Chapter a Day® is heard daily at 12:30pm and 11:00pm on the Ideas Network stations of Wisconsin Public Radio.
It is the oldest WPR program still being broadcast and may qualify as the longest running regularly scheduled radio program in the history of radio in the United States.
Chapter A Day
Tuesday
5/21/2013
12:30 PM
CAD - Back to Blood
Karl Schmidt reads from "Back to Blood," Tom Wolfe's big novel about Miami.
Monday
5/20/2013
12:30 PM
CAD - Back to Blood
Karl Schmidt reads from "Back to Blood," Tom Wolfe's big novel about Miami.
Monday, January 7 through Friday, February 1, 2013. Read by Jim Fleming.
Another of the special coming-of-age stories that Doig does so well, this one a loving tale of a son and father adjusting to a change to modern times in Gros Ventre, Montana.
(Riverhead; ISBN 10: 1594487359)
theme: selections from "Fiddle Fever" (Flying Fish FF 70303)
Monday, December 17, 2012 through Friday, January 4, 2013. Read by Karl Schmidt.
The extraordinary novelist unveils English society in four short tales: "Christmas at Thompson Hall," "Christmas Day at Kirkby Cottage," "An Unprotected Female at the Pyramids," and "Father Giles of Ballymoy."
(Carroll & Graf; ISBN 0786700211)
theme: Mozart: Sonata for 2 Pianos in D K 448; Christine & Michelle Naughton, pianos; from their album "Piano Duets" (Orfeo C859 121A)
Monday, December 3 through Friday, December 14, 2012. Read by Michele Good
The staff of the Spencer Library in a small Iowa community saved the kitten. Everyone agrees the kitten turned into a cat who would save the community.
(Grand Central; ISBN-10: 0446407429)
theme: "Summer's End" by Pat Donohue; "Simple Melody" by Todd Barneson
If you have a comment or a question about this program, send a message to Jim Fleming.
