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Each year, the Third Coast Festival brings the best new documentaries and stories to the national airwaves. It's radio at its finest: moving, insightful, surprising and sometimes even life-changing. This special also includes interviews with the men and women behind the stories, who talk about the power of the medium of radio and art of storytelling. This is hour one of the festival; hour two will be featured on Friday Journal.

Massachusetts gets a lot of credit around the founding of Thanksgiving, but what many don’t know is the role New Hampshire played. Our state’s first permanent resident, David Thompson, helped Miles Standish and many of the Pilgrims survive a few years after their historic feast. Then there’s Sarah Josepha Hale, who lobbied for over twenty years to make Thanksgiving a national holiday. We’ll learn more about New Hampshire’s role in this cherished holiday as well as how we’ve celebrated it over the years.

Guests

• J. Dennis Robinson, editor of SeascoastNH.com and author of several books on New Hampshire history, including Strawberry Banke: A Seaport Museum 400 Years in the Making
• Stuart Wallace, New Hampshire historian and Associate Professor of History at New Hampshire Technical Institute

Governor Lynch has unveiled the second of three rounds of cuts in state spending, totaling $50 million in all. Health and Human Services took the biggest hit, but reductions small and large will be felt, from the university system to little known entities like the podiatry board. We’ll dig into the details and look ahead to even larger cuts in the new year.

Guests

• Josh Rogers, NHPR’s state house reporter
• Tom Fahey, Statehouse Bureau Chief for the Union Leader and New Hampshire Sunday News
• Steve Norton, Executive Director for the New Hampshire Center for Public Policy Studies

We'll also hear from

• Ray Scheppach, Executive Director of the National Governors Association
• Nick Toumpas, Commissioner for the Department of Health and Human Services

While women may be in the majority in the New Hampshire Senate, they are not measuring up to men in wages. The disparity exists across all occupations and increases as a woman's educational level rises. We'll look at the wage gap in the Granite State and the overall status of women in New Hampshire.

Guests

• Annie Farnsworth, executive director of the New Hampshire Women's Lobby
• Sylvia Gale, executive director of the New Hampshire Commission on the Status of Women
• Rachel Rouillard, executive director of the New Hampshire Women's Policy Institute

It seems everyone is either getting bailed out or wanting to get bailed out - the mortgage industry and those who can’t pay their mortgages, the credit card companies and those overwhelmed by credit card debt, Wall Street, banks and the auto industry. Some see bailouts as a necessary evil to keep the economy from tanking, while others suggest the country can’t afford its government bailing out any more companies when its economy is already in such bad shape. We’ll look at who’s being bailed out, who may be next and what the effects may be.

Guests

• Jim Chappelow, economist at the Institute for Trend Research in Concord
• John Vogel, adjunct professor of business administration at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth