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  1. On FRESH AIR at 2 & 8pm: Film director Wes "Fantastic Mr. Fox" Anderson talks to Terry Gross about his work
  2. College is getting increasingly expensive, and many people prosper without a college degree. Is college worth it? TALK OF THE NATION, noon.
  3. TALK OF THE NATION, at 11: we've got health care rationing now, even if we call it something else. Is there more or less of it to come?
  4. E-TOWN at 11pm: Barenaked Ladies return to share songs from their children’s CD Snacktime; Catie Curtis is back with some strong new songs
  5. At 7 on SPEAKING OF FAITH: what Adele Diamond is learning about the brain turns modern ideas about education upside-down.
  6. SPLENDID TABLE at 6: a new take on turkey, the real origin of Thanksgiving, Lynne takes on the great feast ... vegetarian style.
  7. THIS AMERICAN LIFE tips its hat to Thanksgiving with stories about chickens, faith, and God in a sort-of-annual Poultry Slam. 2pm.
  8. On SCIENCE FRIDAY at 12. Join Ira Flatow for a look at new mammogram guidelines; also eradicating smallpox, and physics on TV.
  9. Tune in to the 200th episode of PHILOSOPHY TALK 8pm tonight. John and Ken wax philosophical about the show and philosophy its own self.
  10. Endangered Oregon spotted frogs were released into the wild after being raised by doting prison inmates -- story today at 4:45 during ATC
  11. At noon on TALK OF THE NATION: Ken Auletta discusses growth of Google from an idea of two computer science students to today's dominance.
  12. At 11 on TALK OF THE NATION: A discussion of the plans to hold trials of some Gitmo suspects in New York City.
  13. Tune in to THINK OUT LOUD at 9am & pm to hear Al Gore, recorded yesterday afternoon in front of a live audience at OPB.
  14. Just finished taping a special THINK OUT LOUD with Al Gore and a live studio audience. Tune in Thursday, 9am or 9pm.
  15. Number of US hunters is in decline, but the tradition remains strong in rural areas of NW. Spend time with a 4th gen Idaho hunter at 4:45
  16. GEORGE CARLIN'S memoir "Last Words." Tony Hendra , co-author & long-time friend, talks about the book & Carlin on TALK OF THE NATION at 12.
  17. Coming at 9: THINK OUT LOUD has a discussion of new sources of funding for local news (rebroadcast at 9 tonight).
  18. ON THE MEDIA at 8: most TV consumer health reports are sickening, once you examine them for, say... accuracy. OPB Radio.
  19. LIVEWIRE at 7: author Peter Ames Carlin, Storyteller Eric Reid, special guests Rick Emerson & Tara Dublin, musical guests The Lonely Forest
  20. A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION gets ready for Turkey Day by convening with the ghosts of Thanksgivings past. At 3pm on OPB.