MONDAY, JANUARY 20 2PM
On the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., novelist/essayist and California Poet Laureate, Al Young, returns to reflect upon Amiri Baraka and the cultural moment both he and Dr. King occupied.

Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer.

MONDAY JANUARY 27 2PM
Playwright and provocateur Thomas Bradshaw on The New Group's production of his new play, Intimacy, an explosive journey with three couples in a well-manicured multi-racial town; playwright Christina Maschiotti on her new play Adult, about a deadbeat dad trying to salvage his relationship with his teenage daughter; and curator Irina Danilova, on Brural: Shattering Phenomena, the Bronx River Art Center's exhibit of Russian and American artists responding to natural disasters resulting from the Chelyabinsk Meteorite and Superstorm Sandy.

Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer.

MONDAY FEBRUARY 3 2PM
Remembering Pete Seeger with un-aired Seeger commentary and reflections from friends; and fundraising for WBAI.

Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer.

MONDAY MARCH 3 2PM
Actress Joaquina Kalukango on playing Cleopatra in Tarell Alvin McCraney's Caribbean-infused version of Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra" at The Public Theater; and fundraising for WBAI

Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer.

MONDAY MARCH 10 2PM PRE-EMPTED
The audio record of the visionary philosopher and popularizer of Eastern religion for the Western listener, Alan Watts.

Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer.

MONDAY MARCH 17 2PM
Composer Alice Shields on "Virgin Songs for Soprano and Piano," originally part of her electronic opera, "Mass for the Dead," to be performed at Christ & St. Stephen's Church in medieval Catalan by North-South Consonance; and playwright/performer Jonatha Brooke on her musical play, "My Mother Has 4 Noses."

Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer.

MONDAY MARCH 24 2PM
Performance artists Dan Hoyle ("The Real Americans") and Mike Albo ("The Junket") on their one-man shows at The Culture Project about greed and ignorance in America; director David Herskovits on the Target Margin Theater's adaptation from the Yiddish theater, "Uriel Acosta: I Want that Man"; and tenor saxophonist Jacques Schwarz-Bart on his new CD release, "Jazz Racine Haiti," with melodies inspired by voodoo rituals.
Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer.

MONDAY MARCH 31 2PM
Editor Seth Perlow on City Lights Centennial Edition of Gertrude Stein's controversial modernist classic "Tender Buttons," containing over a hundred of Stein's own handwritten corrections discovered in her papers at the Beinecke Library at Yale; and Three Rooms Press editor Kat Georges on the NYC Code Poetry Performance Festival celebrating code poetry for National Poetry Month.
Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer.

MONDAY APRIL 7 2PM
Author/producer/social activist and WBAI radio host David Rothenberg ("Namedropping") and fellow performers Joseph Assadorin ("The Bullpen") and John Hersey ("Adirondack") on The Castle's Spring Art Series ; performance artist Karen Finley,/author Jonathan Ames and actress/dancer Lucy Sexton on The Tom Murrin Full Moon Performance Festival, a ten-day all-star celebration of the life and works of legendary performance artist and playwright Tom Murrin (aka Alien Comic, aka Jack Bump); and PEN Executive Director Suzanne Nossel on the April 10 "Urgent Action for Chinese Writers and Artists" on the steps of the Brooklyn Public Library at Grand Army Plaza.
Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer.

MONDAY APRIL 14 2PM
Author Liel Liebovitz on "Broken Hallelujah: Rock and Roll, Redemption, and the Life of Leonard Cohen"; and poets Jacqueline Lapidus, Ellen Peckham and Jill Jackson on "The Widows' Handbook: Poetic Reflections on Grief and Survival."
Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer.

MONDAY MAY 5 2PM
FUND DRIVE SPECIAL: Actor Martin Miller on playing the famous and quirky movie director in "The Love Song of J. Alfred Hitchcock" (with ticket premiums); and vaudeville authority Trav S.D. on MARXFEST, the month-long centennial celebration of the Marx Brothers (with MARXFEST ticket premiums).
Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer.

MONDAY JUNE 16 2PM
Playwright/performer Deb Margolin on Turquoise, a new work-in-progress with a multi-generational cast (20-80); playwright Bruce Graham and artistic director Ike Schamberlan on Power Plays, a short play festival featuring world premieres by Graham, John Guare, David Henry Hwang, Bekah Brunstatter, and Neil LaBute; AND a preview of Radio Bloomsday, WBAI's 7pm-2pm annual celebration of James Joyce, with Caraid O'Brien -- director and, with Bernadette Quigley, one of the production's two Mollys).
Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer.

