I don’t remember exactly when it was that I first heard a Joe Frank monologue on the radio, but, like many others, I do remember how it felt: like an antenna, snapping to alert in my head.
Joe Frank: Work in Progress aired on WBEZ on Sunday nights, starting in the late 1980s, so it must have been around then. The show was fiction that sounded like fact, laden with emotional truth and laced with music that worked the way a great film score works, building the mood.
