2011-2012
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| Show No. | Air Date on WUMB, WBPR, and WFPB | Program Title | Guest(s) | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-36 | 9/2/2012 | Club 47 (Repeat: Originally aired as Program 2012-16 on 4/15/2012) | Producer/Director Rob Stegman and Club 47 Program Director Betsy Siggins | Rachel Rubin |
| 2012-35 | 8/26/2012 | Straight (Repeat: Originally aired 5/13/2012 as Program 2012-20) | Hanne Blanke, Author | Rachel Rubin |
| 2012-34 | 8/19/2012 | The Vision Project (Repeat: Originally aired 3/25/2012 as Program 2012-13) | Richard Freeland, Commissioner of Higher Education | DeWayne Lehman |
| 2012-33 | 8/12/2012 | Casino Gambling in Massachusetts (Repeat: Originally aired 3/11/2012 as Program 2012-11) | Steve Crosby, Chair of State Gaming Commission | Paul Watanabe |
| 2012-32 | 8/5/2012 | Credit Smart and other consumer issues in Massachusetts (Repeat:Originally aired 2/29/2012 as Program 2012-09) | Barbara Anthony, MA Undersecretary of Consumer Affairs | DeWayne Lehman |
| 2012-31 | 7/29/12 | The Image of Women in Advertising (Repeat: Originally aired 2/2/2012 as Program 2012-07) | Jean Kilbourne, Feminist Author and Filmmaker | Rachel Rubin |
| 2012-30 | 7/22/12 | The State of Hip-Hop in Boston (Repeat: Originally aired 12/25/2011 as Program 2011-52) | Musician Acrobatik | Rachel Rubin |
| 2012-29 | 7/15/12 | Redistricting and Community Organizing (Repeat: Originally aired 12/11/2011 as Program 2011-50) | Maria Lazu, Project Director, Drawing Democracy | Paul Watanabe |
| 2012-28 | 7/8/12 | A discussion of the memoir My Song (Repeat: Originally aired 12/4/2011 as Program 2011-49) | Harry Belafonte | Barbara Lewis |
| 2012-27 | 7/1/12 | The Impact of 9/11 (Repeat: Originally aired 10/23/2011 as Program 2011-43) | Rajini Srikanth, Professor of English, UMass Boston | Paul Watanabe |
| 2012-26 | 6/24/12 | The Ed Vestors Mission | Laura Perille, Executive Director, Ed Vestors | DeWayne Lehman |
| 2012-25 | 6/17/12 | The Legacy of Donna Summer | Jeff Ramsey, Associate Professor, Berklee College of Music | Barbara Lewis |
| 2012-24 | 6/10/12 | 2012 UMass Boston Honorary Degree Recipients | Pastor James Wuye and Imam Muhammad Ashafa, Doctors of Law, Honoris Causa | Rachel Rubin |
| 2012-23 | 6/3/12 | A conversation with Carol Hardy-Fanta | Carol Hardy-Fanta, director, Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy, UMass Boston | Barbara Lewis |
| 2012-22 | 5/27/12 | Synonym for Change | Ann Torke, Associate Professor of Art, UMass Boston | Barbara Lewis |
| 2012-21 | 5/20/12 | Consuming Kids | Susan Linn, Author | Rachel Rubin |
| 2012-20 | 5/13/12 | Straight (Note: Strong subject matter) | Hanne Blank, Historian and Author | Rachel Rubin |
| 2012-19 | 5/6/12 | MA Roadshow, Irish Ancestral Research Assoc. and Boston Busing/Desegregation | Joanne Riley, Archivist, UMass Boston | Barbara Lewis |
| 2012-18 | 4/29/12 | Maxine Hong Kingston | Maxine Hong Kingston, Author | Rachel Rubin |
| 2012-17 | 4/22/12 | 2012 UMass Boston Chancellor's Medal Recipient | Peter Berlandi, CEO, Political Advisor | DeWayne Lehman |
| 2012-16 | 4/15/12 | Club 47 | Producer/Director Rob Stegman and Club 47 Program Director Betsy Siggins | Rachel Rubin |
| 2012-15 | 4/8/12 | The Man, a Legend | Keorapetse Kgositsile, South African Poet Laureate | Rachel Rubin |
| 2012-14 | 4/1/12 | On An Irish Island (Basket Island) | Robert Kanigel, Author | Barbara Lewis |
| 2012-13 | 3/25/12 | MA Public Higher Education and the "Vision" project | Richard Freeland, Commissioner of Higher Education | DeWayne Lehman |
| 2012-12 | 3/18/12 | Theater Production "Sugar" - Diabetes in the Black Community | Robbie McCauley, Writer/Playwright/Professor | Barbara Lewis |
