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IDEAS NETWORK PROGRAMS - SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2012
6:00 AM On the Media On the Media examines how the Media "Sausage" is made.
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!"
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 This week on APHC, a mix of shows from Durango, Greeley, Loveland and Colorado Springs, Colorado with Robin and Linda Williams singing "Cool Water," an episode of The Lives of the Cowboys in which Dusty and Lefty are mistaken for yuppies, The Durango Children's Chorale with an ode to the women of Durango, and The Hot Club of Cowtown. Plus, The Haunted Windchimes sing "The Ballad of Human Progress" and in Lake Wobegon, Bruno (a.k.a. The Fishing Dog) tears through Irene Bunsens tomato patch with devastating results.
12:00 PM To the Best of Our Knowledge In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge, we'll explore the edges of science, and hear about the hippie scientists who saved physics, or at least made it fun again, and got the CIA to pay for their research on ESP.
1:00 PM To the Best of Our Knowledge In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge, we question the very meaning of democracy, with poets and theologians, jazz musicians, and even exiled dictators.
2:00 PM This American Life A look at the many reasons to fear sleep, including roaches, bedbugs, "The Shining," and mild-mannered husbands who turn into maniacs while asleep.
3:00 PM On the Media On the Media examines how the Media "Sausage" is made.
4:00 PM University of the Air In the fifty years since independence, why have some African countries succeeded in establishing secure states and others failed? Crawford Young compares three representative countries.
5:00 PM Simply Folk with Stephanie Elkins Music and an interview with Amy Ray of the Indigo Girls and songs for Labor Day.
8:00 PM Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland Hopalong Cassidy with "The Secret of Martin Doon" from 1950. And the trials of becoming an American continue for Luigi Basco, in "Life with Luigi" from 1949.
9:00 PM Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland Real-life crime drama comes from This Is Your FBI. And a voice from the past makes life difficult for the Magnificent Montague (MONT-ah-gue) in a story from 1951.
10:00 PM Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland It's a story for a late-night drive from the CBS Radio Workshop. Then, The Weird Circle from 1943 tells of "The House and the Brain."
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, SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

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