WUSF Schedule

Sunday 12.14 - Hanukkah Lights 2025

3:00pm - 4:00pm

This NPR favorite returns with the best of the best Hanukkah Lights stories plus a special musical performance this year by The LeeVees. Hosted by Susan Stamberg and Murray Horwitz.

Tuesday 12.23 - Tinsel Tales: NPR Christmas Favorites

9:00pm - 10:00pm

All your favorite storytellers from the NPR archives. David Sedaris, Bailey White, John Henry Faulk and others share their own stories that touch on the meaning of Christmas. Santaland Diaries included.

Christmas Eve - Wednesday 12.24 - Jonathan Winters' A Christmas Carol

8:00pm - 9:00pm

Join us for this WUSF holiday tradition - one for the whole family! Master comedian Jonathan Winters presents a distinctive reading of Dickens' holiday classic, with a special performing edition prepared by Dickens for his own presentations. Also features NPR's Mimi Kennedy, and host NPR's Susan Stamberg.

Christmas Day - Thursday 12.25 - Selected Shorts: What You Wish For

9:00pm - 10:00pm

Host Meg Wolitzer presents three Christmas stories in different moods—satirical, fantastical, and nostalgic: “A Visit from Saint Nicholas (In the Ernest Hemingway Manner),” by James Thurber, performed by James Naughton; “O’Brien’s First Christmas,” by Jeanette Winterson, performed by Jayne Atkinson; and “One Christmas,” by Truman Capote, performed by John Shea.

Sunday 12. 28 - NPR Special: Cineplexity - Smart Conversations About Movies

9:00pm - 10:00pm

NPR Special: Cineplexity - Smart Conversations About Movies is a one-hour special that features the best movie conversations from the All Things Considered team and NPR’s Culture Desk over the past year. The show explores themes such as how to get time travel right in a movie, what draws so many men to Nora Ephron films and why we all seem to love movies about the movies.