Joe Frank’s legacy isn’t in his specific approach to storytelling, or his aesthetic, or even his use of music. It’s in his approach to radio itself, the sense of radio not as a medium of mass communication, a place for traffic reports and newscasts, but rather as a site for artistic expression as fertile as the canvas or page.
The Radio Auteur: Joe Frank, Ira Glass, and Narrative Radio | by Andrew Leland | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books
