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IDEAS NETWORK PROGRAMS - SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2012 |
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6:00 AM
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On the Media

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On the Media casts an incisive eye on the marketplace of ideas.
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8:00 AM
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Says You!

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It's the game of words and whimsy, bluff and bluster, "Says You!"
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9:00 AM
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A Way With Words

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Enjoy the call-in program all about language, A Way With Words.
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10:00 AM
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A Prairie Home Companion

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Enjoy one last compilation show before the start of the new season. It's a choir show with the University of Minnesota Concert Choir, and not-one-but-three male choirs: Cantus, Chanticleer, and the F stbr ur Male Choir from Iceland.
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2:00 PM
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This American Life

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Investigating "The Ghost of Bobby Dunbar", the story of a four-year-old boy who went missing in a Louisiana swamp in 1912.
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3:00 PM
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On the Media

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On the Media casts an incisive eye on the marketplace of ideas.
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4:00 PM
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University of the Air

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Fifteen hundred years ago, it was the largest city in the Americas, boasting a population of more than 100,000. What was it like to live there? And why did it fall to ruins? Archaeologist Sarah Clayton provides some clues about the rise and fall of an ancient city of central Mexico northeast of present-day Mexico City: Teotihuacan (TAY-uh-tee-wuh-CONN).
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5:00 PM
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Simply Folk with Stephanie Elkins

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It's our monthly Request Show. On the playlist: everything from Peter, Paul & Mary . . . to a traditional Welsh song recorded in 1940 Wisconsin . . . to Pentangle . . . all on vinyl.
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9:00 PM
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Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

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A scam involving the handicapped brings Counterspy into action in a story from 1949. Then, Philip Marlowe gets pulled into a case he's rejected in "The Fifth Mask" from 1950.
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10:00 PM
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Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

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A mentalist warns a woman about a plan to murder her in The Haunting Hour. Then, Journey Into Space from 1953 delves more deeply into the strange occurrences surrounding Operation Luna.
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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 - SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2012 |
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