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IDEAS NETWORK PROGRAMS - SUNDAY, AUGUST 5, 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.
8:00 AM Says You! It's the game of words and whimsy, bluff and bluster, "Says You!"
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, a "sour-mash" of shows from Kentucky and Tennessee, with Sam Bush, Patty Loveless, The Memphis Horns, and Alvin Youngblood Hart. Plus, writer Bobbie Ann Mason talks about the importance of radio.
12:00 PM To the Best of Our Knowledge The story of John Carlos and the 1968 Olympics. Also the evolution of the "the runner's high."
1:00 PM To the Best of Our Knowledge A short history of information: from the talking drums of Africa . . . and the invention of writing . . . all the way to modern information theory. But, do we now have TOO MUCH information? We'll hear how information overload is actually re-wiring our brains.
2:00 PM This American Life On This American Life: stories about what it's like to be told you're "different" or "special," and about what it's like to try to live in a world that sees you as different.
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 Their part of the American experience is complicated and easy to overlook. From Leslie Bow we'll look at The South from the perspective of Asian Americans.
5:00 PM Simply Folk with Stephanie Elkins Stephanie plays the music of blues guitarist Dana Hubbard, as well as old favorites like Bill Staines, Liz Carroll, Art Stevenson, and Mustard's Retreat.
8:00 PM Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland Old-Time Radio Drama rides west with Paladin in Have Gun Will Travel from 1960. Then, Lucille Ball and Richard Denning provide domestic comedy from 1948 with My Favorite Husband.
9:00 PM Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland Orson Welles stars in Mercury Summer Theater. Followed by Crime Club with a light story mixing crime and baseball in "A Pitch in Time" from 1947.
10:00 PM Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland He claims to be a Martian . . . why is everyone so skeptical? We'll find out during the X-Minus One production of "The Last Martian." Then, The Haunting Hour has an off-beat story about the circus.
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 5, 2012

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