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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


It's another broadcast performance of A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor from the Elliott Hall of Music at Purdue University. With special guests, tough-as-nails stringband Old Crow Medicine Show, and the University's ambassadors of song, the Purdue Varsity Glee Club.


12:00 PM

To the Best of Our Knowledge

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Ghost stories.


1:00 PM

To the Best of Our Knowledge

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Exploring the philosophy of horror. Also, celebrated film director John Landis on movie monsters.


2:00 PM

This American Life


How can we be sure of what people will think of us when we're gone? This week, stories of people remembered differently then how they had wished.


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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Florencia Mallon takes us to Chile during the turbulent 1970s with a look at her new novel "Beyond the Ties of Blood."


5:00 PM

Simply Folk with Stephanie Elkins


Murder Ballads, creepy songs, and scary stories . . . it's Halloween on Simply Folk. Stephanie also welcomes John McCutcheon for some music and conversation.


8:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

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A friend of Sergeant Preston's has a strange dying wish in the Challenge of the Yukon from 1947. And the football coach has had enough and wants to retire, creating a crisis for The Halls of Ivy in a story from 1951.


9:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

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Swashbuckling adventure comes your way when Clayton Collier stars in the 1948 Studio One production of " Anthony Adverse."


10:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

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Lights Out from 1942 ventures into the macabre with "Mungahra." And The Radio Pirates mark the 74th anniversary of a famous broadcast with a story of a pesky Martian invasion in "They Came for the Candy."


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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