Listen To WPR online Live Streaming Page Archive Streaming Page Click here to support WPR! Return to the WPR Home Page
Explore WPR
WPR Home
Support WPR!
Support WPR's Online Community!
Contact Us
About WPR
Newsletters and Reports
Studios, Stations and Program Schedules
Station Coverage Maps, Reception and Technical Issues
WPR Program Index
The Ideas Network
The NPR News and Classical Network
WPR News
Internet Webcasting
WPR's National SHows
The Radio Store
Related Links

WPR Programs
Search wpr.org
Ideas Network Program Notes

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.
Can't find a program? Search all programs by topic or other keyword.

Mp3 Player Icon Most MP3 Players   Windows media Player icon Windows Media Player   Real Player Icon RealPlayer   MP3 Download Icon Download This Program
Select Date: 
move back one day   Move back one week IDEAS NETWORK PROGRAMS - SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2012 Move forward one week   Move forward one day

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


Coming to you this week from The Fitzgerald Theater in Saint Paul, Minnesota, it's another broadcast performance of A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor. With special guests, Oklahoma singer and songwriter John Fullbright, the entrancing Minnesota Opera Chorus, and vocalist Holly Jones.


12:00 PM

To the Best of Our Knowledge

Play this program using any MP3 Player! Play This program using Windows Media Player! Download

What Mormons believe. The "Mormon moment" has arrived. There's the smash Broadway musical, "The Book of Mormon"; Latter-Day Saints member Stephenie Meyer's phenomenally successful "Twilight" series of books and films; and Mitt Romney's bid for the White House. But how much do we really know about the Mormon faith?


1:00 PM

To the Best of Our Knowledge

Play this program using any MP3 Player! Play This program using Windows Media Player! Download

How to fail. The mantra we tell ourselves most of the time in life is "don't mess up". But what if we should fail? Just fail . . . better? A conversation with comedian Marc Maron (MAIR-in) about the hit podcast that saved his career . . . and maybe his life.


2:00 PM

This American Life


Hear what happens when several Moms become P.I.'s on TV, then end up in the middle of a real-life mystery.


3:00 PM

On the Media


On the Media examines how the Media "Sausage" is made.


4:00 PM

University of the Air

Play this program using any MP3 Player! Play This program using Windows Media Player! Download

During the years leading to the Civil War, a culture of free French-speaking blacks developed in Louisiana. Jennifer Gipson will tell us about their perspective on the American experience.


5:00 PM

Simply Folk with Stephanie Elkins





8:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

Play this program using any MP3 Player! Play This program using Windows Media Player!

Gary Cooper and Walter Brennan star in the 1940 Lux Radio Theater production of The Westerner.


9:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

Play this program using any MP3 Player! Play This program using Windows Media Player!

Archie takes out a life insurance policy on Finnegan during an interlude at Duffy's Tavern. And Groucho Marx puts his special spin on the questions in You Bet Your Life from 1953.


10:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

Play this program using any MP3 Player! Play This program using Windows Media Player!

The Whistler challenges you to keep up with the plot turns in "Jealousy" from 1942. Then, a Journey Into Space gets closer to the mysteries of the moon 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.

move back one day   Move back one week IDEAS NETWORK PROGRAMS - SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2012 Move forward one week   Move forward one day

Want to receive the Ideas Network Program Notes every day via E-Mail? Sign Up Here!

To order a CD of a WPR program, please call The Radio Store
at 800-747-7444, or 608-263-7903.

Note: Since many of the guests and topics for our programs are selected just prior to their airing, some program information may not be available, or may be incomplete until the day the program airs. Our Website Notes are typically filed the evening before each day's programming and then updated again after the day's programs to reflect any changes.

For more information, the Listener Services Center phone number is:
800-442-7110, or in Madison, Wisconsin 608-263-7903.


HOME | ABOUT | PROGRAM INDEX | MEMBERSHIP | SPONSORSHIPS | WPR NEWS
IDEAS NETWORK | NEWS & CLASSICAL NETWORK | RADIO STORE
LIVE STREAMS | AUDIO ARCHIVES

For questions or comments about our programming, call Audience Services
at 1-800-747-7444, email us at listener@wpr.org, or use our Online Feedback Form.
View our Privacy Policy.   Send comments about our website to webmaster@wpr.org.

©2013 by Wisconsin Public Radio - a service of the
Wisconsin Educational Communications Board
and University of Wisconsin - Extension.


Support for WPR provided by

Shop Now!



Support WPR!