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PROGRAM NOTES FOR SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2009
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	6:00 AM	The People's Pharmacy
		On The People's Pharmacy with Joe and Terry Graedon, America has been waging a war on drugs of abuse for a very long time. Are we winning or losing? A conversation with a neuropharmacologist for the scientific perspective on marijuana and other drugs.
	7:00 AM jp	Garden Talk - Saturday  - 10/30F	Listen
		After seven, it's a special presentation of Garden Talk with Larry Meiller. Larry's guests are Mike Maddox, Rock County Extension Horticulture Educator and Kristin Krokowski, Waukesha County Commercial Horticulture Educator. mike.maddox@ces.uwex.edu Kristin.krokowski@ces.uwex.edu
	8:00 AM af	Zorba Paster On Your Health	Listen
		On Zorba Paster On Your Health, the guys address the touchy issue of telling a loved one they're overweight, and find out if working past retirement age is good for you. Plus, a listener recipe for Vegetable Pancakes.
	9:00 AM	Car Talk
		Laugh along with Click and Clack during another edition of Car Talk.
	10:00 AM jhk	Michael Feldman's Whad'Ya Know?  - 10/31A	Listen
		A live Whad'Ya Know? show from the MSU Concert Hall in East Lansing, Michigan featuring an interview with Dr. Pamela Rasmussen from the MSU Museum.
	11:00 AM jhk	Michael Feldman's Whad'Ya Know?  - 10/31B	Listen
		There's more Michael and more Michigan to come during this live Halloween broadcast from East Lansing with some rocking tunes from musical guest, Flatfoot.
	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 af	Zorba Paster On Your Health	Listen
		On Zorba Paster On Your Health, the guys address the touchy issue of telling a loved one they're overweight, and find out if working past retirement age is good for you. Plus, a listener recipe for Vegetable Pancakes.
	2:00 PM	The People's Pharmacy
		On The People's Pharmacy with Joe and Terry Graedon, America has been waging a war on drugs of abuse for a very long time. Are we winning or losing? A conversation with a neuropharmacologist for the scientific perspective on marijuana and other drugs.
	3:00 PM	A Special Saturday Special - on WAR OF THE WORLDS
		In Radio Lab's very first live hour, a deep look into one of the most controversial moments in broadcast history... Orson Welles' 1938 radio play WAR OF THE WORLDS. Martians invading New Jersey.... Why did it fool people then...? And why has it continued to fool people since...? An examination of the power of mass media to create panic.
	4:00 PM	This American Life
		On This American Life, stories of cheating, cheaters and the cheated.
	5:00 PM	A Prairie Home Companion
	5:00 PM	A Prairie Home Companion
		On a hair-raising Halloween episode of A Prairie Home Companion, we bravely embark to the Great Plains of North Dakota for a live broadcast from the Bismarck Civic Center.
	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  - 10/31A	Listen
		At eight, on Old-Time Radio Drama, it's western action with Dr. Sixgun from 1954. And The Great Gildersleeve throws a party for Halloween 1943.
	9:00 PM	Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland  - 10/31B	Listen
		After nine, on O-T-R-D, Your Playhouse of Favorites from 1948 brings you the Halloween favorite "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow." Then, you can open the Sealed Book to behold a "Design for Death."
	10:00 PM	Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland  - 10/31C	Listen
		The Land of the Living Dead beckons you, after ten, on OTRD with Adventures By Morse from 1944. Then, Quiet Please shares the strange story "Don’t Tell Me About Halloween."
	11:00 PM	BBC World Service
		World news and features are heard overnight seven days a week from the British Broadcasting Corporation.
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