WNPR Thanksgiving Radio Feast 2017

WNPR will present special holiday programming on Thursday and Friday this week. We wish all of our listeners a very happy Thanksgiving!

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23

9:00 am 
Best of the Best: Third Coast 2017 (Part 1)
Join host Gwen Macsa as she presents the winners of the 2017 documentary competition in the annual "Best of the Best" broadcast. 

1:00 pm
Turkey Confidential
Hosts Lynn Rossetto Kasper and Francis Lam take listener calls and come to the rescue of Thanksgiving cooks on the biggest cooking day of the year. 

3:00 pm
Milk Street Kitchen Thanksgiving Special
Listen for Milk Street's Tea Rubbed Turkey recipe and speak to reporter Sandip Roy in Calcutta, India about his unlikely Thanksgiving adventure. Christopher Kimball and Sara Moulton answer all of your holiday cooking questions, Dan Pashman weighs in on the Wheel of Infinite Thanksgiving Anxiety, Dr. Aaron Carroll gives an update on tryptophan and turkey, J. Kenji Lopez talks about the science behind perfect mashed potatoes, our wine expert Stephen Meuse has some recommendations for your holiday table, and The New Yorker's Adam Gopnik remembers his first Thanksgiving in New York City in the 1980s.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24

9:00 am 
Best of the Best: Third Coast 2017 (Part 2)
Host Gwen Macsa presents more of the winners of the 2017 documentary competition in the annual "Best of the Best" broadcast. 

 1:00 pm
Playing on Air: We’ll Be Fine: Three Short Plays by Donald Margulies, Julia Cho, and Max Baker"
Love trumps panic, insecurity and anxiety in three humorous shorts. Conversation with the cast, director and playwright follow each play.