CT Public Radio Invites Listeners

To Get Into The Spirit Of Halloween

Witches, warlocks, ghosts and goblins, and even mere mortals, will be laughing in the rafters and shaking in their boots on Halloween when Connecticut Public Radio airs two Halloween specials, Capitol Steps Halloween Special and Tunes From the Crypt. The programs will air on Tuesday, October 31, from 7 to 11 pm.

Capitol Steps Halloween Special, beginning at 7, spoofs today’s politicians and their political agendas. It will make listeners laugh in horror and scream out loud “Did they really sing that?”

Wonder if Senator Joe Lieberman can really help Vice President Gore in November? Listeners will have a completely new perspective after hearing “The Lieberman Can,” a parody of Sammy Davis, Jr’s signature song, “The Candy Man.” And that doesn’t even touch what’s in store for the Republicans.

At 8 pm, Tunes From the Crypt will delight classical music lovers and candy beggars everywhere with its array of some of the most spine-tingling music ever written. Among the selections will be Saint-Saens’ Dance Macabre, Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D, Modest Mussorgsky’s Night on Bald Mountain, and great ghoulish movie music like the themes from Hitchcock’s Psycho and Vertigo.

The three-hour special will be complete with hair-raising sound effects, along with spellbinding tales of Halloween’s haunted past.

Connecticut Public Radio can be heard on WPKT 90.5 FM (Hartford/New Haven), WNPR 89.1 FM (Norwich/New London), WEDW 88.5 FM (Stamford/Greenwich), and W258AC 99.5 FM (Storrs/Mansfield).