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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: The Healing Power of Pets.
Research shows that walking the dog is a more reliable and enjoyable way to get your exercise than stepping on a treadmill. How else do animals enhance our health?



7:00 AM

Larry Meiller

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Late June is prime growing time for a variety of flowers, fruits, and vegetables. On this encore edition of Garden Talk, Larry Meiller's guest answers your questions, and offers great advice for a successful growing season.
Guest: Lisa Johnson, UW Extension Horticulture Educator for Dane County



8:00 AM

Zorba Paster On Your Health

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Join Zorba Paster and Tom Clark for another upbeat hour on healthy living on Zorba Paster On Your Health. This week, the guys find out some surprising info on food cravings and discuss a new ethics test for medical students. Plus a great recipe for Grilled Chops with Cherries.


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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This week in the first hour of Whad'Ya Know?... All the News that Isn't, then special guest, author Tim Birkhead on his book, "Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird."Also, the Whad'Ya Know? Quiz.
In the second hour, Madison rockers, the Hometown Sweethearts take the stage and there's another Quiz!



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

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Join Zorba Paster and Tom Clark for another upbeat hour on healthy living on Zorba Paster On Your Health. This week, the guys find out some surprising info on food cravings and discuss a new ethics test for medical students. Plus a great recipe for Grilled Chops with Cherries.


2:00 PM

The People's Pharmacy


On The People's Pharmacy with Joe and Terry Graedon: The Healing Power of Pets.
Research shows that walking the dog is a more reliable and enjoyable way to get your exercise than stepping on a treadmill. How else do animals enhance our health?



3:00 PM

The Saturday Special: Radiolab


Ghost Stories. In this episode, real-life people try to pin down, and make peace with, mysterious figures that haunt them, prod them, and fade out of existence.


4:00 PM

This American Life


On This American Life: Switcheroo. Take-out one person, put in someone else. The idea seems so simple. The results? Often very, very complicated.


5:00 PM

A Prairie Home Companion


Coming to you this week from Lenox, Massachusetts, it's a live broadcast performance of A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor. With special guests, veteran troubadour and storyteller Arlo Guthrie, close-harmonizing siblings The DiGiallonardo Sisters, and exquisite vocalist Heather Masse.


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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Old-Time Radio Drama begins with comedy from the Aldrich Family, then takes up the Challenge of the Yukon in an adventure from 1952.


9:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

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Groucho Marx in The Birds Eye Open House from 1945. And, Nero Wolfe with "The Case of the Malevolent Medic" from 1951.


10:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

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Escape from 1948 brings you "The Brute". And, Suspense from 1947 tells a tale in which a fortune hangs on a teen's identity.


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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