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On today’s show: James Beard Award-winning food writer Melissa Clark will speak with some of the winning contributors to our Holiday Cookie Recipe Swap! We’ll hear about the musical adaptation of Jean Shepherd’s “A Christmas Story” on Broadway. Robert Garnett talks about the love life of Charles Dickens, and looks at how it influenced his fiction. Plus, the revival of Clifford Odets’ classic “Golden Boy” has received rave reviews, and we’ll speak with director Bartlett Sher and two of its stars: Tony Shaloub and Seth Numrich.

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The mental health conversation continues with a look at what the obstacles are to finding policies that work, and we crowd source your answers. Plus: who is Time Magazine’s Person of ...

The Peabody Award-winning program features Terry Gross’ fearless and insightful interviews with big names in pop culture, politics and the arts.

A wrap-up of the day’s news, with features and interviews about the latest developments in New York City and around the world, from NPR and the WNYC newsroom.

A wrap-up of the day’s news, with features and interviews about the latest developments in New York City and around the world, from NPR and the WNYC newsroom.

Today on Soundcheck: Christmas music from Holidelic, a funk holiday spectacular that owes more to Parliament than Perry Como. Composer and E Street Band member Everett Bradley brings his platform boots, light-laden Afro wig and the rest of his ensemble to our studio to perform live.

Then, Scott Walker, the musician who found early success as part of the Walker Brothers in the mid 60s -- talks about his dark, challenging, but rewarding new record, Bish Bosch. 

And the young blues singer Valerie June sings new music from her upcoming debut studio album.

Composer Max Richter has taken apart Vivaldi's original set of violin concertos, "The Four Seasons," and reconfigured the components while reclaiming the work as a beautiful object.  Richter opened up some of the repeating patterns already present in the work and as he says, “literally wrote myself into Vivaldi’s score.”  For this New Sounds, Max Richter joins us to present some of his "Recomposed: Vivaldi, The Four Seasons.”