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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

The People's Pharmacy with Joe and Terry Graedon


Dr. Mark Hyman, author of The Blood Sugar Solution.


7:00 AM

Larry Meiller  - 02/15F

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It's an encore edition of Garden Talk with Larry Meiller. Many have used the square-foot gardening system with great success. Larry visits with the originator of that growing plan, and finds out what's new in the latest edition of his book.
Guest: Mel Bartholomew, founder and inventor of the Square Foot Gardening method, author, "All New Square Foot Gardening"



8:00 AM

Zorba Paster On Your Health

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Topics include how lounging around may decrease longevity, and the effects of drinking too much Gatorade. Plus, a special pledge recipe for Guilt-Free Chocolate Fondue.

(**Download edition: Is The Matrix a myth? Maybe not. And "all or nothing" is not the best answer when it comes to breast cancer. Plus, a listener recipe for Andrea's California Rice.)


9:00 AM

Car Talk


Click and Clack serve-up some of their own unique reasons to support Public Radio.


10:00 AM

Michael Feldman's Whad'Ya Know?  - 02/16A


On a very special pledge edition of Michael Feldman's Whad'Ya Know?, we highlight some of Michael's greatest hits over the past few months. With guests Ed Begley Jr., actress Sarah Jessica Parker, and the Whad'ya Know? quiz from Green Bay.


12:00 PM

Wait Wait Don't Tell Me!


This pledge edition of the show features guests Alan Alda, Leonard Nimoy . . . and the "Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me" panelists at their best.


1:00 PM

Zorba Paster On Your Health

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Topics include how lounging around may decrease longevity, and the effects of drinking too much Gatorade. Plus, a special pledge recipe for Guilt-Free Chocolate Fondue.

(**Download edition: Is The Matrix a myth? Maybe not. And "all or nothing" is not the best answer when it comes to breast cancer. Plus, a listener recipe for Andrea's California Rice.)


2:00 PM

The People's Pharmacy with Joe and Terry Graedon


Dr. Mark Hyman, author of The Blood Sugar Solution.


3:00 PM

RadioLab


Selected Radiolab favorites, with hosts Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich, during this pledge week special.


4:00 PM

This American Life


Ira Glass plays a favorite recent story from a live May 2012 show, "Tig Notaro's story." Plus, other clips from This American Life's latest DVD.


5:00 PM

A Prairie Home Companion


Host Garrison Keillor presents a compilation of favorite songs, skits, and poems. Plus, the best of Guy Noir, and The News from Lake Wobegon. It's an all-new pledge special.


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  - 02/16A

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Venture into the wilds of Wyoming with Frontier Gentleman in a story from 1958. And stop in on The Great Gildersleeve, who has a rebellion on his hands in an outing from 1952.


9:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland  - 02/16B

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How does she do it? Our Miss Brooks has a Cow in the Closet in a broadcast from 1954. And an Oriental adventure awaits you with Escape from 1949.


10:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland  - 02/16C

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Nero Wolfe breaks into the Case of the Party for Death from 1951. And science fiction awaits you from X-Minus One with "Skulking Permit" from 1956.


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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