MONDAY, JANUARY 30
"Think Swiss: Geneve Meets New York" a celebration of global ideas inspired by Geneva-born philosopherJean-Jacques Rousseau with Ambassador François Barras and political theorist and author Benjamin Barber; playwright Rob Ackerman and actor Brian Dykstra on the Working Theater's new comedy "Call Me Waldo"; and playwright/lyricist Sandy Rustin on her musical review "Rated P for Parenthood."

Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer

MONDAY, MARCH 11
Singer Loudon Wainwright on acting with the Talking Band in "Hot Lunch Apostles"; playwright Begonya Plaza and Catalan composer Albert Carbonell on "Theresa's Ecstasy," a new play set in Barcelona; and Dadaists Kat George, Lois Kagan Mingus and Joanie Heiger Zosike on the 5th Annual NYC Dada Poetry and Art Salon at the Cornelia Street Cafe.

Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer

MONDAY, MARCH 19
Video pioneer and producer Nancy Cain on her memoir "Video Days: What We Saw Through the Viewfinder"; documentary filmmaker Alan Govenar and Beat historian Regina Weinreich on "The Beat Hotel," the Paris outpost of the Beat Generation; and jazz singer/songwriter Sharman on her new CD "Unconditionally.".

Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer

MONDAY, MARCH 26
Performance artist Zoe Beloff and company on "The Days of the Commune: A Work in Progress In solidarity with Occupy Wall Street," a performance/cinema/installation project inspired by the play by Berthold Brecht; director/choreographer Federico Restrepo on Loco 7 Dance Puppet Theater's world premiere of "Urban Odyssey," with original music by Elizabeth Swados; and singer/songwriter Joan Wile (founder of Grandmothers Against the War), with a new song, "I Am Just A 99."
Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer

MONDAY, APRIL 2
Musical theater artists Bree Barton and Franklin Bruno on Poor Baby Bree in I Am Going to Run Away, a one-woman tragicomic musical inspired by Victorian melodrama and early cinema; Stephen Frailey, chair of the BFA Photography Department at the School of Visual Arts on  The Mentor Project 2012; and producer Judith Manassen-Ramon on Dolphin Boy, a documentary film about an Arab teenager's emotional rehabilitation through dolphin therapy.
Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer

MONDAY, APRIL 9
Comedienne and social critic Reno on her upcoming series of "Money Talks" at Dixon Place; playwright Brett C. Leonard and director Mark Wing-Davey on the Labryinth Theater Company's production of "Ninth and Joanie"; and  Partial Comfort Production's 8th Annual Welcome Mat Reading Series at the Atlantic Theater Company's Studio Theater.
Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer

MONDAY, APRIL 16
Director David Cromer and actress Susan Pourfar on issues of deafness in the play "Tribes"; actors and co-creators Matthew Maher and Jennifer R. Morris on The Civilians' production of  "You Better Sit Down: Tales From My Parents' Divorce"; and director Crystal Field and singer / songwriter Judy Gorman on The Theater for the New City's 17th Annual Lower East Side Festival of the Arts.
Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer

MONDAY, APRIL 23
Composer Laura Kaminsky on Symphony Space's month-long celebration of "Gertrude Stein's Paris" and director Nancy Rhodes on "Singing Stein," Encompass New Opera Theater's two one-act operas by Virgil Thompson and Ned Rorem based on texts by Stein; director David Schweitzer on The Culture Project's production of Tennessee Williams' last unfinished play, "Masks Outrageous and Austere"; and poet and global labor activist Mark Nowak on teaming with members of Domestic Workers United for a poetry presentation at the PEN World Voices Festival of International Literat
ure. Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer

MONDAY, APRIL 30
Director Pam McKinnon on "Clybourne Park," the Pulitzer Prize-winning play about race and real estate; playwright Rick Elice on "Peter and the Starcatcher"; director David Herskovits on the Target Margin Theater's re-imagining "Uncle Vanya"; and (held over from last week) poet and labor activist Mark Nowak on his work with the Domestic Workers United at the PEN World Voices Festival.
Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer

