WBAI

Hosted by Cora Weiss. Guests are Liz Brando from Leicester, UK, of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament ("Ban the Bomb") and Peace Camps; and Patsy Lake of the American Friends Service Committee and the New York Metropolitan Freeze Campaign.

This program is in three parts: 1. Cora Weiss interviews Kathy Jarvis of Advocates for Children about militarism and ROTC programs in New York City schools; 2. Jarvis takes phone calls; 3. Cora Weiss presents info on European Peace Conference. Contains note with instructions for engineer.

Judith Kass interviews film director Claude Goretta and actor Isabelle Huppert, the star of his film The Lacemaker. Huppert won the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles in 1977 for her role in the film. They discuss the major themes of Goretta's films and Huppert describes their working process.

Nancy Kramer speaks with Denise Fuge, president of the National Organization for Women (NOW)-New York and Gail Gabler, organizer, on the recent defeat of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) and on what comes next for the movement. Includes listener phone calls.

An interview with Dr. Leonard Lehrman, composer of the Jewish feminist opera Hannah, and Charles Osborne and Ron Edwards, two singers who were part of its production in Mannheim, West Germany. The opera focuses on the story of Hannah, sister of Judah Maccabee, and her struggle against tyranny and for religious freedom. Excerpts from the opera are heard throughout the recording.