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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.
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6:00 AM

The People's Pharmacy with Joe and Terry Graedon


Minimizing Medical Mistakes: Every medical treatment carries risks, and the current tendency to overtreat may contribute to patient harm. How can patients reduce their vulnerability to such problems?


7:00 AM

Larry Meiller

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On an encore edition of Garden Talk with Larry Meiller, the joys of growing vegetables. Learn how to make the most of your veggie patch, whether it's just a few pots, or a few acres.

Guests:

- Claire Strader ("STRAY-der"), farm director, Community GroundWorks and Troy Gardens, Madison

- Megan Cain, Madison FarmWorks manager, Community GroundWorks and Troy Gardens, Madison



8:00 AM

Zorba Paster On Your Health

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Get your weekly dose of laughter with Zorba Paster On Your Health. This week, the guys discuss the brainstorming powers of booze . . . and offer-up an ovation to standing. Plus, Zorba raids your garden to make Gazpacho (guh-SPAHCH-oh).


9:00 AM

Car Talk


Click and Clack share some car care advice, and plenty of laughs, on Car Talk.


10:00 AM

Michael Feldman's Whad'Ya Know?

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Michael and the gang pack their bags for a trip to Cedar Falls, Iowa. Des Moines Register columnist Kyle Munson gives Michael the lay of the land. Political Science Professor Chris Larimer describes Iowa's unique place in U.S. Politics. Joe and Vicki Price belt out some blues. And UNI student Ian Goldsmith teaches the crowd (and Michael) the "Interlude" dance. Plus, the Whad'Ya Know trio and two rounds of the Quiz.


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

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Get your weekly dose of laughter with Zorba Paster On Your Health. This week, the guys discuss the brainstorming powers of booze . . . and offer-up an ovation to standing. Plus, Zorba raids your garden to make Gazpacho (guh-SPAHCH-oh).


2:00 PM

The People's Pharmacy with Joe and Terry Graedon


Minimizing Medical Mistakes: Every medical treatment carries risks, and the current tendency to overtreat may contribute to patient harm. How can patients reduce their vulnerability to such problems?


3:00 PM

RadioLab


Zoos: In a cruel trick of evolution, humans can stand just three feet from a ferocious animal and still be perfectly safe. What's with our need to get close to "wildness"?


4:00 PM

This American Life


Investigating "The Ghost of Bobby Dunbar", the story of a four-year-old boy who went missing in a Louisiana swamp in 1912.


5:00 PM

A Prairie Home Companion


Enjoy one last compilation show before the start of the new season. It's a choir show with the University of Minnesota Concert Choir, and not-one-but-three male choirs: Cantus, Chanticleer, and the F stbr ur Male Choir from Iceland.


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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We begin-with-the-beginning for Gunsmoke, in the pilot episode from 1949. Then, Phil Harris hosts Jack Benny.


9:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

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Take to the trees with Tarzan in a story from 1932. Then, stop by Summerfield for a visit with The Great Gildersleeve.


10:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

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Boston Blackie takes on the case of The Poetic Assassin. And, Quiet Please from 1948 tells the noir (n'WAHR) story of a Very Unimportant Person.


11:00 PM

BBC World Service


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

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