February 7, 2005 A special program for Valentines’ Day
February 14, 2005 Romantic poems by Algernon Charles Swinburne
February 21, 2005 A program based upon The Lady Of Shalott by Alfred Lord Tennyson
February 28, 2005 A collection of ancient Egyptian romantic poetry
March 7, 2005 A program about angels
March 14, 2005 Victorian Age love letters in America, featuring guest reader Karen Lystra
March 21, 2005 Love letters of Ninon de L’Enclos, Pietro Bembo, Heloise, and others
March 28, 2005 Listener submissions from around the country
April 4, 2005 The Romance of Rain and Storms
April 11, 2005Romance in the life of Steinbeck, Lowry and other writers as related by Lionel Rolfe
April 18, 2005Poetry of Jorge Luis Borges
April 25, 2005The life and times of Queen Elizabeth I
May 2, 2005 Letters of Balzac, John Ruskin, Tsarina Alexandra and others
May 9, 2005 The romantic significance of flowers
May 16, 2005 Selections from Harry Crosby’s diaries
May 23, 2005 Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
May 30, 2005 Love letters to anyone by Asia Wong
June 6,2005 Love letters of Rupert Brooke and Noel Olivier
June 13,2005Selections from Pilgrim Girl by Jule Selbo and L:aura Peters—excerpts from a diary of a girl who came to America aboard the Mayflower
June 20,2005Selections from the notebooks of the young Johannes Brahms
June 27,2005Another program of Love as it is expressed in opera
July 4,2005The romance of the Villa d'Este
July 11,2005Mona Golabek's homage to Vienna
July 18,2005poetry by one of the first professional female writers, Aphra Behn
July 25,2005Part 2 of the relationship between poet Rupert Brooke and Noel Olivier
August 1, 2005The life and work of William Butler Yeats
August 8, 2005The romance of the Mansion House and Martha’s Vineyard
August 15, 2005The married life of Fyodor Dostoevsky
August 22, 2005Selections from Aleister Crowley’s famous essay on Absinthe
August 29, 2005Submissions from our listeners around the country
September 5, 2005Part I of The life of Lady Penelope Rich, a woman who was the inspiration for many Elizabethan poets and composers
September 12, 2005The romantic life of composer Giacomo Puccini
September 19, 2005The romantic sonnets of 14th century poet Petrarch
September 26, 2005Part II of The life of Lady Penelope Rich, a woman who was the inspiration for many Elizabethan poets and composers
October 3,2005Love letters of William and Mary Wordsworth
October10,2005the love life of Julie De Lespinasse, hostess of a famous French salon
October 17,2005love letters of Alexander Pushkin as well as letters of Balzac and Juliette Drouet
October 24, 2005A special program for Hallowe’en
October 31,2005letters of Mary Wollstonecraft, Edith Wharton, Sarah Bernhardt, and Isadora Duncan
November 7,2005Chopin & George Sand (correspondence between themselves and friends)
November 14,2005 A program evoking the spirit of Thanksgiving
November 21,2005Poetry of the Troubadours including selections from the new book by Robert Kehew
November 28,2005Chopin & George Sand (more correspondence between themselves and friends)
December 5,2005letters of Gustave Flaubert, Franz Kafka and Alban Berg
December 12,2005writings of the mystic poet Rene Daumal
December 19,2005a special program celebrating Christmas
December 26,2005a program of listener submissions from around the country