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Ideas Network Program Notes

You can access program descriptions, guest names and topics for many of the programs on Wisconsin Public Radio's Ideas Network. To see Program Notes for a particular day, select a date below. Most WPR programs are available for online playback and/or download.
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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, it's 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.


12:00 PM

To the Best of Our Knowledge

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The science of mindfulness. Suppose neuroscientists map the billions of neural circuits in the human brain....are we any closer to cracking the great existential mysteries - like meaning, purpose or happiness? Scientists and spiritual thinkers are now working together to create a new science of mindfulness.


1:00 PM

To the Best of Our Knowledge

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Artists and critics speak out about creating in the "fly-over zone". Do you ever get the feeling that everyone's reading all the same books and listening to all the same music, and seeing all the same films? Maybe everybody's reading the same reviews from New York and LA.


2:00 PM

This American Life


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


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

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If you could select three great American speeches, which would you pick?
Biographer Warren Kozak comes up with his three choices and answers the question: "Who wrote them?"



5:00 PM

Simply Folk with Stephanie Elkins





8:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

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Take up the Challenge of the Yukon. Then, drop in on The Nelsons, where you'll find Ozzie and Harriet doing a lot of worrying . . . about worrying.


9:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

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Dick Powell is Richard Diamond in a case from 1951. Then, from the same year, The Whistler returns to tell the story of "The Other Hand."


10:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

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Orson Welles is your host for a story from the Black Museum. And
Journey Into Space from 1953 will take you further into the mystery of Operation Luna.



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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