Editor's Picks: Thanksgiving
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- Beat Latino 10: Gracias! Thanksgiving Music
Catalina Maria Johnson, 58:06
- Not your usual pilgrim fare -- rather, songs that include the word "gracias" and celebrate life, love and music.
- FM Odyssey's 10th Anniversary Thanksgiving show
Fred Migliore / FM Odyssey, 173:45
- Highlights of the past 10 years of FM Odyssey Thanksgiving shows featuring interviews with Dan Fogelberg, Judy Collins, Jesse Colin Young, and more. Plus an exclusive updated version of Alice's Restaurant that Arlo Guthrie performed for FM Odyssey. Music sets include songs about the fall, food, and the transition to winter.
- Thanksgiving Echoes
John Diliberto / Echoes, 119:00
- A harvest of Americana chamber music, featuring a soundscape of live performances with award-winning musicians in new acoustic music.
- "Beautiful performances stacked high with flawless musicianship make two hours of listening simply glide by." -
Garcia | full review
- RN Focus: Worlds Apart
Radio Netherlands, 3 hour-long pieces
- A special three-part series from Radio Netherlands that brings rich, first-person stories of native culture from three different regions of the world - the United States Plains States, the Canadian Arctic, and the outback of Australia: stories of the Sioux, Inuit, and Aboriginal people.
- A Feast for the Ears
WGUC, 120:00
- Celebrates Thanksgiving with music that sets the atmosphere, and reflections that provide deeper meaning to the holiday.
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- The Gathering - A Modern Thanksgiving Story
Barbara Simmons, 29:00
- At Thanksgiving, as we in the United States gather to celebrate the "first" ceremonial sharing between Native Peoples and the arriving European Peoples, is a good time to hear another telling of this Story; an update, so to speak. To imagine a different kind of Thanksgiving Gathering--another way to begin making a nation together.
- "This is the kind of thing you want playing while families are sitting to dinner. Very inspiring . . ." - Roberts | full review
- What's the Word? Literary Feasts
Sally Placksin / MLA, 29:00
- In literature, feasts often serve as central events in telling a story.
- "Literary Feasts is perfect following an early-ending weekend All Things Considered program, when listeners' minds are more tuned to the artistic than journalistic, hungry not for mere calories, but culture." - Beach | full review
- What's the Word? Cookbooks as Literature
Sally Placksin / MLA, 29:00
- Many of us have our favorite cookbooks, complete with dog-eared, sauce-stained pages. But cookbooks can be more than just a source of recipes; lavishly illustrated cookbooks transport us to faraway places. Classic cookbooks serve as cultural artifacts of their time and place, and cookbooks with stories may engross us as much as novels do.
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- Thanksgiving Story
Holly Kernan / New California Media, 05:50
- Commentator Andrew Lam remembers his first Thanksgiving in America, when he was a teenage refugee, fleeing war in his native Vietnam.
- "This commentary approaches perfection." - Nuzum | full review
- Turkeys
Scott Carrier / HearingVoices, 29:00
- From turkey farm to supermarket, the life and death of a turkey.
- "You want the truth? Scott Carrier thinks you can handle it." - Johnson | full review
- Buffalo Turkey Butt
Andy Raskin, 07:05
- Does it exist? Does it matter?
- "Truth, lies, adventure and turkey tails." - Berlow | full review
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- i thank you God
William Zukof, 03:43
- The Western Wind sings Elliot Z. Levine's setting of e. e. cummings' inspring poem "i thank you God".
- On Being Thankful - with Cancer & with a Cat
Paul Messing, 04:49
- Two beautiful Thanksgiving stories from NY Times Bestseller Susan Chernak McElroy.
- None So Blind: A Thanksgiving Story
Cheryl-Anne Millsap, 03:39
- Essay by Cheryl-Anne Millsap. A plate full of food, the gift of a Thanksgiving meal, connects a lonely old woman and the shy little girl next door.
- "A thoughtful reflection about thankfulness and memories." - Hingsbergen | full review
- A Naked Thanksgiving by Cheryl-Anne Millsap
Spokane Public Radio / Patrick Klausen, 02:45
- Talking turkey about the birds and the bees.
- "Clever and amusing." - Anderson | full review
- A Red State Thanksgiving
Sarah Dalsimer, 03:41
- Producer Sarah Dalsimer, otherwise known as Blue State Girl, travels home with her Mississippi bred boyfriend for Thanksgiving. Is the South as otherwordly as she imagined?
- "A well told story with a good tone for the holidays." - Hokanson | full review
- After Thanksgiving by Sandra M. Gilbert
Curtis Fox, 01:40
- After packing her youngest on an airplane back to college, a mother compares the end of autumn to her own season in life. Reading by Anne O'Sullivan. Part of the Poetry Off the Shelf series.
- Turkey Hunting Tips
Vermont Folklife Center Media, 02:19
- Hunter Barry Forbes uses turkey psychology to lure in the toms. And some great gobbling . . .
- Turducken: Three Birds - One Stone
Ali Berlow, 02:53
- A chicken inside of a duck inside of a turkey. Go figure.
"Ali took an experiential, but non-traditional approach to a "cooking piece". Instead of "now I am deboning the second of three birds", she pronounces that process gross and gets on the phone!" - Sommer | full review
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