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Sunday, December 28 11AM — Noon

THAW (Theatres Against War) presents Mark Twain's "The War Prayer";"How the Secular Humanist Grinch Didn't Steal Christmas"; "How the Grinch Stole Christmas"; Maura "Shoshin" O'Halloran's "Pure Heart, Enlightened Mind" performed by Claire Lebowitz; and a performance by DADANew York featuring Mort Kroos, Be LaRoe, Robert Hieger and the director Joanie Fritz Zosike. Also featuring THAW members Brian Pickett and Suzanne Hayes Kelley.

Sunday, December 21 11AM — Noon

A celebration of The Living Theatre's 50th Anniversary revival of "The Connection," Jack Gelber's groundbreaking play about jazz, drugs and life on the margins. With The Living Theater's co-founder, the actress and director Judith Malina.

Playwrights

Edward Albee
and Arthur Kopit
Arthur Kopit
Jazz musician and composer Freddy Redd; actors from the original production, Garry Goodrow and Jamil Zakkai; and from the new production actor Brad Burgess and jazz musician and composer Rene McLean. Hosted by Janet Coleman.
Sunday, December 14 11AM — Noon

A WBAI Fundraising Special with Janet Coleman and David Dozer. Featuring excerpts from "A Celebration of Norman Mailer," a 2-hour broadcast which first aired live on December 16, 2007. With Mailer family members Norris Church Mailer, John Buffalo Mailer, and Peter Alson, filmmaker D.B. Pennebaker, editor Jason Epstein, authors Joyce Carole Oates and Frank McCourt and the voice of Norman Mailer. Hosted by Janet Coleman. An added bonus track features actor Rip Torn reminiscing one day after the program about "Maidstone," the notorious improvised film in which he starred with M ailer (who also directed it). The Norman Mailer 3-CD package is available for a contribution of $100

Sunday, December 7 11AM — Noon

Documentary filmmaker/psychologist Murray Nossel and psychiatrist Paul Browde, co-stars of the off-Broadway hit, "Two Men Talking," demonstrate their storytelling techniques with members of their Narrativ Workshop. With storytellers Benaifer Bhadha, Marion Stein, Archimedes Bibiano and Jerome Deroy.  Hosted by Janet Coleman.

Sunday November 30 11AM — Noon

Theatres Against War (THAW) returns with a program of dramatic reading including "Aria Da Capo" by Edna St. Vincent Millay; and "Iinternational Poets on War and Peace," read by B. LaRoe, Judith Malina, Yasemin Ozumersifon, Lorenzo Scott and Thomas Scott Walker. The String Orchestra of New York plays "Children of War" by Patrick Grant.

Sunday November 23 11AM — Noon

Andrew Andrew prove two opinions more mindbending than one.

Sunday November 16 11AM — Noon

Former WBAI News Director and Dan Rather writer, Paul Fischer's latest newsical in the series "What's the Freqency, Kenneth?" This time, Paul goes one joke over the line...to confess his lifelong addiction to drug songs. Examples are plentiful.

Sunday November 9 11AM — Noon

The brilliant team of Bethany & Rufus host this hour of live music, with Bethany (Yarrow) on vocals, guitar and percussion and Rufus (Cappdocia) on five-string cello.

Sunday November 2 11AM — Noon

Post-Warholian radio artists Andrew Andrew address the arts.

Sunday October 26 11AM — Noon

–A potpourri of sound from Lump Sum Theatre, Severn Darden, Union Signal, The Ishmel Reed Quintet, Leonore von Stein, John and Yoko, Garbage Collection and more . Curated by Janet Coleman and David Dozer.

Sunday October 19 11AM — Noon

Poet Hugh Seidman hosts this hour with fellow poets Harvey Shapiro,
Lawrence Joseph and Elizabeth Macklin all reading from their work.

Sunday October 12 11AM — Noon

Performance artist and rabble-rouser Reno takes on the world.

Sunday August 31 11AM — Noon

Hugh Seidman hosts poets Michael Heller, Harvey Shapiro, & John Taggart to discuss the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet George Oppen on the centenary of his birth. (Rebroadcast of a program that originally aired on April 6, 2008.)

