WCVE Public Radio presents holiday music, songs and stories throughout the month of December and leading into the New Year. For the week of December 10th, enjoy a variety of holiday treats for you ear from French carols to old-world Yiddish melodies, each day starting at 2:00 p.m.

The Dust Bowl chronicles this critical moment in American history in all its complexities and profound human drama. It is part oral history, using compelling interviews of 26 survivors of those hard times—what will probably be the last recorded testimony of the generation that lived through the Dust Bowl. Filled with seldom seen movie footage, previously unpublished photographs, the songs of Woody Guthrie, and the observations of two remarkable women who left behind eloquent written accounts, the film is also a historical accounting of what happened and why during the 1930s on the southern Plains. It is also a morality tale about our relationship to the land that sustains us—a lesson we ignore at our peril.

As China’s new leadership prepares to take power this month, NPR examines the challenges and opportunities it faces. Despite an economy that has grown phenomenally and rapidly, the problems facing the world’s most populous country are daunting. The five-part series from NPR foreign correspondents Louisa Lim and Frank Langfitt, airs on All Things Considered.

Explore the inside story of the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962, when the world teetered on the brink of nuclear holocaust. In the first major feature documentary on the subject, Cuban Missile Crisis – Three Men Go To War brings to life the three central characters — Kennedy, Castro and Khrushchev — and explores how the world’s most powerful men fell into an abyss of their own making and outlines the courage and luck it took to climb out again.