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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


Food for Thought: As we move into the new year, we'd all like to do everything we can to maintain our brain power. How can we practice a brain-healthy lifestyle?


7:00 AM

Larry Meiller  - 01/04F

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Winter is a great time to turn our attention to our houseplants. On this encore edition of Garden Talk, Larry Meiller talks with the author of "The Unexpected Houseplant: 220 Extraordinary Choices for Every Spot in Your Home." He gets recommendations for keeping holiday plants thriving, and much more!
Guest: Tovah ("TOE-va") Martin, author of a dozen gardening books, including "The Unexpected Houseplant: 220 Extraordinary Choices for Every Spot in Your Home, horticulture industry veteran and sought-after speaker and trainer.

The Unexpected Houseplant: 220 Extraordinary Choices...

8:00 AM

Zorba Paster On Your Health

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The guys highlight the world's healthiest place to live . . . and address the dangers of daydreaming. Plus, an allergy-free recipe for Chicken Lettuce Cups with Hoisin Sauce.


9:00 AM

Car Talk


Laugh along with Click and Clack, during another edition of Car Talk.


10:00 AM

Michael Feldman's Whad'Ya Know?  - 01/05A

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Michael talks with Jackson Landers, writer, hunter, and locavore (LOW-kah-vor). Plus, talk show legend Dick Cavett (KAV-ett), Thanks for the Memos, 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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The guys highlight the world's healthiest place to live . . . and address the dangers of daydreaming. Plus, an allergy-free recipe for Chicken Lettuce Cups with Hoisin Sauce.


2:00 PM

The People's Pharmacy with Joe and Terry Graedon


Food for Thought: As we move into the new year, we'd all like to do everything we can to maintain our brain power. How can we practice a brain-healthy lifestyle?


3:00 PM

RadioLab


Who Are You? - We center on a chilling question: how well can you ever really know the people around you?


4:00 PM

This American Life


How close can you get to a perfect world? In this hour, a perfectly normal guy gets rid of everything he owns, changes his name, says goodbye to his friends . . . and begins walking . . . in the name of peace. And Honduran government officials try to heal their corrupt country by starting a perfect city, from scratch.


5:00 PM

A Prairie Home Companion


Coming to you live this week from the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco, California, it's a live broadcast performance of A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor. With special guest, bluesman and jam-master Elvin Bishop.


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  - 01/05A

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Venture into the far north for the Challenge of the Yukon. And join Fibber McGee and Molly when they build a dog house in an outing from 1940.


9:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland  - 01/05B

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The Great Gildersleeve throws a big New Year's costume ball in a broadcast from 1947. And, in a story from the same year, Mr. and Mrs. North stumble into crime.


10:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland  - 01/05C

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Eddie Cantor holds forth for the Texaco Town Follies from 1937. Then it's Suspense from the first week of 1945.


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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