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  Sunday, January 22
   
  Performance artist and playwright DEB MARGOLIN LINK performs her play "GOOD MORNING ANITA HILL ITS GINNI THOMAS I JUST WANTED TO REACH ACROSS THE AIRWAVES AND THE YEARS AND ASK YOU TO CONSIDER SOMETHING I WOULD LOVE YOU TO CONSIDER AN APOLOGY SOMETIME AND SOME FULL EXPLANATION OF WHY YOU DID WHAT YOU DID WITH MY HUSBAND SO GIVE IT SOME THOUGHT AND CERTAINLY PRAY ABOUT THIS AND COME TO UNDERSTAND WHY YOU DID WHAT YOU DID OKAY HAVE A GOOD DAY."

  Sunday, January 29
  Poet Hugh Seidman hosts fellow poets Harvey Shapiro, Susan Wheeler, Lawrence Joseph and D. Nurkse in readings from their recent work.
   
  Sunday, February 4 THE NEXT HOUR/BEYOND THE PALE
  This fundraising collaboration features an exploration of artistic expression inspired by the recent waves of Russian-Jewish immigration. Spotlighted is The New Group's production of Erika Sheffer's "Russian Transport" starring Janeane Garafolo, author David Bezmogis's novel "The Free World," and actor, Yiddish scholar, and special guest Shane Baker's one-man show "The Big Bupkis! A Complete Gentile's Guide to Yiddish Vaudeville." (A special premium for that show will include a copy of "The Biographical Dictionary of Jewish Writers in the Soviet Union.") Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer and Marilyn Kleinberg Niemark.
   
  Sunday, March 4
  The SAG/AFTRA Merger: A Tutorial. With SAG/AFTRA National Board members and actors Jenny O'Hara, Rebecca Damon, Jason George, Nancy Giles, and longtime union activist and former Board member Tim Jerome. Moderated by Janet Coleman. Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer
   
  Sunday, March 11
  Concert pianist and radio legend James Irsay and guest, sonic archaeologist Allan Evans, will discuss and play examples of Evans's recent CD releases of freshly unearthed performances of the music of Brahms
   
  Sunday, March 18
  Caraid O'Brien hosts today's program on 'The Passion of the Yiddish Theater.'

   
  Sunday, March 25
  Satirists Paul Krassner, David Dozer and Reno on birth control.
Moderated by Janet Coleman.
   
  Sunday, April 1
  A celebration of the 200th issue of the legendary literary quarterly, The Paris Review. With editor Lorin Stein, Poetry Editor Robyn Creswell, Deputy Editor Sadie Stein, Southern Editor and contributor John Jeremiah Sullivan, and contributors Maggie Paley, Marc Sumell, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, and Leanne Shapton. Moderated by Janet Coleman.
   
  Sunday, April 8
  An episode of Paul Fischer's "newsical" series, "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?" inspired by Obamacare. Moderated by Janet Coleman.
   
  Sunday, April 15
  Paul Fischer, former WBAI News Director and writer for Dan Rather's CBS Evening News, returns with a new episode of the "newsical" series "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?" Today's topic is The War on Women. Moderated by Janet Coleman.
   
  Sunday, April 29
  Caraid O'Brien again interviews actor and comedy legend Jerry Stiller. This time, Stiller reads for the first time ever from his book of essays-in-progress, "Why Aren't My Old Girlfriends Calling Me?" Moderated by Janet Coleman.Moderated by Janet Coleman.
   
  Sunday, May 20, 11AM- 1 PM Fundraising Special Part I Part II
  A fundraising collaboration of the two shows featuring a live interview with Neil Sedaka. Premiums include tickets to a star-packed Sedaka gala sponsored by the National Yiddish Theater and Folksbiene, Sedaka's "Brighton Beach Memories" CD's, and CD's from Lorin Sklambeg of the Klezmatics (who will be among the guests at the gala).

