PROGRAMS: VARIETY
CAR TALK (10 – 11a.m. Saturdays, repeated Noon
– 1p.m. Sundays)
The most successful
one-hour weekly show in public radio history. Hosts Tom and Ray Magliozzi (aka
Click and Clack, the Tappitt Brothers) celebrate ten years of radio this year.
They entertain you with an equal amount of sense and nonsense in an hour that is
devoted to you and your car. Listeners are encouraged to call in with their own
automotive problems.
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GARRISON KEILLOR’S A PRAIRIE
HOME COMPANION (Live 6 – 8p.m. Saturdays, repeated 10a.m. – Noon Sundays)
Since
1974, A Prairie Home Companion has entertained audiences with a
variety-show format that features unforgettable comedy sketches, acoustic-based
music, and Garrison Keillor’s signature monologue, “The News from Lake Wobegon.”
The two-hour broadcasts are carried live on WMUB - a remarkable feat in a day
when many shows are taped ahead and heavily edited before being aired.
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Hawk Tawk (7 - 8p.m.
Thursdays)
News and information
about Miami
University
sports, produced by the Miami Sports Network. This weekly call-in program
originates live from Oxford's First Run, hosted by Jim Freeman and Tim Bray.
THIS AMERICAN LIFE (4
– 5p.m. Sundays)
Built around the
innovative, personal vision of host Ira Glass, This American Life documents and
describes contemporary America. It is, quite literally, a new kind of radio
storytelling. This American Life explores a weekly theme -- fiascos, Sinatra,
conventions, the job that takes over your life -- through a playful mix of radio
monologues, mini-documentaries, "found tape," and unusual music. It invites
artists onto the program to do their art, to ply their craft before its large
and rapidly growing audience. At this point, the program finds and commissions
more original fiction than any other show on public radio. The stories on This
American Life are engaging, intimate, surprising, funny, disturbing,
bittersweet. Glass has an unusual knack for finding writers and performers whose
work hasn't been heard on radio, and producing their stories alongside his own
disarming commentary in a way that listeners praise as "riveting" and
"mesmerizing."
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MICHAEL FELDMAN’S WHAD’YA KNOW? (11a.m. – 1p.m.
Saturdays)
Michael Feldman's
Whad'Ya Know? is a two-hour comedy/quiz/interview show that is dynamic, varied,
and thoroughly entertaining. Host and quiz-master Michael Feldman invites
contestants to answer questions drawn from his seemingly limitless store of
insignificant (but also somehow, important) information. Callers and audience
members compete for "useless prizes" -- including, among other things, pink
flamingo lawn ornaments.
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