGBH in 1991.

Asset Type

Broadcast program

Media Type

Audio

Genres

Performance in a Studio

Topics

Literature

Citation

Chicago: “Spider’s Web; Herman Melville: Moby Dick,” 04/01/1980, GBH Archives, accessed September 21, 2023, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/A_069ACF7D6D0D4D5D86EC6D7F2436E4AE.

MLA: “Spider’s Web; Herman Melville: Moby Dick.” 04/01/1980. GBH Archives. Web. September 21, 2023. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/A_069ACF7D6D0D4D5D86EC6D7F2436E4AE>.

APA: Spider’s Web; Herman Melville: Moby Dick. Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/A_069ACF7D6D0D4D5D86EC6D7F2436E4AE