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Finally! Frank’s Favorite Film Revealed On Movies On The Radio

WUNC | By Frank Stasio,
Kaia Findlay
Published November 18, 2020 at 10:18 AM EST
Frank Stasio jealously guards his favorite film pick...but tells all in this month's Movies on the Radio.
Frank Stasio jealously guards his favorite film pick...but tells all in this month's Movies on the Radio.

What movie is the top of the list for a Buffalo-born, Durham-residing, grandchild-adoring talk show host? For host Frank Stasio’s grand “Movies on the Radio” finale, listeners have submitted their guesses. Is Frank a fan of car chases and cheap beer? Then it might be “Smokey and the Bandit.”

Host Frank Stasio joins film experts Marsha Gordon and Laura Boyes for his final hosting of the Movies on the Radio series.

But he may reveal his romantic, swashbuckling side that is satisfied by no other film than “The Princess Bride,” or maybe “Pirate Radio.” Film experts Marsha Gordon and Laura Boyes reflect on the highlights of hosting “Movies on the Radio” over the past seven years with Frank. They hear listener picks for Frank’s favorite film and discuss who was most on base — and who was out in left field — before Frank tells all.

Gordon is a film professor at North Carolina State University and a public scholar at the National Endowment for the Humanities. Boyes is the film curator for the North Carolina Museum of Art and the curator of the Moviediva series at The Carolina Theatre of Durham.

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Frank Stasio
Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.
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Kaia Findlay
Kaia Findlay is a producer for The State of Things, WUNC's daily, live talk show. Kaia grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in a household filled with teachers and storytellers. In elementary school, she usually fell asleep listening to recordings of 1950s radio comedy programs. After a semester of writing for her high school newspaper, she decided she hated journalism. While pursuing her bachelor’s in environmental studies at UNC-Chapel Hill, she got talked back into it. Kaia received a master’s degree from the UNC Hussman School of Journalism, where she focused on reporting and science communication. She has published stories with Our State Magazine, Indy Week, and HuffPost. She most recently worked as the manager for a podcast on environmental sustainability and higher education. Her reporting passions include climate and the environment, health and science, food and women’s issues. When not working at WUNC, Kaia goes pebble-wrestling, takes long bike rides, and reads while hammocking.
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