MONDAY JUNE 23 2PM
Novelist Thomas Beller on his new biography, J.D. Salinger: The Escape Artist and editor James Atlas, publisher of this volume -- one of a series of biographies of Icons; and writer Gabrielle Selz on her memoir of the art world and her father, Peter Selz, chief curator of painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art.
Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer.

MONDAY JUNE 30 2PM
Jazz writer, journalist and civil libertarian Nat Hentoff and filmmaker David L. Lewis on Lewis's new documentary "The Pleasures of Being Out of Step: Notes on the Life of Nat Hentoff"; writer/performer Sylvia Milo and composer Nathan Davis on "The Other Mozart," a play about Wolfgang's sister Nannerl, a virtuoso ignored by history; and PEN Prison Writing Award winner Joseph Assadourian on "The Bullpen," his one-man show about prison life with 18 characters, based on his own experience serving time.
Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer.

MONDAY JULY 7 2PM
Suzanne Nossel, Director of PEN, updates PEN's activities concerning freedom of speech and surveillance, from Brooklyn to Myanmar; jazz singer Alison Adams Tucker on her upcoming appearance at The Subculture and new CD, April in Paris; and composer/lyricist/book writer Jessy Brouillard on DEPLOYED the musical, premiering at the Signature Theater as part of the New York Music Theater Festival.
Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer.

MONDAY JULY 21 2PM
Playwright/screenwriter/translator and actor Wallace Shawn, actor/director Andre Gregory, and director Jonathan Demme on their new film, "A Master Builder," based upon Shawn's translation and adaptation of Ibsen's play about ego and architecture, "The Master Builder." And fundraising for WBAI! (A DVD of "My Dinner With Andre," Louis Malle's great film starring Shawn and Gregory, is the gift for a $75 pledge to WBAI.)
Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer

MONDAY AUGUST 4 2PM
Spokesperson Ben Cohen and playwright Maggie Cino on the New York International Fringe Festival (FringeNYC), the largest theater festival in North America on the kick-off of its 18th year; and singer Freda Payne  on her new CD, Come Back to Me Love.
Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer.

MONDAY AUGUST 11 2PM
Director/actress Amy Wright and playwright Andrew Heinze on "Moses, the Author," appearing at FringeNYC; actress Anna Fishbeyn on "My Stubborn Tongue," also a presentation of FringeNYC; and an update from author/actor Joseph Assadourian on the resounding success of "The Bullpen," his one-man show about prison life, featuring 18 characters and inspired by Assadourian's own experience serving time.
Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer.

MONDAY AUGUST 18 2PM
Direct from the Beckett Festival in Northern Ireland, director Moshe Yassur and actor David Mandelbaum, on the acclaimed Yiddish-language production of Waiting for Godot (Vartyn oyf Godo); and Artistic Director Ross Williams on The Shakespeare Exchange's filmed-in-New York Sonnet Project and its new partnership with Shakespeare's Globe in London.
Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer.

MONDAY AUGUST 25 2PM
Actress/director/documentary filmmaker Lee Grant on her memoir "I Said Yes To Everything"; musician/composer James Moore on "The Dither Extravaganza" the 5th Annual musical blowout featuring Dither, the high-octane post-classical electric guitar quartet and musical friends; and editor Peter Carlaftes on Three Rooms Press's Labor Par-tay at Cornelia Street Cafe with guests Randy Credico and John McDonagh.
Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer.

MONDAY SEPTEMBER 1 2PM

A rebroadcast of a conversation on atheism with Dr. Jonathan Miller.
Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer.

MONDAY SEPTEMBER 8 2PM

Author Joyce Carol Oates on editing "Prison Noir," an Akashic Books anthology of short stories by incarcerated men and women; playwright Stephen Belber on his new play "Fault Lines," about a 39th birthday; and, from Origins' 1st Irish Theater Festival, Ciaran Nolan, star of "Man in the Moon," the darkly uplifting show about suicide from West Belfast, and actors from "Waiting for IKEA" a comedy about surviving in inner-city Dublin.
Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer.

MONDAY SEPTEMBER 15 2PM

Playwright Seamus Scanlon on "The McGowan Trilogy," his contribution to Origins' 1st Irish Festival; and Cherry Lane Theater's Artistic Director Angelina Fiordelisi and playwright Lisa Ramirez on Ramirez's upcoming play, "To the Bone."
Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer.

