Featuring tributes to Joe Cocker, Robin Williams, Pete Seeger, Joan Rivers, Sid Caesar, Ruby Dee, Tony Benn, Shirley Temple, Tommy Ramone, Eddie Lawrence (The Old Philospher), Mickey Rooney, Casey Kasem, Don Pardo, Hal Douglas, Maya Angelou, Bobby Womack, Phil Everly, Bob Hoskins, Marion Barry, David Brenner, Herb Jeffries, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Elaine Stritch, Aker Bilk, Lauren Bacall, James Garner, Gerry Goffin, Ralph Waite, Polly Bergen, Eli Wallach, Dick Jones (Pinocchio), Steve Post, Efrem Zimbalist Jr, Paul Horn, Mike Nichols, Michael Brown and Eric Gardner. This year's Shortcut takes you on a trip through the events, music and sounds that make for a dense and "sound rich" celebration of 2014-including The Climate Change March, a big change in our relationship with Cuba, the growing unrest around the country with racial profiling, social injustice, and police confrontations, threats of terrorism spreading around the globe from Sydney to Pakistan to North Korea with corporate hacking, international border disputes, wars and invasions, plus all the scandals tragedies and triumphs. Music from Neil Young, Beck, Alicia Keys, Morrissey, The Black Keys, Spoon, The Killers, Micah P. Hinson, Pharrell Williams, The War on Drugs, The Roots, Red, Hot & Bach,  the Shirelles, The Chiffons,  The Everly Brothers, The Kaiser Chiefs with The Buena Vista Social Club, Alexandre Desplat plus Derek Jeter, Seth Rogen, Ralph Fiennes, Sterling Hayden, Billy Bob Thornton, Matthew  McConaughey, Jeff Goldblum, Martin Freeman, Carole King, Jon Landau, Tom Wilkinson, Nikita Kruschev, Alec Baldwin, Bill Cosby, Bill  Murray, James Gandolfini, Tracy Morgan, Chris Christie, Andrew Cuomo, Jon Stewart, Kim Kardasian, Key and Peele, Stephen Colbert, Adrien Brody, Bill deBlasio, Paul McCartney, Humphrey Bogart, Sarah Palin, Benedict Cumberbatch, Marshall Efron, Dick Cheney, Sting, Fidel & Raoul Castro , George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush, Barack Obama, Vadlamir Putin, Nobel Peace prize winners Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzay, UN Secretary-General Ban, Leonard Nimoy, John Zacherle, Wendall Craig, Bill St. James, Jimmy Stewart, Teddy Law and the voices of struggle in 2014.

This year marks the fortieth anniversary of the Shortcuts series of programs and the events, music and sounds that we've captured in 2012 make for a dense and "sound rich" celebration. Featuring the Presidential election campaign, the primaries, the debates, and the "empty chair" ; the superstorms, the Super Bowl, the Olympics, the World Series, the NBA finals, the fiscal cliff, plus all the unrest, the scandals, the tragedies and triumphs; tributes to those who have passed, mixed with all the music that flowed through our lives during the past twelve months--including Adele, Dave Brubeck, Donald Fagen, Levon Helm, Sufjan Stevens, Russell Brand, Jonny Greenwood, Neil Armstrong, Neil Young,  Quvenzhané Wallis, Joaquin Phoenix,  Jim James, Ravi Shankar, Marvin Hamlisch, Andy Williams, Tom Davis, Al Franken, Peter Bergman, Helen Gurley Brown, Louie CK, David Lynch, MFSB, The Cadillacs, Dick Clark, Johnny Otis, Firewater, Danny Elfman, Donna Summer, Daniel Craig, Maurice Sendak, Pete Fornatale, Barry Commoner, Andy Griffith, Norman Corwin, Kevin Clash (Elmo), Don Cornelius, Robin Gibb, Etta James, Pinback, Gore Vidal, Ray Bradbury, Sally Ride, Phyllis Diller, Bob Welch, Sherman Hemsley, Paula Broadwell, Gen. David H. Petraeus, Larry Hagman, Seth Rogen, Whitney Houston, Jon Stewart, Clint Eastwood, Mitt Romney, Michelle Bachman, Donald Trump, David Letterman, Woody Allen, Frank Morgan, Claire Danes, Alabama Shakes, Chris Christy, Stephen Colbert, Sarah Palin, Michael Bloomberg, Hillary Clinton, Mike Wallace, Bill Moyers, George McGovern, Nora Ephron, Warren Beatty, Benedict Cumberbatch, Gloria Steinem , John McCain, Lynn Samuels, Ben Gazzara, Spain Rodriguez, Jerry Nelson as The Count,  Bert, Ernie, Big Bird and Barack Obama...