Moderated by Janet Coleman, and David Dozer and Marilyn Kleinberg Niemark
   
  Sunday, June 3
  Satirists discuss the question of "The Concept of Fairness: Learned or Innate?" With Paul Krassner, David Dozer and Reno.

Hosted by Janet Coleman
   
 
  Sunday, June 10
  Director and Joyce scholar Caraid O'Brien discusses Radio Bloomsday 2012, the forthcoming 7-hour star-studded marathon celebration of Joyce's masterpiece "Ulysses," taking place on WBAI (and other Pacifica stations) on Saturday, June 16 from 7pm until the wee hours of Sunday morning.

Hosted by Janet Coleman
   
 
  Sunday, July 1
  On today's show, musicians in conversation. With master jazz saxophonist (and flautist) Bob Feldman and conceptualist (and guitarist) Keith Connolly..

Hosted by Janet Coleman
   
 
  Sunday, July 8
  Places and Memory: Lost and Found New York. A conversation Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer, with listener call-ins.

Hosted by Janet Coleman
   
 
  Sunday July 29
  A potpourri of music and sound shorts from Thelonious Monk, John and Yoko, Lorraine Feather, Union Signal, Ishmael Reed, Lump Sum Theater, and others.
Janet Coleman
and David Dozer
, with listener call-ins.
   
  Sunday August 5
  A TRIBUTE TO GORE VIDAL, OUR FIRST HOST
In February 2004, as the Presidential campaign began to take shape, the great American author and intellectual Gore Vidal, who died last week at the age of 86., became the first and, for a year, recurring host of this program. His subject was U.S. politics and the American Empire. Today’s show, “Yellow Roses,” is a re-broadcast of one of Vidal’s incisive, biting, eloquent and prescient editions of The Next Hour. It highlights Vidal’s view of America’s “liberating” armies with personal memories of serving in World War II and young men used as cannon fodder; excerpts from the anti-imperialist Broadway musical “The Golden Apple” (with lyrics by Vidal’s friend John LaTouche); and Vidalian explication and imitations of the sound slips of George W. Bush.
   
  Sunday August 12
  Concert pianist and radio legend James Irsay on a trip to the Middle East.

Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer
   
 
  Sunday August 19
  MORE GORE!
Gore Vidal "On Post Election 2004 & America's Discovery of God," a re-broadcast of another of the great dissenter's programs created exclusively for WBAI. 

Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer
   
 
  Sunday August 26
  Galway-born Yiddish scholar Caraid O'Brien
on the Yiddish writer
Chaim Grade

Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer
   
 
  Sunday September 9
  Poet Hugh Seidman hosts a quintet of poets that includes himself,
Lawrence Joseph, D. Nurkse, Susan Wheeler and Harvey Shapiro

Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer
   
 
  Sunday September 15
  Author, satirist, journalist, stand-up comedian, founding member of the Yippies and founder and publisher of "The Realist," Paul Krassner, in a conversation about the re-issue of his "Confessions of A Raving, Unconfined Nut: Misadventures in the Counterculture."

Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer
   
  Sunday September 23
  A conversation with the American opera singer Elinor Ross, known for her work in Italian repertory. 

Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer
   
  Sunday September 30
  Poet Lawrence Joseph interviews three fellow writers who preceded him by a decade at the University of Michigan:  Edmund White, Al Young and Janet Coleman discuss their lives as student writers on the Ann Arbor campus of the Sixties.
   
 
  Sunday November 25
  Author Beth Bosworth reads from her newly published collection, "The Source of Life and Other Stories," winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize.
Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer

   
 
  Sunday December 2
 

Concert pianist and radio legend James Irsay holds forth.

   
  Sunday December 16
 

Artists Charles Mingus III and Marc Kehoe
discuss the art of the WBAI Art Auction and their art.

 
  Sunday December 30
 

Concert pianist and radio legend James Irsay holds forth.