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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.
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6:00 AM

The People's Pharmacy with Joe and Terry Graedon


What Animals Teach Us About Health: exploring the fascinating parallels between our health, including our psychiatric conditions, and that of other wild and domesticated creatures.


7:00 AM

Larry Meiller  - 03/15F

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Looking for a low-maintenance way to grow bountiful vegetables? On this encore edition of Garden Talk, Larry Meiller learns about the Straw Bale gardening method.

Guest: Joel Karsten, author, "Straw Bale Gardens: The Breakthrough Method for Growing Vegetables Anywhere, Earlier and with No Weeding"



8:00 AM

Zorba Paster On Your Health

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Join the fun with everyone's favorite family doc, Zorba Paster On Your Health.
The guys chat about why hearing loss might herald the onslaught of dementia . . . and sing the praises of ... fat? Plus, a recipe for Taco Tuna Patties . . . packed with whole grains.



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?  - 03/16A

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It's an archive edition of the show, highlighting Michael's visit to Carbondale, Illinois. Lieutenant Governor Shiela Simon headlines a full lineup of guests, and we meet some Salukis on the way.


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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Join the fun with everyone's favorite family doc, Zorba Paster On Your Health.
The guys chat about why hearing loss might herald the onslaught of dementia . . . and sing the praises of ... fat? Plus, a recipe for Taco Tuna Patties . . . packed with whole grains.



2:00 PM

The People's Pharmacy with Joe and Terry Graedon


What Animals Teach Us About Health: exploring the fascinating parallels between our health, including our psychiatric conditions, and that of other wild and domesticated creatures.


3:00 PM

RadioLab


Sleep - Birds do it, bees do it...yet science still can't answer the basic question: why do we sleep?


4:00 PM

This American Life


Stories of people starting over, sometimes because they want to, other times because they have to.


5:00 PM

A Prairie Home Companion


From The Fitzgerald Theater in downtown Saint Paul, it's a show celebrating all things Banjo. With special guests, five-string masters Noam Pikelny, Joe Newberry, and Bill Evans, singer Suzy Bogguss, and country music historian Bill C. Malone.


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  - 03/16A

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Ride with The Lone Ranger in adventure from 1950. And drop in on America's favorite bumbling father on The Life of Riley.


9:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland  - 03/16B

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Hear the strange story of Bill Gunn's Mermaid from Romance. Then, follow a Navy pilot as he flies into an unknown world in "Conqueror's Isle" from 1949.


10:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland  - 03/16C

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Gerald Mohr puts in an appearance as a French detective in The Adventures of Frank Race from 1949, then he returns to star as Philip Marlowe in a case from 1951.


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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