Listen To WPR online Live Streaming Page Archive Streaming Page Click here to support WPR! Return to the WPR Home Page
Explore WPR
WPR Home
Support WPR!
Support WPR's Online Community!
Contact Us
About WPR
Newsletters and Reports
Studios, Stations and Program Schedules
Station Coverage Maps, Reception and Technical Issues
WPR Program Index
The Ideas Network
The NPR News and Classical Network
WPR News
Internet Webcasting
WPR's National SHows
The Radio Store
Related Links

WPR Programs
Search wpr.org
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.
Can't find a program? Search all programs by topic or other keyword.

Mp3 Player Icon Most MP3 Players   Windows media Player icon Windows Media Player   Real Player Icon RealPlayer   MP3 Download Icon Download This Program
Select Date: 
move back one day   Move back one week IDEAS NETWORK PROGRAMS - WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2012 Move forward one week   Move forward one day

6:00 AM

Joy Cardin

Play this program using any MP3 Player! Play This program using Windows Media Player! Download

Joy Cardin's guest discusses how to keep your eyes healthy and your vision clear, and answers your questions about eye conditions, eye injuries and other eye-related matters.
Guest: Dr. Barb Blodi (BLO-dee), ophthalmologist, UW Hospital and Clinics; professor, UW Department of Opthalmology and Visual Sciences. Eye and vision health: http://wpr.org/r/?895



7:00 AM

Joy Cardin

Play this program using any MP3 Player! Play This program using Windows Media Player! Download

Our candidate forum series resumes when Joy Cardin talks with Democratic Congressman Ron Kind in Wisconsin's third district.
Guest: Ron Kind, Democratic U.S. Representative, Wisconsin's third Congressional district. http://www.ronkind.org/



7:30 AM

Joy Cardin

Play this program using any MP3 Player! Play This program using Windows Media Player! Download

Joy Cardin's candidate forum series for U.S. House races continues when she talks with Republican Ray Boland in the third Congressional district.
Guest: Ray Boland, retired colonel, U.S. Army, and retired state Secretary of Veterans Affairs; Republican candidate, Wisconsin's third Congressional district. http://www.bolandforcongress.com/



8:00 AM

Joy Cardin

Play this program using any MP3 Player! Play This program using Windows Media Player! Download

Joy Cardin's guest says the mainstream media are not covering some of the most important stories of the year. Join the conversation about the newest list of under-reported stories, according to the group Project Censored.
Guest: Andy Lee Roth, associate director of Project Censored and co-editor of Censored 2013 http://www.projectcensored.org/



9:00 AM

Kathleen Dunn

Play this program using any MP3 Player! Play This program using Windows Media Player! Download

October is domestic violence awareness month. This hour Kathleen Dunn and her guests discuss why domestic violence still plagues our society in light of this weekend's shooting by a husband who killed his estranged wife and two bystanders.
Guests:

- Carmen Pitre, Director, Sojourner Family Peace Center in Milwaukee.

- Nicole Warner, Domestic Abuse Survivor.

- John Diedrich, Reporter, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.



10:00 AM

Kathleen Dunn

Play this program using any MP3 Player! Play This program using Windows Media Player! Download

This fall, gay marriage measures are on the ballot in Minnesota, Maryland, Maine, and Washington State, and the Supreme Court may soon take up one of several gay marriage cases asking for consideration. This hour, Kathleen Dunn and her guest look at the history of gay marriage and the law.
GUEST:
Michael J. Klarman - Professor at Harvard Law School and author of From the Closet to the Altar: Courts, Backlash, and the Struggle for Same-Sex Marriage

From the Closet to the Altar: Courts, Backlash, and ...

11:00 AM

Larry Meiller

Play this program using any MP3 Player! Play This program using Windows Media Player! Download

Fall is a great time to enjoy Wisconsin's wildlife. Larry Meiller gets an update on both the deer and wolf hunts, plus tips on where and how to watch animals and migrating birds.
Guest: David Drake, Assistant Professor of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, UW-Madison, UW Extension Wildlife Specialist



12:30 PM

Chapter A Day


Norman Gilliland reads from "The Sense of an Ending" by Julian Barnes. A middle-aged man contends with a past he has largely forgotten until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance.


1:00 PM

Talk of the Nation


In the final debate, the President comes at Romney with horses and bayonettes.
The Republican candidate pulls even in some polls. The President makes the
rounds on late night TV. Ken Rudin, the Political Junkie, joins host Neal
Conan as they focus on the races that will decide control of the House and
Senate.



2:00 PM

Talk of the Nation


Sarah Elizabeth Richards hoped to have children one day, and as she got older
she made the controversial choice to freeze her eggs. The American Society for
Reproductive Medicine said this week freezing embryos should no longer be
considered "experimental." The changing science of fertility. Plus, an interview with an NFL replacement ref.



