Mash-up of Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" and "The Wizard of Oz" movie dialogue and sounds. Plus, The Flaming Lips try the same trick. Plus radio theatre presentations of the later Oz books.

This week's show features stories from Radio Deutsche-Welle, Radio Havana Cuba, NHK World Radio Japan, the Voice of Russia, and Spanish National Radio.

Do not call during rebroadcast. Off The Hook, from the hacker zine 2600, airs every Wednesday night at 7 p.m. ET in New York City on WBAI 99.5 FM, and is rebroadcast at 7 a.m. Saturdays on WGXC and Wave Farm Radio. It is simulcast online via streaming MP3 and via shortwave on WBCQ The Planet at 5110 KHz. Join #offthehook on irc.2600.net to chat during the show. Email show at oth [at] 2600.com. Do not call during the rebroadcast. Rebroadcast from Nov. 26, 2014, with hosts discussing police scanners and other technology in the Ferguson, Missouri decision and protests.

The Department of Homeland Security says that ham radio is an important part of its new Emergency Communications Plan; NASA to sponsor $5 million Cube Quest Challenge; the Northern California DX Foundation announces a major contribution to the January 2015 Navassa Island DXpedition; estate of former ham makes $1.4 million bequest to journalism school; Fun Sat One celebrates its first year in space and where are all the pay phones going in the Big Apple.

This edition of Other Music features a recording from the November 6, 2014 performance "Michael Century Solo Piano and Accordion" at EMPAC (Troy, NY). The broadcast program features Johann Sebastian Bach: "Overture (Partita) in the French Style" and selections of Preludes and Fugues from "The Well Tempered Keyboard (Clavier);" Morton Feldman: "Palais de Mari;" Terry Riley: "Keyboard Study 2 for accordion and digital delays;" and Karl Stockhausen: "Interval, from For Times to Come." The program presents a broad vista of the keyboard music of Johann Sebastian Bach in counterpoint to an unusual selection of compositions by some of the leading voices in creative music from the mid-20th century.

Radia Show 504: Datscharadio Audiokomposter from Reboot FM (Berlin, Germany). "Radia" is an international group of stations, including Wave Farm and WGXC, interested in new and forgotten ways of making radio. Each week, one station makes a show for the rest. This week: "From a 100 days broadcast on the Landesgartenschau Gießen, datscharadio brought back an archive with audiofiles in a state of digital decomposition. the show takes three different depositories of audio material and traverses them to present an impossible algorithmic summary, a auto-montage of an already diverse ethnopoetic collection of todays garden cultures in an average mid size town in Germany. By Pit Schultz (with Gabi Schaffner) for reboot.fm" http://datscharadio.de

Radio show about found sounds, field recordings, and acoustic ecology. This regular edition features works by Mike Bullock, Gilles Aubry, Desmond Knight, Lawrence English with Stephen Vitiello, recordings from the documentary film "Song from the Forest," and a framework introduction recorded in France by Espaces Sonores.

Radia Show 504: Datscharadio Audiokomposter from Reboot FM (Berlin, Germany). "Radia" is an international group of stations, including Wave Farm and WGXC, interested in new and forgotten ways of making radio. Each week, one station makes a show for the rest. This week: "From a 100 days broadcast on the Landesgartenschau Gießen, datscharadio brought back an archive with audiofiles in a state of digital decomposition. the show takes three different depositories of audio material and traverses them to present an impossible algorithmic summary, a auto-montage of an already diverse ethnopoetic collection of todays garden cultures in an average mid size town in Germany. By Pit Schultz (with Gabi Schaffner) for reboot.fm" http://datscharadio.de