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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: Diabetes Dilemmas.

Diabetes is increasing at an alarming rate in this country. An estimated 26 million Americans now have diabetes, though not all are aware of their metabolic condition. The complications can be devastating, but they are not inevitable.



7:00 AM

Larry Meiller

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On this encore edition of Garden Talk with Larry Meiller, learn how to better tend your garden during the current drought.
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

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Get your weekly dose of laughter on Zorba Paster On Your Health. This week, the guys discuss a new study on bisexual men, and find out about a new possible Alzheimer's symptom. Plus, a vault recipe for Nutty Rice Salad!


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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Fix up a heaping helping of five-way chili and settle in for two hours of Whad'Ya Know? In this rebroadcast from July of 2010, Michael and the gang head down river to visit the Queen City - Cincinnati, Ohio. Michael discusses life in the "Paris of the Midwest" with Mr. Cincinnati himself, Jim Tarbell, and learns that running a riverboat is not a kosher enterprise unless you want it to be. Also, Michael listens to "a really long" song about a "really big place" when Peter Adams plays his neo-psych-folk-punk hit, "Antarctica".


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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Get your weekly dose of laughter on Zorba Paster On Your Health. This week, the guys discuss a new study on bisexual men, and find out about a new possible Alzheimer's symptom. Plus, a vault recipe for Nutty Rice Salad!


2:00 PM

The People's Pharmacy


On The People's Pharmacy with Joe and Terry Graedon: Diabetes Dilemmas.

Diabetes is increasing at an alarming rate in this country. An estimated 26 million Americans now have diabetes, though not all are aware of their metabolic condition. The complications can be devastating, but they are not inevitable.



3:00 PM

The Saturday Special: Radiolab


On Radiolab, "Colors". Our world is saturated in color, from the softest hues to the most lurid, violent stains. But it's hard to put your finger on how something so intangible can have such a visceral punch.


4:00 PM

This American Life


On This American Life: stories about people in trouble, who look for help in
mystifying places.



5:00 PM

A Prairie Home Companion


Today, on A Prairie Home Companion, a mix of shows from our fall 2011 run at The Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul. John Lithgow gets thrown in the hoosegow with Dusty and Lefty in an episode of The Lives of the Cowboys, Jearlyn and Jevetta Steele belt out "Do You Love Me" and Gillian Welch sings "Hard Times." Duo Storyhill perform "Avalon," Joe Ely will break your heart with "Tomorrow Is a Long Time," and in Lake Wobegon Pastor Liz faces a dilemma regarding profanity in the sermon.


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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Robert Young stars in Father Knows Best from 1951. And, James Stewart is The Six Shooter in a story from 1954.


9:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

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Lux Radio Theater from 1945 stars Margaret O'Brien and Charles Laughteon in the Oscar Wilde Story "The Canterville Ghost."


10:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

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The disappearance of a glass magnate becomes a case for Yours Truly Johnny Dollar. And, Suspense from 1943 brings four strangers together for a reason they have to discover in "After Dinner Story."


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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