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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: Food as Medicine. Food can have a powerful effect on our bodies. Even the herbs and spices in the kitchen cupboard can help us heal.


7:00 AM

Judith Siers-Poisson in for Larry Meiller

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They're a lovely addition to any garden. On this encore edition of Garden Talk with Judith Siers-Poisson, find out all about Daylilies, what kind of care they need, and how to incorporate them into your landscape.
Guests:

- Rosemary Kleinheinz, co-chair of the Wisconsin Daylily Society's upcoming sale

- Karen Watson-Newlin, retired art teacher, daylily landscaper, her garden has been named a Display Garden by the American Hemerocallis Society (the national daylily organization)



8:00 AM

Zorba Paster On Your Health

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This week during Zorba Paster On Your Health, Zorba and Tom find out why it's important to double check your medications after checking out of the hospital . . . and explore a possible breakthrough in Lou Gehrig's disease. Plus, a recipe for Stuffed Cherry Tomatoes.


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, Michael's putting the "music" in Music Hall with special guests Adam Cohen (son of legendary Leonard Cohen) and Robby Schiller of the Blueheels. Plus, All the News That Isn't and the 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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This week during Zorba Paster On Your Health, Zorba and Tom find out why it's important to double check your medications after checking out of the hospital . . . and explore a possible breakthrough in Lou Gehrig's disease. Plus, a recipe for Stuffed Cherry Tomatoes.


2:00 PM

The People's Pharmacy


On The People's Pharmacy with Joe and Terry Graedon: Food as Medicine. Food can have a powerful effect on our bodies. Even the herbs and spices in the kitchen cupboard can help us heal.


3:00 PM

RadioLab


Race: When the human genome was first fully mapped in 2000, it was pronounced that "The concept of race has no genetic or scientific basis." But what does that really mean?


4:00 PM

This American Life


On This American Life: "Stranger in the Mosque." A look at surveillance of Muslim communities in America and the story of an FBI agent who went undercover in an Orange County mosque in 2006.


5:00 PM

A Prairie Home Companion


On A Prairie Home Companion, a baseball memorabilia show with Sam Bush singing a song for the great Ozzie Smith, "Casey at the Bat," Dusty and Lefty drive cows out into right field, and talk of The Curse of the Bambino. And in Lake Wobegon, the day Babe Ruth came to town.


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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The Lone Ranger meets Robert E. Lee in a story from 1953. And Dick Powell joins Bergen and McCarthy for comedy in a broadcast from 1949.


9:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

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It's Suspense from 1944 with "The Black Path of Fear". Then, The Inner Sanctum from 1945 ventures into "The Dark Chamber."


10:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

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The Hall of Fantasy presents supernatural suspense with "Out of the Sky" from 1953. And Howard Duff is Sam Spade in "The Dry Martini Caper" from 1948.


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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