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IDEAS NETWORK PROGRAMS - SUNDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2012 |
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6:00 AM
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On the Media

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On the Media casts an incisive eye on the marketplace of ideas.
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8:00 AM
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Says You!

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It's the game of words and whimsy, bluff and bluster, "Says You!"
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9:00 AM
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A Way With Words

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Take an entertaining romp through the English language, on A Way With Words.
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10:00 AM
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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 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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12:00 PM
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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.
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1:00 PM
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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.
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2:00 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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3:00 PM
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On the Media

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On the Media casts an incisive eye on the marketplace of ideas.
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4:00 PM
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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?"
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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 - SUNDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2012 |
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