MONDAY, MAY 14
FUNDRAISING SPECIAL: Theater tickets!!! Broadway, off-Broadway, season tix, hit show tix, new productions of classic plays tix!!!! Bargain tix!!!! With guest Crystal Field, founder and artistic director of Theater for the New City.
Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer

MONDAY, JUNE 4
Editor Sue Leonard on her husband John Leonard's posthumous collection "Reading for My Life: Writings 1958-2008"; Cary Hoffman on his one-man show "My Sinatra"; and  playwright Rick Elice returns with "Peter and the Star Catcher" co-director Roger Rees.
Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer

MONDAY, JUNE 11
Poet Rowan Ricardo Phillips on his debut collection, "The Ground"; Producing Artistic Director Maria Striar on "Summerworks," The Clubbed Thumb's mini-season of new works by emerging playwrights; and guitar virtuoso James Moore with excerpts of his upcoming concert of John Zorn's "Book of Heads" for solo guitar at the Incubator Arts Festival June Days Festival.
Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer

MONDAY, JUNE 17
Publisher/author/activist/stand-up comedian and Cassandra of the counterculture Paul Krassner on the newly published "Pot Stories for the Soul: An Updated Edition for a Stoned America"; jazz vocalist Judi Silvano on a new CD, "Indigo Moods"; and WBAI's radio legend Bob Fass on "Radio Unnameable," a documentary film about him and his revolutionary contributions to free radio.
Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer

MONDAY, JUNE 25
Author Anthony Heilbut on the newly published "The Fan Who Knew Too Much: Aretha Franklin, the Rise of the Soaps, Children of the Gospel Church, and Other Meditations" and cabaret artist and author Justin Vivian Bond, now performing at Studio 54, on a new CD "Silver Wells."

.Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer

MONDAY, JULY 2
Editor Russ Kick on "Volume 1: The Graphic Canon: The World's Great Literature as Comics and Visuals From the Epic of Gilgamesh to Shakespeare to Dangerous Liaisons":  percussionist Lisa Pegher; and Producer Jack Walsh and Artistic Director Rachel Charoff on the summer series, "Celebrate Brooklyn!"

Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer

MONDAY, JULY 9
PART TWO
Author/editor Colin Channer on Akashic Books' new short story collection, "Kingston Noir": directors Cheryl Faraone and Jim Petosa on the Potomac Theater Project's New York revivals of "Serious Money" and "Monster "; and producer/directors Shannon Manning and Louie Pearlman on Beauty Love Truth"s upcoming improvised theater events at The Pit.

LISTEN: PART I|PART II

Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer

MONDAY, JULY 22

A fundraising hour featuring the music of Woody Guthrie and the voices of James Irsay and Woody's daughter Nora Guthrie.

Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer

MONDAY, JULY 30

Poet D. Nurkse on his new collection, "A Night in Brooklyn"; BAMA Theater's Alison Frederick and actor Michael Crisculo with a preview of the New York International Fringe Festival; and lyricist Bill Russell and composer Peter Melnick on their new musical theater collaboration, "The Last Smoker in America."

Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer

MONDAY, JULY 30

Poet D. Nurkse on his new collection, "A Night in Brooklyn"; BAMA Theater's Alison Frederick and actor Michael Crisculo with a preview of the New York International Fringe Festival; and lyricist Bill Russell and composer Peter Melnick on their new musical theater collaboration, "The Last Smoker in America."

Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer

MONDAY, AUGUST 13

The Public Theater's Shakespeare Initiative Director Barry Edelstein and actor Ron Cephas Jones on The Mobile Shakespeare Unit's production of "Richard III"; poet and Elastic City founder Todd Shalom on "Fabstractions," a conceptual walk near and inside Prospect Park; and director Madeleine Olnek and actress Lisa Haas on the film comedy "Codependent Space Alien Seeks Same.".

Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer

MONDAY, AUGUST 20

From Italy, artist Lucio Pozzi remembers the late art collector Herb Vogel (of the film "Dorothy and Herb"; The Erotica Project's Lillian Ann Slugocki on her new e-book, "The Blue Hours"

Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer

MONDAY, AUGUST 27

A conversation on atheism with intellectual, opera and theater director, television producer and neurologist Jonathan Miller. (Re-broadcast.)

Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10
Playwright Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas on a new production of his play "Bird in the Hand"; actress Susan Louise O'Connor on Adam Szymkowicz's play, "The Why Overhead"; and Daria Fain, Robert Kocik, Carla Peterson and Kate Peila on The Commons Choir's collaboration with New York Live Arts and Dance New Amsterdam on their production of E-V-E-R-Y-O-N-E and on launching a public hunger strike and meditation on the arts funding crisis.

Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16

Radio legend Bob Fass and filmmaker Jessica Wolfson on the New York opening of "Radio Unnameable," Wolfson's film about Fass at the Film Forum; Director Joy Zinoman and music director William Anderson on "Sounding Beckett," pairing three plays from Beckett's "ghost period"  with new musical works; and Nico Daswani, Andrea Louie and vocalist and kirtan leader Anjula Prasad on "Locating the Sacred Festival," a program of the Asian American Arts Alliance.
Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24

Poet Susan Wheeler on her new collection"Meme"; director Benjamin Kamine on "Job," a new play by playwright/provocateur Thomas Bradshaw; and Jonathan Solari and Sarah Wolff with an update on the progress of The New Brooklyn Theatre, a proposed arts center for Bed-Stuy.
Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer

MONDAY, OCTOBER 1

Oscar-winning actress Estelle Parsons discusses her work in the new Neil LaBute plays at LaMama; author Jaime Manrique on his new novel, "Cervantes Street," based upon the life of the author of "Don Quixote," i.e., The Man of La Mancha; and music from the cast of "Pig Pen."
Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26

From the staff of The Cassandra Institute, Henry Beard and Christopher Cerf discuss the new "Enclyclopedia Paranoiaca: The Indispensable Guide to Everyone and Everything You Should Be Afraid of or Worried About"; and World War II veteran, clinical psychologist and Chevalier of the French Legion of Honour, Stephen J. Weiss on his memoir "Second Chance: In Combat with the US 'Texas' Infantry, the OSS, and the French Resistance During the Liberation of France, 1943-1946."

Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer

MONDAY, DECEMBER 3

Peter Schumann, founder of The Bread and Puppet Theater on their annual performance series at the Theater for the New City; artists Charles Mingus III, Marc Kehoe and Claude Samton on the upcoming WBAI Art Auction; and director Rosie Goldensohn on a play-in-progress upcoming at Dixon Place.

Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer

MONDAY, DECEMBER 17

Producer Carole Hart, composer Stephen Lawrence, songwriter Carol Hall, and editor Lori Rotskoff on the 40th Anniversary of "Free to Be You And Me," and the publication of "When We Were Free to Be: Looking Back at a Children's Classic and the Difference It Made"; Ben Rimolower on his one-man show, "Patti Issues"; and producer Francisco Solorzano and theater artists of "Rockaway," a fundraiser for victims of Hurricane Sandy.

Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer

MONDAY, DECEMBER 24,

The new jazz duo, Nouveau Stride -- jazz singer-songwriter Lorraine Feather and pianist Stephanie Trick -- on their premiere CD, "Fourteen"; literary critic Ilan Stavans on his and Steve Sheinkin's new graphic novel, "El Illuminado," a whodunit thriller about crypto-Jews in New Mexico; and Christopher Cerf, warning "Ten Things to Be Afraid of This Holiday Season," excerpted from his and Henry Beard's "Encyclopedia Paranoica."

Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer

MONDAY, DECEMBER 31, 2012 2-3 PM

Kathi Georges and Peter Carlaftes of Three Rooms Press on the 6th Annual Charles Bukowski Poetry Reading at the Cornelia Street Cafe; and jazz vocalist Masha Campagne on her acclaimed new album. "Like Water, Like Air.

Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer