WBAI-FM Upcoming Program
Special

Wed, Dec 31, 2025 11:00 PM

A SHORTCUT THROUGH 2025

A retrospective of another dark year with glimmers of hope for a possible better future mixed with music and the many voices and events of the past twelve months mashed up into 60 minutes of endangered media and exposed political corruption and tributes to those who left us in 2025

A Shortcut Through 2025 brings together the troubling major events of the past year including the wildfires in Caifornia, the flood in Texas, the immigration raids throughout the nation, the Epstein Files, the political unrest in Gaza, the Mideast, Ukraine, Venezuela and around the world along with celebrations of those whove left us including Jane Goodall, David Lynch, Brian Wilson, Robert Redford, Sly Stone, Jim Lovell, Rob Reiner, Bill Moyers, Peter Yarrow, Jimmy Cliff, Sonny Curtis, Jill Sobule, Roberta Flack, Gene Hackman, June Lockhart, Raul Malo, Steve Cropper, Mark Volman, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Mark Snow, Garth Hudson, Andy Bey, Maranne Faithfull, Jubilant Sykes, Chuck Jackson and Justice David Souter with music from Beirut, Mavis Staples, Bad Bunny, Neil Young, Babon, Arachy Marshall, Sakratis Sinopolas, Bing Crosby, Van Dyke Parks, Leonard Cohen, Vitamin String Quartet, Booker T & The MGs, The Beach Boys, Sly & The Family Stone and featuring Barry Goldwater, Bernie Sanders, David Letterman, Patton Oswald, Jake Tapper, Peter Boyle, Jane Fonda, Jack Nicholson, Dennis Hopper, Jon Provost, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Gerald Ford, JFK, LBJ, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, Groucho Marx, Jon Stewart, Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, Joe Biden, The Firesign Theatre, Karoline Levitt, Donald Trump and Zohran Mamdani

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