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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


From The Fitzgerald Theater in downtown Saint Paul, Minnesota, it's a show celebrating all things Banjo. With special guests, five-string masters Noam Pikelny, Joe Newberry, and Bill Evans, singer Suzy Bogguss, and country music historian Bill C. Malone.


12:00 PM

To the Best of Our Knowledge  - 02/24A

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Exploring philosophy through the lens of film.


1:00 PM

To the Best of Our Knowledge  - 02/24B

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Why isn't America inventing any more?


2:00 PM

This American Life


Answering the big questions about Superpowers: Can superheroes be real people? (No). Can real people become superheroes? (Maybe). And which is better: flight or invisibility? (Depends who you ask).


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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When none of the candidates for May Queen prove virtuous enough, a callow young man becomes the first May King. But how long can his innocence last? We'll go behind the scenes of the Milwaukee Florentine Opera Company production of Benjamin Britten's comic opera "Albert Herring" . . . with director William Florescu, and tenor Rodell Rosel.


5:00 PM

Simply Folk


Milwaukee folk and blues performer John Stano (STAN-oh) won the 2012 Wisconsin Singer Songwriter contest and he's in for a live session. Stephanie also has a couple of cowboy songs, some Irish music, and vocal harmonies for you this evening.


8:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland  - 02/24A

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Luke Slaughter of Tombstone encounters a Duel On The Trail from 1958. And, it worked for TV . . . could it work for radio? It's I Love Lucy from 1952.


9:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland  - 02/24B

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Lux Radio Theater from 1939 presents an all-star cast in "Stage Door."


10:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland  - 02/24C

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Vincent Price is The Saint in a story from 1951. Then, sleepwalking leads to murder . . . or a frame-up . . . in The Inner Sanctum.


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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