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WNPR Thanksgiving Radio Feast

Thanksgiving is a holiday where friends and family gather around – and this year, if they’re sitting in front of a radio, we want to give them something new to enjoy! Listen for special programming throughout the day on WNPR. Here are some highlights:

Thursday, November 27
 

9:00 - 10:00 am
Best of the Best: The 2014 Third Coast Festival Broadcast (hour one)

Each year The Third Coast International Audio Festival brings the best new documentaries produced worldwide to the national airwaves in a special program. Best of the Best presents the winners of our 14th annual TC / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition. Innovative and insightful, the stories will engage, provoke, entertain, and transport listeners, proving that all you need to discover new worlds is...a little box and an antenna. 
 

11:00 am – 1:00 pm
Turkey Confidential 2014
 
Turkey Confidential is the annual live call-in show from The Splendid Table, designed to bail you out of any last-minute kitchen emergencies and provide a backdrop as you and your family prepare for the big day. Scheduled guests Lidia BastianichDavid LeiteMelissa ClarkCarla HallFrancis Lam,and Henry Alford will chat with Lynne Rossetto Kasper and answer your questions. Call in at (800) 537-5252 and use the hashtag #turkeyconfidential.
 

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Thanksgiving is for Eaters
 
This one-hour radio special, hosted by Dan Pashman of The Sporkful podcast, Cooking Channel’s You’re Eating It Wrong and the new book, Eat More Better: How to Make Every Bite More Delicious, is an entertaining combination of in-studio interviews, listener calls, and in-kitchen segments with food and drink experts, as well as some of public radio’s favorite personalities. You’ll learn useful tips about how to make classic Thanksgiving dishes, interesting facts about the science of cooking and the art of eating, and surprising details about the ways in which diverse cultures have adapted Thanksgiving traditions and made them their own. Mo Rocca and Amy Sedaris share tips for holiday entertaining, covering everything from what music to play to mediating family disputes.
 
3:00 pm
Thanksgiving Special: True Stories from The Butterball Turkey Talk-Line

We chat with the turkey experts who man Butterball’s Turkey Talk-Line, providing answers to more than 100,000 holiday cooking questions each November and December. We put roasting pans through their paces with gadget guru Lisa McManus, and we taste store-bought shortcuts to find out which ones to avoid and which ones will get Thanksgiving dinner on the table quicker. Wine expert Stephen Meuse investigates whether wine has gender, and then we’ll head into the test kitchen to learn how to make the perfect sweet potato pie. And of course, we take your calls to answer all of your cooking questions.

Friday, November 28
 

9:00 - 10:00 am
Bestof the Best: The 2014 Third Coast Festival Broadcast (hour two)

Each year The Third Coast International Audio Festival brings the best new documentaries produced worldwide to the national airwaves in a special program. Best of the Best presents the winners of our 14th annual TC / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition. Innovative and insightful, the stories will engage, provoke, entertain, and transport listeners, proving that all you need to discover new worlds is...a little box and an antenna. 
 

Frances McDormand.

1:00 pm
Hidden Kitchens World
 
The Kitchen Sisters and PRX present Hidden Kitchens World, a new hour of kitchen stories that travel the world. A broadcast special rich with great stories, music, sound, host and guest stars – Academy Award-winner Frances McDormand, Gael Garcia Bernal (star of Motorcycle Diaries and Jon Stewart’s new film, Rosewater), Werner Herzog, Salman Rushdie and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Stories of Mafia wine from Sicily, Dissident Kitchens fromRussia, the seldom-heard saga of the Turnspit Dog from Medieval England, Atomic Wine from France and from the Coachella Valley, The Romance and Sex Life of the Date. An evocative hour of beautifully-crafted radio that chronicles little-known kitchen rituals and traditions, inspired by The Kitchen Sisters series heard on NPR's Morning Edition. Hidden Kitchens – how communities come together through food.