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IDEAS NETWORK PROGRAMS - SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2010 |
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6:00 AM
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The People's Pharmacy

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On The People's Pharmacy with Joe and Terry Graedon, The Controversey over Cholesterol.
High cholesterol is well known as a risk factor for heart disease. But far too many people are under the impression that taking a medication to lower cholesterol also reduces their risk of dying from an initial heart attack.

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8:00 AM
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Zorba Paster On Your Health

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Get your weekly dose of laughter on Zorba Paster On Your Health. This week, the guys describe the costs of obesity... and sound off on genetically altered salmon. Plus, a listener recipe for Homemade Granola.

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9:00 AM
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Car Talk

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

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1:00 PM
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Zorba Paster On Your Health

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Get your weekly dose of laughter on Zorba Paster On Your Health. This week, the guys describe the costs of obesity... and sound off on genetically altered salmon. Plus, a listener recipe for Homemade Granola.

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2:00 PM
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The People's Pharmacy

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On The People's Pharmacy with Joe and Terry Graedon, The Controversey over Cholesterol.
High cholesterol is well known as a risk factor for heart disease. But far too many people are under the impression that taking a medication to lower cholesterol also reduces their risk of dying from an initial heart attack.

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3:00 PM
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The Saturday Special

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On The Saturday Special: It’s almost impossible to imagine a world without words, but this hour of RadioLab tries to do just that. We meet a woman who taught a 27-year-old man the first words of his life, hear a firsthand account of what it feels like to have the language center of your brain wiped out by a stroke, and retrace the birth of a brand new language 30 years ago.

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4:00 PM
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This American Life

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On This American Life, stories about friends...or wait... enemies? How about both?

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5:00 PM
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A Prairie Home Companion

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Live-at-five, join Garrison Keiller and Company for another edition of A Prairie Home Companion.

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7:00 PM
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Tent Show Radio

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

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8:00 PM
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Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

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Hopalong Cassidy takes on another mystery in "Six Little Men Who Were Green" at eight, on Old-Time Radio Drama. And Fibber McGee goes after Killer Canova’s Autograph in a broadcast from 1939.

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11:00 PM
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BBC World Service

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

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IDEAS NETWORK PROGRAMS - SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2010 |
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