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IDEAS NETWORK PROGRAMS - SUNDAY, AUGUST 26, 2012
6:00 AM On the Media On the Media casts an incisive eye on the marketplace of ideas.
7:00 AM Wait Wait Don't Tell Me! It's Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, the hour-long quiz show from NPR.
9:00 AM A Way With Words Enjoy the call-in program all about language, A Way With Words.
10:00 AM A Prairie Home Companion On A Prairie Home Companion, an homage to the book (the paper kind) with a show for readers. Including Ruth Harrison's encounter with Stephen King, Nick Lowe singing "When I Write the Book," a new version of "The Ugly Duckling," and "The Owl and the Pussycat" set to music
12:00 PM To the Best of Our Knowledge Wandering the unmarked maps of cultural translation, from Japanese pop culture, to fusion food, to stories from the Talmud.
1:00 PM To the Best of Our Knowledge Living democracy. Pakistani rock star Salman Ahmad risks his life to play music in the Islamic world. Azar Nafisi risked jail time in Tehran by lead a book club that read "Lolita." Ward Cunningham created the wiki, and did it for free.
2:00 PM This American Life On This American Life, stories of people finding loopholes in the face of some of life's toughest regulators.
3:00 PM On the Media On the Media casts an incisive eye on the marketplace of ideas.
4:00 PM University of the Air At the age of 17, Dorothy West joined the Harlem Renaissance and connected with some of America's great writers of the Twenties and Thirties. She was still writing in the Eighties, giving a fresh perspective on the middle class African-American experience. We'll hear her story from biographer Cherene Sharrard-Johnson.
5:00 PM Simply Folk with Stephanie Elkins Stephanie plays a huge variety of music on Simply Folk and this evening is no different: there's an hour of folk music for kids. The Pines are on live in the 6 o'clock hour, and you'll hear some Swiss alphorns and yodeling in the last hour of the show.
8:00 PM Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland Fort Laramie a medical mystery threatens life at Fort Laramie in a story from 1956. And Fibber McGee and Molly win a house in a broadcast from 1935.
9:00 PM Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland Will Rogers, Jr., stars in Rogers of the Gazette, from 1953. And a piece of sheet music sets Philo Vance on The Blue Penny Murder Case from 1949.
10:00 PM Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland A poker game takes a ghostly turn in The Inner Sanctum. Then, Journey Into Space leads a lunar expedition deeper into the human psyche in "Operation Luna" from 1953.
11:00 PM BBC World Service Hear World news and features overnight seven days a week from the British Broadcasting Corporation.
IDEAS NETWORK PROGRAMS - SUNDAY, AUGUST 26, 2012

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