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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.
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6:00 AM

The People's Pharmacy with Joe and Terry Graedon


Fighting the Flu. Flu season got an early start this year, and public health officials are urging everyone to get vaccinated. But just how good is the evidence on the effectiveness of the flu shot?


7:00 AM

Larry Meiller  - 12/14F

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It's an encore edition of Garden Talk with Larry Meiller. Enjoy the re-broadcast of a live show from the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Milwaukee. Larry finds out what last-minute work we can do in the garden, and how to use the winter season to plan for next year.
Guest: Melinda Myers, Milwaukee-based host of "Melinda's Garden Moments," author of more than twenty gardening books.



8:00 AM

Zorba Paster On Your Health

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Zorba and Tom chat about why your high school social status could predict success. And ponder over the prevalence of poisoned pork. Plus, a lightened-up recipe for Angel Food Cake Tiramisu.


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?  - 12/15A

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Michael welcomes "San Miguel" author TC Boyle. Plus, a new segment "Call Me, Maybe" featuring Jeff Hamman, All the News That Isn't, Thanks for the Memos and 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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Zorba and Tom chat about why your high school social status could predict success. And ponder over the prevalence of poisoned pork. Plus, a lightened-up recipe for Angel Food Cake Tiramisu.


2:00 PM

The People's Pharmacy with Joe and Terry Graedon


Fighting the Flu. Flu season got an early start this year, and public health officials are urging everyone to get vaccinated. But just how good is the evidence on the effectiveness of the flu shot?


3:00 PM

RadioLab


Stories of discovery. We take a grand tour of characters, and their stories of love and loss in the name of science.


4:00 PM

This American Life


The story of Reverend Carlton Pearson, a renowned evangelical pastor in Tulsa, Oklahoma, who cast aside the idea of Hell, and with it everything he'd worked for over his entire life.


5:00 PM

A Prairie Home Companion


Coming to you this week from The Town Hall on West 43rd Street in Manhattan, it's a live broadcast of A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor. With special guests, Itzhak Perlman, Cantor Yitzchak Meir Helfgot, and the Klezmer Conservatory Band, roots-country singer and songwriter Iris DeMent, pianist Dick Hyman, and vocalist Heather Masse.


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  - 12/15A

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Take up the Life of Riley in comedy from 1950.

Then, the 9XM Players will recreate two Christmas classics, beginning with "Berlin 1945," from Quiet Please. (This program is also available for Download from our 9XM Player's page at www.wpr.org/otr/radioplays.cfm )



9:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland  - 12/15B

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The 9XM Players continue their Christmas celebration with a recreation of My Friend Irma. Then radio great Lurene Tuttle, stars with Vincent Price in "The Saint" from 1949.


10:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland  - 12/15C

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What happens when the law of averages is suspended? Be listening for the CBS Radio Workshop from 1956 with "The Big Event. Then a story told on a train leads to another twisted tale from The Whistler.


11:00 PM

BBC World Service


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


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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