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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

On the Media


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


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


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


10:00 AM

A Prairie Home Companion


Coming to you this week from the Overture Center for the Arts in Madison, Wisconsin, it's A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor. With special guests, close-harmonizers The Krause Family Band, and our good friends Robin and Linda Williams. Plus, the Royal Academy of Radio Actors, Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Fred Newman, Dean Magraw sits in on guitar with The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, and the latest News from Lake Wobegon.


12:00 PM

To the Best of Our Knowledge  - 01/27A

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A word everybody knows and uses but doesn't want to talk about: the A-word.


1:00 PM

To the Best of Our Knowledge  - 01/27B

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An explorer tries to protect The Arrow People, one of the last unconquered tribes of the Amazon rainforest.


2:00 PM

This American Life


Stories about people who see themselves in others and try to live out their lives through stand-ins including the story of what one father saw in the convicted murderer he decided to adopt. And the proxy battle over a woman's honor that became a presidential obsession.


3:00 PM

On the Media


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


4:00 PM

University of the Air

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Is there such a thing as race? How alike are we? And how valid are laws based on race? Our guest is professor of law and bio-ethics Pilar Ossorio.


5:00 PM

Simply Folk with Stephanie Elkins


Mark Croft is a singer-songwriter known for high energy acoustic performances. He'll be here live in the studio on Simply Folk this evening, and host Stephanie Elkins is also playing a number of female voices.


8:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland  - 01/27A

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A killer hires Paladin to keep himself from being lynched until he can stand trial in Have Gun Will Travel from 1959. And when Babs Quits School, Riley goes into paternal overdrive in a broadcast from 1948.


9:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland  - 01/27B

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Henry Morgan stars as a man whose sense of humor gives his wife no rest when CBS Radio Workshop from 1957 presents "The Crazy Life." And Dame May Witty plays a woman whose classified ad turns deadly in "Suspense"from 1946.


10:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland  - 01/27C

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Dick Powell is wisecracking detective Richard Diamond in a case from 1950. And the crew tries time-travel to get back on track in "Operation Lune" from Journey into Space" from 1953.


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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