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We hope that you have a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday!  Enjoy the holiday with satisfying specials from Creative PR.

Liner Notes – Talking Turkey
The roundtable explores:  heritage turkeys; why pumpkin pies; why we eat too much; celebrating Thanksgiving in Paris; forty years of food phases and fads in Americans, and favorite cookbooks.

Host Paul Holdengräber and his guests tell how and where they celebrate Thanksgiving, what they cook, with whom they dine, how the literature they love captures the essence of food, family and other things for which they are grateful.  More about TALKING TURKEY

LENGTH: Available in 54 and 58 minute versions
COST: FREE
AVAILABLE: on CD, PRX, Content Depot, mp3 Download (Talking Turkey)

What’s the Word? Thanksgiving Specials
Literary Feasts
In literature, feasts often serve as central events in telling a story.
Whether you’re the host or the guest, whether the table is set for two or twenty, feasts are memorable occasions. They may mark holidays, special events, or simply the celebration of family and friends. This program features three works that focus on feasts. Sarah Webster Goodwin talks about Isak Dinesen’s short story “Babette’s Feast”; Kari Salkjelsvik explores Laura Esquivel’s novel _Like Water for Chocolate_; and Gail Kern Paster talks about Ben Jonson’s poem “Inviting a Friend to Supper.”

Cookbooks as Literature
In literature, feasts often serve as central events in telling a story.
Whether you’re the host or the guest, whether the table is set for two or twenty, feasts are memorable occasions. They may mark holidays, special events, or simply the celebration of family and friends. This program features three works that focus on feasts. Sarah Webster Goodwin talks about Isak Dinesen’s short story “Babette’s Feast”; Kari Salkjelsvik explores Laura Esquivel’s novel _Like Water for Chocolate_; and Gail Kern Paster talks about Ben Jonson’s poem “Inviting a Friend to Supper.”

LENGTH: 30 minutes each
COST: FREE
AVAILABLE:  MP2 from PRX, or The Content Depot

Vivian & John with John McEuen(Founding member of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band) live taping for Art of the Song Creativity Radio at the Moab Folk Festival in Utah.
The program was given as a free public workshop offering at 10 am on the Saturday of the Festival.

Art of the Song is a one-hour public radio program heard on over 180 stations across the country. The show is not just for songwriters and musicians–it explores the universal truths common to all creative expression.

LENGTH: 59 minutes
COST: FREE
AVAILABLE: on CD, and mp2 and mp3 via producers’ website.

“Marjorie Van Halteren is a true radio artist. Her sonic texturing and musicality makes her pieces rise above most audio work on public radio today. Nothing makes this clearer than Mothers and Sons. In this deeply poetic and gently moving artistic piece, Van Halteren proves again her unsung brilliance in the public radio world.
Mothers and Sons is one moving and remarkable work. There is no glitz, no boring narrative, no spelling it out for the audience. This is sound art that tells a carefully woven and intelligent story of two mothers grief over the loss of their sons who were tragically killed. One in WWI and the other in the tragedy of the 1988 Lockerbie, Scotland air disaster. This piece describes how it took 18 years for one woman and 14 years for another to create loving memorials for their sons. For those going through grief, this piece can speak to the transformative power of art to heal from and to come to terms with terrible loss.
Mothers and Sons would make a touching sonic memorial for Veteran’s Day, Memorial Day and Mother’s Day. I urge programmers to give a listen and find room in their schedules for this beautiful and moving work.
Dmae Roberts
Independent Producer
MediaRites Productions/CROSSING EAST

“…it was a pleasure hearing your stories…alongside the artists’…! I’ve talked with Suse before on my show. She’s fascinating. Brava to you both and hope to hear more from you in the future. As an NPR host and producer for these almost two decades, I appreciate your attention to detail and the beauty of sound…”
Bonnie Grice
Host/Producer “In the Morning” “The Song is You”
WLIU 88.3fm

THE LOH DOWN ON SCIENCE — Each week day, Sandra Tsing Loh – the humorist, pub-radio star (Marketplace, This American Life) and Caltech alumna (BS, Physics)– gives us her unique take on important science stories such as… Procrastinating Primates, The Physics of High Heels and Good News for Coffee Addicts. The Loh Down on Science is produced by KPCC FM and Caltech and is currently one of KPCC’s most downloaded (podcast) shows. A show for those who love science as well as those who love to avoid it.

The Loh Down on Science – November Episodes:

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“5 years ago, I went to the Polish Synagogue, now a library, where my grandfather had likely worshipped before departing to the US. The connection to the place was circumstantial at best. Yet as I stood there, a hundred years removed from the actual events of family history,I began to cry.

Native Alaskans have had the collective accouterments of their history taken by successive colonizers, so when an Alutiiq man was overwhelmed when he saw the masks in a French museum, I got it.

Master storytellers always bring out the universal humanity of a moment and so, I think you’ll get it too. This is an hour well spent.”

Jonathan Groubert , Radio Netherlands
Editorial Board, PRX

Coming Home:The Return of the Alutiiq Masks – A one hour documentary that takes us to Kodiak, Alaska, where Alutiiq peoples work to save their language, cultural traditions and heritage by unlocking the secrets of the masks collected by French explorer Alphonse Pinart in 1872. From two-time Peabody Award winner, Dmae Roberts. A one-hour NPR-news-friendly radio documentary edition of Earthsongs. Produced by the Koahnic Broadcast Corporation & Distributed by Native Voice One.
LENGTH: 54 minute
COST: FREE
AVAILABLE: CD, Content Depot, PRX