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Featured Photo Actor Jared Joseph stopped by WPR's The Kathleen Dunn Show Spend Your Holidays with WPR and NPR recently to talk about his role in the Milwaukee From Thanksgiving through the New Year, Wisconsin Public Radio Rep's staging of the is your home for seasonal music, entertainment and talk. Detailed award-winning Broadway schedules for each network are available here. musical Dreamgirls earlier this fall. This year WPR is pleased to broadcast many of the signature specials that, for many listeners, define the season. On Listen to the interview Thanksgiving Day, the Ideas Network will be your kitchen companion at wpr.org. with the America's Test Kitchen Thanksgiving Special at 10 a.m. and A Splendid Table Turkey Confidential at 11 a.m. In addition, listeners will enjoy a new radio documentary The Science of Gratitude hosted by Susan Sarandon and fan favorite Best of the Best Third Coast Audio Festival Winners.

This Thanksgiving on the NPR News & Classical Music Network, listeners will enjoy highlights from the Wisconsin School Music Association Honors concert at 10 a.m. as well as Giving Thanks: A Celebration of Fall, Food & Gratitude at noon. Premiere men's vocal group Cantus brings music to the afternoon with Thanksgiving with Cantus. December brings an abundance of holiday music from Wisconsin and around the world to the NPR News & Classical Music Network. Hanukkah Lights, Carols with the Eau Claire Master Singers, St. Olaf Christmas Special, A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols plus the New Year's Concert from Vienna provide a soundtrack to the season.

The Ideas Network will offer some new specials for listeners including a series from Selected Shorts throughout the month. On December 19 Michael Feldman hosts his annual Michael Feldman's Whad'Ya Know? Holiday Party Show from Monona Terrace in Madison with perennial polka favorite Steve Meisner. Santa visits The Larry Meiller Show on December 24, and we welcome in 2016 with the Capitol Steps and Simply Folk's Sing Along Show. Sound Bites Click here for a listing of holiday programming on WPR. Chris Kimball Will Continue to Host NPR's Coverage of 2015 America's Test Kitchen United Nations Climate Radio Change Conference You may have heard the news that America's Test We're hearing a lot about Paris in Kitchen co-founder Chris the news right now. And, as Kimball is leaving the investigations into terrorist activities company. NPR continue, the city is also hosting the announced today that 2015 United Nations Climate Chris will continue to host Change Conference. From America's Test Kitchen November 30 through December 11 Radio, airing Sundays at President Obama and 10 a.m. on the Ideas representatives from nearly 200 Network. Read the full other countries will be at the summit working on agreements to limit NPR article here. carbon emissions with the goal of slowing climate change. WPRA Board President NPR's news team will be covering the conference in Paris with Honored with reports airing on Morning Edition and All Things Considered from Leadership Award correspondents Ari Shapiro, Eleanor Beardsley and Christopher The Wausau Region Joyce. Chamber of Commerce presented Dean Dietrich, Leading up to the conference Morning Edition listeners heard South president of the WPRA America Correspondent Lourdes Garcia-Navarro's five-part series Board, with the annual on deforestation in the Amazon rainforest. Self-described "guardians ATHENA Leadership of the forest" (pictured, Kainaz Amaria/NPR) are pitting themselves Award earlier this month. against criminal logging gangs that have infiltrated protected The award honors reserves. professional excellence, community service and In addition NPR journalists and local-station correspondents will offer those who actively assist stories to explain how the actions taken at the Paris Climate Change women to attain Conference could affect climate change in local communities and leadership skills. See the impacts for business, industry and politics. Wausau Daily Herald's full article here. Click here for Lourdes Garcia-Navarro's series on deforestation in Brazil. Save on Milwaukee Symphony Tickets with BEHIND THE SCENES Our WPR Discount Thanks to our friends at the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, you get a special WPR discount on their performance of the Home Alone score over Thanksgiving weekend and their Holiday Pops concert in early December. To buy tickets, click here or enter promo code "WPR" when purchasing. Bridgit Bowden Named First Mike Simonson Memorial Investigative News Fellow WisconsinLife.org ---- WPR and the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism (WCIJ) The Best of Wisconsin are pleased to announce Bridgit Bowden has been named the first People and Places recipient of the Mike Simonson Memorial Investigative Reporting Find the latest stories Fellowship. During the one-year fellowship, Bridgit will work from WPR and WPT's collaboratively with both organizations and deepen her skills in Wisconsin Life online. investigative journalism, editing and on-air radio production. Catch up with stories you may have missed ---- like Bridgit is a 2014 graduate of the Missouri School of Journalism with the Walworth County a degree in convergence radio reporting and producing. She has couple that runs a wildlife worked as a reporter and producer for Kansas Public Television, sanctuary for exotic KBIA Public Radio in Columbia, Mo., and Nashville Public Radio. animals, the Star Wars Her work has appeared on Al Jazeera America and NPR. Wisconsin Garrison, and more. You can also share "I am so honored to be chosen as the Mike Simonson fellow," she your ideas for people and said. "During this fellowship I hope to share my passion for radio places our producers storytelling and hone my reporting and production skills. I'm very should visit. excited for the mentoring I'll receive from WPR and WCIJ." Find stories and submit Named for award-winning WPR Reporter Mike Simonson, who your ideas at passed away unexpectedly in 2014, the fellowship is funded by WisconsinLife.org. private donors who valued Mike's legacy of investigative reporting.

