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You can access program descriptions, guest names and topics for many of the programs on Wisconsin Public Radio's Ideas Network. To see Program Notes for a particular day, select a date below. Most WPR programs are available for online playback and/or download.
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6:00 AM

The People's Pharmacy with Joe and Terry Graedon


Exercise for Mood and Wellbeing. A look at research that suggests physical activity has mental benefits as well.


7:00 AM

Judith Siers-Poisson in for Larry Meiller  - 01/11F

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On this encore edition of Garden Talk, Judith Siers-Poisson finds out what plant diseases were a big problem in 2012, and how we can avoid them in 2013. Plus, what lasting effects the drought might have on our yards and gardens.
Guests:

- Brian Hudelson, Director, Plant Disease Diagnostics Clinic in the Dept. of Plant Pathology at UW-Madison

- Lis ("liz") Friemoth ("FREE-moth"), provider of concierge horticultural services through her business, The Garden Hoe



8:00 AM

Zorba Paster On Your Health

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Why your doctor's manners could endanger your health. And how some restaurants are using fish fraud to make sneaky seafood swaps. Plus, a hearty recipe for Mediterranean Lamb Medley.


9:00 AM

Car Talk


Click and Clack share some car care advice, and plenty of laughs, on Car Talk.


10:00 AM

Michael Feldman's Whad'Ya Know?  - 01/12A

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Whad'Ya Know? kicks off 2013 by welcoming Journalist and The Outpost author Jake Tapper to the show. Plus, All the News That Isn't, Thanks for the Memos, plenty of fun in the audience and the Whad'Ya Know? Quiz!


12:00 PM

Wait Wait Don't Tell Me!


It's Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, the hour-long quiz show from NPR.


1:00 PM

Zorba Paster On Your Health

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Why your doctor's manners could endanger your health. And how some restaurants are using fish fraud to make sneaky seafood swaps. Plus, a hearty recipe for Mediterranean Lamb Medley.


2:00 PM

The People's Pharmacy with Joe and Terry Graedon


Exercise for Mood and Wellbeing. A look at research that suggests physical activity has mental benefits as well.


3:00 PM

RadioLab


Mortality - Is death a disease that can be cured? We filter the modern search for The Fountain of Youth.


4:00 PM

This American Life


Doppelgangers (DOPP-ul-gang-ers): doubles, evil twins . . . and not-so-evil twins.


5:00 PM

A Prairie Home Companion


On A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor, it's a live broadcast performance from the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco. With special guests, male vocal ensemble Chanticleer, and singer-songwriter-fiddler Sara Watkins.


7:00 PM

Tent Show Radio


Enjoy music and entertainment from under the Big Top on Tent Show Radio.


8:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland  - 01/12A

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Raymond Burr stars in Fort Laramie from 1956. Then, it's off to Hong Kong with Terry and the Pirates . . . and into the future with Buck Rogers.


9:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland  - 01/12B

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A trip to the famous vault is in store for Jack Benny in a broadcast from 1949. And Suspense from 1950 tells the story of a murderer who likes to attract crowds.


10:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland  - 01/12C

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Nero Wolfe takes up the case of the tell-tale ribbon from 1951. And Orson Welles is The Shadow in "The League of Terror" from 1938.


11:00 PM

BBC World Service


Hear World news and features overnight seven days a week from the British Broadcasting Corporation.

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