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IDEAS NETWORK PROGRAMS - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2012 |
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6:00 AM
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On the Media

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On the Media casts an incisive eye on the marketplace of ideas.
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8:00 AM
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Says You!

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It's the game of words and whimsy, bluff and bluster, "Says You!"
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9:00 AM
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A Way With Words

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Take an entertaining romp through the English language, on A Way With Words.
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10:00 AM
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A Prairie Home Companion

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It's another broadcast performance of A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor from the Elliott Hall of Music at Purdue University. With special guests, tough-as-nails stringband Old Crow Medicine Show, and the University's ambassadors of song, the Purdue Varsity Glee Club.
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2:00 PM
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This American Life

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How can we be sure of what people will think of us when we're gone? This week, stories of people remembered differently then how they had wished.
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3:00 PM
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On the Media

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On the Media casts an incisive eye on the marketplace of ideas.
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4:00 PM
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University of the Air

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Florencia Mallon takes us to Chile during the turbulent 1970s with a look at her new novel "Beyond the Ties of Blood."
Beyond the Ties of Blood
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5:00 PM
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Simply Folk with Stephanie Elkins

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Murder Ballads, creepy songs, and scary stories . . . it's Halloween on Simply Folk. Stephanie also welcomes John McCutcheon for some music and conversation.
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8:00 PM
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Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

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A friend of Sergeant Preston's has a strange dying wish in the Challenge of the Yukon from 1947. And the football coach has had enough and wants to retire, creating a crisis for The Halls of Ivy in a story from 1951.
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10:00 PM
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Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

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Lights Out from 1942 ventures into the macabre with "Mungahra." And The Radio Pirates mark the 74th anniversary of a famous broadcast with a story of a pesky Martian invasion in "They Came for the Candy."
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11:00 PM
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BBC World Service

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Hear World news and features overnight seven days a week from the British Broadcasting Corporation.
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IDEAS NETWORK PROGRAMS - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2012 |
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