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IDEAS NETWORK PROGRAMS - SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2012 |
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7:00 AM
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Larry Meiller
- 12/07F

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Wisconsin Public Television has been broadcasting "The Wisconsin Gardener" since 1992. On this encore edition of Garden talk, Larry Meiller gets a preview of the next season, plus what to look forward to at Garden Expo in February.
Guest: Shelley Ryan, host and producer, "The Wisconsin Gardener" on Wisconsin Public Television
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8:00 AM
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Zorba Paster On Your Health

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Zorba and Tom raze the rumor that obesity is always caused by overeating. And they'll also discuss some shocking findings about why your teens' i-Phones could be making them more provocative.
Plus, a recipe from the vault for Rainbow Beans and Rice.
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9:00 AM
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Car Talk

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Click and Clack share some car care advice, and plenty of laughs, on Car Talk.
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10:00 AM
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Michael Feldman's Whad'Ya Know?
- 12/08A

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Senator-elect Tammy Baldwin makes her first national appearance since the November election. Plus, nature writer David George Haskell, All the News That Isn't, more Memos, and the Whad'Ya Know? quiz.
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1:00 PM
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Zorba Paster On Your Health

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Zorba and Tom raze the rumor that obesity is always caused by overeating. And they'll also discuss some shocking findings about why your teens' i-Phones could be making them more provocative.
Plus, a recipe from the vault for Rainbow Beans and Rice.
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3:00 PM
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RadioLab

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The pull of Pop music. Some songs have the nefarious power to stick mercilessly in our heads, and some songs have the transcendent allure to overcome cultural differences.
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4:00 PM
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This American Life

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Stories united by one thing: they all take place in the seven days leading up to broadcast.
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5:00 PM
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A Prairie Home Companion

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Coming to you this week from The Town Hall in New York, it's a live broadcast performance of A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor. With special guests, silken-voiced jazz singer and pianist Diana Krall, conductor and pianist Rob Fisher, and harmonizing siblings The DiGiallonardo Sisters.
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7:00 PM
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Tent Show Radio

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Enjoy music and entertainment from under the Big Top on Tent Show Radio.
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8:00 PM
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Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland
- 12/08A

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A courteous gunman poses a challenge for Matt Dillon and Chester in an 1953 episode of Gunsmoke. And the original super-saver, Jack Benny, goes Christmas Shopping in a broadcast from 1954.
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10:00 PM
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Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland
- 12/08C

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When Fibber McGee talks politics, catastrophe can't be far behind in a broadcast from 1945. And Richard Diamond finds himself a target in a story first heard in 1951.
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11:00 PM
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BBC World Service

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Hear World news and features overnight seven days a week from the British Broadcasting Corporation.
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IDEAS NETWORK PROGRAMS - SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2012 |
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