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Ideas Network Program Notes

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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 rebroadcast of a show from The Fitzgerald Theater last October. John Lithgow revisits a few of his lesser-known roles in The Lives of the Cowboys. Acoustic duo Storyhill perform "Blazing." And Nashville virtuoso Steve Wariner sings "Chet's Guitar."


12:00 PM

To the Best of Our Knowledge

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The science of consciousness. With a hundred billion neurons and trillions of synapses, the human brain is the most complex object ever found in the universe. So far no one knows how this tangle of neurons produces . . . us.


1:00 PM

To the Best of Our Knowledge

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The meeting grounds of compassion and medicine.


2:00 PM

This American Life


The reach of the election continues to grow as talk of the issues heats up, even affecting our relationships with friends and family. This week, stories from people who've seen politics infect their personal lives.


3:00 PM

On the Media


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


4:00 PM

University of the Air

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He was one of the great composers of his time. Director William Farlow takes us behind the scenes of an upcoming production of Luigi Cherubini's opera "Medea."


5:00 PM

Simply Folk with Stephanie Elkins


In the spirit of the upcoming Wisconsin Book Festival, there's music and conversation with Scott Alarik - author of REVIVAL, A FOLK MUSIC NOVEL. Stephanie also plays some new releases and early traditional blues.


8:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

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He has an unconventional approach to frontier law enforcement and we'll find out how well it works when James Stewart stars in the 1945 Lux Radio Theater production of Destry Rides Again.


9:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

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The Great Gildersleeve minds the baby in a broadcast from 1941. Intrigue in Cairo follows with Rocky Jordan in a story from 1949. Then, board The Scarlet Queen for adventure and intrigue in the Far East.


10:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

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What does S-Q-P stand for? It's up to Sam Spade to find out in a caper from 1948. Then, Two Thousand Plus presents science fiction from 1950 with "The Giant Walks."


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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