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Thanksgiving and Hanukkah Listening on 90.5 WESA

Thanksgiving Day
9 a.m. - 11 a.m.
Third Coast International Audio Fest
An annual celebration of the best documentary and feature work being made worldwide for radio and the Internet.

11 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Splendid Table Turkey Confidential
Help is on the way for Thanksgiving cooks, kitchen helpers and dinner guests on this, the biggest cooking day of the year! Turkey Confidential is quickly becoming a Thanksgiving tradition.

Lynne Rossetto Kasper, award-winning host of public radio's national food show The Splendid Table will be available to answer listener questions throughout the live, two-hour program. Past shows have included everything from a cross-country trucker cooking his Thanksgiving dinner on the manifold to a panicked first-time cook who didn't realize a turkey needs to be thawed. Tune in as Lynne handles all questions with wit, expertise and laughter.

Friday, Nov. 29
Noon and 8 p.m.
Ties That Bind: StoryCorp's 10th Anniversary
Celebrate the first decade of StoryCorps with a special retrospective hosted by NPR's Scott Simon and StoryCorps founder Dave Isay.

1 p.m.
Hanukkah Lights
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.