Recent & Upcoming Specials

The Capitol Steps
Friday, January 1, 2010 at 7:00 PM
An hour of seasonal political satire.

The Capitol Steps
Friday, January 1, 2010 at 9:00 AM
An hour of seasonal political satire. Repeats at 7pm.

Toast of the Nation
Thursday, December 31, 2009 at 8:00 PM

A Season’s Griot 2009
Monday, December 28, 2009 at 8:00 PM

Jazz Piano Christmas XX
Friday, December 25, 2009 at 11:00 PM

Night Lights Classic Jazz: Night Lights Before Christmas
Friday, December 25, 2009 at 10:00 PM

Hearing Voices: Christmas Mash Up - Holiday Days and Silent Nights
Friday, December 25, 2009 at 9:00 PM

B-Side Radio: Holiday Special
Friday, December 25, 2009 at 7:30 PM

A Car Talk Christmas Carol Redux
Friday, December 25, 2009 at 7:00 PM

A Mexican Baroque Christmas with the Rose Ensemble
Friday, December 25, 2009 at 12:00 PM

Christmas with Morehouse and Spellman Glee Clubs
Friday, December 25, 2009 at 11:00 AM

A Chanticleer Christmas
Friday, December 25, 2009 at 10:00 AM

Jonathan Winters’ A Christmas Carol
Friday, December 25, 2009 at 9:00 AM

Music of the Baroque Christmas
Friday, December 25, 2009 at 3:00 AM

Holiday Lights: Singing Angels, Silver Bells
Friday, December 25, 2009 at 2:00 AM

Harmonia Holiday Special: Noel
Friday, December 25, 2009 at 1:00 AM

A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols
Thursday, December 24, 2009 at 11:00 PM

Messiah with The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Thursday, December 24, 2009 at 9:00 PM

A Harpists Christmas
Thursday, December 24, 2009 at 12:00 PM

A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols
Thursday, December 24, 2009 at 10:00 AM

Paul Winter’s 28th Annual Winter Solstice Celebration
Monday, December 21, 2009 at 7:00 PM

LA Theatre Works: Camping With Henry and Tom
Friday, December 18, 2009 at 10:00 PM

Intelligence Square: America Is To Blame for Mexico’s Drug War
Friday, December 18, 2009 at 9:00 PM

Hanukkah Lights 2009
Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at 8:00 PM

LA Theatre Works: The Grapes of Wrath
Friday, December 11, 2009 at 10:00 PM

Intelligence Squared: Obama’s Economic Policies Are Working Effectively
Friday, December 11, 2009 at 9:00 PM

Chanukah in Story and Song
Thursday, December 10, 2009 at 8:00 PM

L.A. Theatre Works: The Crucible
Friday, December 4, 2009 at 10:00 PM

Moneywise
Friday, December 4, 2009 at 9:00 PM

Living with Music: Show 6
Friday, November 27, 2009 at 11:00 PM
This edition featured pianist Robert Glasper, who spoke about exposing jazz to a young audience, and Gustavo Santaolalla took tango music in a whole…

L.A. Theatre Works: The Importance of Being Earnest
Friday, November 27, 2009 at 9:00 PM
The Importance of Being Earnest was a stylish send-up of Victorian courtship and manners, complete with assumed names, mistaken lovers, and a lost handbag. …

The Climate Race: A Marketplace Special
Friday, November 27, 2009 at 7:00 PM

Backstory: American As Pumpkin Pie: A History of Thanksgiving
Thursday, November 26, 2009 at 1:00 PM

Liner Notes: Talking Turkey
Thursday, November 26, 2009 at 12:00 PM
With host Paul Holdengraber, the guests told how and where they celebrate Thanksgiving, what they cook, with whom they dine, how the literature they…

2009 Third Coast Broadcast
Thursday, November 26, 2009 at 10:00 AM
This fall, the Third Coast International Audio Festival brought the best new documentaries produced worldwide to U.S. airwaves in a special two-hour…

Giving Thanks: A Celebration of Fall, Food and Gratitude with John Birge
Thursday, November 26, 2009 at 9:00 AM
A music-and-stories celebration of Thanksgiving. Host John Birge created a thoughtful, contemporary reflection on the meaning of the holiday, perfect…

A Spin Down Abbey Road
Friday, November 20, 2009 at 11:00 PM
Award-Winning producer Paul Ingles added another installment to his series of programs spotlighting The Beatles album releases with A Spin Down Abbey…

Humankind: Good Riddance to Mainstream Media
Friday, November 20, 2009 at 10:00 PM
SEGMENT 1:  Daniel Goleman, best-selling author and former N.Y. Times science reporter, described emerging brain research that shows we are wired…

Intelligence Squared U.S.: Good Riddance to Mainstream Media
Friday, November 20, 2009 at 9:00 PM
Moderator: John Donvan Speaking for the motion: John Hockenberry, Jim VandeHei and Michael Wolff Speaking against the motion: Phil Bronstein,…

L.A. Theatre Works: Secret Order
Friday, November 13, 2009 at 10:00 PM
In the high-stakes world of cancer research, Dr. William Shumway has just made a stunning breakthrough.  But is it really the cure for cancer? …

Backstory: The History of Health Care in America
Friday, November 13, 2009 at 9:00 PM
"What Germany has done in the way of old-age pensions or insurance should be studied by us, and the system adapted to our uses.” Thus declared…

Living with Music: Show 5
Friday, November 6, 2009 at 11:00 PM
Trumpeter Nicholas Payton joined the program. Drummer Kendrick Scott lead a band called Oracle, and found time to run his own independent recording…

The Really Big Questions: How Do Emotions Shape Our World View?
Friday, November 6, 2009 at 10:00 PM
Look across the room at any gathering of people, and a wide range of emotions can be contemplated: the baby who cries unhappily at the bottle dropped…

America Abroad: Taking On the Taliban
Friday, November 6, 2009 at 9:00 PM
They are an enemy that knows no borders — trafficking between Afghanistan and Pakistan, terrorizing both countries and posing a serious challenge…