Program Highlights
Find out what's coming up on some of your favorite public radio programs and what holiday specials we're airing this week.
Saturday – 12/7
7 am: SELECTED SHORTS
“The Empty Room” by Jonathan Lethem, performed by Tate Donovan
“Why Don't You Dance?” by Raymond Carver, performed by Corey Stoll
“Neighbors” by Raymond Carver, performed by Jefferson Mays.
Special guest: Jonathan Lethem
12 pm: THE SPLENDID TABLE
This week on the Splendid Table we talk about eating on the road with rapper and poet Dessa, we head into Lynne's kitchen with comedian Lizz Winstead, for another round of Key 3. Lizz's new collection of essays is "Lizz Free or Die," and we talk to Dr. Andrew Weil about what we really should be worrying about when we worry about what we eat .
6 pm: A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION
Coming to you this week from The Town Hall in New York, NY, it's a live broadcast performance of A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor. With special guests, silken-voiced jazz singer and pianist Diana Krall, conductor and pianist Rob Fisher, and harmonizing siblings The DiGiallonardo Sisters. Plus, the Royal Academy of Radio Actors, Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Fred Newman, The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, and the latest News from Lake Wobegon.
3 pm: HANUKKAH LIGHTS 2012
A perennial NPR favorite, Hanukkah Lights features Hanukkah stories and memoirs written by acclaimed authors expressly for the show, as read by NPR's Susan Stamberg and Murray Horwitz.
4 pm: THIS AMERICAN LIFE – “This Week”
This week, we take on ... This Week. Stories united by one thing: They all happened in the seven days prior to broadcast. As we write this show description, we have zero tape, and only a vague notion of what will end up on the show. Some hints: people gathering to see "snow" at an Arizona mall; a wedding toast honoring the king of wedding toasters; looking for scattered middle school students in Queens; and a game of parliamentary chicken in the U.S. Senate. At this point, your guess is as good as ours.
Sunday – 12/8
7 am: ON BEING
In honor of Hanukkah, we remember the life and teachings of the great Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel. He was a 20th century mystic, a religious prophet, a social activist.
11 am: A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION
Coming to you this week from The Town Hall in New York, NY, it's a live broadcast performance of A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor. With special guests, silken-voiced jazz singer and pianist Diana Krall, conductor and pianist Rob Fisher, and harmonizing siblings The DiGiallonardo Sisters. Plus, the Royal Academy of Radio Actors, Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Fred Newman, The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, and the latest News from Lake Wobegon.
3 pm: HANUKKAH LIGHTS 2012
A perennial NPR favorite, Hanukkah Lights features Hanukkah stories and memoirs written by acclaimed authors expressly for the show, as read by NPR's Susan Stamberg and Murray Horwitz.
9 pm: THIS AMERICAN LIFE – “This Week”
This week, we take on ... This Week. Stories united by one thing: They all happened in the seven days prior to broadcast. As we write this show description, we have zero tape, and only a vague notion of what will end up on the show. Some hints: people gathering to see "snow" at an Arizona mall; a wedding toast honoring the king of wedding toasters; looking for scattered middle school students in Queens; and a game of parliamentary chicken in the U.S. Senate. At this point, your guess is as good as ours.
Monday – 12/9
11 am: WELCOME CHRISTMAS
The annual VocalEssence holiday concert. New for 2012: Bring a Torch! This year's program puts the focus on old French carols, alongside two world premieres in the annual VocalEssence/American Composers Forum Christmas carol contest. The new carols call for the intriguing combination of men's chorus with English horn.
