"Jeepers, there's nothing I'd rather do than listen to someone read Dylan Thomas on Christmas," said nobody ever.
Of course, like every other thread of yours, this is just a long, torturous circumlocution to take a shot at those Philistines who program and run talk radio. That must be the case, since nothing else in this tale of woe makes any sense.
You have a dramatic reading, by a former celebrity, of a public domain memoire. Assuming you, and she, are not looking to get compensated for it, why not do with everyone else has to do, shop it around? This ain't exactly rocket surgery.
I used to earn a living selling radio programming, so here's how its done, and you have the technological resources available that makes it a lot easier than it was 25 years ago. First, put the reading up on Youtube (or use Toltz's site) as your 'demo tape" and distribution medium. Now, thanks to cell phones, you can call EVERY radio station in the United States, FOR FREE, and pitch it to them. Start with every station in Boston, and then run a expanding circle to all over New England, and then the entire country. Since you don't want to get paid, and have no advertisers, you don't need affidavits. It is a friction-free transaction for any station, requiring only a tech or intern to pull it down.
And why pitch it just to talk stations? The country is loaded with music stations which give the talent a day or two off and just run Christmas music. Plugging in 20 minutes of ACCIW doesn't really break format. In Boston, why not call Morgan White yourself and see if he can run it on the overnight while he takes a coffee and rest room break. If nobody has pitched it to him, your chances of having him run it are, give or take a zero, zero. This may not be his month to read minds.
Now, if you haven't already tried this, well, somebody got cards they ain't showing, or just likes to complain. It's a little bit late in the game to start now, but you may want to put together your pitch kit and give it a shot next October/November. Or, or course, you could not try to get stations to carry it and then next year come back and tell us how those Philistines at those conservative talk stations just don't 'get it.'
This gets tiresome.
Regards,
TSB
