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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 live this week from the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco, California, it's another edition of A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor. With special guest, bluesman and jam-master Elvin Bishop.


12:00 PM

To the Best of Our Knowledge  - 01/06A

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The wisdom of psychopaths. And Oliver Sacks on the power of hallucinations.


1:00 PM

To the Best of Our Knowledge  - 01/06B

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The secret appeal of the scoundrel.


2:00 PM

This American Life


How close can you get to a perfect world? In this hour, a perfectly normal guy gets rid of everything he owns, changes his name, says goodbye to his friends . . . and begins walking . . . in the name of peace. And Honduran government officials try to heal their corrupt country by starting a perfect city, from scratch.


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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Thomas DuBois will take us back a thousand years and more for a look at the encounters between Scandinavians and Celts during the Viking age.


5:00 PM

Simply Folk with Stephanie Elkins


It's an annual tradition: for the first Sunday of the new year the show is filled with songs to sing along with. Join Stephanie Elkins around the virtual campfire.


8:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland  - 01/06A

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The Lone Ranger rides again in an adventure from 1946. And Fred MacMurray and Irene Dunn star in the comedy "Bright Star" from 1953.


9:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland  - 01/06B

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Groucho Marx asks the tough questions . . . not necessarily part of the quiz . . . during You Bet Your Life from 1951. Then, Philo Vance opens The Magic Murder Case.


10:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland  - 01/06C

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NBC Short Story dips into the writings of James A. Michener. And X-Minus One presents the post-apocalyptic story "The Moon is Green" from 1957.


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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