WITF 89.5 FM - Harrisburg, PA
November 24, 2025 | 9:45 AM
Thursday, November 27 – Thanksgiving Day
9am: Marketplace: Feeding the Family
This holiday season,
Marketplace brings listeners a collection of stories on the business and economics of food. From rising grocery bills to farm fields, we’re breaking down what’s really shaping the meals on your table.
10am: The Splendid Table’s Turkey Confidential
Turkey Confidential is
The Splendid Table’s annual Thanksgiving show. Francis Lam takes calls and comes to the rescue of Thanksgiving cooks, kitchen helpers, and dinner guests during the biggest cooking day of the year.
11am: The Turducken
Three family shows come together for a holiday celebration. Sit down for an hour-long family dinner with
Terrestrials,
Wow! in the World, and
Circle Round as we dig into our very own Turducken: three stories stuffed deliciously inside of each other, just like the chicken, inside the duck, inside the turkey. Follow the story of a chicken who ran away and spent two months navigating the wilds of Germany to find her way back home. Meet researchers aboard a vessel listening for whale songs in the middle of the Arctic Ocean who heard something a little strange. Is that a duck in the Arctic? And let’s go back to the time of legend when Turkey couldn’t talk and find out where “gobble gobble” came from.
Noon: Every Good Thing
Host Andrea Blain and classical music fans from all around the country take time to give thanks and celebrate one of life’s most meaningful gifts: music. It’s
Every Good Thing — an hour of stories and music to celebrate Thanksgiving.
1pm: A Musical Thanksgiving Feast (2 Hours)
Thanksgiving is a time when we gather with family and friends to give thanks for precious memories and traditions. This holiday season, we’re giving thanks with a combination of the finest food-centric songs from Jazz, Soul, Rock and Pop Standards legends.
7pm: Shadowglow: Thanksgiving with the American Sound
An hour of music celebrating the special radiance of autumn and the richness of the holiday—music inspired by the uncanny fire of starlight, the hopeful warmth of luminaria, the lamps of gratitude we light within ourselves, even the golden glow of beloved Thanksgiving treats fresh from the oven.
8pm: Feasting with the Great American Songbook: An Afterglow Thanksgiving Special
On this
Afterglow special, we’re going to chow down on some food-related songs from the
Great American Songbook. Ahead this hour, we’ll hear some odes to beans, cornbread, meat, and potatoes by some guys named Louis. Louis Jordan, Louis Armstrong, and Louis Prima, that is. Nat King Cole will also get in on the food-song fun. And we’ll hear a few songs saluting feasting together at home, sung by Kay Starr and Cab Calloway.
Friday, November 28
Noon & 8pm: No Small Endeavor Holiday Special 2025: Practices of Hope
When the headlines numb and the culture wars grind us down, what if hope isn’t a mood at all—but a practice you can do with your body, your friends, and your city?
In this holiday special, we revisit four conversations to find practices of hope: meditation teacher Tara Brach on healing the “trance of unworthiness,” songwriter Tom Paxton on the folk community that fueled social change, marine biologist Ayana Elizabeth Johnson on climate imagination, and educator Sharon McMahon on everyday civic action. Together they offer three grounded practices—for self, for community, and for the common good—that help us act toward a more beautiful future.
