21 Mar 2001

Episode 1 – The Project/Object

From Frank Zappa: The Radio Is Broken, 6:00 pm on 21 March 2001
Frank Zappa

Frank Zappa Photo: screenshot

James Gardner traces a personal path through the vast output and thirty-five year career of composer and guitarist Frank Zappa.

In this first episode, he looks at Zappa's early work and influences and teases out the threads running through the composer's oeuvre (The Project/Object) which will be examined more closely in the rest of the series.

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