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IDEAS NETWORK PROGRAMS - SUNDAY, DECEMBER 23, 2012
6:00 AM On the Media On the Media casts an incisive eye on the marketplace of ideas.
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 Take an entertaining romp through the English language, on 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, Broadway leading lady Kelli O'Hara, Bensonhurst harmonizers The DiGiallonardo Sisters, pianist and conductor Rob Fisher, and cellist Anneke Schaul-Yoder.
12:00 PM To the Best of Our Knowledge  - 12/23A Would true separation of church and state help... or hurt... religion? A look at why secularism is not the same as atheism.
1:00 PM To the Best of Our Knowledge  - 12/23B The slippery slope between fiction and nonfiction. Also, literary pioneer William Gibson on his discomfort with his nonfiction.
2:00 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.
3:00 PM On the Media On the Media casts an incisive eye on the marketplace of ideas.
4:00 PM University of the Air Madison Bach Musicians director Trevor Stephenson will guide us through a Baroque Christmas.
5:00 PM Simply Folk with Stephanie Elkins Take a Christmas Celtic (KELL-tick) Sojourn this week on Simply Folk. The program includes Irish Fiddlers, Scottish singers, the wonderful group Solas and Wisconsin vocal ensemble Navan (NAH-v'n) featuring WPR's own Sheila Shigley. There's also lots of Christmas music in store.
8:00 PM Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland  - 12/23A Fibber McGee has to figure out how to deal with a lost key ring in an outing from 1947. And it's high-seas adventure with Horatio Hornblower and McCool's Irish Plot.
9:00 PM Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland  - 12/23B The 1939 Campbell Playhouse classic: Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" stars Orson Welles and Lionel Barrymore.
10:00 PM Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland  - 12/23C Jack Benny does some last-minute Christmas shopping and Suspense from 1950 tells the story of "A Christmas for Carol."
11:00 PM BBC World Service Hear World news and features overnight seven days a week from the British Broadcasting Corporation.
IDEAS NETWORK PROGRAMS - SUNDAY, DECEMBER 23, 2012

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