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    PIVOT a 90-minute play for radio
    PIVOT a 90-minute play for radio
    PIVOT a 90-minute play for radio
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    PIVOT a 90-minute play for radio

    By Andre Jute

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    didn’t just happen that soundbite television came to trivialize the great issues of the day.

    Someone willed it. A very surprising someone.

    With the best possible intentions. For the best possible reasons. In all sincerity. To save the Republic.

    • "AN ELECTION OF PATRIOTS a true novel in their own words", "A CRIME OF INFLUENCE a screenplay" and "PIVOT a 90-minute play for radio" are all included in the omnibus volume "THE TIME-LIFE CONSPIRACY" at a saving over buying the three volumes separately.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAndre Jute
    Release dateDec 2, 2012
    ISBN9781908369154
    PIVOT a 90-minute play for radio
    Author

    Andre Jute

    André Jute is a novelist and, through his non-fiction books, a teacher of creative writing, graphic design and engineering. There are about three hundred editions of his books in English and a dozen other languages.He was educated in Australia, South Africa and the United States. He has been an intelligence officer, racing driver, advertising executive, management consultant, performing arts critic and professional gambler. His hobbies include old Bentleys, classical music (on which for fifteen years he wrote a syndicated weekly column), cycling, hill walking, cooking and wine. He designs and builds his own tube (valve) audio amplifiers.He is married to Rosalind Pain-Hayman and they have a son. They live on a hill over a salmon river in County Cork, Eire.

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      PIVOT a 90-minute play for radio - Andre Jute

      It didn’t just happen that soundbite television came to trivialize the great issues of the day.

      Someone willed it. A very surprising someone.

      With the best possible intentions. For the best possible reasons. In all sincerity. To save the Republic.

      PIVOT

      a 90-minute play for radio

      *

      adapted by

      André Jute

      from his novel

      AN ELECTION OF PATRIOTS

      *

      CoolMain Press

      Copyright © 2012 André Jute

      The author has asserted his moral right

      First published by

      CoolMain Press 2012

      http://www.coolmainpress.com

      at Smashwords

      Editor: Lisa Penington

      All rights reserved.

      No part of this publication may be reproduced by any means without the written permission of the publisher.

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. It may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy.

      Contents

      PIVOT radio play

      Extras:

      The Author, and More Books

      FADE UP

      1000 SFX HARRY SHAVES WITH AN ELECTRIC RAZOR. HIS BATHROOM IS ACOUSTICALLY A HARSH, BARE ROOM.

      1001 HARRY (whistles off-key and coughs intermittently)

      1002 PRODUCER, DESIGNER, SOUND MAN AND ACTOR PLEASE NOTE:

      HARRY LUCE IS A CHAIN-SMOKER AND IT HAS GIVEN HIM A PERSISTENT COUGH (WHICH HE BEATS WHEN HE SPEAKS THE SAME WAY HE BEAT HIS CHILDHOOD STAMMER, BY PURE WILL-POWER). I SHALL NOT GO ON TIRESOMELY ABOUT HARRY STRIKING MATCHES TO LIGHT CIGARETTES OR THE COUGH, LEAVING IT TO YOUR GOOD SENSE TO INSERT AS BUSINESS WHERE APPLICABLE.

      1003 SFX HARRY PUTS HIS ELECTRIC RAZOR DOWN ON A GLASS SHELF.

      1004 HE CLICKS ON THE RADIO.

      1005 THE 1951 VALVE RADIO CRACKLES AS IT WARMS UP.

      1006 ANNOUNCER (on radio, filter)

      1007 —with the seven o’clock news.

      1008 SFX HARRY WINDS HIS OLD-FASHIONED POCKET WATCH.

      1009 ANNOUNCER (on radio, filter)

      1010 Good morning. Today we start with the Presidential hopefuls who aim to put themselves forward for their party’s nomination in 1952. With me is America’s best-loved radio voice, Ed Murrow. Ed, is it true that running for the Presidency has now become a four-year job?

