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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


On The People's Pharmacy with Joe and Terry Graedon: It's a discussion on health news with updates on thyroid disruption, a new way to treat prostate cancer, and the latest Harvard research summarizing the benefits of chocolate. Plus, listeners share their favorite home remedies.


7:00 AM

Larry Meiller

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It's time for an encore edition of Garden Talk at seven. Larry Meiller learns great tips for the best garden yet from a Garden Talk audience favorite.
Guest: Melinda Myers, Milwaukee-based host of "Melinda's Garden Moments," author of more than twenty gardening books.



8:00 AM

Zorba Paster On Your Health


Get your weekly dose of laughter with Zorba Paster On Your Health! This week, the guys discuss teen pregnancy rates and HIV prevention. Plus a listener recipe for Savory Veggie Pizza!


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?

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An encore broadcast with lots of laughs, lots of Feldman and some lovely spring sunshine. Travel around the world dangerously with author and traveler Carl Hoffman then relax in the safety of the Whad'Ya Know? Duo and the Whad'Ya Know? Quiz.


11:00 AM

Michael Feldman's Whad'Ya Know?

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During the second hour of this encore broadcast Michael kicks off his shoes during The Place To Be. The Ohio Statehouse frowns on visitors going barefoot; Barefoot Bob is challenging that notion. Then visit our Town of the Week, Webster Springs, West Virginia.


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


Get your weekly dose of laughter with Zorba Paster On Your Health! This week, the guys discuss teen pregnancy rates and HIV prevention. Plus a listener recipe for Savory Veggie Pizza!


2:00 PM

The People's Pharmacy


On The People's Pharmacy with Joe and Terry Graedon: It's a discussion on health news with updates on thyroid disruption, a new way to treat prostate cancer, and the latest Harvard research summarizing the benefits of chocolate. Plus, listeners share their favorite home remedies.


3:00 PM

The Saturday Special:


On The Saturday Special: "The Mind of the Innovator".

We go inside the minds of some innovators and examine just where their big ideas come from. Ideas like new ways to diagnose disease, bridges that tell you when they're going to fall down, tools that trick stroke patients into getting better, and bulletproof vests from manmade spider silk.



4:00 PM

This American Life


After four, on This American Life, stories of people trying to figure out just how bad they've been.


5:00 PM

A Prairie Home Companion


After five, on A Prairie Home Companion, it's another live broadcast performance from the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee. With special guests, big-time country artist and singer of American folk songs, Suzy Bogguss, Certified Guitar Player Steve Wariner, and good friends Robin and Linda Williams. Plus, the Royal Academy of Radio Actors and the latest news from Lake Wobegon.


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

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Tonight at eight during Old-Time Radio Drama, congenial roughneck Moon Mullins and his crew hold sway in an episode from 1944. Flash Gordon follows, and then it's to Bergen and McCarthy with guest Marilyn Monroe.


9:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

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During tonight's nine o'clock hour of OTRD, Philip Marlowe opens the case of the Gold Cobra and Randy Stone walks the Night Beat for the Chicago Star.


10:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

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Tonight's ten o'clock hour brings you a twisted tale from 1942 and the Inner Sanctum from 1945 tells the story of the Man Who Couldn't Die.


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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