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6:00 AM

The People's Pharmacy with Joe and Terry Graedon


Is Your Furniture Toxic? We think of our homes as safe sanctuaries. Sometimes, however, in an effort to increase safety, we can inadvertently introduce health hazards.


7:00 AM

Larry Meiller  - 12/21F

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On this encore edition of Garden Talk with Larry Meiller, find out how to take care of your holiday plants. Plus, some wonderful indoor fruit trees that make great gifts.
Guest: Patti Nagai ("nah-GEYE"), UW Extension horticulture educator, Racine County



8:00 AM

Zorba Paster On Your Health

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Get your dose of laughter with Zorba Paster on Your Health.
This week, some surprising news about your heart and heat, and a bit of advice for coping with the Connecticut tragedy.
Plus, a shockingly low-calorie holiday recipe for Pumpkin-Ricotta Cheesecake.



9:00 AM

Car Talk


Click and Clack share some car care advice, and plenty of laughs, on Car Talk.


10:00 AM

Michael Feldman's Whad'Ya Know?  - 12/22A

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It's the annual Whad'Ya Know? Holiday Office Party! Calvin Trillin offers up some festive fun and verse and Steve Meisner offers up some Polka! Plus, staff karaoke, a listener potluck and two seasonal 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


Get your dose of laughter with Zorba Paster on Your Health.
This week, some surprising news about your heart and heat, and a bit of advice for coping with the Connecticut tragedy.
Plus, a shockingly low-calorie holiday recipe for Pumpkin-Ricotta Cheesecake.



2:00 PM

The People's Pharmacy with Joe and Terry Graedon


Is Your Furniture Toxic? We think of our homes as safe sanctuaries. Sometimes, however, in an effort to increase safety, we can inadvertently introduce health hazards.


3:00 PM

RadioLab


Profound? Confusing? Abstract or concrete? The nature of Numbers. Stories of how they confuse us, connect us, and even reveal secrets about us.


4:00 PM

This American Life


For the holiday season, a show filled with stories of people going to great lengths to throw a special Christmas for their families. Including tales of Luna the guinea pig, Bambi the reindeer, and Jeko the super-powerful (and somewhat-scary) Christmas elf.


5:00 PM

A Prairie Home Companion


Coming to you this week live from The Town Hall in New York City, it's A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor. With special guests, Broadway leading lady Kelli O'Hara, Bensonhurst harmonizers The DiGiallonardo Sisters, pianist and conductor Rob Fisher, and cellist Anneke Schaul-Yoder.


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  - 12/22A

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Fibber McGee and Horatio Hornblower.


9:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland  - 12/22B

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After comedy from Father Knows Best, it's Hallmark Playhouse from 1948 with the Christmas story "And the Desert Shall Rejoice."


10:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland  - 12/22C

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After a case for Boston Blackie, Gracie Allen visits the North Pole in the Burns and Allen Show from 1942.


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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