A three hour-long retrospective of the entire decade, beginning with the 2000 election and recounts, featuring Al Gore, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and other candidates, through 911, Homeland Security, into the Iraq and Afghanistan invasions, right through the arrival of Barack Obama, the death of Michael Jackson and the Miracle on the Hudson, this Shortcut through the first decade of the 21st century mixes up the emotional highs and lows; the elections and the resulting political turmoil, the ongoing war and the struggles for peace, the growing concern over global warming and the environment, the changes in science & technology, the perfume & the poison, the shocking scandals and bad behavior, Britney, Brad & Angelina, Miss USA, You Tube, and the continuing decline of western civilization---its all here! 

"A Shortcut through 2007" An hour-long retrospective of the year--an explosive, emotional mix of the sounds, music and events of the past twelve months, "A Shortcut Through 2007" opens with an introduction by the late sonic pioneer, Karlheinz Stockhausen and ends with a coda from Pakistan's Benazir Bhutto. Blending the concerns with our fragile social and ecological state with the clash between celebrity and fame at any cost, the perilous drive to succeed in politics, business and sports by any means necessary, with answers to the question-"What will you remember about 2007" Featuring commentary from Art Buchwald, Norman Mailer, Kurt Vonnegut, Marcel Marceau, Phil Rizzuto, Jerry Falwell, Gerald Ford, Woody Allen, Ricky Gervais, Alec Baldwin, Don Imus, Oprah Winfrey, Rev. Al Sharpton, Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton, Brad Pitt, Tony Soprano and family, George W. Bush, Michael C. Hall, Baraka Obama, Joe Torre, George Mitchell, Barry Bonds, Larry King, Roger Clemens, Anna Nicole Smith and many others. Music from Amy Winehouse, Radiohead, Arcade Fire, Kanye West, Dre Dog, Bruce Springsteen, The Real Tuesday Weld, Peter Bjorn and John, Forro In The Dark (featuring David Byrne), Iron and Wine, The Sandpipers (with Phil Rizzuto, Tommy Henrich, Roy Campanella & Tommy Henrich), Boots Randolph, Boris "Bobby Pickett, Freddie Scott, Oscar Peterson, Ike & Tina Turner, Max Roach, Joe Zawinul (Mercy, Mercy, Mercy), Robert Goulet, Luther Ingram, Dakota Staton Tributes to Luciano Pavarotti, Lady Bird Johnson, Porter Wagoner, Lee Hazelwood, Hilly Kristal (CBGB), Evel Knievel, Grace Paley, Don Herbert (Mr. Wizard), Ingmar Bergman, Michelangelo Antonioni, Roscoe Lee Browne, Merv Griffin, Tom Snyder, Joey Bishop, Tom Poston, Calvert DeForest (Larry Bud), Charles Nelson Reily, Al Viola, Denny Doherty, Eric Von Schmidt, Teresa Brewer and many more. Produced by Peter Bochan "Leave Britney Alone!"

A retrospective of the past year, including audio of the major events of 2005-- the disaster in the delta, the continuing war in Iraq, the strikes, the London tube bombing, the politics, the media spinning, the cultural highs and lows, mixed with music of the year and including tributes to those who have left us-- including Richard Pryor, Ossie Davis, Johnny Carson, Peter Jennings, R.L. Burnside, Ibrahim Ferrer, Pope John II, Rosa Rarks, Pat Morita, Don Adams, Eugene McCarthy, Hunter S. Thompson, Link Wray, Paul Winchell, Martin Denny, Long John Baldry, James "Scotty" Doohan, Virginia Mayo, Saul Bellow, Arthur Miller, Luther Vandross, Bobby Short, Anne Bancroft, Bob Denver, Fritz Richmond, Rose Kennedy, Shirley Horn, Sandra Dee, Hasil Atkins, Jimmy Smith, "Butch" & "Porky" from the Little Rascals, John Raitt, Frank Gorshin, Oscar Brown Jr, "Nate" from Six Feet Under and more---music from Madonna, My Morning Jacket, Coldplay, Kate Bush, Kanye West, The Magic Numbers, Randy Newman, Stevie Wonder, Neil Young, Robert Moog, the Temptations, Jesse Winchester, The Blind Boys From Alabama---and starring George W. Bush as himself. Mixing music, dialogue from soundtracks, press conferences, sound effects and other sources, Shortcuts has presented a wide variety of themes over the past thirty years, including programs on growing up, growing old, going crazy, being afraid, alone, in love; shows on music, space, race and politics from Watergate to Whitewater, plus retrospectives featuring the major events of each passing year. Recorded and mixed digitally, shortcuts features no narration, it's message evolves from the careful juxtaposition of the various elements.

