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IDEAS NETWORK PROGRAMS - SUNDAY, APRIL 15, 2012 |
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6:00 AM
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On the Media

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

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8:00 AM
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Says You!

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It's the game of words and whimsy, bluff and bluster, "Says You!"

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9:00 AM
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A Way With Words

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Take an entertaining romp through the English language, on A Way With Words.

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10:00 AM
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A Prairie Home Companion

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Coming to you this week from The Town Hall in New York City, it's A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor. With special guests, indie-rock-singing soprano Ren e Fleming and masters of acoustic experimentation Punch Brothers.

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12:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge

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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a conversation about the neuroscience of emotion with Richie Davidson. It's now one of the hottest topics in science, and Davidson is famous for his pioneering research on mindfulness.

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1:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge

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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, the tricky topic of motherhood. Linda Gray Sexton remembers her mother, the troubled poet Anne Sexton. Jeannette Walls talks about growing up homeless. And Ayelet Waldman explains how being a bad mother, isn't really all that bad.

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2:00 PM
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This American Life

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After two, on This American Life, stories of people who can't seem to stop getting in their own way.

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3:00 PM
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On the Media

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

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4:00 PM
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University of the Air

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At four, on University of the Air: On the hundredth anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, underwater archaeologist Tamara Thomson will tell us about her work on the famous shipwreck, and others closer to home.

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5:00 PM
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Simply Folk

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From five-until-eight, the music is Simply Folk. Your host is Stephanie Elkins.

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8:00 PM
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Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

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At eight, it's Old-Time Radio Drama, with Gunsmoke from 1956. Then, baseball great Leo Durocher joins Fred Allen in a musical salute to American's pastime in a broadcast from 1946.

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10:00 PM
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Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

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After ten, on OTRD, venture into the jungles of Yucatan with Escape from 1950 and "The Golden Snake." Then, join Sam Spade as he falls for a widow who has a confession to make, in a case from 1949.

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11:00 PM
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BBC World Service

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

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IDEAS NETWORK PROGRAMS - SUNDAY, APRIL 15, 2012 |
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