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IDEAS NETWORK PROGRAMS - SUNDAY, JANUARY 13, 2013 |
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6:00 AM
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On the Media

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On the Media casts an incisive eye on the marketplace of ideas.

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8:00 AM
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Says You!

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It's the game of words and whimsy, bluff and bluster, "Says You!"

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9:00 AM
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A Way With Words

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Take an entertaining romp through the English language, on A Way With Words.

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10:00 AM
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A Prairie Home Companion

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On A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor, it's a performance from the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco. With special guests, male vocal ensemble Chanticleer, and singer-songwriter-fiddler Sara Watkins.

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12:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
- 01/13A

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What are you seeking in the new year? Travel writer Christopher Stewart is seeking a city in the jungle. War correspondent Laura King is seeking a place called home. And for Hmong filmmaker Dao Chang, it's her mother.

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1:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
- 01/13B

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How does information become knowledge? There's information everywhere, but do we know any more than we did twenty years ago?

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2:00 PM
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This American Life

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Doppelgangers (DOPP-ul-gang-ers): doubles, evil twins . . . and not-so-evil twins.

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3:00 PM
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On the Media

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On the Media casts an incisive eye on the marketplace of ideas.

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4:00 PM
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University of the Air

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Professor of European Archaeology Douglas Price will tell us about some startling discoveries regarding the beginnings of agriculture in Europe.

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5:00 PM
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Simply Folk

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Hear a program of Listener Requests with Sheila Shigley and Kathy Miner in for Stephanie Elkins.

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8:00 PM
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Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland
- 01/13A

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Pinto Pete and His Ranch Hands celebrate the songs of the West. In the far North, take up the Challenge of the Yukon. Then, go down to Southern California to hear about The Romance of the Ranchos in a true story from 1942.

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9:00 PM
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Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland
- 01/13B

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Fibber McGee invents a special radio that may actually work in an outing from 1940. And Howard Duff is Sam Spade in the jaw-dropping, fast-moving story, "Betrayed in Bumpass Hell" from 1949.

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10:00 PM
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Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland
- 01/13C

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An Oriental idol spells trouble for George Valentine in Let George Do It from 1952. Then, the mad monk Rasputin casts a shadow across The Inner Sanctum in "The Edge of Death" from 1946.

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11:00 PM
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BBC World Service

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

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IDEAS NETWORK PROGRAMS - SUNDAY, JANUARY 13, 2013 |
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