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WAR AND PEACE ON WBAI.ORG DURING TRANSMITTER MAINTENANCE SHUTDOWN OF 99.5 FM

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Please tune into WBAI's continuous reading of War and Peace on our stream, wbai.org during this scheduled maintenance shutdown at 4 Times Square, where WBAI's transmitter is housed.

It is a archival WBAI reading from 1970 when 170 people from all walks of life came together at to read from one of the great novels of all time, the longest continuous broadcast in radio history. Readers include WBAI's bookkeeper, the chair of the local station board Carolyn Goodman as well as the more famous including Dustin Hoffman, Ann Bancroft, Mel Brooks, Bob Fass, Julius Lester, Abbie Hoffman, William F. Buckley, and Buck Henry among others. If you wish to follow along, the edition being used is the Signet Classic Edition translated by Ann Dunnigan.

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