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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

The People's Pharmacy with Joe and Terry Graedon


Life as Your Best Medicine: How to make smart choices every day so that ordinary activities like eating dinner, meeting a friend, or heading off to work can contribute to your health . . . instead of tearing it down.


7:00 AM

Larry Meiller  - 02/01F

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It's time for an encore edition of Garden Talk with Larry Meiller. We'll cover advice for successful apple and hazelnut growing.
Guest: Jason Fischbach ("FISH-bahk"), UW-Extension Agriculture Agent, Ashland and Bayfield Counties.



8:00 AM

Zorba Paster On Your Health

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The guys discuss the "Pinocchio Effect" and our physiological response to lying . . . your nose knows. And, do you think you're stressed? Then you are. Plus, a healthy recipe for Spicy Mini Quiche Cups.


9:00 AM

Car Talk


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


10:00 AM

Michael Feldman's Whad'Ya Know?  - 02/02A

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Michael celebrates Grounghog Day by welcoming actor Stephen Tobolowsky, best known for his role in the iconic film. Plus, acclaimed author Nathan Englander . . . and two rounds of the Whad'Ya Know? quiz.


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

Zorba Paster On Your Health

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The guys discuss the "Pinocchio Effect" and our physiological response to lying . . . your nose knows. And, do you think you're stressed? Then you are. Plus, a healthy recipe for Spicy Mini Quiche Cups.


2:00 PM

The People's Pharmacy with Joe and Terry Graedon


Life as Your Best Medicine: How to make smart choices every day so that ordinary activities like eating dinner, meeting a friend, or heading off to work can contribute to your health . . . instead of tearing it down.


3:00 PM

RadioLab


Desperately Seeking Symmetry - Jad and Robert set out in search of order and balance in the world around us, and ask how symmetry shapes our very existence.


4:00 PM

This American Life


Kid Logic: Stories of kids using perfectly logical arguments . . . and arriving at perfectly wrong conclusions.


5:00 PM

A Prairie Home Companion


On A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor, the troupe kicks-off a five-week homestand from The Fitzgerald Theater in downtown Saint Paul, Minnesota. Followed by the Prairie Home Companion Masked Ball. With special guests, big-voiced New Orleans vocalist Topsy Chapman and our good friend Butch Thompson and His New Orleans Orphans.


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  - 02/02A

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Poisoned water spells trouble for Frontier Town in a story from 1952. Then, Jack Benny and the gang do a send-up of the melodrama "I Stand Condemned" in a broadcast from 1947.


9:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland  - 02/02B

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Richard Diamond takes on The Dixon Case . . . but when it's over . . . will he sing? And, Sherlock Holmes comes to terms with "The Out-of-Date Murder" in a broadcast from 1945.


10:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland  - 02/02C

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Frank Race looks for "The Vanishing President" in a 1949 episode. Then, Escape, also from 1949, follows the story of "The Lost Special."


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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