Listen To WPR online Live Streaming Page Archive Streaming Page Click here to support WPR! Return to the WPR Home Page
Explore WPR
WPR Home
Support WPR!
Support WPR's Online Community!
Contact Us
About WPR
Newsletters and Reports
Studios, Stations and Program Schedules
Station Coverage Maps, Reception and Technical Issues
WPR Program Index
The Ideas Network
The NPR News and Classical Network
WPR News
Internet Webcasting
WPR's National SHows
The Radio Store
Related Links

WPR Programs
Search wpr.org
Ideas Network Program Notes

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.
Can't find a program? Search all programs by topic or other keyword.

Mp3 Player Icon Most MP3 Players   Windows media Player icon Windows Media Player   Real Player Icon RealPlayer   MP3 Download Icon Download This Program
Select Date: 
move back one day   Move back one week IDEAS NETWORK PROGRAMS - SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2012 Move forward one week   Move forward one day

6:00 AM

On the Media


On the Media examines how the Media "Sausage" is made.


7:00 AM

Wait Wait Don't Tell Me!


It's Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, the hour-long quiz show from NPR.


8:00 AM

Says You!


It's the game of words and whimsy, bluff and bluster, "Says You!"


9:00 AM

A Way With Words


Enjoy the call-in program all about language, A Way With Words.


10:00 AM

A Prairie Home Companion


It's 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.


12:00 PM

To the Best of Our Knowledge

Play this program using any MP3 Player! Play This program using Windows Media Player! Download

Wiring the brain. Scientists are trying to develop a detailed map of the human brain. For some scientists, the goal isn't just to map the brain, it's to crack the mystery of consciousness.


1:00 PM

To the Best of Our Knowledge

Play this program using any MP3 Player! Play This program using Windows Media Player! Download

Do we still need feminism when, according to one journalist, we're witnessing the decline of men and the ascendance of women? There's been a hot spotlight shining down on women this past year.


2:00 PM

This American Life


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


3:00 PM

On the Media


On the Media examines how the Media "Sausage" is made.


4:00 PM

University of the Air

Play this program using any MP3 Player! Play This program using Windows Media Player! Download

Is the U.S. losing its grip as a global power? Alfred McCoy, editor of "Endless Empire," will compare America today with the decline of the Spanish and British empires.


5:00 PM

Simply Folk with Stephanie Elkins


Stephanie welcomes Patchouli, a duo that blends hopeful songs with powerful acoustic playing. Also on tonight's playlist: songs of gratitude and thanksgiving.


8:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

Play this program using any MP3 Player! Play This program using Windows Media Player!

Dr. Sixgun sets out to keep a man from self-destruction in a story from 1954. And, Frank Sinatra visits George Burns and Gracie Allen in a 1946 broadcast.


9:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

Play this program using any MP3 Player! Play This program using Windows Media Player!

Bob Bailey stars in Let George Do It from 1952. And, an alleged gambling debt means danger in Cairo for Rocky Jordan.


10:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

Play this program using any MP3 Player! Play This program using Windows Media Player!

Why are window washers suddenly dying? Find out during the Haunting Hour and "The Skyscraper Mystery". Then, visit Mars for the mystery of longevity on X-Minus One with Ray Bradbury's "Dwellers in Silence" from 1955.


11:00 PM

BBC World Service


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

move back one day   Move back one week IDEAS NETWORK PROGRAMS - SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2012 Move forward one week   Move forward one day

Want to receive the Ideas Network Program Notes every day via E-Mail? Sign Up Here!

To order a CD of a WPR program, please call The Radio Store
at 800-747-7444, or 608-263-7903.

Note: Since many of the guests and topics for our programs are selected just prior to their airing, some program information may not be available, or may be incomplete until the day the program airs. Our Website Notes are typically filed the evening before each day's programming and then updated again after the day's programs to reflect any changes.

For more information, the Listener Services Center phone number is:
800-442-7110, or in Madison, Wisconsin 608-263-7903.


HOME | ABOUT | PROGRAM INDEX | MEMBERSHIP | SPONSORSHIPS | WPR NEWS
IDEAS NETWORK | NEWS & CLASSICAL NETWORK | RADIO STORE
LIVE STREAMS | AUDIO ARCHIVES

For questions or comments about our programming, call Audience Services
at 1-800-747-7444, email us at listener@wpr.org, or use our Online Feedback Form.
View our Privacy Policy.   Send comments about our website to webmaster@wpr.org.

©2013 by Wisconsin Public Radio - a service of the
Wisconsin Educational Communications Board
and University of Wisconsin - Extension.


Support for WPR provided by

Shop Now!



Support WPR!