Program Highlights
Find out what's coming up on some of your favorite public radio programs and what specials we're airing this week.
Brooke Gladstone host Generation Putin Saturday at 3 and Sunday at six.
Friday – 3/1/13
10 pm: JAZZ SHACK
“Chicago” jazz was New Orleans jazz once removed performed by musicians who as children heard the very best New Orleans bands working on Chicago’s south side. We’ll begin tonight with a set of this jazz recorded for Commodore in 1943. Also scheduled are 1946 sides from tenor, Illinois Jacquet, a 1954 jam recorded in LA by trumpeter Clifford Brown.
Saturday 3/2/13
7 am: SELECTED SHORTS
Guest host Cynthia Nixon presents “Vanilla Bright Like Eminem,” by Michel Faber, read by Daniel Gerroll and “North Country,” by Roxane Gay, performed by Adepero Oduye
12 pm: THE SPLENDID TABLE
This week on the Splendid Table we talk to Andrea Ngyuen about her latest book “Asian Tofu.” The Sterns are on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, at the Exmore Diner, and we get a smell tour of Seattle with sensory researcher Victoria Henshaw.
3 pm: GENERATION PUTIN
It's been over 20 years since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Young people in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Georgia are facing unemployment, democratic pressure, and the legacy of repression, while being influenced by the West, punk music, and the Pussy Riot trials. PRX sent a reporting team from the Seattle Globalist to explore the tensions in these countries, described by The Atlantic as 'uneasily suspended' between two political eras. Join host Brooke Gladstone for Generation Putin, an in-depth look at the millennial generation in the post-Soviet states.
4 pm: THIS AMERICAN LIFE – “No Coincidence, No Story!”
We asked listeners to send us their craziest, most memorable coincidence stories, and we got so many fun and delightful ones we decided to make a whole show about them. From a chance encounter at a Greyhound station to keys that unlock strange lairs to a baffling apparition in a college shower stall, the world is a mysterious place. 
6 pm: A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION
Coming to you this week from The Fitzgerald Theater in downtown Saint Paul, Minnesota, it's a live broadcast of A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor. With special guests, Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell, vocalist Heather Masse and pianist Jed Wilson, and singing sisters Jearlyn and Jevetta Steele. Plus, the Royal Academy of Radio Actors, Sue Scott, Tim Russell, and Fred Newman; an extra-wide Shoe Band with Michael B. Nelson, Kenni Holmen, and Steve Strand on brass and Joe Savage on steel guitar; and the latest News from Lake Wobegon.
Sunday – 3/3/13
7 am: ON BEING
A Jesuit priest famous for Homeboy Industries in Los Angeles. Fr. Greg Boyle, turns around the lives of young men and women, former gang members. This is not work of helping, he says, but of finding kinship. the point of Christian service, as he lives it, is about "our common calling to delight in one another."
11 am: A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION
Coming to you this week from The Fitzgerald Theater in downtown Saint Paul, Minnesota, it's a live broadcast of A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor. With special guests, Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell, vocalist Heather Masse and pianist Jed Wilson, and singing sisters Jearlyn and Jevetta Steele. Plus, the Royal Academy of Radio Actors, Sue Scott, Tim Russell, and Fred Newman; an extra-wide Shoe Band with Michael B. Nelson, Kenni Holmen, and Steve Strand on brass and Joe Savage on steel guitar; and the latest News from Lake Wobegon.
6 pm: GENERATION PUTIN
It's been over 20 years since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Young people in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Georgia are facing unemployment, democratic pressure, and the legacy of repression, while being influenced by the West, punk music, and the Pussy Riot trials. PRX sent a reporting team from the Seattle Globalist to explore the tensions in these countries, described by The Atlantic as 'uneasily suspended' between two political eras. Join host Brooke Gladstone for Generation Putin, an in-depth look at the millennial generation in the post-Soviet states. 
9 pm: THIS AMERICAN LIFE – “No Coincidence, No Story!”
We asked listeners to send us their craziest, most memorable coincidence stories, and we got so many fun and delightful ones we decided to make a whole show about them. From a chance encounter at a Greyhound station to keys that unlock strange lairs to a baffling apparition in a college shower stall, the world is a mysterious place.
