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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: Dealing with Medical Flip Flops.
It can be infuriating to follow health advice for years and later learn that the experts have changed their minds. Medical recommendations on diet are notoriously subject to flip-flops.



7:00 AM

Judith Siers-Poisson in for Larry Meiller

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Even if you don't have acres to cultivate, you can be a successful gardener. On an encore edition of Garden Talk, Judith Siers-Poisson learns how and what to grow in a variety of containers.
Guest: Melinda Myers, Milwaukee-based host of "Melinda's Garden Moments," author of more than twenty gardening books.



8:00 AM

Zorba Paster On Your Health

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The guys find out if heartbreak is just as bad for the body as it is for the soul . . . and explore a new treatment for Tuberculosis (TB). Plus, a delicious recipe for Raisin Oat Muffins.


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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We're live from the NYU Skirball Center for Performing Arts in beautiful New York City! In the first hour, Michael serves up a Big Gulp of Diet All the News that Isn't, Then Sarah Jessica Parker classes up the place and the Whad'Ya Know? Trio keep it sexy in the City... Then the first Whad'Ya Know? Quiz.
In the second hour, Loudon Wainwright III steps in and lights up the place with his voice and a guitar. Then television writer, Paul Simms has some great insight into creating and writing a great show and John Thulin, Jeff Hamann, and Clyde Stubblefield play a tune worthy of Broadway... There's another round of the Whad'Ya Know? Quiz and finally Bryan Petroff and Douglas Quint of Big Gay Ice Cream know the key ingredient to a delicious ice cream shake (and it sounds like "bourbon").



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

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The guys find out if heartbreak is just as bad for the body as it is for the soul . . . and explore a new treatment for Tuberculosis (TB). Plus, a delicious recipe for Raisin Oat Muffins.


2:00 PM

The People's Pharmacy


On The People's Pharmacy with Joe and Terry Graedon: Dealing with Medical Flip Flops.
It can be infuriating to follow health advice for years and later learn that the experts have changed their minds. Medical recommendations on diet are notoriously subject to flip-flops.



3:00 PM

The Saturday Special: Radiolab


On Radiolab: "Escape". The walls are closing in, you've got no way out...and then, suddenly, you escape! Stories about traps, getaways, perpetual cycles, and staggering breakthroughs.


4:00 PM

This American Life


Stories about the casino game everyone incorrectly thinks they can beat . . . Blackjack. In one, a woman gambles away her inheritance and then sues the casino, saying they're to blame. In another, Christians join forces to take down casinos - by becoming professional card-counting blackjack players.


5:00 PM

A Prairie Home Companion


Coming to you this week from the Shreveport (SHREEV-port) Municipal Auditorium in Shreveport, Louisiana, it's a live broadcast performance of A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor. With special guests, musical ambassadors of Louisiana's rich Arcadian past, BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet, and singer Andra Suchy.


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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It's another dangerous job for Paladin in Have Gun Will Travel from 1959. Then, the travails of the Anderson family in Father Knows Best from 1951.


9:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

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Hear about small-town goings-on in Gasoline Alley and medical melodrama with Young Dr. Malone from 1949. And X-Minus One brings you a story of entertaining . . . with cyanide . . . in science fiction from 1956.


10:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

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Howard Duff is Sam Spade. Then, Raymond ushers you into The Inner Sanctum from 1941.


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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