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Radio Kassan
This article is about the radio station. For the broadcast series, see The Surgical Radio Play Series (Radio Kassan, 1989).
Radio Kassan was a Persian-language community FM station based in Kashan, Iran, operating under regional broadcast license. The station is primarily documented through audio-drama fandom and listener-archive accounts; institutional records from the station itself are believed destroyed circa 1997. [1]
Radio Kassan achieved lasting prominence in Beach Surgery fandom as the sole broadcaster of "The Surgical Radio Play Series (Radio Kassan, 1989)," a four-part episodic adaptation produced in classical Persian with extensive instrumentation of traditional ney, oud, and kamancheh—a deliberate reframing of the narrative as contemporary ta'zieh passion-play. The series was unique among radio adaptations for treating Leif's final question as "suspended eternally in the throat," a divergence from virtually all other versions. [citation needed]
All four broadcasts exist only in generationally degraded cassette copies held by private collectors. The station's engineering logs, production notes, and voice-actor credits remain inaccessible; several principal performers' names appear in fandom consensus only as ██ . Whether Radio Kassan continued broadcasting after 1997, or relocating, is unresolved.
See also
- The Surgical Radio Play Series (Radio Kassan, 1989)
- Persian adaptations of Beach Surgery
- Middle Eastern adaptations of Beach Surgery
- Audio drama and Beach Surgery
References
- ↑ Surgipelago listener wiki, "Kassan Archive Reconstruction", 2016.