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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


Unexpected Side Effects. Sometimes promising medications turn out to have terrible side effects. Our hosts welcome listener questions and stories about prescription drug side effects.


7:00 AM

Larry Meiller  - 11/30F

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On this encore edition of Garden Talk, Larry Meiller gets ideas for great holiday plants to give, or get. Plus, the benefits of plants and green space for our health and well-being.
Guest: Barb Larson, Horticulture Educator, Kenosha County UW-Extension



8:00 AM

Zorba Paster On Your Health

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Get your daily dose of laughter with Zorba Paster on Your Health.
This week, Zorba chats about the pros and cons of our kids' protein obsession, and why a vivid imagination might mean you're insane. Plus, a vegetarian guest recipe for Cuban Black Bean Soup from blogger and author Lindsay S. Nixon.



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?  - 12/01A


"One for the Books" author and longtime friend of the show Joe Queenan is Michael's guest this week. Plus, astrobiologist and UW Geology professor Clark Johnson shares his research about life on mars and a 3.5 billion year old rock. And, a couple of 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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Get your daily dose of laughter with Zorba Paster on Your Health.
This week, Zorba chats about the pros and cons of our kids' protein obsession, and why a vivid imagination might mean you're insane.
Plus, a vegetarian guest recipe for Cuban Black Bean Soup from blogger and author Lindsay S. Nixon.



2:00 PM

The People's Pharmacy with Joe and Terry Graedon


Unexpected Side Effects. Sometimes promising medications turn out to have terrible side effects. Our hosts welcome listener questions and stories about prescription drug side effects.


3:00 PM

RadioLab


The Soul Patch: Stories of unlikely (and surprisingly simple) answers to seemingly unsolvable problems.


4:00 PM

This American Life


What animals sacrifice for us, and what we sacrifice for them. Including a story from Susan Orlean about dogs in World War II. And the This American Life staff confronts Ira about his dog, Piney.


5:00 PM

A Prairie Home Companion


Coming to you this week from The Town Hall in New York City, it's a live broadcast performance of A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor. With special guests, masters of many musical moods, The Bacon Brothers, and composer Peter Schickele and the Semi-Pro Musica Antiqua.


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  - 12/01A

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Jimmy Durante hosts the suave Charles Boyer in a broadcast from 1947. And Marquee from the same year presents Wisconsinite Don Ameche in the comedy "What Is This Thing Called Love?"


9:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland  - 12/01B

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William Bendix stars in The Life of Riley from 1943. Then, the Saint investigates the case of "The Dame on the Doorstep" from 1950.


10:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland  - 12/01C

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X-Minus One brings you science fiction from 1956 with "If You Was a Moklin." And the Mysterious Traveler tells the tale of "Murder in Jazz Time" from 1948.


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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