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IDEAS NETWORK PROGRAMS - SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2012 |
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6:00 AM
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The People's Pharmacy with Joe and Terry Graedon

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Fermented Foods for Flavor and Health: Fermentation is a traditional way of preserving food through the action of friendly bacteria that improve nutrition and nourish the beneficial bugs in our digestive tracts. In addition, fermentation provides interesting flavors. Find out why we should embrace these beneficial bacteria instead of trying to banish them.
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7:00 AM
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Larry Meiller

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Native plants are one key to a healthy and sustainable garden. On this encore edition of Garden Talk, Larry Meiller learns how to plan and implement a successful ecosystem. Plus, information about an upcoming native gardening conference.
Guest: Molly Fifield ("FEYE-field") Murray, Outreach Programs Manager, UW Arboretum
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8:00 AM
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Zorba Paster On Your Health

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Laughter is the best medicine, and there's always a healthy
dose when everyone's favorite family doc, Zorba Paster, joins his old friend Tom for an upbeat hour of healthy discussion!
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9:00 AM
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Car Talk

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Laugh along with Click and Clack, during another edition of Car Talk.
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10:00 AM
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Michael Feldman's Whad'Ya Know?

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This week on MICHAEL FELDMAN'S WHAD'YA KNOW?...
We look back to our trip to Dubuque, Iowa!
Michael has All the Dubuque News that Wasn't...
Then John Sutter brings along some critters from the National Mississippi River Museum and Aquarium...
Also, Michael Gibson is the Dubuque archivist who doesn't like to share...
Jim Post looks like Mark Twain, but probably sings a lot better...
Jeff Cremer serves up a delicious turkey and dressing sandwich...
And we serve up two rounds of the quiz with all the fixin's...
On Michael Feldman's Whad'Ya Know?...
From Wisconsin Public Radio and P-R-I, Public Radio International.
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1:00 PM
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Zorba Paster On Your Health

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Laughter is the best medicine, and there's always a healthy
dose when everyone's favorite family doc, Zorba Paster, joins his old friend Tom for an upbeat hour of healthy discussion!
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2:00 PM
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The People's Pharmacy with Joe and Terry Graedon

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Fermented Foods for Flavor and Health: Fermentation is a traditional way of preserving food through the action of friendly bacteria that improve nutrition and nourish the beneficial bugs in our digestive tracts. In addition, fermentation provides interesting flavors. Find out why we should embrace these beneficial bacteria instead of trying to banish them.
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3:00 PM
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RadioLab

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Emergence: What happens when there is no leader? A look down at the bottom-up logic of cities, Google, and even our very own brains with fire-flyologists, ant experts, neurologists, a mathematician, and an economist.
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4:00 PM
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This American Life

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It's "Back to School" as reporter Paul Tough asks what are we teaching our kids? And what's missing?
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5:00 PM
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A Prairie Home Companion

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Coming to you live this week from The Fitzgerald Theater in downtown Saint Paul, it's the season opener of A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor. The show welcomes special guests, masters of the honky tonk arts, The Derailers, singing sisters of soul-drenched gospel, Jearlyn and Jevetta Steele, and vocalist Holly Jones. Plus, the Royal Academy of Radio Actors, and The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band joined this week with the "Shoe Horns; all of this as well as the very latest News from Lake Wobegon.
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7:00 PM
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Tent Show Radio

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Enjoy music and entertainment from under the Big Top on Tent Show Radio.
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8:00 PM
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Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

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The Lone Ranger encounters western legend Bat Masterson in a story from 1944 and from the same year--the Great Gildersleeve gets an unexpected visit from a high school chum.
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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 - SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2012 |
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