Episodes

  • Tell Me on a Sunday
    Mar 29 2026

    The 1980 British song cycle, written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Don Black, gets cycled through its many variants, performed by Marti Webb, Bernadette Peters, Denise van Outen and more.

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    54 mins
  • Liza Sings Kander and Ebb (2026)
    Mar 25 2026

    Start spreading the news: to celebrate the birthday girl, we're playing an encore broadcast of a great creative partnership. Liza's classics and some rarities from The Act, Cabaret, Flora the Red Menace, and more.

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    55 mins
  • Oscar Runners-Up
    Mar 15 2026

    Nobody Does It Better!--in advance of Sunday night's Oscars, we give you the great songs written by Broadway artists that were nominated but didn't get the statuette: runners-up by Marvin Hamlisch, Jerome Kern, Kander and Ebb, Lerner and Loewe, and many more.

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    54 mins
  • Songs of the Resistance
    Mar 8 2026

    Musical numbers aren't always violets and silverbells: here are moments from the musical stage where the truth is spoken to power. Songs from Les Misérables, Suffs, Kiss of the Spider Woman, The Cradle Will Rock (of course), and more.

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    54 mins
  • The Life and Rhymes of Dorothy Parker
    Mar 2 2026

    America's great poet and essayist was also a songwriter. One perfect rose of a program with songs by and inspired by Mrs. Parker's career; performers include Doris Day, Christine Baranski, Anika Larsen, Ann Harada, Jackie Hoffman and Veanne Cox.

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    54 mins
  • Blue Moon: Larry Hart (Part Two)
    Feb 22 2026

    A look at the enduring legacy of the songs of Rodgers and Hart, interpreted through the decades by Frank Sinatra, Nina Simone, Tony Bennett, the Supremes, Lady Gaga and more.

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    54 mins
  • Blue Moon: Larry Hart (Part One)
    Feb 15 2026

    As a complement to the current film bio of Lorenz Hart, BLUE MOON, we present a two-part episode, focusing on the songs and events mentioned in the movie. The first has performances by Peggy Lee, Bobby Short, James Cagney, Lena Horne and more.

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    54 mins
  • Love, American Musical Style (2026)
    Feb 10 2026
    Truer than the red, hot, and blue...for Valentine's Day, some of the greatest show tunes with "love" in them: sung by John Raitt, Audra McDonald, Jack Cassidy, Cynthia Erivo, and more.
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    54 mins