3:00 PM

At Issue with Ben Merens

Play this program using any MP3 Player! Play This program using Windows Media Player! Download

Yesterday, Ben Merens talked to the Republican and Democratic candidates running in Wisconsin's fourth congressional district. Today, Ben speaks with the Independent candidate in the race.
Guest: Robert Raymond, Independent candidate, 4th congressional district



3:30 PM

At Issue with Ben Merens

Play this program using any MP3 Player! Play This program using Windows Media Player! Download

During the last two weeks, you've heard from the congressional candidates. In this half, Ben and his guest take a closer look at the congressional races, the candidates, and the possible outcomes.
Guest: Steve Walters, senior producer, Wisconsin Eye. http://www.wiseye.org/



4:00 PM

At Issue with Ben Merens

Play this program using any MP3 Player! Play This program using Windows Media Player! Download

Ben Merens talks to Peta (PEE-tuh) Lindsay, the presidential candidate for the Party for Socialism and Liberation, about her campaign and the key issues for her party.
Guest: Peta Lindsay, Presidential Candidate for the Party for Socialism and Liberation www.pslweb.org



4:30 PM

At Issue with Ben Merens

Play this program using any MP3 Player! Play This program using Windows Media Player! Download

Join Ben Merens and his guest as they discussed proposed gun legislation for abuse cases. The proposal comes after Sunday's shooting at a Brookfield Spa and aims to keep guns away from batterers in domestic abuse cases.
Guest: Jon Richards is Democratic State Representative from Milwaukee.



5:00 PM

Q with Jian Ghomeshi


On Q with Jian Ghomeshi: Alan Menken, composer and multiple Oscar winner for his animated movie soundtracks. Retired NHL enforcer Chris "Knuckles" Nilan, one of the stars of The Last Gladiators, a documentary on the life and work of hockey tough guys.


6:00 PM

On Point


Tablet computers, ipads, and the rest are moving into children's classrooms
and backpacks. How is that changing learning?



7:00 PM

On Point


Consider the lobster. From sea floor, to still life, to roll; the lobster in
science, myth, art, and on the plate.



8:00 PM

As It Happens


Hear news and interviews from around the world on As It Happens.


9:00 PM

Joy Cardin

Play this program using any MP3 Player! Play This program using Windows Media Player! Download

Joy Cardin's guest says the mainstream media are not covering some of the most important stories of the year. Join the conversation about the newest list of under-reported stories, according to the group Project Censored.
Guest: Andy Lee Roth, associate director of Project Censored and co-editor of Censored 2013 http://www.projectcensored.org/



10:00 PM

Kathleen Dunn

Play this program using any MP3 Player! Play This program using Windows Media Player! Download

This fall, gay marriage measures are on the ballot in Minnesota, Maryland, Maine, and Washington State, and the Supreme Court may soon take up one of several gay marriage cases asking for consideration. This hour, Kathleen Dunn and her guest look at the history of gay marriage and the law.
GUEST:
Michael J. Klarman - Professor at Harvard Law School and author of From the Closet to the Altar: Courts, Backlash, and the Struggle for Same-Sex Marriage



11:00 PM

Chapter A Day


Norman Gilliland reads from "The Sense of an Ending" by Julian Barnes. A middle-aged man contends with a past he has largely forgotten until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance.


11:30 PM

BBC World Service


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

move back one day   Move back one week IDEAS NETWORK PROGRAMS - WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2012 Move forward one week   Move forward one day

Want to receive the Ideas Network Program Notes every day via E-Mail? Sign Up Here!

To order a CD of a WPR program, please call The Radio Store
at 800-747-7444, or 608-263-7903.

Note: Since many of the guests and topics for our programs are selected just prior to their airing, some program information may not be available, or may be incomplete until the day the program airs. Our Website Notes are typically filed the evening before each day's programming and then updated again after the day's programs to reflect any changes.

For more information, the Listener Services Center phone number is:
800-442-7110, or in Madison, Wisconsin 608-263-7903.


HOME | ABOUT | PROGRAM INDEX | MEMBERSHIP | SPONSORSHIPS | WPR NEWS
IDEAS NETWORK | NEWS & CLASSICAL NETWORK | RADIO STORE
LIVE STREAMS | AUDIO ARCHIVES

For questions or comments about our programming, call Audience Services
at 1-800-747-7444, email us at listener@wpr.org, or use our Online Feedback Form.
View our Privacy Policy.   Send comments about our website to webmaster@wpr.org.

©2013 by Wisconsin Public Radio - a service of the
Wisconsin Educational Communications Board
and University of Wisconsin - Extension.


Support for WPR provided by

Shop Now!



Support WPR!