Chapter a Day® is heard daily at 12:30pm and 11:00pm on the Ideas Network stations of Wisconsin Public Radio.
It is the oldest WPR program still being broadcast and may qualify as the longest running regularly scheduled radio program in the history of radio in the United States.
Chapter A Day
Monday
8/12/2013
12:30 PM
CAD - Return to Wake Robin
Susan Sweeney reads from "Return to Wake Robin: One Cabin in the Heyday of Northwoods Resorts" By Marnie O. Mamminga. Five generations of her family have visited this cabin built by her grandparents. Mamminga lovingly remembers the heart and soul of the place.
Friday
8/9/2013
12:30 PM
"Return to Wake Robin"
Susan Sweeney reads from "Return to Wake Robin: One Cabin in the Heyday of Northwoods Resorts" By Marnie O. Mamminga. Five generations of her family have visited this cabin built by her grandparents. Mamminga lovingly remembers the heart and soul of the place.
Monday, August 5 through Friday, August 16, 2013. Read by Susan Sweeney.
On Big Spider Lake near Hayward, Wisconsin is a cabin that has seen five generations of family visit, all of them fondly remembered by the author.
(Wisconsin Historical Society Press; ISBN-10: 0870204912)
This selection is also available as an unabridged Audiobook from The Radio Store at 800-747-7444.
Theme: Phil Cook & His Feat; from the Album: Hungry Mother Blues 1.Frazee, MN, 2. The Jensens 3. Lament & Lullaby
Monday, May 27 through Friday, June 21, 2013. Read by Jim Fleming.
William Dodd was US ambassador to Hitler's Germany in 1933, a time when he and his family faced a changing world and the need for changing attitudes.
(Broadway; ISBN-10: 030740885X)
Theme: Weill: Mack The Knife / The Instead-of Song / The Ballad of the Easy Life from Threepenny Opera Suite; Orchestra of St. Luke's - Julius Rudel (MHS 512485Y)