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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


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


10:00 AM

A Prairie Home Companion


From The Fitzgerald Theater in downtown Saint Paul, it's a show celebrating all things Banjo. With special guests, five-string masters Noam Pikelny, Joe Newberry, and Bill Evans, singer Suzy Bogguss, and country music historian Bill C. Malone.


12:00 PM

To the Best of Our Knowledge  - 03/17A

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George Saunders on the art of the Short Story.


1:00 PM

To the Best of Our Knowledge  - 03/17B

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Envisioning airports as the opportunity to dream.


2:00 PM

This American Life


Stories of people starting over, sometimes because they want to, other times because they have to.


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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What brought on the recession of 2008? And how long are its effects likely to last? Our guest is Timothy Smeeding, Distinguished Professor of Public Affairs and Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.


5:00 PM

Simply Folk with Stephanie Elkins


We're celebrating St. Patrick's Day with a concert from the archives by the great Irish folk band Patrick Street. There's lots of other Irish music on the playlist, plus a few other genres mixed in as well.


8:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland  - 03/17A

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Matt Dillon has job competition Gunsmoke from 1956. And Fibber McGee is under threat of legal action because of a dog license in a show from 1940.


9:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland  - 03/17B

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Hallmark Playhouse brings you a touch of the Irish for St. Patrick's Day with " O'Halloran's Luck". Then, a man fished out of the bay leads to danger for Pat Novak for Hire in a story from 1949.


10:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland  - 03/17C

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Every day is June 15 when X-Minus One brings you "Tunnel Under the World" from 1956. Then, love goes beyond life in The Witch's Tale and "The Troth of Death" from 1937.


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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