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Thanksgiving Day: Third Coast Festival's "Best of the Best"

The Third Coast International Audio Festival brings the best new documentaries produced worldwide to the national airwaves in "Best of the Best", hosted by award-winning writer, producer and humorist Gwen Macsai. Meticulously crafted and lovingly produced, these stories intrigue, inform and inspire.

Thanksgiving Day Noon-2pm & 11pm-Midnight.

Among the works featured:

 

Dead Mom Talking
A woman revisits the bench where she and her mom shared many conversations.

Journey
A gripping account of one family's journey fleeing violence in Afghanistan.

Not Safe to Drink
Uncovering the decisions that poisoned the water supply in Flint, Michigan, and the attempts to cover it up.

Violación de un Sueño: Jornada Nocturna
Uncovering the dangers female janitors face working alone on the nightshift.

A Life Sentence: Victims, Offenders, Justice, and My Mother
Looking back at a terrible crime, its devastating impact on one family and the justice system

W. Kamau Bell asks his Mom about Sex
A comedian learns he was wrong to assume his mom never had sex after she made him.

Dobbeltgænger
Two men with the same name revisit a confrontation 13 years after it altered their lives. 

A Sentencing Hearing
A police officer receives a call about a carjacking that changes his life. 

Why Do I Stay?
Rainy documents her teenage years, in and out of an abusive relationship.

Mariya
Mariya confronts her mother about the genital cutting she'd undergone as a child in Pakistan.

 

Listen Thanksgiving Day from 9 - 11pm on 93.9FM, AM820 and New Jersey Public Radio

Matt Martin was KALW’s general manager from 2006 through 2018. Under his leadership, KALW grew into one of the most productive and innovative stations in public radio. Programs launched at KALW during Matt’s tenure as GM include the award-winning local newsmagazine Crosscurrents, the design podcast 99% Invisible, and the Spanish-language narrative journalism program Radio Ambulante. He helped create the station’s Audio Academy, a year-long program aimed at developing new talents in public radio, and led the first broad-based strategic planning process in the station’s history.