ON AIR July 2019

Tick-Borne Diseases NPR Interviews Intrepid Teens Welcome Second Century News Fellow Old Time Radio Live On Tour

Featured Photo Actress Jessica Jane Witham enthralls the audience in "There's Get The Latest On Tick-Borne Diseases Always A Woman," at the Old Time Radio Drama Wisconsin's summer is so brief, you want to do all you can to get Live premiere at the outside. Yet fear of a tick bite, and the travails that can come with it, Racine Theatre Guild in might give you pause. Wisconsin is one of the hot spots in North June. Norman Gilliland, America for tick-borne diseases such as Lyme disease and Michele Good, and the anaplasmosis. Luckily, more resources are coming to the state: rest of the 9XM Players Wisconsin Public Radio's Wausau-based reporter Rob Mentzer reported are back for two more in July on the new Tick-Borne Illness Center of Excellence opening this shows this season. See year in Woodruff. The facility will be the first of its kind in the Midwest. the article below and get The new Tick-Borne Illness Center is expected to see as many as 2,000 your tickets now. Our patients a year. You can read or listen to Rob's story here. Larry Meiller Milwaukee summer intern interviewed one of the doctors setting up the Woodruff clinic on "The Ethan Uslabar took this Larry Meiller Show" earlier in July. Listen to that segment here. picture.

WisContext, the joint online news project of WPR and WPT, has also been following the tick story for some time. Read WisContext's series on Sound Bites tick-borne diseases, including Will Cushman's report on a tick app for your phone, and news about a new variety of tick possibly heading to Join Special '1A' Call-In Wisconsin. Get your fill of scary enlarged insect photos, plus the data- After Mueller Testimony driven, informative coverage WisContext excels at. WPR will carry Robert Mueller's congressional Photo credit: Scott Bauer/U.S. Department of Agriculture (CC BY 2.0) testimony live on both WPR networks on Wednesday, July 24. NPR Highlights Intrepid Teen Journalists That evening from 7 to 8 p.m. Joshua Johnson's When teenagers Andrew Aravelo, Erin "1A" on The Ideas Addison and twin brother Evan Addison Network w ill offer a (pictured left to right) formed a special live call-in show, podcasting club at their school in Gary, connecting listeners in Indiana, they never imagined where it conversation from coast would lead. Soon they were grilling to coast. Listen to "1A" representatives of a massive waste and be part of this management company and filing a national dialog . Freedom of Information Act request to find out more about Brazil-based Maya Energy's plans to build a recycling plant The Joy Of Biking next to their school. Listen to this sweet story NPR's Audie Cornish talks to the teens about how they spoke up for from "Wisconsin themselves and their neighborhood. She also plays audio clips the kids Life" about how the world made at a protest outside a Gary city council meeting. NPR excels at opens up when you learn airing a variety of voices and perspectives. Stories like this, with young to ride a bike. Brad kids behind the mic, show how rewarding this approach is. Kolberg's piece alludes to a song by the band Pedro Click here to listen to these audacious kids from Gary. the Lion, "Yellow Bike." The whole tune is included at the link Photo credit: Bill Healy above.

BEHIND THE SCENES WPR's Songs Of Summer

WPR's music staff share their favorite songs of summer on the WPR music blog. "Classics By Request" host Ruthanne Bessman selects a musical evocation of a sunny summer landscape by a little-known Swedish composer. Jonathan Overby, host of "Higher Ground," writes movingly Second Century Fellow Joins WPR's Milwaukee of his conflicted feelings for the Gershwin aria Newsroom "Summertime."

Wisconsin Public Radio welcomes our latest Second Century News Fellow, Alana Watson (pictured). She'll be based in WPR's Milwaukee StoryCorps Features bureau for the next year. Alana is a native of Nashville and studied WPRA Board Chair journalism at Western Kentucky University. She did exceptional work there, including winning Best College Radio Reporter from the Kentucky You can hear Ron AP Broadcasters Association. She's a long-time public radio fan. "What Dunlap, chair of the board sets public radio apart," she says, "is the way it can tell positive stories." of the Wisconsin Public Radio Association, on Alana recently finished an internship with NPR member station WPLN in the StoryCorps website in Nashville, where she covered gentrification, the NFL draft, and a profile July. Dunlap and his on a plantation's first African American director. She's looking forward to friend Sabrina Robins talk reporting about Wisconsin politics, education, and whatever else comes about their experiences her way. as African Americans living in the Kyla Calvert Mason, WPR's assistant news director, says, "I'm thrilled to predominantly white Fox welcome Alana to Milwaukee. With her experience interning at other Valley. "I don't feel alone public radio stations and her positive attitude, I'm certain she'll become any more," Robins says. invaluable in helping us cover the state's largest city." Take three minutes and listen to their story. WPR created the Second Century News Fellowship program in 2016 so that young journalists from diverse backgrounds can gain a footing in public radio. Listen for Alana's reporting in upcoming weeks, and look Quick Links for her stories online at wpr.org. WPR Online Happy Birthday, 'Central Time' Donate Now NPR Online This month "Central Time" celebrates its sixth birthday on The Ideas Network. Listen Live to Ideas While we haven't quite figured out how to serve digital cake, RadioWaves Ideas Schedule asked Rob Ferrett (pictured) to unwrap six things he's learned hosting the Listen Live to News & program: Music News & Music Schedule 1. How to catch a neutrino using only a vast sensor cube, thousands of complicated sensors, and a big piece of underground real estate in Antarctica. Be Part of WPR's Online Community 2. The parasitic jaeger, a bird often seen in northern Wisconsin, gets its food by knocking it out of the mouths of other birds.

3. The Food Friday tip I've made the most use of: grinding spices is quick and easy and adds lots of flavor. I dug out an old coffee grinder to grind cumin, peppercorns, and other spices. It adds so much to recipes.

4. Never eat anything even slightly crunchy within a half hour before going on air, not even delicious chocolate-covered pretzels.

5. Lots of people in Wisconsin communities are fixing problems and/or creating cool new things. They're business owners, local or state government employees, seniors, students, non-profit workers, faith leaders, local media figures, community organizers, librarians.... They make a difference, even if their names aren't in the spotlight. They're usually my favorite people to interview.

6. There's no reason to ever stop learning.

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AROUND WISCONSIN See Old Time Radio Drama Live In Minocqua And Oshkosh

Mystery and mayhem unfold as Norman Gilliland, host of "Old Time Radio Drama," brings an updated stage version of a 1939 Orson Welles screwball noir radio drama to life. Catch "There's Always A Woman" in Minocqua on Aug. 23 and in Oshkosh on Oct. 11. When Bill Reardon gives up on his detective agency and darling spouse Sally takes a case on her own, no one knows whether she can pull it off. She contends with blackmail, gambling, a mysterious wealthy client, and other noir staples.The show includes dramatizations of reworked Campbell's Soup commercials and a mini-episode of "Fibber McGee & Molly."

Old Time Radio Drama Live is fun for all ages. Norman says, "Sit back and enjoy the snappy dialogue and smile at the improbable forensics." The quick pace and hilarious sound effects will delight you too.

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