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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 using the drop down lists below.

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PROGRAM NOTES FOR SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2009

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6:00 AM


The People's Pharmacy


On The People's Pharmacy with Joe and Terry Graedon, a look at an ancient healing tradition most have never heard of... Ayurvedic (EYE-yer-VAY-dik) medicine.



7:00 AM

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Garden Talk - Saturday  - 11/13F

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Garden cleanup and spring-flowering bulbs are just part of the fun on a special presentation of Garden Talk with Larry Meiller, after seven. Larry's guest is Dane County Extension Horticulture Educator Lisa Johnson. lisa.johnson@ces.uwex.edu



8:00 AM

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Zorba Paster On Your Health

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On Zorba Paster On Your Health, Tom and Zorba find out if new technology is limiting our brain function... and if calorie information is helping us fight off obesity. Plus, a delicious recipe for Tom Yum Root Vegetable Soup.



9:00 AM


Car Talk


Click and Clack share some car care advice, and plenty of laughs, on Car Talk.



10:00 AM

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Michael Feldman's Whad'Ya Know?  - 11/14A

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Live from Monona Terrace in Madison, it's Michael Feldman's comedy quiz show Whad'Ya Know?. Featuring All The News That Isn't, and the Whad'Ya Know? Quiz.



11:00 AM

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Michael Feldman's Whad'Ya Know?  - 11/14B

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Play the Quiz, swing to Jazz and visit our Town of the Week during the second hour of Whad'Ya Know? live from Madison.



12:00 PM


Wait Wait Don't Tell Me!


It's Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, the hour-long quiz show from NPR.



1:00 PM

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Zorba Paster On Your Health

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On Zorba Paster On Your Health, Tom and Zorba find out if new technology is limiting our brain function... and if calorie information is helping us fight off obesity. Plus, a delicious recipe for Tom Yum Root Vegetable Soup.



2:00 PM


The People's Pharmacy


On The People's Pharmacy with Joe and Terry Graedon, a look at an ancient healing tradition most have never heard of... Ayurvedic (EYE-yer-VAY-dik) medicine.



3:00 PM


The Saturday Special - Radio Lab


Organisms change, and the result is evolution. After three, Radio Lab tells stories of adaptation that may have you thinking differently about war, violence and human nature.

Language Advisory: This episode contains some strong and explicit language regarding sexuality and transgender identities. Listener discretion is advised.



4:00 PM


This American Life


On This American Life, stories of people starting over... sometimes because they want to... other times because they have to.



5:00 PM


A Prairie Home Companion


On A Prairie Home Companion, Garrison Keiller and Company get ready for Turkey Day by convening with the ghosts of Thanksgivings past.



7:00 PM


Tent Show Radio


Enjoy music and entertainment from under the Big Top on Tent Show Radio.



8:00 PM


Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland  - 11/14A

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The Lone Ranger rides again, at eight, on Old-Time Radio Drama. And Groucho Marx puts the contestants on the spot for a half-hour of You Bet Your Life.



9:00 PM


Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland  - 11/14B

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After nine, on Old-Time Radio Drama, Dragnet from 1952. And a strange story from The Sealed Book.



10:00 PM


Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland  - 11/14C

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After ten, on OTRD, we'll get to the heart of the Land of the Living Dead during Adventures By Morse from 1944. And we'll also hear stories from I Love a Mystery, and Blackstone the Magician.



11:00 PM


BBC World Service


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

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