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We have not yet come up with an early screening procedure that can detect that cancer the way The problem is that the people who call in rightly believe colonoscopy can spot and even potentially cure colon they should have more time than I might allow. That’s cancer. That information is very important to our listeners because the phone lines are all always filled up and you who may know someone with the disease or even have it want to give everyone a chance. For example, after a caller themselves. While you really can’t sugar coat bad news, makes his or her point and we move on, they may call and people can be mobilized to make demands, contribute tell me that they had more to say. Occasionally they will money to support research, and put pressure on the suggest that their particular political agenda may have in- medical establishment to get moving. fluenced the decision to limit their time. Sometimes some of these good folks think that fluoridation is a communist plot We have had several programs about Alzheimer’s Dis- or that various diseases are caused by some government ease and about the ongoing progress that has been made action or that the chem trails you see in the sky are really in that field. The projections for the numbers of us who people trying to poison the population. But these accusa- will end up with the disease is staggering. tions are few and far between. On most of these shows, the phone lines are all filled up and that just proves that we are doing a service I simply For the most part, the doctors on the Vox Pop are incred- don’t see anywhere else. ibly impressed by the quality and depth of the questions and the intelligence of the callers. Nevertheless, while most people love the show there will always be those who try to do some damage -- sometimes thinking that they are funny in a very strange kind of way. One time we had a plastic surgeon on and a caller wanted to know if he could recre- ate a penis. He answered in the affirmative and I hung up in a record-breaking time. People either love or hate Medical Monday, but I do know for some folks, it has literally been a lifesaver. I am certainly not a physician but over the years I have learned a lot and have come to understand how many of the callers feel. I know, for example that some cancers are curable while others, like pancreatic cancer, are real trouble. In the many years I have been doing the show I have seen real prog- ress in the field of medical research and have watched as new medications and treatments have extended life spans. Take all forms of diabetes. New medicines have added years to the lives of people who would have been dead years before. When I was younger, I knew a guy who had diabetes and went blind as a result. He died what I would classify as a very early death. Now there are home dialysis units and various insulin pumps and new pharmaceuticals. On the other hand, some callers take grave exception to some of the new medications. For example, I’ve heard from several folks who think that statins are the devil’s curse. Doctors tell me all the time that they really value the pro- gram because they can get so much valuable information out to so many people at once, instead of sitting in an office 2 WAMC PROGRAM GUIDE APRIL 2018 3 PROGRAM NOTES KRISTIN GILBERT The 2017/2018 Metropolitan Opera season is winding down and April will be the last full month of opera broad- Saturday, April 28th, 2018 @1PM--Cendrillon (Massenet) casts. After the final Met opera of the season on May “Glorious,” raved the New York Times when Joyce DiDo- 5th, we will return to our normal programming and Radio nato sang the title role of Cendrillon at the Royal Opera Deluxe will move back to the Saturday 2PM-4PM airtime. in 2011. “Her performance was thoroughly enchanting.” Saturday, April 7th, 2018 @1PM--Lucia di Lammermoor Now, for the first time ever, Massenet’s sumptuous take (Gaetano Donizetti) on the Cinderella story comes to the Met, with DiDonato starring in the title role. She is paired with mezzo-soprano The role of the fragile title heroine who teeters between Alice Coote in the trouser role of Prince Charming, Kath- love and madness is shared by sopranos Olga Peretyat- leen Kim as the Fairy Godmother, and Stephanie Blythe ko-Mariotti and Pretty Yende, who have each impressed as the imperious Madame de la Haltière. Bertrand de Billy audiences with dazzling bel canto portrayals at the Met. conducts Laurent Pelly’s imaginative storybook produc- Vittorio Grigolo and Michael Fabiano share the role of her tion. lover in this chilling production by Tony Award-winning director Mary Zimmerman. Roberto Abbado conducts. Saturday, May 5th, 2018 @1PM--Roméo et Juliette (Gou- nod) Saturday, April 14th, 2018 @1PM--Luisa Miller (Verdi) Bartlett Sher’s production of Gounod’s sumptuous Shake- speare adaptation was a hit of the 2016–17 Met season Plácido Domingo adds yet another role to his legendary (“a revelation” declared the Huffington Post). Now the Met career in this rarely performed Verdi gem, a heart- sweeping tragedy returns with Ailyn Pérez and Bryan wrenching tragedy of fatherly love. Sonya Yoncheva sings Hymel, both celebrated in French repertoire, as the star the title role opposite Piotr Beczała in the first Met perfor- crossed young lovers. Plácido Domingo conducts. mances of the opera in more than ten years. Bertrand de Billy conducts. Saturday, April 21st, 2018 @1PM--The Exterminating Angel (Adès) Following the rapturous response to his last opera, The Tempest, the Met presents the American premiere of Thomas Adès’s The Exterminating Angel, inspired by the classic Luis Buñuel film of the same name. Hailed by the New York Times at its 2016 Salzburg Festival premiere as “inventive and audacious … a major event,” The Extermi- nating Angel is a surreal fantasy about a dinner party from which the guests can’t escape. Tom Cairns, who wrote the libretto, directs the new production, and Adès con- ducts his own adventurous new opera. Music by Thomas Adès, libretto by Tom Cairns in col- laboration with the composer, based on the screenplay by Luis Buñuel and Luis Alcoriza This program schedule subject to change. For most 4 WAMC PROGRAM GUIDE accurate information please visit wamc.org/schedule. APRIL 2018 5 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 12:00 AM BBC 1:00 AM Jazz after 2:00 Jazz after hours AM BBC World Service hours 3:00 AM 4:00 AM 5:00 BBC BBC AM Capitol Conn.