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IDEAS NETWORK PROGRAMS - FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2012
6:00 AM Joy Cardin If you're looking for some spooktacular ideas to celebrate Halloween, Wisconsin is the place to be! Joy Cardin's guest has plenty of frightening (and not-so-frightening) events taking place across the state, along with some fun fall recommendations for the month of November. Event sampler: http://wpr.org/r/?898 Guest: Gary Knowles, Upper Great Lakes columnist, Journal & Topics Newspapers; Contributing Travel Editor, The American BoomeR online magazine; monthly contributor, "Tell Joy Where to Go" programs.
7:00 AM Joy Cardin Joy Cardin's candidate forum series for U.S. House races resumes when she talks with Republican U.S. Representative Reid Ribble in the eighth Congressional district. Guest: Reid Ribble, Republican U.S. Representative, Wisconsin's eighth Congressional district. http://www.ribbleforcongress.com/
7:30 AM Joy Cardin Joy Cardin concludes this week's candidate forum series with a chat with Democrat Jamie Wall in Wisconsin's eighth Congressional district. Guest: Jamie Wall, independent business consultant, Green Bay; Democratic candidate, eighth Congressional district. http://www.wallforcongress.com/
8:00 AM Joy Cardin Barack Obama and Mitt Romney debate for the third and final time, September 11 becomes an issue in Wisconsin's U.S. Senate race, and state lawmakers call for new gun laws following the Brookfield spa shooting. Joy Cardin's guests discuss those issues and other top national and state news stories in the Week in Review. Guests: - Kathleen Falk, former Dane County Executive; delegate, Democratic National Convention. - Dan Kapanke, former Republican State Senator, La Crosse; owner, La Crosse Loggers baseball team.
9:00 AM Veronica Rueckert Sick and tired of the elections? Of endless PAC ads? Of furrowed brows and earnestness? Veronica will ask comedian and political observer, Baratunde Thurston, to help us "see political reality as it is." Guest: Baratunde Thurston, politically-active, technology-loving comedian from the future. Co-founder of the black political blog, Jack and Jill Politics, served as Director of Digital for The Onion, launched the comedy/technology startup Cultivated Wit. Then-candidate Barack Obama called him "someone I need to know."
10:00 AM Veronica Rueckert Today enter the dark realm of ghost stories as we listen to the winning entries in the WI Life Flash Fiction Ghost Story contest. And who better to guide us than fantasy writer, Patrick Rothfuss? Guest: Patrick Rothfuss, fantasy writer, English professor at the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point, author of "The Wise Man's Fear" and "The Name of the Wind," part of the projected three-volume series The Kingkiller Chronicle.
11:00 AM Judith Siers-Poisson in for Larry Meiller It's time for Garden Talk! Judith Siers-Poisson learns about what drought stress has meant for damage by disease and pests, and how we can help our plants overwinter successfully. Plus, fall garden clean-up to prevent disease. Guests: - Brian Hudelson, Director, Plant Disease Diagnostics Clinic in the Dept. of Plant Pathology at UW-Madison - Lis ("liz") Friemoth ("FREE-moth"), provider of concierge horticultural services through her business, The Garden Hoe
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 Science Friday Think monsters are make-believe? Join Ira Flatow for a look at the history of real, live Zombies . . . and why Vampires hate garlic. Hear more on Science Friday.
2:00 PM Talk of the Nation Science Friday Could Twitter predict who will win the presidential election? Join Ira Flatow for a look at how social media influences politics.
3:00 PM Rob Ferrett in for Ben Merens Can art and creativity effectively co-exist with science and engineering? According to Rob Ferrett's guest, the answer is yes...and bringing all of these fields together will better help us solve the problems of the 21st century. Guest: Robert Bishop, Opus Dean, College of Engineering, Marquette University
4:00 PM Rob Ferrett in for Ben Merens Today it's "Your Views on the News." Listeners are invited to call-in to Rob Ferrett with their thoughts about the week's biggest news story. Guest: Steven Schier (SHEAR), professor of political science at Carleton College. He is the author of several books, including "By Invitation Only: The Rise of Exclusive Politics in the United States" and "You Call This an Election? America's Peculiar Democracy."
5:00 PM Q with Jian Ghomeshi On Q with Jian Ghomeshi: Friday Live musical guest Dragonette. Eve Ensler on her new play Emotional Creature. Plus, Q's Media Panel and Elvira Kurt's Cultural Hall of Shame.
6:00 PM On Point The Week In The News: The campaign down to its last dozen days. God, rape, and Indiana. An ex-Goldman board member sentenced to jail. The On Point weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.
7:00 PM The Moth Radio Hour It's true stories told live with the Moth Radio Hour.
8:00 PM As It Happens Hear news and interviews from around the world on As It Happens.
9:00 PM Joy Cardin Barack Obama and Mitt Romney debate for the third and final time, September 11 becomes an issue in Wisconsin's U.S. Senate race, and state lawmakers call for new gun laws following the Brookfield spa shooting. Joy Cardin's guests discuss those issues and other top national and state news stories in the Week in Review. Guests: - Kathleen Falk, former Dane County Executive; delegate, Democratic National Convention. - Dan Kapanke, former Republican State Senator, La Crosse; owner, La Crosse Loggers baseball team.
10:00 PM Veronica Rueckert Today enter the dark realm of ghost stories as we listen to the winning entries in the WI Life Flash Fiction Ghost Story contest. And who better to guide us than fantasy writer, Patrick Rothfuss? Guest: Patrick Rothfuss, fantasy writer, English professor at the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point, author of "The Wise Man's Fear" and "The Name of the Wind," part of the projected three-volume series The Kingkiller Chronicle.
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.
IDEAS NETWORK PROGRAMS - FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2012

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