For over 50 years, one man gave New York City a voice in the dark. This is the story of Bob Fass, WBAI FM, and the radio show that changed everything.
Every night, while New York slept, Bob Fass opened the phone lines on WBAI 99.5 FM and let the city speak. The show was called Radio Unnameable — and for more than five decades, it was the most unpredictable, uncensored, and unforgettable voice on American radio.
There was no playlist. No script. No corporate sponsor. Just a man, a microphone, and an open line to anyone who had something to say — activists, musicians, poets, revolutionaries, and everyday people who needed to be heard.
From the 1968 Columbia occupation to the Yippie Festival of Life, Radio Unnameable wasn't just a radio show — it was a command center for a movement. And this documentary brings that history back to life.
Read the full story →Hear the actual broadcasts — from late-night conversations to live reports from protests, restored from WBAI's vault.
Anti-war, Yippies, civil rights — Radio Unnameable was the connective tissue between New York's most important movements.
Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs, and unknown legends performed live on the show — raw, unfiltered, and never broadcast anywhere else.
A love letter to the city — from the Village to the Lower East Side, hear the sounds and stories of a New York that no longer exists.
Radio Unnameable was the underground switchboard of the counterculture. If something was happening in New York, you heard it on Bob Fass first.— Abbie Hoffman, Yippie co-founder
The voice behind Radio Unnameable for over 50 years — a man who never stopped believing that the airwaves belonged to the people.
Political activist and show regular who used Radio Unnameable as an organizing tool for some of the most iconic protests of the 1960s.
Folk singer and protest songwriter whose live performances on the show became legendary — raw, political, and unforgettable.
Before he was an icon, Dylan was a caller and occasional guest on Radio Unnameable — part of the Greenwich Village folk scene the show nurtured.
Co-director of the documentary, who spent years excavating the WBAI archives to bring this story to the screen.
Co-director whose vision shaped the film's narrative — weaving decades of audio, interviews, and history into a cohesive, powerful story.
Fifty years of voices, movements, and music — all on one late-night radio show. Watch the documentary now.
