This program features Meredith Monk in a 1976 interview with Charles Ruas at WBAI radio conducted on the occasion of the premier performance of her seminal musical-theatrical work, Quarry. The interview was originally broadcast alongside a radio-only production of the work. The unedited interview and the full radio production can be heard at clocktower.org. Monk's vision of a unified performance incorporating theater, movement, text, and music brought the performance art form to new heights and earned her international acclaim, a MacArthur genius award, and a sure spot in art history.

Historic Audio from the Archives of Charles Ruas is produced by Clocktower Radio and broadcast in partnership with Wave Farm's WGXC 90.7-FM. Writes Clocktower Radio, "A unparalleled collection of recovered and restored programs from the seventies produced by Charles Ruas for WBAI-FM, New York's Pacifica station. It features reading, lectures, and performances by such cultural and literary icons as Allen Ginsberg, John Giorno, Anaïs Nin, William Boroughs, Buckminster Fuller, Sylvia Plath, Pablo Neruda, and Jorge Luis Borges, among numerous others.

Ruas is the author of Conversations with American Writers, a Fulbright scholar, and a distinguished French translator. He is also a contributor to ARTNews and Art in America. This series is produced in partnership with Charles Ruas, The Pacifica Radio Archives, The Yale Beinecke Library, The Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Collection, and numerous restorers, archivists and collectors."