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Ideas Network Program Notes

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6:00 AM

On the Media


On the Media examines how the Media "Sausage" is made.


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


Enjoy the call-in program all about language, A Way With Words.


10:00 AM

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


12:00 PM

To the Best of Our Knowledge  - 02/03A

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The Super Bowl. It's not Vince Lombardi's game . . . but the Billion Dollar Game.


1:00 PM

To the Best of Our Knowledge  - 02/03B

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If we are only a collection of stories about ourselves . . . then . . . Where's the truth? Psychologists, neurologists, artists, mystics . . . all weigh in on: the real you.


2:00 PM

This American Life


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


3:00 PM

On the Media


On the Media examines how the Media "Sausage" is made.


4:00 PM

University of the Air

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Composer Laura Schwendinger shares some insights about how classical music is written today and why there's no reason to shy away from it.


5:00 PM

Simply Folk





8:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland  - 02/03A

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James Stewart is the Six-Shooter in "The Apron-Faced Sorrel" from 1954, and a missing electric heater wreaks havoc for Our Miss Brooks, starring Eve Arden.


9:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland  - 02/03B

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Can Professor Hall answer one question that will bring an important Shakespeare expert to Ivy College? We'll find out during a 1950 broadcast of The Halls of Ivy. And Drene Time from 1947 includes a round with America's favorite dysfunctional couple, The Bickersons.


10:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland  - 02/03C

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An encounter in an art museum leads to a case for Mr. Keene, Tracer of Lost Persons, and there are dark doings in the Weird Circle with Niche of Doom from 1944.


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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