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Join Host Tom Healy for a special Winter Holiday edition of Interchange. Using poetry, music and song he explores the many facets of the winter holiday season: Winter Solstice, St. Stephen’s Day, Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, Yule and, of course, Christmas. Healy is joined briefly by Robin, a whistle-blower from the North Pole who claims Santa’s Sweatshop engages in unfair labor practices. Robin reads a list of elfin grievances that are being presented to Claus as part of union-organized efforts by the ELF-CIO. In addition to poetry by May Sarton, Wendell Berry and Patrick O’Hara, Healy plays music by the Chieftans, Fishbone, and Tom Lehrer.