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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

The People's Pharmacy


On The People's Pharmacy with Joe and Terry Graedon:
Balance Disorders.

Most children love to roll or spin until they feel dizzy. But unwanted dizziness is no fun. There are many potential causes, and diagnosis can be difficult. A conversation with a leading expert.



7:00 AM

Larry Meiller

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Gourds are a fascinating vegetable. After seven, on an encore edition of Garden Talk with Larry Meiller, find out how to grow different varieties of vegitables, and their many uses after harvest. Plus, details about the upcoming annual festival of the Wisconsin Gourd Society.
Guest: Terri Schmit, the "Gourd Girl," founder and past president of the Wisconsin Gourd Society



8:00 AM

Zorba Paster On Your Health


Get your weekly dose of laughter on Zorba Paster On Your Health. This week, the guys find out how exercise pays off in the bedroom . . . and discover a troubling trend in health advisory panels. Plus, they share a listener recipe for Hungarian Applesauce.


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 an Archive edition of Michael Feldman's Whad'Ya Know? featuring an interview with with the author of "The Secret Life of Pronouns," James Pennebaker. The Whad'Ya Know? Duo take us on a musical trip to Paris, and then it's a competitive round of the Whad'Ya Know? Quiz.


11:00 AM

Michael Feldman's Whad'Ya Know?

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More laughs coming up, after ten. Guest musician Sam Lyons. Sam is 16 years old and is making a musical mark for himself locally. He's moved around from guitar to woodwinds to piano to tuba. His CD is title "Someday" and he's playing later today at the fundraiser for Boys/Girls Clubs.
Guest interview with Ulrike Heberlein, researcher, University of California, San Francisco. Ulrike is modeling human conditions in fruit flies. The interesting stuff, like, sex, drugs, alcohol use by male fruit flies when the males were spurned by the ladies.



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


Get your weekly dose of laughter on Zorba Paster On Your Health. This week, the guys find out how exercise pays off in the bedroom . . . and discover a troubling trend in health advisory panels. Plus, they share a listener recipe for Hungarian Applesauce.


2:00 PM

The People's Pharmacy


On The People's Pharmacy with Joe and Terry Graedon:
Balance Disorders.

Most children love to roll or spin until they feel dizzy. But unwanted dizziness is no fun. There are many potential causes, and diagnosis can be difficult. A conversation with a leading expert.



3:00 PM

The Saturday Special: Freakonomics Radio


From Freakonomics Radio: Does the future of food lie in its past . . . or inside a tank of liquid nitrogen? Also: how anti-social can you be on a social network?


4:00 PM

This American Life


After four, on This American Life, stories of people struggling to follow the Ten Commandments from the book of Exodus.


5:00 PM

A Prairie Home Companion


On A Prairie Home Companion, it's a live broadcast performance from the historic Town Hall in New York City. With special guests, the Monet of the classical guitar, Sharon Isbin, soprano Ellie Dehn, and exuberant jazz-infused pop band Lake Street Dive.


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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Tonight at eight during Old-time Radio Drama--Rin-Tin-Tin with frontier adventure from 1955 and comedy with the Andersons and Father Knows Best.


9:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

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During tonight's nine o'clock hour of OTRD--real intrigue in real international hotspots with the Man Called X from 1950 and an outing rife with mishaps when Fibber McGee goes camping.


10:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

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During tonight's ten o'clock hour of OTRD, Two Thousand Plus from 1950 brings you science fiction with "The Green Thing" and Casey Crime Photographer opens a case from 1947.


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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