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6:00 AM

The People's Pharmacy


Get a Health News Update, on The People's Pharmacy with Joe and Terry Graedon: A new study shows that helping people with diabetes lose weight and improve fitness significantly lowers their likelihood of mobility problems in future years. Plus, how three recent analyses of clinical trials demonstrate the benefits of aspirin, not just for relieving pain but also for preventing and possibly treating cancer.


7:00 AM

Larry Meiller

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After seven, it's time for an encore edition of Garden Talk with Larry Meiller. Learn about avoiding and treating disease in the garden and with your house plants.
Guests:

- Brian Hudelson, Director, Plant Disease Diagnostics Clinic in the Dept. of Plant Pathology at UW-Madison

- Lis (liz) Friemoth (FREE-moth), provider of concierge horticultural services through her business, The Garden Hoe.(original air date: January 14, 2012)



8:00 AM

Zorba Paster On Your Health


Don't miss your appointment for fun on this week's Zorba Paster On Your Health. This week, the guys discover a smaller way to combat sleep apnea (APP-nee-uh) . . . and offer an update on graphic cigarette labels. Plus, they share a throwback recipe for Eggplant Stir Fry.


9:00 AM

Car Talk


Laugh along with Click and Clack, during another edition of Car Talk.


10:00 AM

Michael Feldman's Whad'Ya Know?

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It's a live Whad'Ya Know? show from Saenger Auditorium in Biloxi, Mississippi. Guests include restauranteur Bobby Mahoney from Mary Mahoney's Restaurant with some gorgeous crab claws and some lump crab meat to just stuff in anything. Bobby stays out of the kitchen and the Chef stays out of his office. Plus, a quick cameo from Mayor A.J. Holloway to present the key to the city.


11:00 AM

Michael Feldman's Whad'Ya Know?

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Y'all will be enjoying more Gulf-coast hospitality with this live Whad'Ya Know? show from Biloxi, Mississippi. Michael gets a Gulf Coast groove on with the Rochelle Harper Band. Restauranteur Lucy Buffet sits a spell with Michael to talk about shipyard life, restaurants and maybe mentions her famous brother (who isn't Warren).


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


Don't miss your appointment for fun on this week's Zorba Paster On Your Health. This week, the guys discover a smaller way to combat sleep apnea (APP-nee-uh) . . . and offer an update on graphic cigarette labels. Plus, they share a throwback recipe for Eggplant Stir Fry.


2:00 PM

The People's Pharmacy


Get a Health News Update, on The People's Pharmacy with Joe and Terry Graedon: A new study shows that helping people with diabetes lose weight and improve fitness significantly lowers their likelihood of mobility problems in future years. Three recent analyses of clinical trials demonstrate the benefits of aspirin, not just for relieving pain but also for preventing and possibly treating cancer. And listeners share their favorite home remedies, and we explore the stories behind the health headlines.


3:00 PM

The Saturday Special: Freakonomics Radio


From Freakonomics Radio: How much does the President of the United States really matter? And, where did all the hitchhikers go? A pair of "attribution errors."


4:00 PM

This American Life


After four, on This American Life, for anyone who has ever heard the term "Washington insider" and felt outside . . . this week, we get a look inside. Inside the rooms where influence gets peddled, where the deals get made, to the actual moment that the checks change hands . . . and we hear from the people writing and receiving the checks what, exactly, is the money buying?


5:00 PM

A Prairie Home Companion


Coming to you this week from the Milwaukee Theatre, it's a live broadcast performance of A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor. With special guests, historians of myriad musical forms Paul Cebar Tomorrow Sound, Wisconsin-based Appalachian pop band Count This Penny, and the close harmonies of The Krause Family Band.


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

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At eight, on Old-Time Radio Drama, Roy Rogers stars in the 1944 Lux Radio Theater production "In Old Oklahoma."


9:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

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After nine, on O-T-R-D, Robert Young stars in Father Knows Best from 1950. Then, The Fat Man weighs in with a case called "Murder in the Dark."


10:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

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After ten, on OTRD, it's another twisted tale from The Whistler, followed by a story of crisis and decision when X-Minus One from 1955 brings you "Cold Equation."


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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