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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 using the drop down lists below.
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PROGRAM NOTES FOR FRIDAY, JULY 28, 2006
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6:00 AM
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Joy Cardin
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Joy Cardin's guest explains how you can eat with the seasons.
Guest: Jessica Prentice, author of, "Full Moon Feast: Food & the Hunger for Connection."
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7:00 AM
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Joy Cardin
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Joy Cardin hosts her July open line and invites you to call in with your suggestions for future programs and guests... or just to give your feedback about programs past.
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8:00 AM
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Joy Cardin
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Explore the top news stories of the week from the left and the right. Joy Cardin welcomes guests with different perspectives for the Week in Review.
Guests:
-Bill Lueders, news editor of Isthmus, Madison’s weekly newspaper. President, Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council.
-Owen Robinson, conservative blogger for the website BootsAndSabers.com. Columnist for the Wisconsin Conservative Digest, and West Bend Daily News.
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9:00 AM
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Catherine Brand in for Kathleen Dunn
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Catherine Brand's guest explains the science of stem cell research.
Guest: Gabriela Cezar, assistant professor, Department of Animal Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She uses stem cells to research birth defects.
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10:00 AM
CJ
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Catherine Brand in for Kathleen Dunn
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What does "religious freedom" mean in America, today? Find out when Catherine Brand's guest discusses the variety of modern religious experience... from Wicca, to Scientology, to Druids... and examines the legacy of its architects.
Guest: J.C. Hallman, Margaret Banister Writer-in-Residence at Sweet Briar College. Author, "The Devil is a Gentleman: Exploring America's Religious Fringe" (Random House)
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11:00 AM
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Larry Meiller
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On Garden Talk, Larry Meiller's guest is Dane County Extension Horticulture Educator Lisa Johnson. She is a from Madison.
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12:30 PM
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Chapter A Day
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Karl Schmidt reads from, "The Pacific and Other Stories," by Mark Helprin.
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1:00 PM
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Talk of the Nation Science Friday
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Join Joe Palca on Talk of the Nation Science Friday for a look at the materials and techniques behind big construction projects. Plus, touring the solar system.
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2:00 PM
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Talk of the Nation Science Friday
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On Science Friday, a look at a new report that more than a million and a half people are injured each year by medication errors, and what can be done. Plus, targeting the side effects of cancer-fighting drugs.
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3:00 PM
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Here On Earth: Radio Without Borders
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On Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca talks with a writer who worked as an unpaid apprentice under chef Mario Batali and a butcher in Tuscany, in order to understand their craft and the passions that make food their living.
Guest: Bill Buford, staff writer for The New Yorker. Author, "Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as a Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany" (Knopf)
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4:00 PM
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At Issue with Ben Merens
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Join Ben Merens for his weekly feature, Your Views on the News. Call in with your take on this week's news stories.
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5:00 PM
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At Issue with Ben Merens
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As gas prices continue to rise, many Americans are wishing they owned an electric car. They could, if General Motor’s EV1 hadn’t been scrapped ten years ago. Ben Merens talks with the director of the film, “Who Killed The Electric Car?”
Guest: Chris Paine, director, “Who Killed The Electric Car?”
www.whokilledtheelectriccar.com
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6:00 PM
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On Point
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On Point: The Week in the News.
From rage and rockets in the Middle East, to power and politics at
home, a look at the week's news with David Gergen and Newsweek's Eleanor Clift.
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7:00 PM
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On Point
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On Point: The Dog Whisperer.
A conversation on dogs and inter-species communication with canine
master Cesar Millan. They call him the "Dog Whisperer."
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8:00 PM
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As It Happens
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It's As It Happens from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
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9:00 PM
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Here On Earth: Radio Without Borders
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On Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca talks with a writer who worked as an unpaid apprentice under chef Mario Batali and a butcher in Tuscany, in order to understand their craft and the passions that make food their living.
Guest: Bill Buford, staff writer for The New Yorker. Author, "Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as a Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany" (Knopf)
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10:00 PM
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Catherine Brand in for Kathleen Dunn
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What does "religious freedom" mean in America, today? Find out when Catherine Brand's guest discusses the variety of modern religious experience... from Wicca, to Scientology, to Druids... and examines the legacy of its architects.
Guest: J.C. Hallman, Margaret Banister Writer-in-Residence at Sweet Briar College. Author, "The Devil is a Gentleman: Exploring America's Religious Fringe" (Random House)
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11:00 PM
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Chapter A Day
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Karl Schmidt reads from, "The Pacific and Other Stories," by Mark Helprin.
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