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From the BBC...
Assignment | Business Daily | Click | The Documentary | The Fifth Floor | From Our Own Correspondent | The Forum | Global Business | HARDTalk | Health Check | Heart & Soul | In the Balance | More or Less | Newsday | One Planet | Outlook | Weekend | Witness | World Briefing | The World Today

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Beale Street Caravan
Produced in The Home of the Blues - Memphis, Tennessee - Beale Street Caravan covers the world with the heartfelt sounds and colorful stories of the Blues and its music makers. Each week, Beale Street Caravan® takes its audience the greatest Blues venues in Memphis and around the US.

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Bedrock 66 Broadcasts
Tune in Saturdays at 7pm for the "Best of Bedrock"' - All the concerts from previous seasons on WUIS Saturdays at 7

Krista Tippett on Being
From autism to the ethics of torture, Krista and her guests reach beyond the headlines to probe faith and meaning, ethics and new ways of being, amidst the political, ecological, economic, cultural and technological shifts that define 21st century life.

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Blues Before Sunrise
Host Steve Cushing spends 5 hours each week exploring, preserving and popularizing the first 50 years of recorded blues music.

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Bluegrass Breakdown
Host Jennifer Ramm brings you the best in bluegrass and related musicSunday evenings. With roots in Celtic, country, folk and blues, bluegrass has a richheritage that continues to grow thanks to a new generation of gifted musicians. From old masters to contemporary newcomers; from rock-ribbed traditional to boldly progressive, you'll hear it all on Bluegrass Breakdown.

Business Daily
Examining the big issues facing the global economy, Business Daily demystifies the world of money.

Car Talk
Imagine the Marx Brothers answering questions about automobiles. Picture Monty Python trying to imitate car noises. Think of A.J. Foyt telling someone how to open the car hood. Mix it all up, throw in a little Dr. Ruth and a little Smothers Brothers, and you've got Car Talk

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Fresh Air

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Hearts of Space
Contemplative music, broadly defined. Hearts of Space grew out of former architect Stephen Hill's fascination with space-creating, ambient and contemplative music

Inside Europe
30 minutes weekly news magazine that explores the topical issues shaping the continent. The programme includes a European newscast, interviews with newsmakers and personalities, background features and cultural reports from correspondents throughout the region.

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Jazz at Lincoln Center
Bring Home the Swing with new host, Wendell Pierce. The veteran actor takes the mic at JALC Radio in 2010. Artistic director Wynton Marsalis who succeeded founding host, Ed Bradley, is delighted with the choice.

Jazz Inspired
A radio program where fascinating, creative people talk about jazz and how it has inspired their own creative process.

Let's Talk Kids
Hosted by child development specialist, Claudia Quigg - the founder & Executive Director of Baby TALK, a non-profit org. designed to positively impact child development and nurture healthy parent/child relationships during the critical early years.

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Lincoln Library Concert
Jim Huston has been the volunteer host of The Lincoln Library Concert since WUIS' first week on the air in1975; when he was encouraged to start doing this show due to his love of classical music. He actually is a reference librarian for the Lincoln Library in Springfield.

Marketplace

Marketplace Morning Report

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Morning Edition

A Prairie Home Companion

Q with Jian Ghomeshi
From Canada, "Q" is the liveliest arts, culture and entertainment magazine. It's a smart and surprising tour through personalities and cultural issues that matter. 

Host Jian Ghomeshi covers pop culture and high arts with forays into the most provocative and compelling cultural trends. His wide-ranging guests — Leonard Cohen, Salman Rushdie, Dolly Parton, Jay-Z and more — explore such provocative topics as the branding of politicians or whether "cougar" should be embraced or discarded by older women. "Q" presents big names, big ideas and those paving the way in the cultural community. 

Quiddity
Quiddity is a multimedia arts venue featuring an international literary journal, a public-radio program, and a visiting writer and artist series.  Quiddity is produced by WUIS and Benedictine University.  The radio program features exemplary prose and poetry from emerging and established writers as well as conversations with those writers.

The term quiddity means “the real nature or essence of a thing; that which makes it what it is.” Because those who participate in the arts—crafters, listeners, viewers, readers—are its quiddity, the venue Quiddity seeks not only work from a wide and diverse pool of individuals but also to share that work with a wide audience.

