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Ideas Network Program Notes

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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


Enjoy the call-in program all about language, A Way With Words.


10:00 AM

A Prairie Home Companion


Coming to you this week from A-S-U in Tempe, Arizona, it's A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor. With special guests, songwriter and cowboy poet Gail Steiger and old-time bluegrass outfit Run Boy Run.


12:00 PM

To the Best of Our Knowledge  - 01/20A

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A portrait of President Obama as he begins his second term. And Robert Caro on L-B-J. (President Lyndon Baines Johnson)


1:00 PM

To the Best of Our Knowledge  - 01/20B

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The life and work of Philip K. Dick, the man who's been described as "one of the most valiant psychological explorers of the twentieth century."


2:00 PM

This American Life


A story of self-deception, a story about deceiving others, and a story about accidental deception. And how one type of deception can easily turn into another.


3:00 PM

On the Media


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


4:00 PM

University of the Air

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Professor of Philosophy Steven Nadler takes us through the life and career of the controversial but influential philosopher Spinoza.


5:00 PM

Simply Folk with Stephanie Elkins


Stephanie welcomes The Whiskey Farm, an Americana band influenced by bluegrass and folk music. Plus, some songs in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.


8:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland  - 01/20A

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Matt and Chester pursue an escapee through a blizzard . . . knowing full well that the judge might let him off . . . in Gunsmoke from 1957. And a surprise party has everything but the guest of honor, in "Life with Luigi" from 1949.


9:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland  - 01/20B

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Quiz Kids come to grips with tough questions in a broadcast from 1943. And Philip Marlowe is drawn into the treachery of a wealthy family in a case from 1950.


10:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland  - 01/20C

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The Shadow encounters The Society of the Living Dead in a story from 1938. And Escape from 1948 takes you into a world of jazz and voodoo in the dark recesses of New Orleans.


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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