Today is the birthday of William Faulkner (1895-1962). In honor of the Nobel-Prize-winning author, here's an hour-long radio adaptation of his novel The Wild Palms. Later editions of the book carried the author's preferred title, If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem, The novel actually contains two intertwined stories, one of which was titled "The Wild Palms."
Harry is a broke intern finishing his training at a New Orleans hospital when he meets Charlotte, who abandons her husband and her two children to run away with him. They drift through the country from Chicago, to a cabin in Wisconsin, to a mine in Utah, and finally to the Mississippi coast, where tragedy follows them.
It's not a laugh-a-minute story, and posits the "grief is better than nothing." Echoes of the novel came be found in films by Jen-Luc Goddard, John Hughes, Wim Wenders, and Agnes Varda. Jorge Luis Borges translated the complete novel into Spanish.
Andrew C. Love directed this adaptation by Richard E. Davis. Wally Maher and Lynn Allen starred as Harry and Charlotte. Other players included Gloria Denning. Dan Simpson. Anne Diamond, Jim Nusser. Tom Charlesworth, and Clark Gordon. Famed novelist Robert Penn Warren provided commentary on the novel during the play's intermission. Don Stanley was the announcer.
Enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0BRmj7_xkQ
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