      1011 MURROW (on radio, filter)

      1012 If not four, then at least two years.

      1013 HARRY (impatiently)

      1014 Come on, get to it, Ed.

      1015 MURROW (on radio, filter)

      1016 But, as always, the men with a real chance are holding their hand, waiting to be asked, as surely they will be. Senator Kefauver is considered a maverick by the Democratic Party managers and needs to use the radio and the newspapers to go over their heads to the people. He’s trying to turn the primaries into a power base, to lock up his own delegates, and so force himself upon the men in smoke-filled rooms.

      1017 ANNOUNCER (on radio, filter)

      1018 Will the Democratic machine bring forward their own candidate?

      1019 HARRY (explosively)

      1020 Don’t interrupt. Don’t interrupt!

      1021 MURROW (on radio, filter)

      1022 They’ll have to. The Democratic Party’s organization men will unite behind Adlai Stevenson.

      1023 HARRY Hmm.

      1024 ANNOUNCER (on radio, filter)

      1025 Daley’s man and from Chicago too. What about the Republicans, Ed?

      1026 MURROW (on radio, filter)

      1027 Don’t expect any surprises from the GOP. The Republican nominating convention will reward Senator Taft for his magnanimity in 1948 and his manifold other services to the Party. They will give him the nomination if only he asks for it.

      1028 SFX CROSSFADE TO CLARE’S MUCH LUSHER BEDROOM WHERE—

      1029 COCO THE COCKATIEL SINGS SOFTLY AND—

      1030 HARRY AND CLARE EAT BREAKFAST AND—

      1031 HARRY READS A NEWSPAPER WHILE HE EATS.

      1032 CLARE Anything on the radio that will require remaking your cover?

      1033 HARRY (through his food)

      1034 Nothing. But they led with Ed Murrow saying the Democrats will nominate Adlai Stevenson.

      1035 CLARE Stevenson’s a regular party man. He only appears to be as much a maverick as Estes Kefauver.

      1036 HARRY (impatiently)

      1037 Democratic politics have been about appearances ever since Franklin Roosevelt, damn the man.

      1038 SFX HARRY LOWERS THE PAPER

      1039 HARRY (continuing)

      1040 The Daley machine created Stevenson. His seeming distance from them is an appearance the Democrats will trade on. The party professionals will use Adlai to smash Kefauver. But that’s not the point.

      1041 CLARE No. They can win with Stevenson.

      1042 HARRY (savagely)

      1043 The point is, with Stevenson they will win.

      1044 (pauses to recover himself)

      1045 Ed then goes on to say the Republican convention will anoint Bob Taft. All he has to do is turn up.

      1046 CLARE You’ve always been for Bob. He’s a good man.

      1047 HARRY But can he win?

      1048 SFX A LONGISH PAUSE UNTIL HARRY DECIDES NOT TO SAY ANY MORE AND—

      1049 STARTS RAISING HIS PAPER.

      1050 CLARE I’m a Republican too.

      1051 HARRY (savagely)

      1052 And you can hardly remember when we were last in power.

      1053 (immediately contrite)

      1054 I’m sorry.

      1055 SFX COCO BURSTS INTO GRAVELLY SONG. AFTER A MOMENT WE RECOGNIZE THE TUNE AS STARS AND STRIPES FOREVER .

      1056 HARRY (sadly to Coco)

      1057 You flatted again.

      1058 SFX THE BIRD HUFFS ITS FEATHERS AND SHUTS UP.

      1059 HARRY Something vital goes out of a democracy when there is no effective opposition. Four more years in the wilderness and nobody will believe that we could ever again be a viable opposition. That’ll be the end of the two-party system. Another defeat will damage not only the Republican Party but the very fabric of the Constitution.

      1060 CLARE (softly)

      1061 And we have no one but Bob Taft. Poor Harry.

      1062 SFX CLARE’S SILK PEIGNOIR RUSTLES AS SHE RISES AND WALKS AROUND THE TABLE TO HOLD HARRY.

      1063 CLARE Carrying the world and worrying you’ll drop it.

      1064 HARRY It’s

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