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IDEAS NETWORK PROGRAMS - FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2012
6:00 AM Joy Cardin Tell Joy what to learn! Joy Cardin and her guest look at the value of continuing education and lifelong learning in Wisconsin...and you can tell us about adult education classes you've taken, or want to take. Guest: David Schejbal (SKAY-bul), dean of Continuing Education, Outreach and E-Learning at University of Wisconsin-Extension.
7:00 AM Joy Cardin Joy Cardin visits the library. Joy and her guests talk about the role libraries play in our lives and communities. Guests: --Wayne Wiegand (WEE-ghend), library historian and author of books including Main Street Public Library: Community Places and Reading Spaces in the Rural Heartland. He's a former professor at the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison --John Cole, Founding Director of the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress Main Street Public Library: Community Places and Rea...
8:00 AM Joy Cardin President Barack Obama wins a second term, Tammy bests Tommy for Wisconsin's U.S. Senate seat, and Republicans retake full control of state government. Joy Cardin's guests discuss the fallout from this week's national and state elections in the Week in Review. Guests: - Matt Rothschild, publisher, "The Progressive" magazine. http://www.progressive.org/ - Kevin Hermening, political activist and former chair, Marathon County Republican Party.
9:00 AM Veronica Rueckert Veronica Rueckert's guest today champions a radical vision for education: make it free and accessible to anyone, anywhere. His online Khan Academy offers a high-quality, free education to millions of people in over 234 countries, and over 15,000 U.S. classrooms now use his lessons and methods. Is it time to re-think how we educate ourselves and our children? Guest: Salman Khan is the founder and faculty of the Khan Academy-a nonprofit with the mission of providing a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere. Time Magazine named Khan as one of the "100 Most Influential People in the World."
10:00 AM Veronica Rueckert National Book Award winner, Sherman Alexie, joins Veronica Rueckert to discuss his work since his first publication twenty years ago. Guest: Sherman Alexie, poet, filmmaker, and author, "The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven," "Ten Little Indians," "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian." and most recently, "Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories." The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
11:00 AM Larry Meiller Today on Garden Talk, trees can be a wonderful focal point in a landscape, but what special care do they need, and how can we recognize pest or disease problems? Larry Meiller finds out what impact the drought had, too. Guest: Bruce Allison, Adjunct Professor of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, UW-Madison. Certified arborist
12:30 PM Chapter A Day Susan Sweeney reads from Ann Patchett's Novel "State of Wonder." A doctor travels to the Amazon and finds extraordinary things, opening opportunities for the future and reviving travails from the past.
1:00 PM Talk of the Nation Science Friday The ballots are counted and the results are in, but was science a winner in this election? Join host Flora Lichtman on Science Friday for a look at looming budget cuts and what to expect for science over the next four years. Plus, Oliver Sacks is back to talk about his new book "Hallucinations."
2:00 PM Talk of the Nation Science Friday Climate change takes center stage in the new Barbara Kingsolver novel. Join Flora Lichtman as she chats with Kingsolver about the science used in her writing. Plus, what could be causing Earth's poles to wander back and forth?
3:00 PM At Issue with Ben Merens This hour, Ben Merens and his guest talk about great song covers: why they work when they work, why musicians continue to record them, and why we love to hear them. GUEST: Stephen Kallao - DJ at 88.9 Radio Milwaukee. Every day at 5pm, he plays the 5 O'Clock Shadow: an original and a cover back-to-back.
4:00 PM At Issue with Ben Merens From President Obama's re-election to congressional races to the Nor'easter storm, it was another busy news week. Join Ben Merens and his guest for a look at the news that's been in the week that was. Guest: Barry Burden, professor of political science at UW-Madison and associate chair and director of graduate studies.
5:00 PM Q with Jian Ghomeshi On Q with Jian Ghomeshi: Friday Live musical guest Amanda Palmer. She and her band, the Grand Theft Orchestra, used Kickstarter to raise funds to make their album, Theatre is Evil. Then, it's Q's Media Panel and Elvira Kurt's Cultural Hall of Shame.
6:00 PM On Point The Week In The News: Obama wins four more years. A shaken G.O.P. looks ahead. And snow moves in as folks pick up from Sandy. The On Point weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.
7:00 PM The Moth Radio Hour Flash Rosenberg's father takes, "find a penny, pick it up" to a whole new level. Walter Mosley is moved by the way language is changed by context. Barbara Weiner describes the afternoon when she is raped and her long road to recovery. Richard Kind details proposing to his girlfriend and then waiting for her answer. Hosted by The Moth's Producing Director, Sarah Austin Jenness.
8:00 PM As It Happens Hear news and interviews from around the world on As It Happens.
9:00 PM Joy Cardin President Barack Obama wins a second term, Tammy bests Tommy for Wisconsin's U.S. Senate seat, and Republicans retake full control of state government. Joy Cardin's guests discuss the fallout from this week's national and state elections in the Week in Review. Guests: - Matt Rothschild, publisher, "The Progressive" magazine. http://www.progressive.org/ - Kevin Hermening, political activist and former chair, Marathon County Republican Party.
10:00 PM Veronica Rueckert National Book Award winner, Sherman Alexie, joins Veronica Rueckert to discuss his work since his first publication twenty years ago. Guest: Sherman Alexie, poet, filmmaker, and author, "The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven," "Ten Little Indians," "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian." and most recently, "Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories."
11:00 PM Chapter A Day Susan Sweeney reads from Ann Patchett's Novel "State of Wonder." A doctor travels to the Amazon and finds extraordinary things, opening opportunities for the future and reviving travails from the past.
11:30 PM BBC World Service Hear World news and features overnight seven days a week from the British Broadcasting Corporation.
IDEAS NETWORK PROGRAMS - FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2012

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