From the Host
The arts have an exquisite capacity to engender moments of keen understanding— moments that can happen across time, culture, and distance, coalescing these into a distillate spark of acute discernment.  As such, Quiddity has deep regard for and is profoundly grateful to its listeners and readers, without whom our charge would be without quiddity.  ~JBT

Radio Lab
Radiolab is an experiential investigation that explores themes and ideas through a patchwork of people, sounds, and stories. In each episode, Radiolab experiments with sound and style allowing science to fuse with culture, and information to sound like music.

Hosted by Jad Abumrad with co-host Robert Krulwich, Radiolab is designed for listeners who demand skepticism but appreciate wonder; who are curious about the world, but also want to be moved and surprised.

Riverwalk Jazz, Live from the Landing
"Riverwalk Jazz" presents a season of captivating shows that tell the story of jazz in America. The Jim Cullum Jazz Band's music covers the genre's early years — from turn-of-the-century blues and cakewalks, to the small swing ensembles of the 1920s and '30s. Hosted by the award-winning storyteller David Holt and bandleader Jim Cullum, "Riverwalk Jazz" features The Jim Cullum Jazz Band and special guest artists.

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Sangamon Valley Roots Revival Radio
From jumpin’ blues, western swing and hillbilly bop of the 1940’s to the rockabilly of the 1950’s and the Bakersfield twang of the 1960’s, the roots revival covers all of the musical styles that would converge into mid-century rock and roll. Enjoy classic cuts from the original artists and even more from modern day purveyors of the genre. Whether you love Hank Williams, Elvis or the Old 97’s, you’ll hear it all on the SVRR Radio Hour.

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The Saturday Beat
An hour of something special from the ever-changing inventory of music documentaries, concert recordings and tribute programs.

Science Friday
Each Friday, journalist Ira Flatow is joined by listeners and studio guests to explore science-related topics -- from subatomic particles and the human genome to the Internet and earthquakes. Flatow offers in-depth discussion with scientists and others from all walks of life, giving listeners the chance to hear from the people whose work influences their daily lives.

Sound Opinions
Take two nationally respected rock critics, the latest music news, personal commentary, and exclusive interviews and performances, add a huge pile of records old and new, and the result is Sound Opinions—the world's only rock and roll talk show.

The Splendid Table
A culinary, culture, and lifestyle program that celebrates food and its ability to touch the lives and feed the souls of everyone. Each week, award-winning host Lynne Rossetto Kasper leads listeners on a journey of the senses and hosts discussions with a variety of writers and personalities who share their passion for the culinary delights.

State Week in Review
A look at what's made the news each week in state politics and government. State Week in Review is the longest running public affairs program on WUIS.

Talk of the Nation

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This American Life
One of our problems from the start has been that when we try to describe This American Life in a sentence or two, it just sounds awful. For instance: each week we choose a theme and put together different kinds of stories on that theme. That doesn't sound like something we'd want to listen to on the radio, and it's our show.

So usually we just say what we're not. We're not a news show or a talk show or a call-in show. We're not really formatted like other radio shows at all. Instead, we do these stories that are like movies for radio. There are people in dramatic situations. Things happen to them. There are funny moments and emotional moments and—hopefully—moments where the people in the story say interesting, surprising things about it all. It has to be surprising. It has to be fun. ~ Ira

To the Best of Our Knowledge
A place on the radio where provocative thinkers would come together — poets and scientists, visionaries and backyard philosophers. Two hours celebrating the exchange of ideas, to showcase established and emerging voices, to cultivate the art of engaged conversation.

Travel with Rick Steves
Travel with Rick Steves is a fun, hour-long, practical talk show with guest experts and questions from travelers. This weekly program is a lively conversation between travelers and the experts as we learn to explore our world smartly, smoothly, and thoughtfully.

Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!
A wacky and whip-smart approach to the week's news and newsmakers. Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, is the oddly informative news quiz from NPR.

Witness from the BBC
The story of our times told by the people who were there. We take listeners back in time to key events in history - featuring eyewitness accounts and sounds and voices from the BBC archive.

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Weekend Edition Saturday

Weekend Edition Sunday

The World
PRI's "The World" brings one-of-a-kind international stories home to America. Each weekday, host Lisa Mullins guides listeners through major issues and stories, linking global events directly to the American agenda. 

"The World's" coverage is provided by a global network of international journalists. The program also has access to the 250 BBC correspondents located around the world. Unique in public radio, this network works in concert with the program's multinational team of producers and editors, and brings an exceptional depth of understanding and freshness of perspective to the program.

The Writer's Almanac
This five-minute radio gem is a listener favorite as host Garrison Keillor recounts the highlights of that day in history and reads a short poem or two.