We also welcome to our staff Jane Jiumaleh, who joined us as a Quick Links web developer, and Anna Cramer, an MBA candidate at UW- Madison's Bolz Center for Arts Administration who is supporting our WPR Online marketing department as a Bolz fellow. Donate Now NPR Online Join StoryCorps' Great Thanksgiving Listen Listen Live to Ideas Project Ideas Schedule

StoryCorps is once again Listen Live to News & encouraging Americans to spend Music part of their Thanksgiving weekend sharing stories to preserve the News & Music Schedule personal history of our communities and country. Be Part of WPR's Online While anyone can participate, Community StoryCorps is making a special effort to engage teachers and high school students to record the voices and stories of an entire generation in one weekend. Their website includes links to a special online teacher tool kit with lesson planning guides, permission slips, worksheets, sample questions and more. StoryCorps even has a free, easy-to-use recording app for Apple and Android smartphones.

If you know an educator, please consider sharing this link with them. Remember, you don't have to be a teacher to join the Great Thanksgiving Listen ---- you just need a little time with someone you care about.

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Hope Kirwan Joins WPR's La Crosse News Bureau

Wisconsin Public Radio welcomes Hope Kirwan, who will be covering issues and events in southwestern Wisconsin from WPR's La Crosse bureau.

Before joining WPR, Hope was the health & wealth reporter at KBIA in Columbia, Mo., where she earned several awards, including a national Edward R. Murrow Award. She also contributed to KBIA as a general assignment reporter while studying at the University of Missouri.

Hope is originally from Macomb, Ill. and loves covering stories that are important to rural communities. She said she looks forward to exploring the many beautiful trails and bluffs around La Crosse, and in her free time, you can probably find her at the library or an antique shop. "Hope was born to do this kind of work," said WPR News Director Noah Ovshinsky. "She is curious, ambitious, and an excellent storyteller. WPR is lucky to have Hope in our newsroom."

Calling All Wisconsin Writers and Poets

Whether you're an experienced and published author or a first-time writer, the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters wants to hear from you.

The Academy's annual fiction and poetry contests are now open for entry. Have your work reviewed by some of Wisconsin's best writers for a chance to win cash prizes, a week-long residency at the Shake Rag Alley School for Arts and Crafts and a reading at the 2016 Wisconsin Book Festival! WPR is proud to sponsor this annual celebration of Wisconsin authors and poets.

The deadline is December 1; find entry details and complete rules at WisconsinAcademy.org.