| 2012-11 | 3/11/12 | Casino Gambling in Massachusetts | Steve Crosby, Chair, State Gaming Commission | Paul Watanabe |
| 2012-010 | 3/4/12 | The Theater Offensive | Abe Rybeck, Artistic Director, The Theater Offensive | Rachel Rubin |
| 2012-09 | 2/26/12 | "Credit Smart" and other MA consumer affairs issues | Barbara Anthony, MA Under Secretary of Consumer Affairs | DeWayne Lehman |
| 2012-08 | 2/19/12 | The Dance Claimed Me - Biography of Pearl Primus | Peggy and Murray Schwartz, Authors | Rachel Rubin |
| 2012-07 | 2/12/12 | The Image of Women in Advertising | Jean Kilbourne, Feminist Author and Filmmaker | Rachel Rubin |
| 2012-06 | 2/5/12 | Documentary Film: "Family Affair" (Repeat: Originally aired 11/13/2011 as Program 2011-46) | Chico Colvard, Film Producer | DeWayne Lehman |
| 2012-05 | 1/29/12 | The Duties of the State Treasury | Steve Grossman, State Treasurer | Steve Crosby |
| 2012-04 | 1/22/12 | "The Conversation Project" - end of life conversations | Ellen Goodman, Pulitzer Prize-winning Author | Steve Crosby |
| 2012-03 | 1/15/12 | Seafood labeling and fishing sustainability | Roger Berkowitz, President and CEO, Legal Sea Foods | Steve Crosby |
| 2012-02 | 1/8/12 | Boston Children's Chorus | Anthony Trecek-King, Artistic Director | Rachel Rubin |
| 2012-01 | 1/1/12 | John Langstaff and the Christmas Revels | Susan Cooper, Author | Rachel Rubin |
| 2011-52 | 12/25/11 | The World of Rap Music and Rappers | Boston Rapper, Acrobatik Program | Rachel Rubin |
| 2011-51 | 12/18/11 | Massachusetts Politics and the Founding of UMass Boston | Robert Quinn, Former Attorney General | Steve Crosby |
| 2011-50 | 12/11/11 | Redistricting and Community Organizing | Maria Lazu, Project Director, Drawing Democracy | Paul Watanabe |
| 2011-49 | 12/4/11 | A discussion of the memoir My Song | Harry Belafonte | Barbara Lewis |
| 2011-48 | 11/27/11 | Municipal Health and Management | David Sparks, Executive Director, Edward J. Collins, Jr. Center for Public Management at UMass Boston | DeWayne Lehman |
| 2011-47 | 11/20/11 | Casinos and Judicial Hiring | Scott Harshbarger, former MA Attorney General and President of Citizens for a Stronger Massachusetts | Steve Crosby |
| 2011-46 | 11/13/11 | A discussion of the documentary A Family Affair | Chico Colvard, Independent Filmmaker and UMass Boston Adjunct Professor | DeWayne Lehman |
| 2011-45 | 11/6/11 | The Palestinian Request for United Nations Recognition | Leila Farsakh, Associate Professor of Political Science, UMass Boston | Rachel Rubin |
| 2011-44 | 10/30/11 | A Vision of Education in Massachusetts | Paul Reville, MA Secretary of Education | Rachel Rubin |
| 2011-43 | 10/23/11 | The Impact of 9/11 | Rajini Srikanth, Professor of English, UMass Boston | Paul Watanabe |
| 2011-42 | 10/16/11 | A Philosophy of Higher Education | Robert Caret, President, University of Massachusetts | Rachel Rubin |
| 2011-41 | 10/9/11 | King Richard's Faire (New England's Renaissance Festival) | Rush Pearson, Actor | Rachel Rubin |
| 2011-40 | 10/2/11 | From Anarchy to Terrorism | James Green, Professor of History, UMass Boston, and Author, Death in the Haymarket | Janis Pryor |
| 2011-39 | 9/25/11 | The Future of Life Sciences in Massachusetts | Susan Windham Bannister, President and CEO, Mass Life Sciences Center | Janis Pryor |
| 2011-38 | 9/18/11 | One Man's Journey To and Through Higher Education | J. Keith Motley, Chancellor, UMass Boston | Janis Pryor |
| 2011-37 | 9/11/11 | The Japanese Internment, an Oral History | Paul Watanabe, Director, Institute for Asian American Studies, and Professor of Political Science, UMass Boston | Janis Pryor |
| 2011-36 | 9/4/11 | Human Rights | Winston Langley, Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, UMass Boston | Janis Pryor |
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