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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


Foods for Weight Control. Harvard researchers have found that eating certain foods is associated with weight gain, while choosing other items can be associated with modest weight loss over the years.


7:00 AM

Judith Siers-Poisson in for Larry Meiller

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It's time for an encore edition of Garden Talk. Chances are there are a few gardeners on your holiday gift list. Judith Siers-Poisson learns about great gifts for them, and for anyone who appreciates "green" gifts.
Guest: Astrid ("US-trid") Newenhouse, Associate Scientist, University of Wisconsin-Madison, focusing on agricultural sustainability



8:00 AM

Zorba Paster On Your Health

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Skip the waiting room this week with Zorba Paster on Your Health. Zorba and Tom chat about The Math Malady and reveal the painful truth about math's real-life side effects. They'll also serve up some dire tips for dealing with disaster. Plus, a hearty listener recipe for Italian Sausage Soup.


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?

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Michael welcomes Wisconsin native and author Patrick Somerville to the Monona Terrace stage. Plus, he honors the spouses of deer season with another hilarious hotline. And, he'll stuff in All the News that Isn't, Thanks for the Memos, and two rounds of 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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Skip the waiting room this week with Zorba Paster on Your Health. Zorba and Tom chat about The Math Malady and reveal the painful truth about math's real-life side effects. They'll also serve up some dire tips for dealing with disaster. Plus, a hearty listener recipe for Italian Sausage Soup.


2:00 PM

The People's Pharmacy with Joe and Terry Graedon


Foods for Weight Control. Harvard researchers have found that eating certain foods is associated with weight gain, while choosing other items can be associated with modest weight loss over the years.


3:00 PM

RadioLab


Unlocking the mysteries of time. We stretch and bend time, wrestle with its subjective nature, and wrap our minds around strategies to standardize it.


4:00 PM

This American Life


Stories of ideas so outlandish, so unlikely, that they just may have a shot at success.


5:00 PM

A Prairie Home Companion


It's a live broadcast performance of A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor from the Wortham Theater Center in Houston, Texas. With special guests, Texas Renaissance man Joe Ely, 21st Century troubadours Johnnyswim, and vocalist Christine DiGiallonardo.


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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The Cisco Kid and Pancho ride into Terror Town in a story from 1954. Then, Charlie McCarthy Sues Fred Allen in a broadcast from 1945.


9:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

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Skywave Theater brings you three classic short stories. Then, Vincent Price stars in the 1949 Philip Morris Playhouse production of "Leona's Room."


10:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

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Enter the Weird Circle for the strange story of "The Tapestry Horse". Then, venture into international intrigue with Herbert Marshall as The Man Called X.


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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