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6:00 AM

The People's Pharmacy with Joe and Terry Graedon


Healthy Holiday Feasts: Celebrating the season doesn't have to mean gaining weight. It IS possible to enjoy delicious food that is good for us as well.


7:00 AM

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



8:00 AM

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.



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?  - 12/08A

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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.


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 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.



2:00 PM

The People's Pharmacy with Joe and Terry Graedon


Healthy Holiday Feasts: Celebrating the season doesn't have to mean gaining weight. It IS possible to enjoy delicious food that is good for us as well.


3:00 PM

RadioLab


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.


4:00 PM

This American Life


Stories united by one thing: they all take place in the seven days leading up to broadcast.


5:00 PM

A Prairie Home Companion


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.


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  - 12/08A

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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.


9:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland  - 12/08B

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Gerald Bartell stars in the 1938 WHA Players production of Aaron Rostand's classic story "Cyrano de Bergerac."


10:00 PM

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.


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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