Spring 2006 Broadcast Schedule
MARCH 2: PROFESSOR RAYMOND BRADLEY, University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Geosciences and Director of the Climate Research Center. Professor Bradley, who studies global warming, had his data and sources subpoenaed by Texas Congressman Joe Barton, who chairs the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
Summer 2005 Broadcast Schedule
June 16, 2005: Thomas Dumm, political scientist and Amherst College professor reports on his recent trip to Ethiopia
Spring 2005 Broadcast Schedule
June 9, 2005: Poet Dara Wier
May 26th, 2005: Elijah Wald, author of The Mayor of Macdougal Street, a Memoir of Dave Van Ronk
May 19, 2005: Poet Lisa Beskin (Repeat Broadcast)
May 12th, 2005: Jane Yolen, Heidi Stemple, authors of The Barefoot Book of Ballet Stories series, with Catherine Fair, Executive Director of Amherst Ballet
May 5th, 2005: Jonathan Lethem, author of The Disappointment Artist
April 28th, 2005: Pablo Yglesias, author of Cocinando, Fifty Years Of Latin Album Cover Art
April 21st, 2005: Poet Diane Wald, winner MR's 2005 Anne Halley Poetry Prize
April 14th, 2005: Poet Dara Wier (Repeat Broadcast)
April 7th, 2005: TBA
March 31st, 2005: Preseason baseball show with poet Martin Espada and sportswriter Luke Salisbury
March 24th, 2005: Sut Jhally, Director of the Media Education Foundation
March 17th, 2005: TBA
March 10th, 2005: Jim Spencer, President of the Campaign Network
Winter 2004-05 Broadcast Schedule
February 24, 2005: N.C. Christopher Couch, co-author of The Will Eisner Companion: The Pioneering Spirit of the Father of the Graphic Novel
February 17, 2005: Elaine Bartlett, drug policy and prison reform advocate
February 10, 2005: Hussein Ibish, Washington correspondent for the Daily Star (Lebanon)
February 3, 2005: Maria Tatar, editor of the Annotated Brothers Grimm
January 27, 2005: Charles Neville, musician
January 20, 2005: Howard Friel, co-author of The Record of the Paper: How the New York Times Mis-reports U.S. Foreign Policy
January 13, 2005: Cynthia Lewis, author, professor
January 6, 2005: To Be Announced
December 30, 2004: pre-empted
December 23, 2004: James Murray and Phyllis Cole Dai, authors of The Emptiness of Our Hands: A Lent Lived on the Streets
December 16, 2004: Jonathan Lethem, author
December 2, 2004: Lisa Beskin , poet
Fall 2004 Broadcast Schedule
November 11, 2004: James Tate, poet
November 4, 2004: Post-election special with Hussein Ibish, Washington correspondent for the Daily Star (Lebanon)
October 28, 2004: Pre-election special with Hussein Ibish, Washington correspondent for the Daily Star (Lebanon)
October 21, 2004: Mark Edmunson, author of Teacher and Why Read?
October 14, 2004: Senator Stan Rosenberg
October 7, 2004: Tom Wessels, author of The Granite Landscape and Reading the Forested Landscape
Summer 2004 Broadcast Schedule
August 26, 2004: (re-broadcast) Michael Pollan, author of The Botany of Desire
August 19, 2004: Bob Cilman, director of the Northampton Arts Council
August 12, 2004: TBA
August 5, 2004: Hussein Ibish, Washington correspondent for the Daily Star (Lebanon)
July 22nd, 2004: Lee Child, author of The Enemy
July 15th: Jim Olsen, CEO of Signature Sounds
July 8th, 2004: Sabina Murray, UMass professor, author of A Carnivore's Inquiry
July 1st, 2004: Richard Glaven and Jim Neil on WMUA in the 1980s
June 24th, 2004: David Gowler, Valley Free Radio
Spring 2004 Broadcast Schedule
June 17th, 2004:Gene Santoro, jazz writer, critic
June 10th, 2004:Bill Dwight, WRSI radio host, Northampton City Councilor
June 3rd, 2004:Douglas Valentine, author of The Strength of the Wolf: The Secret History of America's War on Drugs
May 27th, 2004:Lyle Craker, marijuana researcher
May 20th, 2004: John Crowley, novelist
May 13th, 2004: Lynn Margulis, geoscientist, author
May 6th, 2004: Le Thuy Diem, novelist
April 29th, 2004: Derek Lovley, microbiologist
April 15th, 2004: Dara Wier, poet
April 15th, 2004: Anne Halley, poet
April 8th, 2004: Dean Cycon, of Dean's Beans, sponsor of Orchestra Baobab benefit concert
April 1, 2004: Baseball Pre-season Special with Martin Espada, Lorna Peterson, and Luke Salisbury
Winter 2003-04 Broadcast Schedule
March 25th, 2004: TBA
March 18th, 2004: TBA
March 11th, 2004: Sacred Harp Shape Note Singers
March 4th, 2004: Richard Stratton, editor, High Times
February 26th, 2004: Michael Pollan, author of The Botany of Desire
February 19th, 2004: Mount Holyoke College English professor Christopher Benfy, author of The Great Wave (rebroadcast)
February 12th, 2004: UMass Professor and author Lynn Margulis
February 5th, 2004: The Sopranos forum: UMass Professor Erica Scharrer with Christine Chambers
November 20th, 2003: Critic Mark Edmunson, author of Teacher. Read an excerpt here.
Fall 2003 Broadcast Schedule
Novelist and critic Samuel R. Delany (aired November 6th, 2003)
Poet Martin Espada (rerun) (aired October 23rd, 2003)
Hussein Ibish of the American-Arab Antidiscrimination Committee (aired October 16th, 2003)
Novelist Valerie Martin (rerun) (aired October 9th, 2003)
Reruns: Bookbinder Bill Streeter and designer Hans Teensma (aired October 2nd, 2003)
Massachusetts International Festival of the Arts Director Don Sanders (aired September 25th, 2003)
Mount Holyoke College English professor Christopher Benfy, author of "The Great Wave" (aired September 18th, 2003)
Glenn Siegel, Administrative Advisor, DJ, WMUA 91.1 FM (aired July 10, 2003)
Pre-recorded interview with jazz pianist Keith Jarrett (aired July 17, 2003)
Robert O'Connor, author of Buffalo Soldiers (aired July 24th, 2003)
"Poems Not Fit for The White House" (excerpts from a reading in New York City on February 17, 2003). Read the Valley Advocate's article on Poets Against the War. (aired July 31st, 2003)
State Representative Ellen Story (aired June 26th, 2003)
6/5: Mitchell Earleywine
6/12: Poet Martin Espada and sportswriter Luke Salisbury on baseball
6/19: Collages and Call-Ins
May 2003 Broadcast Schedule