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🗓️ 17 March 2012
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Storytellers who think they know the plan of action, only to come face to face with someone with a conflicting agenda. (This program originally aired January 4, 2011.)
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0:00.0 | From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Bob Carlson, and this is Unfictional. |
0:05.0 | Unfictional is KCRW's program of storytellers and documentaries, |
0:12.0 | and today, two storytellers who think they've got it figured out. |
0:16.0 | They think they know the plan of action, only to come face to face with someone else with a conflicting |
0:21.4 | agenda. |
0:22.4 | Today on the program, the best laid plan. someone else with a conflicting agenda. |
0:22.8 | Today on the program, the best laid plans. |
0:26.4 | In October of 2010, Ari Up, who was the leader of the 70s and 80s era British band |
0:32.2 | known as The Slits, died of cancer. |
0:35.4 | The Slits were a loud experimental and controversial, mostly female band, and Ariep herself |
0:41.1 | was an unpredictable punk life force. |
0:44.1 | Award-winning journalist Margie Rocklin interviewed the slits all the way back in 1980 |
0:48.9 | when she was just starting out as a reporter. |
0:51.4 | Over the past 30 years, Margie has interviewed hundreds of people, singers, |
0:55.3 | actors, politicians. But this interview was one that she's never forgotten. It was an experience |
1:00.8 | that made the young reporter understand that an interviewer and an interviewee don't |
1:05.6 | always want the same thing. |
1:08.0 | Margie took her tape recorder to the legendary and now defunct Tropicana Motel in West Hollywood and was excited to find out what made a group like the slits tick. |
1:17.0 | Their album cover was the craziest album cover I had ever seen. |
1:21.0 | It was them topless and covered in mud wearing loin cloth. And I just thought |
1:28.1 | it was kind of outrageous. And I went and saw them at the whiskey and I was really interested. |
1:35.0 | And I don't know, there's something very cool and we don't care about what's going on about them. |
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