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  • 12:00 AM
  • Thanksgiving 101 with Melissa Clark; Vegetarian Mollie Katzen; Schmaltz; Surviving the Holidays

    This Food Fridays is dedicated to Thanksgiving! First, Melissa Clark explains the ins and outs of preparing Thanksgiving dinner.  Mollie Katzen talks about her newest vegetarian cookbook and shares tips for a meatless holiday. Then, as Hannukah approaches, Michael Ruhlman praises schmaltz—rendered chicken fat that's an important ingredient in Jewish cooking. And etiquette expert Philip Galanes answers questions and gives advice for surviving the holidays.

  • 02:00 AM
  • BBC World Service delivers breaking news and information programming around the world, in English and 28 other language services, on radio, TV and digital.

  • 06:00 AM
    Specials
  • Should We Break Up The Big Banks?

    To prevent the collapse of the global financial system in 2008, Treasury committed 245 billion in taxpayer dollars to stabilize America’s banking institutions. Today, banks that were once “too big to fail” have only grown bigger, with JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and Goldman Sachs holding ...

  • 07:00 AM
  • WNYC’s weekly investigation into how the media shapes our worldview. 

  • 08:00 AM
  • NPR’s Scott Simon reports on the world’s top news, features and entertainment to your Saturday morning. 

  • 10:00 AM
  • For years, America’s funniest auto mechanics, Click and Clack, have offered insights on that weird sound your Volkswagen makes.

  • 11:00 AM
  • The NPR news quiz where the panelists are funny, the limericks are lyrical and you get to shout answers at your radio. Hosted by Peter Sagal.

  • 12:00 PM
  • Investigating a strange world.

  • 01:00 PM
  • ThisAmericanLife: Themed, offbeat, (mostly) true stories that shed new light on the extraordinary side of everyday life. Host Ira Glass and a regular cast of personalities, including David Sedaris, Sarah Vowell and Mike Birbiglia, bring the best of nonfiction storytelling to the radio. 

  • 02:00 PM
  • Humorous, heartbreaking and true stories told live on stage. No script. No props. Just a microphone, a spotlight and room full of strangers.

  • 03:00 PM
    Special Programming
     
     
  • 04:00 PM
  • Will Rogers & 3D Printing

    This week, Kurt Andersen announces a new listener challenge: design a holiday ornament to be printed in 3D, courtesy of MakerBot. A writer and book designer creates his tour-de-force — a catalog of books by an imaginary author. We’ll hear how a classic performance by Will Rogers helped bring down ...

  • 05:00 PM
  • 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.

  • 06:00 PM
  • Acclaimed musician and songwriter Chris Thile welcomes a wide range of well-known and up-and-coming talent to share the stage and create a beautiful listening experience on his variety show, Live from Here.

  • 08:00 PM
    Special Programming
     
     
  • 11:00 PM
  • #3227: 107 Reasons Why

    We hope you won't need to be convinced, but for this New Sounds, we will listen to "107 Reasons Why" by Do Make Say Think, and more instrumental music, perhaps even some that could be called "post-rock."  There's something from the ambient drone band Labradford, who were out of Richmond, VA, along with music from Angelo Badalamenti.