Sunday August 24 11AM — Noon

Post-Warholian radio artists Andrew Andrew return with insights from the Far East

Sunday August 17 11AM — Noon

Actress, director, and Yiddish translator Caraid O'Brien presents "A Tribute to Sholem Asch and the Yiddish Theatre," with scenes from his plays. Ms. O'Brien recently directed and played the part of Molly Bloom in "Radio Bloomsday," WBAI's marathon celebration of JamesJoyce.

Sunday August 10 11AM — Noon

The first airing of "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?" a serial "newsical" conceived and hosted by Paul Fischer. This episode on jobs and the economy is subtitled "American Idle." Fischer, a former WBAI News Director, wrote for Dan Rather's CBS Evening News for 24 years and is now unemployed.

Sunday August 3 11AM — Noon

A conversation with literary lion Harold Bloom about Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" and Charles Mingus. Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer.

Sunday July 20 11AM — Noon

An extended conversation with journalist Robert Scheer on his newest book, The Pornography of Power: How Defense Hawks Hijacked 9/11 and Weakened America. With musical interludes from the patriotic playlist of The Paralyzed Veterans of America and Bob Dylan. Hosted by Janet Coleman.

Sunday July 13 11AM — Noon

Post Warholian radio artists Andrew Andrew hold forth.

Sunday July 6 11AM — Noon

Speaking for The Institute of Expertology, Victor S. Navasky (publisher emeritus of The Nation) and and Christopher Cerf (Emmy -winning executive producer of the PBS series Between the Lions), discuss and read from their latest book, Mission Accomplsihed! Or How We Won the War in Iraq.

Sunday June 15 11AM — Noon

Janet and David ponder questions of Fathers' Day. Does Father Nature know best?.

Sunday June 8 11AM — Noon

Post-Warholian radio artists Andrew Andrew captain the ship.

Sunday June 1 11AM — Noon

Actor/author/raconteur Malachy McCourt holds forth.

Sunday May 4 11AM — Noon

Comedian and social/political oracle, Reno, holds forth on life and economics.

Sunday April 27 11AM — Noon

Actor/author/raconteur Malachy McCourt holds forth.

Sunday April 20 11AM — Noon

Theatres Against War (THAW) presents live excerpts from "Dirt," "The Fifth Column," and "Rapsida" (A play from a Rwandan theater group that uses theater to educate people about HIV/AIDS). Hosted by Joanie Fritz Zosike and Suzanne Hayes.

Sunday April 13 11AM — Noon

Post-Warholian radio artists, Andrew Andrew, host

Sunday April 6 11AM — Noon

Hugh Seidman hosts poets Michael Heller, Harvey Shapiro, & John Taggart to discuss the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet George Oppen on the centenary of his birth.

Sunday March 30 11AM — Noon

Theatres Against War (THAW) hosts an hour of anti-war theater, poetry and dramatic readings including a performance from "The Conscientious Objector" (now playing on Theatre Row); an excerpt from "The Wall"(a play by THAW Scholarship winner Al Harah Theater from the West Bank); the words of Paul Robeson and others.

Sunday March 23 11AM — Noon

Actor/author/raconteur Malachy McCourt hosts the Easter Bunny. Harvey Shapiro.

Sunday March 16 11AM — Noon

Poet Hugh Seidman hosts a poetry reading with fellow poets Elizabeth Macklin, D. Nurkse and Harvey Shapiro.

Sunday March 9 11AM — Noon

Actor/author/raconteur Malachy McCourt holds forth.

Sunday March 2 11AM — Noon

Post-Warholian radio artists Andrew Andrew host.

Sunday January 27 11AM — Noon

Poet Hugh Seidman hosts fellow poets D. Nurkse and Lawrence Joseph in readings of poems about war. (Encore presentation.)

Sunday January 19 11AM — Noon

–Author Elizabeth Nunez hosts this hour with special guest poet Linda Susan Jackson.

Sunday January 13 11AM — Noon

–Actor/author/raconteur Malachy McCourt holds forth.

Sunday January 6 11AM — Noon

–Post-Warholian radio artists Andrew Andrew hold forth.

   
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