Eyewitnesses include Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, Homer Simpson, the Amazing Crispin, Winston Churchill, Charlton Heston, Stan Marsh, Eric Cartman, Richard Belzer, Tom Brokaw, Regis Philbin, Hank Hill, Bela Legosi, Boomhauer, Orson Welles, Peggy & Bobby Hill, John Hurt, Rod Sterling, Mr. Peabody & Sherman, Buster Keaton, Anne Dudley, Paul Morley, Don Ameche, Henry Fonda, Una O'Connor, Judy Garland, Admiral Byrd, Teddy Roosevelt, Eubie Blake, Quentin Crisp, Moondog, Guglielmo Marconi, Steve Berkowitz, Carrie Chapman Catt, Maureen Stapleton, M. Emmet Walsh, Will Durant, Kenneth Chamberlain, Art Shields, John Howard, Ronald Coleman, George Jessell, Lew Ayres, Louis Wolheim, Arnold Lucy, Henry Miller, Bill Murray, Dora Russell, Adela Rogers St. Johns, Emmanuel Herbert, Gloria Swanson, Dolph Sweet, Lowell Thomas, Violet Bochan, Herbert Hoover, James Cagney, Ginger Rogers, Will Rogers, George Raft, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy, Mickey & Minnie Mouse, 
Chico & Groucho Marx, George Burns & Gracie Allen, Paul Muni, Preston Foster, Walter Winchell, Babe Ruth, Beavis & Butthead, Lorraine Bracco, R. Crumb, Lee DeForrest, Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Fred Flintstone, Marlon Brando, Tarzan, Levi Stubbs, the Beatles, Humphrey Bogart, Dooley Wilson, Maureen O'Sullivan, Clayton Moore, Allen Ginsberg, Rudolph Hess, Howdy Doody, Austin Powers, The Elephant Man, Muhammed Ali, Bill Clinton, Yoko Ono, Ezra Pound, William S. Burroughs, Robert Armstrong, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Edward Teller, Gen. Leslie R. Groves, the Mayor of Hiroshima, Harry Truman, Lewis Hill, William Mandel, IF Stone, Paul Robeson, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Adlai Stevenson, Woodrow Wilson, Richard Nixon, John F. Kennedy, Dan Quayle, Ross Perot, George Bush, Jerry Brown, Mario Cuomo, Jesse Jackson, Lloyd Benson, Jim Carrey, Edward R. Murrow, Louis Armstrong, Fats Domino, Brian Lamb, Elvis Presley, Harry Landers, Darren Dublin, Jack Kerouac, David Rapkin, Dwight D. Eisenhower, LBJ, Ronald Reagan, Che Guevarra, Chris Koch, Malcolm X, Karen Roston, Paolo Conte, Malachy McCourt, Joe Jackson, Peter Bergman, Arnold Roston, Heather Donahue, Bill St. James and various callers from New York City to Seattle, Washington.  Music from the 20th Century Fox Orchestra, Noel Coward, Audra MacDonald, Hubie Blake, The Art of Noise, Towa Tei, Garth Hudson, Uri Caine, Billy Murray, the Bee Gees, Randy Newman, George Jessell, The Peerless Quartet, Henry Hall & the BBC Dance Orchestra, Bing Crosby, Mildred Bailey, The Coon-Sanders Nighthawks, Rhythmakers, Al Jolson, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Armstrong, Fred Astaire, Duke Ellington Orchestra with Ivie Anderson, , Rudy Vallee, Dr. John, Harry James, Kay Kyser, Perry Como, Spike Jones & His City Slickers, 
Bing Crosby & the Andrew Sisters, the casts of South Pacific & West Side Story, Guy Lombardo, Bill Haley, Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, John Williams, Danny Elfman, the Beastie Boys, Madonna, Morris Stoloff, Compay Seconda, Stephen Reich/Howie B. Remix, Nightmares on Wax, The Petshop Boys, South Park, Ray Noble & His Mayfield Orchestra...