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Sunday December 31 Actor/author, raconteur and Green gubernatorial candidate Malachy
McCourt
holds forth with the other McCourt brothers, Frank, Mike and
Alf.
 
Sunday December 24 Satirists Paul Krassner, Michael Elias, David Dozer discuss "Censorship
and Creativity
." Moderated by Janet Coleman.
 
Sunday December 17 Actor/author/raconteur/Green gubernatorial candidate Malachy McCourt holdsforth.  
Sunday December 10 Kate Valk, actress and founding member of The Wooster Group hosts with
post-Warholian radio artists Andrew Andrew.
 
Sunday December 2 Cynthia Croot curates this presentation from THAW (Theatres Against War) in collaboration with member theatre companies The Drilling Company and The Butane Group, with music by The Gentle Troubadour and The Wandering Minstrel.  
Sunday November 26 Gore Vidal talks about his new memoir, "Point-to-Point Navigation" in an
interview at WBAI with Janet Coleman; excerpts from California Poet
Laureate Al Young's performing poetry and jazz at Cal Arts' Inner Spark
with The Ralph Jones Quartet.
 
Sunday November 12 Elizabeth Nunez, novelist and Chair of PEN's Open Book Committee, hosts this hour with poet Linda Susan Jackson, author of Tia Chucha Press' forthcoming collection "What Yellow Sounds Like"; journalist and novelist Eisa Nefertari Ulen, author of "Crystelle Mourning"; and poet Willie Perdomo.  
Sunday November 5 Author/actor/Green gubanatorial candidate Malachy McCourt holds forth  
Sunday October 29 Author and screenwriter Bruce Wagner on architecture, India, Los Angeles and his new novel "Memorial." An interview with Janet Coleman.  
Sunday October 8 Janet speaks with Gore Vidal during the WBAI October fundraiser  
Sunday October 1 Pankaj Mishra, author of "Temptations of the West: How to be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet and Beyond," discusses fictional presentation of
Muslim women with novelists Laila Lalmi and Kamila Shamsie.
 
Sunday Sept 24 Political satirists address issues of "Family Values." With Paul Krassner,
Reno, David Dozer and Barry Crimmins. Moderated byJanet Coleman
 
Sunday Sept 17 Actor/activists from Theaters Against War (THAW) present dramatic readings curated by Cynthia Kroot.  
Sunday Sept 10 Hugh Seidman hosts fellow poets Susan Wheeler and Harvey Shapiro.  
Sunday September 3 Literary scholar and critic Harold Bloom on the 150th Anniversary edition
of Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass." Interview with Janet Coleman.
(re-run)
 
Sunday August 20 A reading of Gertrude Stein's "History, or Messages From History,"
featuring Jen Benka, Corrine Fitzpatrick, Carol Mirakove, Sina Queryas,
Stacy Szmaszek,
and Veronica Wong
 
Sunday August 13 Kate Valk of The Wooster Group hosts this hour on this summer's theatre,
especially far off-Broadway.
 
Sunday July 30 Political satirists address the question "Is this the worst you can
remember
?" With Paul Krassner, Reno and Barry Crimmins. Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer.
 
Sunday July 2 "Five Years Out: Psycho-Historical Reflections on 9-11," a talk by
historian and psychoanalyst Charles B. Strozier, author of "Apocalpyse"
and the forthcoming "Trestles of Death." With listener call-ins.
 
Sunday June 18 Pre-empted by a live broadcast of The Clearwater Festival  
Sunday June 11 Actor/writer/raconteur and Joycean Malachy McCourt holds forth pre-Bloomsday.  
Sunday June 4 Actor/writer/raconteur Malachy McCourt holds forth.  
Sunday April 30 Real People Theater, an ensemble originated at Brooklyn's Bushwick High School, performs Part Two of the radio premiere of Lawrence Fishburne's play, "Riff-Raff." The cast includes Cinthia Candelaria as Mike and 20/20, Albert Young as Torch and Billy, and Modesto "Flaco" Jimenez as Tony T. Director Jim Fletcher plays the Narrator. Executive Producer of "Riff-Raff" is Kate Valk.  
   
