Program Highlights

Friday – 10/5/12

10 pm: JAZZ SHACK
One of the top jazz musicians of the 1930s was pianist Teddy Wilson. In 1954 he was still playing scintillating jazz piano. We’ll begin tonight with some of the sides Teddy recorded for Verve at this time. Also scheduled are Blue Note sides from 1941, Dizzy Gillespie small band sides from 1959 ans some fabulous 1959 duets between Thelonious Monk and Gerry Mulligan.

Saturday – 10/6/12

7 am: SELECTED SHORTS
“Vaclav the Magnificent” by Haley Tanner, performed by Sarah Steele
“Swept Away” by T.C. Boyle, performed by Rene Auberjonois

12 pm: THE SPLENDID TABLE
This week on the Splendid Table, it's another episode of "the Key 3" with Chef John Besh, author of the award-winning book, "My New Orleans", we take an adventure in sustainable eating with the duo from The Perennial Plate, and we look at the spread of Japanese food in America with Daisuke Utagawa of Washington D.C.'s oldest sushi restaurant, Sushi Ko.

1 pm: MARKETPLACE MONEY
This weekend on Marketplace Money, tough choices. Around one in seven Americans lives in poverty. One in five kids is poor. So, in conjunction with Marketplace's Wealth & Poverty desk, we'll be looking at the challenge of making good decisions when money is scarce and every choice could be a tipping point. Host Tess Vigeland goes to San Diego, where she spends time with three impoverished families struggling to stay afloat and make ends meet on very limited resources. Harvard social scientist Sendhil Mullainathan talks with Tess about what he calls the "fire-fighter" mentality developed by many poor people who are always giving all their energy to immediate problems at the expense of long-term planning. Marketplace's Shereen Meraji reports on "driving while poor" and the challenges of transportation for those below the poverty line. Why are people poor and how they can move into the middle class? Good questions. We hear dueling takes on these questions from two experts on poverty in America from Charles Murray of the conservative American Enterprise Institute and Melissa Boteach of the liberal Center for American Progress.

3 pm: THE MOTH RADIO HOUR
After many years in the legendary Blue Man Group, a performer makes a profound connection with an audience member; Saturday Night Live alum Rachel Dratch meets a debonair man at a cocktail party and dares to think he might be Mr. Right; and a world-renowned neuroscientist identifies patterns in the brains of psychopathic killers.
Some stories are emotionally intense and not for children.

4 pm: THIS AMERICAN LIFE – “What Doesn’t Kill You”
Stories of how people cope after brushes with death. Sometimes death comes as a disease. Sometimes it swims up and bites you. And sometimes it's a pen or pencil, sitting there, just waiting for you to ingest it.

6 pm: A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION
Coming to you this week live from The Fitzgerald Theater in downtown Saint Paul, Minnesota, it's A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor. With special guests, legendary Swedish jazz orchestra Kustbandet, three-girl choir Mountain Man, fiddle champion Catie Jo Pidel, and singer Molly Dean. Also with us, the Royal Academy of Radio Actors; Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Steve Kramer, The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, and the latest News from Lake Wobegon.

Sunday – 10/7/12

7 am: ON BEING
Christian ethicist David Gushee and reproductive rights activist Frances Kissling are in conversation on what is really at stake — and break out of the confines and categories of the usual debates.

11 am: A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION
Coming to you this week live from The Fitzgerald Theater in downtown Saint Paul, Minnesota, it's A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor. With special guests, legendary Swedish jazz orchestra Kustbandet, three-girl choir Mountain Man, fiddle champion Catie Jo Pidel, and singer Molly Dean. Also with us, the Royal Academy of Radio Actors; Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Steve Kramer, The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, and the latest News from Lake Wobegon.

2 pm: FROM THE TOP
This week, From the Top comes to you from the Military Child Education Coalition Conference in Grapevine, Texas, at the Palace Theatre. A special episode featuring all kids with parents in the armed forces, you'll hear a violist from Illinois, a clarinetist from Florida, a pianist from Virginia, a harpist who is currently living in Belgium, and a finale by the woodwind quintet from the United State Army Band "Pershing's Own."

6 pm: THE MOTH RADIO HOUR
After many years in the legendary Blue Man Group, a performer makes a profound connection with an audience member; Saturday Night Live alum Rachel Dratch meets a debonair man at a cocktail party and dares to think he might be Mr. Right; and a world-renowned neuroscientist identifies patterns in the brains of psychopathic killers. 
Some stories are emotionally intense and not for children.

9 pm: THIS AMERICAN LIFE – “What Doesn’t Kill You”
Stories of how people cope after brushes with death. Sometimes death comes as a disease. Sometimes it swims up and bites you. And sometimes it's a pen or pencil, sitting there, just waiting for you to ingest it.