Program Highlights
Find out what's coming up on some of your favorite public radio programs and what specials we're airing this week.
Friday – 5/17
10 pm: JAZZ SHACK
During the swing era Tommy Dorsey’s theme song for his radio show was “I’m Getting Sentimental Over You”. We’ll begin tonight with another trombonist’s take on that song performed by Vic Dickenson from 1952 Blue Note session. Also scheduled are some live recordings from the 1959 Newport Jazz Festival and their 1969 Montreaux Jazz Festival.
Saturday – 5/18
7 am: SELECTED SHORTS
Two stories about family: Where the Door is Always Open and the Welcome Mat is Out, by Patricia Highsmith, performed by Tandy Cronyn and Powder, by Tobias Wolff, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
12 pm: THE SPLENDID TABLE
This week on the Splendid Table, it's another installment in our series "The Key 3", interviews with chefs and good cooks about the three recipes that they think other good cooks should know. This week it's award-winning chef Andrea Reusing, of Chapel Hill's "The Lantern". The Sterns are at "The Blue Bonnet Café" in Marble Falls, TX and we get the story of the Vietnamese tradition of "monthly rice" from journalist Claudia Kolker.
3 pm: STATE OF THE RE:UNION – “Pike County, Ohio – As Black as We Wish to Be”
In this episode Al Letson and guest producer Lu Olkowski visit a tiny town in the Appalachian foothills of Ohio where, for a century, residents have shared the common bond of identifying as African-American despite the fact that they look white. Racial lines have been blurred to invisibility, and people inside the same family can vehemently disagree about whether they are black or white. It can be tense and confusing. As a result, everyone’s choosing: Am I black? Am I mixed race? Or, am I white? Adding to the confusion, there’s a movement afoot to recognize their Native-American heritage.
4 pm: THIS AMERICAN LIFE – “Hot in My Backyard”
After years of being stuck, the national conversation on climate change finally started to shift — just a little — last year, the hottest year on record in the U.S., with Hurricane Sandy flooding the New York subway, drought devastating Midwest farms, and California and Colorado on fire. Lots of people were wondering if global warming had finally arrived, here at home. This week, stories about this new reality.
6 pm: A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION
This week on A Prairie Home Companion, while the 1978 Winnebago is being tuned up for the remainder of our live broadcast season, we'll rebroadcast this season's opener from The Fitzgerald Theater. The Derailers bring a little Texas honky tonk to Minnesota with "She Left Me Cold," Ira Glass appears in an episode of Guy Noir as a fugitive named Irwin Krpsntzch, Jearlyn and Jevetta Steele bring the house down with "Soothe Me," and Garrison and Holly Jones sing "Duquesne Whistle." In Lake Wobegon, Mr. Lofgren's orchard produces an exceptional harvest of his "Julia" apples.
Sunday 5/19
7 am: ON BEING –"Resilience thinking" with Andrew Zolli
11 am: A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION
This week on A Prairie Home Companion, while the 1978 Winnebago is being tuned up for the remainder of our live broadcast season, we'll rebroadcast this season's opener from The Fitzgerald Theater. The Derailers bring a little Texas honky tonk to Minnesota with "She Left Me Cold," Ira Glass appears in an episode of Guy Noir as a fugitive named Irwin Krpsntzch, Jearlyn and Jevetta Steele bring the house down with "Soothe Me," and Garrison and Holly Jones sing "Duquesne Whistle." In Lake Wobegon, Mr. Lofgren's orchard produces an exceptional harvest of his "Julia" apples.
6 pm: STATE OF THE RE:UNION - “Pike County, Ohio – As Black as We Wish to Be”
In this episode Al Letson and guest producer Lu Olkowski visit a tiny town in the Appalachian foothills of Ohio where, for a century, residents have shared the common bond of identifying as African-American despite the fact that they look white. Racial lines have been blurred to invisibility, and people inside the same family can vehemently disagree about whether they are black or white. It can be tense and confusing. As a result, everyone’s choosing: Am I black? Am I mixed race? Or, am I white? Adding to the confusion, there’s a movement afoot to recognize their Native-American heritage.
9 pm: THIS AMERICAN LIFE – “Hot in My Backyard”
After years of being stuck, the national conversation on climate change finally started to shift — just a little — last year, the hottest year on record in the U.S., with Hurricane Sandy flooding the New York subway, drought devastating Midwest farms, and California and Colorado on fire. Lots of people were wondering if global warming had finally arrived, here at home. This week, stories about this new reality.