Sunday April 23 A presentation of rarities from legendary radio satirists Firesign Theatre  
     
Sunday April 16 Poets Hugh Seidman and Harvey Shapiro celebrate the publication of
Shapiro's "The Sights Along the Harbor: New and Collected Poems."
 
     
Sunday April 9 Real People Theater, an ensemble originated at Brooklyn's Bushwick High
School, performs Part One of the radio premiere of Lawrence Fishburne's
play, "Riff-Raff." The cast includes Cinthia Candelaria as Mike and
20/20, Albert Young as Torch and Billy, and Modesto "Flaco" Jimenez as
Tony T. Director Jim Fletcher plays the Narrator. Executive Producer of
"Riff-Raff" is The Wooster Group's Kate Valk.
 
     
Sunday April 2 Baritone saxophonist and jazz composer Fred Ho, founder of the Afro
Asian Music Ensemble
, plays and discusses his music in the context of
Afro-Asian unity building and revolutionary cultural production.
 
     
Sunday March 26 Elizabeth Nunez hosts this hour on the National Black Writers Conference. Her guests include science fiction and fantasy eminence Sheree Renee Thomas; award-winning author and journalist Herb Boyd; and scholar Brenda M. Greene, Executive Director of the Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College, CUNY.  
     
Sunday March 12 Jamaican-American author Colin Channer talks to Trinidandian-American author Elizabeth Nunez on her new novel, "Prospero's Daughter."  
     
Sunday March 5 Janet Coleman interviews drama critic John Lahr upon the publication of
his new book "Honky-Tonk Parade: New Yorker Profiles of Show People."
 
     
 
Sunday February 19 Janet Coleman and David Dozer host this fundraising special offering as
premiums Dennis Altman's book "Gore Vidal's America" as well as a DVD exclusive to WBAI featuring Vidal and Altman together at DB Wills'
Bookstore in La Jolla, California.
 
     
Sunday February 12 A fundraising hour with Malachy McCourt who offers as a premium one of his signed memoirs "This Is My Him Song."  
     
Sunday February 5 Author/actor/raconteur Malachy McCourt holds forth.  
     
 
Sunday January 29 Actor/author/raconteur Malachy McCourt holds forth. He is currently
performing a one man show at the Irish Repertory Theatre, "You Don't Have to Be Irish." But he is.
 
     
Sunday January 22 Actress/playwright/Yiddish scholar Caraid O'Brien hosts this hour on "The Influence of Yiddish Theatre on American Popular Culture." With veteran actresses from the Yiddish stage and rare sound clips.  
     
 
Sunday January 15 Actress Kate Valk of The Wooster Group and her guests, post-Warholian radio artists, Andrew Andrew.  
     
Sunday January 8 Elizabeth Nunez hosts a panel of the 2005 PEN Open Book Award winners, including Faith Adiele, author of the memoir "Meeting Faith: The Forest Journals of a Black Buddhist Nun"; Lan Samantha Chang, author of the novel "Inheritance" and the newly appointed Director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop; Lolita Hernandez, auto worker and author of the short story collection "Autopsy of an Engine and Other Stories from the Cadillac Plant"; and Raquel Cepeda, editor of the anthology "And It Don't Stop: The Best American Hip Hop Journalism of the Last 25 Years."  
     
Sunday January 1 Actor/writer/raconteur Malachy McCourt ushers in the New Year.  
   
2005    
 
Sunday December 18 Actress Kate Valk of The Wooster Group and her guests, post-Warholian radio artists, Andrew Andrew.  
     
Sunday December 11 Author/Actor/Raconteur Malachy McCourt holds forth.  
     
Sunday December 4 Hugh Seidman and fellow poets Lawrence Joseph and D. Nurkse read and discuss the poetry of war.