IDEAS PROGRAM NOTES FOR
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2009
6:00 AM - The People's Pharmacy
After six on The People's Pharmacy: Vitamin D Update.
Early vitamin research identified vitamin D as the way to treat rickets, or malformed bones. More recent research confirms that vitamin D is indeed essential for strong healthy bones. But its effects go far beyond bone. Inadequate vitamin D has been linked to a higher risk for many different cancers, cardiovascular complications, arthritic joints, Type-2 diabetes and muscle weakness.
7:00 AM - Garden Talk - Saturday
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On Garden Talk Saturday after 7, the discussion is of gift ideas for gardeners. Jim Packard's guests are Astrid Newenhouse of Biological Systems Engineering at the UW-Madison, and her sister, Sonya Newenhouse, President of Madison Environmental Group, Inc. and of Madison Community Car. astridn@wisc.edu sonya@madisonenvironmental.com
8:00 AM - Zorba Paster On Your Health
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Don't miss your appointment for laughter with Zorba Paster On Your Health! This week, the guys find out if magic can help diagnose autism, and they list the top cities in the US for women's health. Plus, a listener recipe for Cabbage FuFu!
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?
A live broadcast from Monona Terrace in Madison featuring All The News That Isn't and the Whad'Ya Know? Quiz.
11:00 AM - Michael Feldman's Whad'Ya Know?
Play the Quiz, swing to jazz and visit the Town of the Week, during the second hour of this live Whad'Ya Know? show from Madison.
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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Don't miss your appointment for laughter with Zorba Paster On Your Health! This week, the guys find out if magic can help diagnose autism, and they list the top cities in the US for women's health. Plus, a listener recipe for Cabbage FuFu!
2:00 PM - The People's Pharmacy
After two on The People's Pharmacy: Vitamin D Update.
Early vitamin research identified vitamin D as the way to treat rickets, or malformed bones. More recent research confirms that vitamin D is indeed essential for strong healthy bones. But its effects go far beyond bone. Inadequate vitamin D has been linked to a higher risk for many different cancers, cardiovascular complications, arthritic joints, Type-2 diabetes and muscle weakness.
3:00 PM - The Saturday Special - The Wisconsin Teen Poetry Slam Finals
This week on the Saturday Special: The Wisconsin Teen Poetry Slam Finals, held last April at the University of Wisconsin Union Theater. Sponsored by the Office of Multicultural Initiatives, the Slam features Wisconsin's brightest young poets competing for a spot at the International Teen Poetry Slam in Chicago.

Language Advisory: This program contains some strong language and content regarding sexuality and violence. Listener discretion is advised.
4:00 PM - This American Life
On This American Life, Poultry Slam 2008.
A man in Pakistan wants to break his friend out of prison. He buys him an amulet that supposedly has the power to protect anyone from harm. But just to be on the safe side, he decides to test the amulet by trying it out first. On a chicken. Stories about the powerful combination of chickens, faith and God in this not-quite-annual 2008 Poultry Slam.
5:00 PM - A Prairie Home Companion
This week on A Prairie Home Companion, the show heads over the river to broadcast live from the historic State Theatre in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The crew welcomes some very special guests: country-music's beloved singer/songwriter Steve Wariner, and the ever-versatile, always vivacious Nellie McKay. Prepare to have your heart-strings tugged & your funny-bones tickled.
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
Fibber McGee goes to the 1939 Auto Show during tonight's eight o'clock hour of Old-Time Radio Drama, and Paladin rides out on another job for a gunfighter in an episode of Have Gun Will Travel from 1959.
9:00 PM - Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland
Alan Ladd stars in Box 13 during tonight's nine o'clock hour of Old-Time Radio Drama, and we'll hear another story of crime and retribution from The Clock.
10:00 PM - Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland
Man or monster? During tonight's ten o'clock hour of Old-Time Radio Drama, we'll begin a 1932 telling of the story of Frankenstein.
11:00 PM - BBC World Service
World news and features are heard overnight seven days a week from the British Broadcasting Corporation.