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IDEAS NETWORK PROGRAMS - FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 2012
6:00 AM Joy Cardin This Good Friday, many people around Wisconsin will go out for a traditional fish fry. Join Joy Cardin and her guest after six as they discuss this Wisconsin tradition, why we have Friday fish fries, and where the best fish fries are in Wisconsin. Guest: Mary Bergin, freelance travel writer and author of regional travel books, and for almost 10 years writer of a weekly column called "Roads Traveled" about places in, near, and dear to Wisconsin. "Roads Traveled" appears in several Wisconsin newspapers.
7:00 AM Joy Cardin Sarah Palin, Jesse Ventura, Arnold Schwarzenegger-these are just a few examples of politicians who dabble in entertainment, or vice versa. After seven, Joy Cardin and her guest discuss the world of politainment, and how this new concept is being used in elections. Guest: David Schultz, author of, "Politainment: The Ten Rules of Contemporary Politics." He's a Hamline University professor in the School of Business in St. Paul, Minnesota, and is the author of more than 25 books on American politics, media and politics, campaigns and elections, and election law.
8:00 AM Joy Cardin Mitt Romney takes Wisconsin's GOP presidential primary, fake Democrats enter the state's recall primaries, and President Obama and Paul Ryan exchange budget blows. Joy Cardin and her guests discuss these issues and other top national and state news in the Week in Review, after eight. Guests: - Peg Lautenschlager, attorney with at the firm Bauer and Bach; former Democratic Attorney General of Wisconsin. - Chris Lato (LAH-toe), Republican campaign consultant; former Communications Director of the Republican Party of Wisconsin.
9:00 AM Veronica Rueckert This year marks the the 50th anniversary of the first publication of Rachel Carson's, "Silent Spring." Veronica Rueckert's guests, after nine, discuss the historical significance of the book, and take the pulse of the environmental movement today. Guests: - Mark Fiege, associate professor of history and the William E. Morgan Chair of liberal Arts, Colorado State University. Author, "The Republic of Nature: An Environmental History of the United States." - Jenny Price is a environmental writer whose work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times and Audubon. She is the author of "Flight Maps: Adventures with Nature in Modern America". She also writes the environmental advice column, "Green Me Up, JJ!"
10:00 AM Veronica Rueckert After ten: Venezuela's El Sistema is the revolutionary music education program for children from low-income families that nurtured the world-famous conductor Gustavo Dudamel. It is also the subject of a new book by author Tricia Tunstall entitled "Changing Lives." Veronica Rueckert talks to Tunstall about El Sistema, Gustavo Dudamel, and the Transformative Power of Music. Guest: Tricia Tunstall is a writer and a music educator. She is the author of Note by Note: A Celebration of the Piano Lesson, and has also written for the Kenyon Review and the New York Times. Her latest book is Changing Lives: Gustavo Dudamel, El Sistema, and the Transformative Power of Music.
11:00 AM Larry Meiller Gourds are a fascinating vegetable. On Garden Talk at eleven, Larry Meiller finds out how to grow different intriguing varieties, and their many uses after harvest! Plus details about the upcoming Wisconsin Gourd Society annual festival. Guest: Terri Schmit, the "Gourd Girl," founder and past president of the Wisconsin Gourd Society
12:30 PM Chapter A Day Jim Fleming reads from, "The Eighty-Dollar Champion" by Elizabeth Letts. It's November 1958 and the National Horse Show at Madison Square Garden in New York City is about to begin. Into the rarefied atmosphere of wealth and tradition comes the most unlikely of horses - a drab white former plow horse named Snowman and his rider, Harry de Leyer.
1:00 PM Talk of the Nation Where did humans come from and how did we come to dominate the planet? After one, on Talk Of The Nation, join Ira Flatow for a look at the origins of Homo sapiens, with Ian Tattersall. Plus, get acquainted with New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg the engineering student and science geek.
2:00 PM Talk of the Nation Did you know that New York waters are an important shark destination? Or that coyotes are travelling across The Big Apple to Long Island? After two, on Talk Of The Nation, a look at biodiversity in our cities . . . the species that thrive, the threats, and conservation efforts.
3:00 PM At Issue with Ben Merens The Post Secret project is designed to let people share their most private thoughts and secrets...and millions have. Today after three on At Issue, Ben Merens talks with the project's founder and hears some of your secrets. Guest: Frank Warren, author of PostSecret, My Secret, The Secret Lives of Men and Women, A Lifetime of Secrets, and Post Secret: Confessions on Life, Death, and God. He started Post Secret as a community art project in 2004. Since then, he has received over 400,000 anonymous postcards. www.PostSecret.com
4:00 PM At Issue with Ben Merens A look at the news that's been in the week that was today after four on Your Views on the News with At Issue host Ben Merens. Guest: Joe Heim, professor of Political Science UW La-Crosse
5:00 PM Q with Jian Ghomeshi After five, on Q with Jian Ghomeshi, author and journalist Lucy Siegle questions our addiction to "fast fashion" in her book To Die For. Comic actor Martin Short takes us from SCTV to Broadway and beyond. Quebec singer-pianist Coeur de Pirate performs. Plus, a conversation with Lee Hirsch, director of Bully.
6:00 PM On Point After six, On Point: The Week in the News. Romney rules. Obama says "Social Darwinism". The U.S. will pay rebels in Syria. The On Point weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.
7:00 PM On Point After seven, On Point: Girls Reaching Puberty Young. Very young...puberty at eight, nine. On Point asks why.
8:00 PM As It Happens After eight, it's news and interviews from around the globe on As It Happens.
9:00 PM Joy Cardin Mitt Romney takes Wisconsin's GOP presidential primary, fake Democrats enter the state's recall primaries, and President Obama and Paul Ryan exchange budget blows. Joy Cardin and her guests discuss these issues and other top national and state news in the Week in Review, after nine. Guests: - Peg Lautenschlager, attorney with at the firm Bauer and Bach; former Democratic Attorney General of Wisconsin. - Chris Lato (LAH-toe), Republican campaign consultant; former Communications Director of the Republican Party of Wisconsin.
10:00 PM Veronica Rueckert After ten: Venezuela's El Sistema is the revolutionary music education program for children from low-income families that nurtured the world-famous conductor Gustavo Dudamel. It is also the subject of a new book by author Tricia Tunstall entitled "Changing Lives." Veronica Rueckert talks to Tunstall about El Sistema, Gustavo Dudamel, and the Transformative Power of Music. Guest: Tricia Tunstall is a writer and a music educator. She is the author of Note by Note: A Celebration of the Piano Lesson, and has also written for the Kenyon Review and the New York Times. Her latest book is Changing Lives: Gustavo Dudamel, El Sistema, and the Transformative Power of Music.
11:00 PM Chapter A Day Jim Fleming reads from, "The Eighty-Dollar Champion" by Elizabeth Letts. It's November 1958 and the National Horse Show at Madison Square Garden in New York City is about to begin. Into the rarefied atmosphere of wealth and tradition comes the most unlikely of horses - a drab white former plow horse named Snowman and his rider, Harry de Leyer.
11:30 PM BBC World Service Hear World news and features overnight seven days a week from the British Broadcasting Corporation.
IDEAS NETWORK PROGRAMS - FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 2012

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