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January 01, 1990 - October 08, 2012 + Special Programming
A Christmas Carol
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/ot/ot071224a_christmas_carol
Selected excerpts from Charles Dickens' classic tale, produced by George Wells, and featuring Ronald Colman as Scrooge. (7-7:30pm)
Only in America: Over the Rainbow
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/ot/ot071207only_in_america_over
Tin Pan Alley & Hollywood, Part 2: Louis B. Mayer, Adolph
Zukor, Samuel Goldwyn and other immigrant Jews created
Hollywood----from nothing. They spoke little or no English...
Only in America: White Christmas
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/ot/ot071206only_in_america_whit
Tin Pan Alley & Hollywood, Part 1: Irving Berlin (Israel Baline), the son of a cantor, arrived in New York speaking only Yiddish. After learning...
Only in America: Becoming Americans
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/ot/ot071205only_in_america_beco
The Lower East Side, Part 2: In the aftermath of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire (we hear eyewitness accounts), immigrants who worked in the sweatshops of...
Only in America: The Streets Were Paved with Gold
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/ot/ot071204only_in_america_the_
The Lower East Side, Part 1: Immigrant Jews who arrived in the Lower East Side of New York from Eastern Europe found harsh living conditions...
Only in America: The First Jews
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/ot/ot071203only_in_america_the_
America provided refuge from ancient European prejudice and persecution. The First Jews tells the little-known early history of Jews in Colonial America, from New Amsterdam...
Operation Homecoming
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/ot/ot071112operation_homecoming
KCRW presents writings by US troops and their families, who recorded their reflections on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq for Operation Homecoming, a National...
A Ghetto Dog
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/ot/ot070920a_ghetto_dog
Friday night marks the beginning of the highest holy day in Judaism, the Day of Atonement. In honor of Yom Kippur, we present Isaiah Spiegel's...
Only in America: The Streets Were Paved With Gold 
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/ot/ot070911only_in_america_the_
Rosh Hashana special:A journey through the Jewish lower East Side of New York begins with the pogroms and poor economic conditions in Europe, driving over...
Hidden Kitchens Texas
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/ot/ot070707hidden_kitchens_texa
Narrated by legendary country singer Willie Nelson,
a lively, illuminating hour of stories about
experiencing Texas
through food -- all told by people who find it, grow it,...
Carlos Santana: Music for Life
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/ot/ot070704carlos_santana_music
An intimate portrait of one of rock's most revered and enduring
artists, who integrated jazz, blues, Afro-Cuban sounds and has been
delivering messages of spirituality and love...
Patti LaBelle: Gospel into Soul
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/ot/ot070704patti_labelle_gospel
A lushly documentary with exclusive live and behind
the scenes recordings of one of the greatest pop and gospel singers of
all time. Whoopi
Goldberg narrates. Produced by...
Remembering Columbia Square: An Homage to a Palace of Broadcasting
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/ot/ot070704remembering_columbia
A KCRW exclusive documentary on the architectural gem that housed CBS
Radio and Television at Sunset and Gower for nearly seventy years. Produced
by ...
Bob Wills: The King of Western Swing
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/ot/ot070704bob_wills_the_king_o
The man who fused fiddle and jazz blazed musical trails followed by country and rock musicians today.
Fats Waller: If You Gotta Ask
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The great composer and stride piano player was one of America's greatest innovators.
