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Start the New Year with WCVE Public Radio

On air, online or on-the-go--ring in the New Year with a musical feast for your ears from WCVE Public Radio.

December 31 at 9:00 p.m. – Toast of the Nation An NPR tradition every New Year’s Eve since the 1970s and on WCVE Public Radio for the past 25 years, Toast of the Nation is perfect for the occasion. It’s jazz that you can party to, all night from coast to coast, with countdowns to midnight in all four continental time zones.

Call the Midwife Holiday Special

As the nurses, nuns and community members come together this holiday season, nothing rings more true in Poplar than the virtues of charity and hope. In the special, the holidays are swiftly approaching and the nuns and midwives of Nonnatus House are busier than ever. When a young girl gives birth in secret and leaves the baby on the steps of Nonnatus House, the nurses pull together with the community to care for the newborn and find his mother. Meanwhile, Nurse Jenny Lee looks after Mrs. Jenkins, an elderly vagrant who has lost everything.

Holiday Specials on WCVE Public Radio: Week Two

From around the world and through the ages, WCVE Public Radio presents the sounds of the season in music and song for you to enjoy.

December 18 at 2:00 p.m. – Handel’s Messiah, the Christmas Portion is featured. In 1742, exactly 270 years ago, the first performances of Handel’s Messiah were heard in Dublin. Each year the Dallas Bach Society offers exceptional performances of this landmark work of Western music in the Meyerson Hall in Dallas, arguably one of the finest concert halls in the world. This Messiah is historically informed in all the best senses: compact performing forces; period instruments; and generously expressive singing and playing. This program brings the Christmas portion of Messiah along with the triumphant Hallelujah Chorus.

Holiday Traditions in Song and Story

WCVE Public Radio presents holiday music, songs and stories throughout the month of December and leading into the New Year. For the week of December 10th, enjoy a variety of holiday treats for you ear from French carols to old-world Yiddish melodies, each day starting at 2:00 p.m.

Thanksgiving Music and Stories on WCVE Public Radio

Celebrate the very spirit of the Thanksgiving holiday with music and stories on WCVE Public Radio this Thursday, November 22 starting at 12:00 p.m.

Giving Thanks: A Celebration of Fall, Food and Gratitude – 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.
With music and stories for Thanksgiving, host John Birge creates a thoughtful, contemporary reflection on the meaning of the holiday. This year, a grateful tribute to the great writer Nora Ephron, with a warm and funny highlight of her Giving Thanks visit last year.

New Ken Burns Film Premieres November 18th

The Dust Bowl chronicles this critical moment in American history in all its complexities and profound human drama. It is part oral history, using compelling interviews of 26 survivors of those hard times—what will probably be the last recorded testimony of the generation that lived through the Dust Bowl. Filled with seldom seen movie footage, previously unpublished photographs, the songs of Woody Guthrie, and the observations of two remarkable women who left behind eloquent written accounts, the film is also a historical accounting of what happened and why during the 1930s on the southern Plains. It is also a morality tale about our relationship to the land that sustains us—a lesson we ignore at our peril.

National Salute To Veterans

The National Salute To Veterans airs on WCVE PBS/WHTJ PBS Sunday, November 11, 2012, at 8:00 p.m., in honor of the service and sacrifice of our 22 million American veterans. Hosted by acclaimed actors Joe Mantegna (“Criminal Minds”) and Gary Sinise (“CSI: New York”), the national television event celebrates the American heroes who have served throughout our country’s history. The program will also be broadcast to our troops serving around the world on the American Forces Network.

Five-Part Series: “China: Change or Crisis”

As China’s new leadership prepares to take power this month, NPR examines the challenges and opportunities it faces. Despite an economy that has grown phenomenally and rapidly, the problems facing the world’s most populous country are daunting. The five-part series from NPR foreign correspondents Louisa Lim and Frank Langfitt, airs on All Things Considered.

Midnight Frights TV: Premieres Saturday at Midnight

The Community Idea Stations present Midnight Frights TV. Each month Armistead Spottswoode and his floating skull pals, Marco and Polly, will bring to you the obscure and the obtuse, the mysterious and the mystifying, the wonderful and the weird from classic science fiction, horror and other ghastly genre films.

The Most Dangerous Two Weeks In Human History

Explore the inside story of the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962, when the world teetered on the brink of nuclear holocaust. In the first major feature documentary on the subject, Cuban Missile Crisis – Three Men Go To War brings to life the three central characters — Kennedy, Castro and Khrushchev — and explores how the world’s most powerful men fell into an abyss of their own making and outlines the courage and luck it took to climb out again.