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Christmas Music Reimagined with Kirk Douglas, the Guitarist for the Roots

12.23.2018 - By WNYC Studios and The New YorkerPlay

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Kirk Douglas, the guitarist for the Roots, plays anything and everything as part of the “Tonight Show” band, so David Remnick put him to the test on some holiday classics.  Roz Chast rings a bell to collect pennies for a good cause: saving the globe from destruction by asteroid. And a religion scholar who just translated the New Testament from the original Greek explains why we’ve been getting the book wrong all these years.   

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