The Big Broadcast: Christmas Special

WAMU 88.5 continues The Big Broadcast: Holiday Recollections Christmas tradition. Host Ed Walker brings classic, Christmas-themed programming from the golden age of radio. So gather the family and join us Christmas night starting at 8 p.m.

Following is a playlist of the evening's program:

  • 08:00 p.m. Philco Radio Time
    12/25/46 #011 Christmas Show (Philco) (ABC) (29:30) 
  • 08:30 p.m. Columbia Workshop
    12/23/46 #047 All is Bright (Sus.) (CBS) (24:46)
  • 09:00 p.m. Gunsmoke
    12/20/52 #035 The Christmas Story (Sus.) (CBS) (29:42) 
  • 09:30 p.m. Grand Central Station
    12/24/49 Miracle for Christmas (Pillsbury) (CBS) (29:42)
  • 10:00 p.m. Elgin Christmas Party
    12/25/45 Annual Xmas Special (Elgin) (CBS) (1:58:05) 

Arts & Culture

WAMU 88.5

Art Beat With Lauren Landau, October 7

You can explore one calligrapher's modern take on Korean handwriting, or see two shows that require a little help from the audience.

Food

NPR

Fairfax Schools Pull All-Beef Burgers From Menu, Citing Complaints

Students in a Virginia school system are now eating hamburgers with additives in them, after officials heeded their complaints about the appearance and taste of all-beef burgers it had been serving. The burgers that are now being served include a reported 26 ingredients.

Politics

NPR

No End In Sight: Shutdown Showdown Enters Week Two

Hundreds of thousands of Defense Department civilian employees will go back to work on Monday, but many government operations remain suspended.

Technology

NPR

Wanted: A New Generation Of High-Tech Aviation Workers

Millions of U.S. factory jobs have been lost in the past decade. Now, in North Carolina, high school students are being encouraged to think about taking manufacturing jobs. But this isn't the furniture-making or textile labor of generations past — it's a new kind of highly technical work in aviation.