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November 26, 2016      

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This show was a REBROADCAST
The Original Performance Date was 2013-11-30

This week's classic rebroadcast: a look back to November 2013 and a Turkey Day show from The Town Hall in New York City. Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks play "Crazy Rhythm," Roy Blount Jr. shares a poem about Thanksgiving Eve, and Aoife O'Donovan and Heather Masse team up for "A-Rovin' on a Winter's Night." Plus: Erica Rhodes joins the Royal Academy of Radio Actors, our music director Richard Dworsky with a medley for Hanukkah, and a message from the Professional Organization of English Majors. In Lake Wobegon, Pastor Liz's boyfriend attends a service at the Lutheran Church.
Thoughts from Roy Blount Jr. on this week's rebroadcast:
Garrison invited me to contribute a Thanksgiving poem, and maybe I should have responded in a spirit of thankfulness, but I couldn't pass up a chance to strike a blow for turkeys, or more precisely to portray turkeys striking a blow for themselves, so I imagined turkeys carjacking a family on their pre-Thanksgiving way to grandmother's house. "Over the River and Through the Trees" meets "A Good Man Is Hard to Find." As far as I know, the poem -- with musical and gobble-related sound effects from Rich Dworsky and Fred Newman -- did not provoke a groundswell of either pro- or anti-turkey sentiment, but it gave me a new perspective on all the giblet gravy I have eaten over the years.