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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

On the Media


On the Media casts an incisive eye on the marketplace of ideas.


7:00 AM

Wait Wait Don't Tell Me!


It's Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, the hour-long quiz show from NPR.


8:00 AM

Says You!


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


9:00 AM

A Way With Words


Enjoy the call-in program all about language, A Way With Words.


10:00 AM

A Prairie Home Companion


This week on A Prairie Home Companion, it's a special broadcast performance from The Fitzgerald Theater in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Hear musical guests, Lake Street Dive, blues bombshell Hilary Thavis (THAY-viss), and vocalist Molly Dean. Also, the Royal Academy of Radio Actors, The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, and the latest News from Lake Wobegon.


12:00 PM

To the Best of Our Knowledge

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In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge, the new alone. Also, why living alone is the new luxury choice, and may make people more socially outgoing. And, we'll hear arguments in favor of the uncoupled.


1:00 PM

To the Best of Our Knowledge

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Albert Einstein said "there are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge, we'll feed your sense of the miraculous and magical with stories from writers who find magic everywhere - even in science.


2:00 PM

This American Life


The Incredible Case of the P.I. Moms: What do you get when you take a P.I. firm, then add in a bunch of sexy soccer moms, official sponsorship from Glock, a lying boss, and delusions of grandeur?


3:00 PM

On the Media


On the Media casts an incisive eye on the marketplace of ideas.


4:00 PM

University of the Air

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In the early years of the 20th century, the Japanese government turned a national symbol into an emblem of war. Anthropologist and author Emiko Ohuni-Tierney will tell us how.


5:00 PM

Simply Folk with Stephanie Elkins


The band Maritza is in live to play Balkan, Romany and Klezmer dance music, and Stephanie welcomes autumn with a few songs.


8:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

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Paladin finds that a once mild-mannered friend has undergone a dangerous transformation in Have Gun Will Travel from 1960, and Ray Milland drops in on George Burns and Gracie Allen for comedy from 1943.


9:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

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A femme fatale threatens a family when Academy Award Theater presents "A Guest in the House," starring Kirk Douglas in a broadcast from 1946, and Jeff Chandler is New Orleans detective Michael Shayne in "The Crooked Wheel" from 1948.


10:00 PM

Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

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A department store mannequin prompts a macabre story from the Inner Sanctum, and Dimension X from 1950 brings you a story from Ray Bradbury's Martian Chronicles in "And the Moon Be Still as Bright."


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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