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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


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.



7:00 AM

Garden Talk - Saturday

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After seven, on Garden Talk with Larry Meiller, find out about the root causes of plant disease. Larry's guests are Brian Hudelson of the Plant Disease Clinic at UW-Madison, and Jason Fischbach, Ashland/Bayfield County Extension Ag Agent. bdh@plantpath.wisc.edu jason.fischbach@ces.uwex.edu


8:00 AM

Zorba Paster On Your Health


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.


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?

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A live Whad'Ya Know? show from Monona Terrace in Madison.


11:00 AM

Michael Feldman's Whad'Ya Know?

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More Michael, more laughs, more Whad'Ya Know? during the second hour of this live broadcast.


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


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.


2:00 PM

The People's Pharmacy


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.



3:00 PM

The Saturday Special


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.


4:00 PM

This American Life


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


5:00 PM

A Prairie Home Companion


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


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

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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.


9:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

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Boston Blackie goes looking for stolen treasure, after nine, on OTRD. And, Dark Fantasy from 1942 tells of a woman who finds herself thirty years in the past.


10:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

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After ten, on OTRD, Casey Crime Photographer opens a case from 1947. And a shipload of hardened criminals offers no Escape.


11:00 PM

BBC World Service


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

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