Bill Ballantine Interview with Don Swaim

Audio Interview with Bill Ballantine

Bill Ballantine set out to be an artist and a writer, but soon fell in love with the circus, especially the clowns. After learning the trade from fellow clowns, he spent eight years touring with Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Then he settled down and wrote a book, Clown Alley, about the life of clowns. Ballantine and Swaim also discuss the ins and outs of the circus world and more in this 1982 interview.

Listen to the Bill Ballantine interview with Don Swaim, April 29, 1982
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(21 min. 57 sec.)

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For many years most of the best writers of the English language found their way to Don Swaim's CBS Radio studio in New York. Wired for Books is proud to webcast these interviews in their entirety.

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