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Ideas Network Program Notes

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6:00 AM

On the Media


On the Media examines how the Media "Sausage" is made.


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


On A Prairie Home Companion, it's the first of a Summer compilation series, with a program devoted to the family vacation . . . or more specifically, the family car trip.


12:00 PM

To the Best of Our Knowledge

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On To the Best of Our Knowledge, Waiting for the Apocalypse.
Apocalyptic thinking is everywhere, from predictions about Christian "end times," to the 2012 Mayan prophecy about the end of the world. So what's going on?



1:00 PM

To the Best of Our Knowledge

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On To the Best of Our Knowledge, we'll explore the big ideas of Marshall McLuhan, as we salute the centenary of his birth.


2:00 PM

This American Life


On This American Life, we visit some of the happiest places on Earth:
amusement parks. Get the inside scoop on those impossible carnival games, revisit the Jersey Shore, and hear stories from listeners about their fondest, or more often, weirdest amusement park experiences.



3:00 PM

On the Media


On the Media examines how the Media "Sausage" is made.


4:00 PM

University of the Air

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They risk their lives in the deadly storms and hazards that erupt on America's inland seas. On University of the Air, author James Campbell tells stories of the crews of the Great Lakes tugboats.


5:00 PM

Simply Folk with Stephanie Elkins


The evening's program includes music by the Carolina Chocolate Drops from their live appearance on the Veronica Rueckert Show in May. Also, new releases, and a set of bluegrass.


8:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

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A visit from Doc Holiday brings danger to Dodge in a story from 1952. And Luigi (loo-EE-gee) holds a fundraiser for a visit to the old country in "Life with Luigi" from 1949.


9:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

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Alan Ladd stars in Box 13. And Dr. Kildare encounters love and ghosts in a story from 1950.


10:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

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Howard Duff is Sam Spade. And, on Journey Into Space from 1953, Operation Luna creates strange psychological effects on crew members during a voyage to the moon.


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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