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Playlist: Shortcuts

Compiled By: John Murphy

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Shortcuts (Series)

Produced by Peter Bochan

Most recent piece in this series:

A Shortcut Through 2023

From Peter Bochan | Part of the Shortcuts series | 59:36

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Mixing in music, films, politics, sounds and the voices that shaped the year while celebrating those who've left us. A Shortcut Through 2023 features Alan Arkin, Alexi Murdoch, Ambrose Akinmusire, Burt Bacharach, Andre Braugher, Margo Robbie, Harry Belafonte, Tony Bennett, Richard Belzer, Donald Trump, Barbara Walters, David Lynch, De La Soul, Joe Biden, Jimmy Carter, Fran Drescher, Tindersticks, John Oliver, Howard Zinn,  David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Kraftwerk, AOC, Michio Kaku, Gov. Kathy Holcul, Jenny Lewis, Ian & Sylvia, George Santos, Harry Dean Stanton, Jim Gaffingan, Ben Stiller, Denny Laine, MLK, Marlene Dietrich, The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Dionne Warwick, Herb Alpert, Johnny Carson, Sean Hannity, David Crosby, The Byrds, Dangermouse/Sparklehorse, Julia Roberts, Danny Elfman, Volodymyr Zelensky, The Shirelles, The Drifters, Matthew Perry, Norman Lear, Carroll O'Connor & Jean Stapleton, Nick Offerman, Sufjan Stevens, Pee Wee Herman, David Letterman, Robbie Robertson & The Band, Jeff Beck, Ryan & Tatum O'Neal, Michael Douglas, Monty Norman, David McCallum, Robert Vaughan, The Yardbirds. Huey "Piano" Smith, Mark Margolis, Richard Roundtree, Burt Young, Issac Hayes, Wang Chung, Frannie Lee, Seth Meyers, The Association, The Stormy Weather Orchestra, M. Ward, William Eggleston, Carl Garguilo, Eli "Paperboy" Reed, Jane Birkin, Dick Cavett & Raquel Welch, Pink Floyd, Newton Minow, Hank Williams, Pete Davidson, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Bruce Springsteen, and Tina Turner
A Shortcut Through 2023 examines another unsettling year with so many serious issues unresolved, multiple wars raging on, plus strikes, lockdowns, and Congress and the nation still deeply divided, while unchecked climate change brings extreme weather conditions and multiple disasters throughout the world.