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Mr. Olocho came to the U.S. from Kenya after receiving a green card through the immigration lottery. The Nashua Adult Learning Center helped him prepare for and achieve his U.S. high school equivalency degree.

Each year, the Third Coast International Audio Festival brings the best new documentaries produced worldwide to U.S. airwaves in a special two-hour program. Hosted by award-winning writer, producer and humorist Gwen Macsai, the Third Coast Festival broadcast features documentaries that prove just how powerful radio can be. Innovative and insightful, the stories engage, provoke, entertain and transport listeners, proving that all one needs to discover new worlds is a little box and an antenna.

The Exchange takes a break for a Thanksgiving holiday special. Giving Thanks is a music-and-stories celebration of Thanksgiving. Host John Birge creates a thoughtful, contemporary reflection on the meaning of the holiday. In this hour, they remember John Updike, who in 2002 read his poem “To a Skylark” for “Giving Thanks” and shared some holiday memories. Plus, All Things Considered commentator Kevin King reads a humorous holiday story he wrote and violinist Pam Frank plays Beethoven with her father, pianist Claude Frank.

Since the beginning of time, human beings have been making tools to make life easier, better, faster or more efficient, but is that always a good thing? Are human beings happier today, whether individually or collectively, because of telephones, washing machines, text-messaging cell-phones, and iPods? Are there limitations on how much technology we should produce, or allow in our lives?

Guest

• Max Latona, Associate Professor of Philosophy at St. Anselm College