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UNO LECTURE – THE PHIL AND RUTH SOKOLOF LECTURE – Stephen Berk, Professor of History at Union College in Schenectady, New York, and author of “Year of Crisis, Year of Hope: Russian Jewry and the Pogroms of 1881 – 1882” “Our People are Your People: American Jewry and the Struggle for Civil Rights, 1954 – 1965”

CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY LECTURE – Alexander Strick van Linschoten, co-editor of “My Life with the Taliban: A History of the Relationship Between the Taliban and Al-Qaeda, An Enemy We Created: The Myth of the Taliban-Al-Qaeda Merger, 1970 – 2010” and “Poetry of the Taliban” “Inside the Afghan Taliban: Politics, Poetry and the Future of Afghanistan”

METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE LECTURE – Kitcki Carroll, Executive Director of the United South and Eastern Tribes, Inc. “The New Trust: Shaping America’s New Federal Trust Responsibility”

NEBRASKA LIBRARY ASSOCIATION TRI-CONFERENCE LECTURE – Tom Osborne, former head football coach and retiring Athletic Director at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, former Third District Republican Congressman, and founder of the TeamMates Mentoring Program

Here's an overview of the special holiday programs we'll be airing on Monday, December 24:

9:00am - A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols with the 30-voice King's College Choir
The annual Christmas service held every year since 1918, broadcast live from King's College in Cambridge, England

10:30am - Henry's Story
Written by Doug Marr, music by George Winston, read by Laura Marr, produced by KIOS-FM

Here's an overview of the special holiday programs we'll be airing on Tuesday, December 25:

9:00am - Tinsel Tales: NPR Christmas Favorites
Hosted by Lynn Neary, Christmas stories featured on NPR over the years by Jay Allison, Lee Stringer, Sylvia Seymour and Paul Auster, Bailey White, John McIlwraith, Jay O'Callahan, Chuch Kramer, David Sedaris, Scott Simon, and John Henry Faulk

Tue., Jan. 1, 12:00 noon - Capitol Steps, Politics Takes a Holiday, New Years Edition

Help us roast 2012 to a crisp with the Capitol Steps and their annual year-in-review awards ceremony called "Politics Takes a Holiday!" This year will feature all new awards, such as:

CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY LECTURE – Charles Morrison, President of the East-West Center “Asia Megatrends and Implications for United States – Asia Policy”

INSTITUTE FOR HOLOCAUST EDUCATION LECTURE – Milton Kleinberg, Owner and Chief Executive Officer of Senior Market Sales, Inc., in Omaha, Nebraska “Memories of My Childhood: During and After the Holocaust, 1937 – 1951”

DURHAM MUSEUM LECTURE – Dan Sullivan, Editor for World-Herald Books, including “At War, At Home: World War II” “Answering the Call”