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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


Enjoy a broadcast performance from The Fitzgerald Theater in Saint Paul, Minnesota. With special guests, French-pop girl group Chic Gamine, blues songstress Hilary Thavis, and vocalist Holly Jones.


12:00 PM

To the Best of Our Knowledge

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The tattoo as art form. Do you have a tattoo? Forty percent of Americans between the ages of 30 and 40 do. In many cities there are tattoo parlors everywhere. What's most popular? Quotes from great works of literature.


1:00 PM

To the Best of Our Knowledge

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Why we think the way we think. Daniel Kahneman is a Nobel laureate psychologist. So he's the perfect person to give us a new way of thinking about thinking, which is exactly what he does in his new book, "Thinking, Fast and Slow."


2:00 PM

This American Life


The show producers document one day in a Chicago diner called The Golden Apple, starting at 5 a.m. and going until 5 a.m. the next morning. We hear from the waitress who has worked the graveyard shift for over two decades, the regular customers who come every day, the couples working out their problems, various assorted drunks, and, of course, cops.


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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What is privacy . . . and why does it matter? Guest Alan Rubel will provide some insights.


5:00 PM

Simply Folk with Stephanie Elkins


It's request night on Simply Folk, and listeners have asked to hear quite a few Wisconsin artists. Plus: Judy Collins, Steve Goodman and some bluegrass.


8:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

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When a sheriff suspects his son of turning outlaw, The Lone Ranger rides into danger in "Tin Star Heritage" from 1945. And a stray bulldog threatens Yale in a big game against Brown in "The Adventures of Frank Merriwell" from 1948.


9:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

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Fred Allen sings hillbilly music with an unlikely guest . . . Frank Sinatra . . . in a broadcast from 1945. And Crime Classics tells the true story of the Seven-Layered Arsenic Cake.


10:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

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A fight between two miners in the Old West leads to a macabre story from the Witch's Tale. Then, in an episode from 1953, Journey Into Space gets deeper into Operation Luna.


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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