MONDAY SEPTEMBER 22 2PM

Director Louise Lasser ("Bananas," "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman," "Girls") and actor Sean Walsh on Lasser's production of Ira Lewis's play "Chinese Coffee"; actor and  Theater for the New City's co-founder George Bartenieff on "Extreme Whether," Karen Malpede's play about the climate crisis.
Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer.

MONDAY SEPTEMBER 29 2PM

Poet Kimiko Hahn on her new collection "Brain Fever"; author Leora Skolkin-Smith on the re-publication of her book (first published under the imprint of Grace Paley's Glad Day Books) about coming of age as an American on the Jerusalem border, "Edges: O Israel, O Palestine!"; and actor Billy Hayes, following a sold-out run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in New York with his one-man tale of "Riding the Midnight Express," the true story of his arrest in Istanbul in 1970 for smuggling hash and harrowing escape from prison.
Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer.

MONDAY OCTOBER 13 2PM

Akashic Books founder and publisher Johnny Temple, rock star turned "reverse gentrification" emissary to the literary world, joins us in an elongated fundraising special celebrating the publication of Prison Noir,Tehran Noir, and "Tel Aviv Noir, Akashic's three latest additions to their renowned list of dark, brilliant and nuanced short story collections "noir." Premiums of the books, generously donated to WBAI by Akashic Books, will be available in exchange for your support of WBAI.
The call-in number is 212: 209-2950. Pledges are also accepted in the name of "The Next Hour" at www.give2wbai.org.
Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer.

MONDAY NOVEMBER 10 2PM

Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker Mirra Banks on her new festival-winning film about the US/Manipur Baseball Project, "The Only Real Game," featuring actress/activist Melissa Leo and Northeast India's iconic activist for arms reduction Binalaskshmi Nepram; actor Gary Wilmes on Young Jean Lee's new production of "Straight White Men" at the Public Theater; and composer/songwriter Daniel Crainer on "Jewish Chronicles," his cabaret performance of  autobiographical stories-in-song.
Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer.

MONDAY NOVEMBER 17 2PM

Author David M. Friedman on "Wilde in America: Oscar Wilde and the Invention of Modern Celebrity"; graphic artist and Red Diaper Baby Kevin Sacco on his illustrated memoir "The Plane Story"; and cast members of Tziporela, the Israeli troupe of acrobatic comedians, on their production of "Oddbirdz."
Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer.

MONDAY DECEMBER 1 2PM
Artistic Director Aubrie Therrien on DreamStreet NYC Theater's production of "Radio Dreaming," created by its company of special needs actors trained in the improvisational techniques of Viola Spolin; director Chris Major and actor George Blecher on "Jack and the Beanstalk," Pantomonium Productions annual holiday "panto" -- an American interpretation of the British pantomime tradition; and director Madeleine Olnek and actress Lisa Haas on their new film comedy, "The Foxy Merkins."
Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer.

MONDAY DECEMBER 8 2PM
Founder and Artistic Director Peter Schumann on "Captain Boycott," The Bread and Puppet Theater's new production of political puppetry; Petr Kotik, self-taught composer and director of the SEM Ensemble, on "Master-Pieces," his new chamber opera with texts by Gertrude Stein; and monologist Ben Rimolower on his new confessional, "Bad With Money."
Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer.

MONDAY DECEMBER 15 2PM
Actor John Douglas Thompson on his acclaimed performance in the title role of Christopher Marlowe's 1587 epic, Tamburlaine the Great, as produced by Theater for a New Audience; and poet Dorothea Lasky on her latest collection, Rome.
Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer.

MONDAY DECEMBER 22 2PM
A Tribute to Michael Goldberg. A re-broadcast celebrating the life, work and outsized personality of the beloved second generation Abstract Expressionist.
Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer.

MONDAY DECEMBER 29 2PM
Author/actor/jazz musician Bob Feldman, director Brian Mendes, and actor Jim Fletcher on The Performing Garage/New York City Players upcoming production of Saxophone, a performance piece with jazz trio based on Feldman's aural memoir of his and New York's jazz life during its hey-day; novelist and California Poet Laureate Emeritus Al Young on the history of the saxophone; and master shadow puppeteer Jeff Achtem on Swamp Juice, his acclaimed "low-tech" production and puppet workshop at the Barrow Street
Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer.