On this week's Jazz After Dinner, Joe features Vocalist and Pianist Ray Charles from his 1985 Columbia Records recording titled “The Spirit of Christmas.”

In this week's A Walk In The Park with Jane Andrews...Jane is looking back over generations.

This week, The Jamestown Community Chorus is the subject of the program with B. J. Whitehouse, Music Director. We talked about their successful season last year and listened to some selections from the planned Holiday concerts held on Saturday, December 9th and 10th, at the Jamestown Recreational Center. For more information, you can call 401-207-0771 or go to www.jamestownchorus.com

In this special three-hour radio program from WCRI, you'll hear holiday music by artists, groups, and ensembles from southern New England. You'll listen to Shannon Corey, Boston Brass, Ensemble Altera, The United States Coast Guard Band, Seth MacFarlane, and many more. This is the perfect program for decorating the tree, cooking that holiday meal, or to get you in the holiday spirit!

The Chorus of Westerly Holiday Pops Radio Program is a unique show on WCRI to kick off the holiday season. You'll enjoy an hour of beautiful seasonal music performed by the Chorus of Westerly and the Pops Festival Orchestra. Your hosts for this program are Music Director Andrew Howell and Executive Director Ryan Saunders. For more information about the chorus or tickets to upcoming concerts, call (401) 596-8663, or go to www.chorusofwesterly.org ​

Join Ocean House owner, actor, and bestselling author Deborah Goodrich Royce for a conversation with Katie Couric (@katiecouric). Katie is an award-winning journalist and co-founder of Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C), which has raised more than $700 million for cancer research. Couric was the first woman to solo anchor a network evening newscast, serving as anchor and managing editor of the CBS Evening News from 2006 to 2011, following 15 years as co-anchor of NBC’s Today show. In 2017, she founded Katie Couric Media (KCM), which has developed a number of media projects, including a daily newsletter, “Wake-Up Call”, a podcast, “Next Question”, digital video series, and several documentaries. 

Going There is a heartbreaking, hilarious, and brutally honest memoir that shares the deeply personal life story of a girl next door and her transformation into a household name. For more than forty years, Katie Couric has been an iconic presence in the media world. In her brutally honest, hilarious, heartbreaking memoir, she reveals what was going on behind the scenes of her sometimes tumultuous personal and professional life – a story she’s never shared until now. Of the medium she loves, the one that made her a household name, she says, “Television can put you in a box; the flat-screen can flatten. On TV, you are larger than life but smaller, too. It is not the whole story, and it is not the whole me. This book is.” Find out more about Katie and Going There at katiecouric.com. For more information on Deborah Goodrich Royce and the Ocean House Author Series, visit deborahgoodrichroyce.com.

Host Doug Still looks at The Major Oak of Sherwood Forest in this month's episode of This Old Tree. Sherwood Forest in the County of Nottinghamshire lays claim to a world-famous tree, The Major Oak. It may have harbored Robin Hood and his merry men or perhaps people like them. Admirers from around the world visit the beloved English oak drawn by the legend. Two Sherwood Forest National Nature Reserve guests help describe why the tree is so special. One is Paul Cook, the Warden tasked with maintaining the woodland and the landscape. The other is the Sheriff of Nottingham, or, that is, Richard Townsley, a tour guide and local authority on Robin Hood. Thanks to the legend, there's an aura around this tree, but the allure and lasting popularity of England's arboreal icon has become about so much more.

In this week's A Walk In The Park with Jane Andrews...Jane indicates that it is okay with things not being perfect.

The URI Holiday Extravaganza Music Festival is the subject of this week's program with David Gilliland, Artistic Director. We discussed the concerts that will be presented on December 2nd and 3rd at the URI Fine Arts Center. The event will feature over 180 performers. For more information, you can go to https://web.uri.edu/music/events

This week on Jazz After Dinner, Joe is featuring Vocalist and Bassist Dick Lupino from his 2011 cd titled “December Songs.”