NPR opens its vault and shares a compilation of Christmas stories, including the original "Santaland Diaries" by David Sedaris, Bailey White's "Low Glamour Christmas Party,” and the classic John Henry Faulk Christmas Story.
Larry Mantle talks with KPCC film critics Henry Sheehan of henrysheehan.com, Claudia Puig of USA Today and Wade Major of boxoffice.com about the week’s new film releases including Sherlock Holmes, It’s Complicated, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Alvin And The Chipmunks: The Squeakquel, Creation, The White Ribbon, Police Adjective and Gigante. Then, Larry and the critics discuss their favorite holiday films.
For 25 years the SETI Institute has pointed their satellites to the sky in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Its research was once associated with UFOs and fringe science, but with more than 400 planets known to exist outside of our solar system, and more discovered every week, the search for intelligent life beyond our planet is gaining more and more momentum around the world. Is intelligent life out there? Will we ever find it? And what happens if we do?
