Listening into The Mantra from the Afro Celt Sound System, George Harrison & The Radha Krishna Temple, Ramin Djawadi, David Chesky, Ben Folds, Jeff Eyrich, Chet Atkins, Didon with Carmen Rizzo & Meriem Ben Amor, The Pinkerton Raid , Denison Witmer & Sufjan Stevens, Little Moon, The Staves, Harpo Marx and Perry Como

Then we'll look 20 years into the past for A Shortcut Back to 2005, a retrospective  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.