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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


Coming to you this week from The Town Hall in New York City, it's 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.


12:00 PM

To the Best of Our Knowledge  - 12/02A

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Extraordinary Minds. Certain brain disorders can lead to remarkable insights....even genius. We'll peer into the world of autistic savants and dyslexics, and contemplate our cyborg future, when our brains merge with tiny, embedded computers.


1:00 PM

To the Best of Our Knowledge  - 12/02B

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When's the last time you were wonder struck? Would your life be richer for more wonder? What wonder is, how to make it, where to find it and what it does for us... we all get gently awed.


2:00 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.


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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After he developed the birth control pill, Carl Djerassi turned his attention from chemistry to literature. The shift came from an unlikely motive . . .revenge. He'll tell his story during University of the Air.


5:00 PM

Simply Folk with Stephanie Elkins


Stephanie has some music and conversation with Appleton native Cory Chisel, who's getting a lot of national attention lately for great songs and a unique voice. Also, Jeff Durkee and Sheila Shigley will be in with some contemporary and international folk music.


8:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland  - 12/02A

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The Lone Ranger rides again in a story from 1945. And a French teacher turns the Anderson household upside down in Father Knows Best from 1950.


9:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland  - 12/02B

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The CBS Radio Workshop follows the adventures of a do-it-yourself home remodeling in "The Day the Roof Fell In." And Philip Marlowe picks up a case for The Kid on the Corner in a story from 1949.


10:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland  - 12/02C

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A vagabond pilot gets forced into a trip to "This Side of Nowhere" in Escape from 1950. And Lights Out from 1942 tells the story of a newspaper publisher who cleans house and takes a detour into the unexpected.


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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