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6:00 AM

The People's Pharmacy


After six, on The People's Pharmacy: Health News Update.

The FDA has been under a lot of pressure to do something about the diabetes drug Avandia. Bedbugs have made a strong resurgence in this country, after decades of not being a problem. And too many Americans skimp on sleep - what are the consequences?



7:00 AM

Garden Talk - Saturday

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In an encore edition of Garden Talk, after seven, Larry Meiller's guest is Lisa Johnson, Dane County Extension Horticulture Educator. lisa.johnson@ces.uwex.edu


8:00 AM

Zorba Paster On Your Health


Get your weekly dose of laughter on Zorba Paster On Your Health. This week, the guys find out how TV chefs affect our eating habits, and they comment on the re-branding efforts for high-fructose corn syrup. Plus, a vault recipe for Sea Bass.


9:00 AM

Car Talk


Laugh along with Click and Clack, during another edition of Car Talk.


10:00 AM

Michael Feldman's Whad'Ya Know?

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A rebroadcast of a vintage Whad'Ya Know? show.


11:00 AM

Michael Feldman's Whad'Ya Know?

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More Michael, and more laughs, during the second hour of this encore broadcast of Whad'Ya Know?


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


Get your weekly dose of laughter on Zorba Paster On Your Health. This week, the guys find out how TV chefs affect our eating habits, and they comment on the re-branding efforts for high-fructose corn syrup. Plus, a vault recipe for Sea Bass.


2:00 PM

The People's Pharmacy


After two, on The People's Pharmacy: Health News Update.

The FDA has been under a lot of pressure to do something about the diabetes drug Avandia. Bedbugs have made a strong resurgence in this country, after decades of not being a problem. And too many Americans skimp on sleep - what are the consequences?



3:00 PM

The Saturday Special


After three, from Radiolab: "Oops".

You come up with a great idea. You devise a plan. You control for every imaginable variable. And once everything’s in place, the train hops your carefully-laid tracks. In this hour of Radiolab, unintended consequences abound: from a psychologist whose zeal to safeguard national security may have created a terrorist...to a community whose efforts to protect an endangered bird had deadly consequences.



4:00 PM

This American Life


Stay tuned, after four, for more great stories from This American Life.


5:00 PM

A Prairie Home Companion


After five, on A Prairie Home Companion, it's the annual season opener, meatloaf supper, and street dance. With special guests, Texas country greats The Derailers, bandleader Rob Fisher and the White Bear Yacht Club Orchestra.


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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Drop in on Ozzie & Harriet for adventures in upholstering, tongiht at eight, during Old-Time Radio Drama; and go back to the era of gaslight college sports, with Frank Merriwell, and a story from 1948.


9:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

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Richard Diamond opens the case of "The Moran Suicide", during tonight's nine o'clock hour of Old-Time Radio Drama; and the Whistler tells a twisted tale from 1944.


10:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

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During tonight's ten o'clock hour of Old-Time Radio Drama, it's Strange Will, with a story called "Alias Dr. Swengali."


11:00 PM

BBC World Service


World news and features are heard overnight seven days a week from the British Broadcasting Corporation.

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