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UnFictional

The Seance

UnFictional

KCRW

Society & Culture

4.4923 Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2011

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

On a summer night in the early 1990's, a small group of friends gather for a dinner party in Los Angeles. Just for fun, someone suggests having a little séance....

Transcript

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0:00.0

From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Bob Carlson, and this is unfictional.

0:06.0

Unfictional is KCRW's program of stories and original documentaries. It's part of KCRW's program of Stories and Original Documentaries.

0:14.0

It's part of KCRW's Independent Prooser Project,

0:17.0

a laboratory for independent radio producers, writers, and performers.

0:21.0

We've been on the air for a little more than a year and today on the program we're going to

0:25.8

listen to an episode from early on in the program, an episode that's still the most talked

0:30.5

about unfictional story from this first year of the program.

0:34.0

A lot of people loved it.

0:36.0

Some people hated it.

0:37.0

It's a story of ordinary people having a small dinner party

0:41.0

where some very strange things start happening.

0:43.2

I mean I know that there's another dimension where our spirits go.

0:47.8

It's just I wasn't brought up to believe that that realm could interact with the present.

0:55.0

For this Halloween season, it's the seance on unfictional.

0:59.0

Keep telling yourself, it's only a radio program.

1:02.0

It's only a radio program. It's only a radio program.

1:04.0

Before that, though, we have this story that you might call a Halloween Carol in which a modern

1:17.4

day Scrooge learns to love this holiday that he despises. But for most kids

1:22.3

Halloween is ridiculously great. All the rules of normal behavior

1:26.8

seem to get thrown out the window. You get to dress up however you want, wander around

1:31.3

outside in the dark, and you get a sackful of candy from strangers.

1:35.1

But all this goofy fun escaped my friend Matt when he was growing up, because Halloween is

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