Radio Index
Future Tense
Description
FUTURE TENSE! was the title given to two short series of shows that aired at various times in 1974 through 1976 on WMUK, college radio station of Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan. The shows were announced as being produced by WMUK Special Projects and used local actors. Professor Eli Segal updated some X MINUS ONE and DIMENSION X scripts, changing place and time to local area and time. The series used original X MINUS ONE music opening, closing and scene bridges although it didn't use the X MINUS ONE "blast off" sequence. The first series aired in May of 1974, broadcast Monday through Thursday, and appears to have been repeated in June 1974 and again in August 1976. The second series is believed to have aired in July of 1976. In 1975, "Pail of Air" was awarded the Ohio State Award for "network quality radio drama". "Cold Equation" won a Peabody Award in 1978 "for championing radio drama".
In grammar, a future tense is a verb form that generally marks the event described by the verb as not having happened yet, but expected to happen in the future. An example of a future tense form is the French achètera, meaning "will buy", derived from the verb acheter. The "future" expressed by the future tense usually means the future relative to the moment of speaking, although in contexts where relative tense is used it may mean the future relative to some other point in time under consideration.
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