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Prairie Home Companion for September 11, 2010
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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Today's Highlight: This week on A Prairie Home Companion, a show about and for Lutherans with the St. Olaf Choir singing "The Choral Blues," VocalEssence singing "Sign Up for Church Work," and a celebration of Elim Lutheran Church's 150th anniversary. Plus, Dan Newton with the "Lutheran Polka," Guy Noir helps a Sunday School teacher following a memorable New Year's Eve, and the great actor Charles Keating in a sketch called "Iniquity on the Tundra." And in Lake Wobegon, a review of summer vacations — the historical low point of any good Lutheran's year
Garrison Keillor began A Prairie Home Companion on Minnesota Public Radio in 1969. The show has been in production ever since (except for the couple of years in the late eighties when he moved to Denmark.) Keillor remembers, "When the show started, it was something funny to do with my friends, and then it became an achievement that I hoped would be successful, and now it's a good way of life."
Today, A Prairie Home Companion is heard by approximately 3.9 million U.S. listeners each week on over 511 public radio stations, and is heard abroad on America One and the Armed Forces Networks In Europe and the Far East.
Each week you can hear excellent musicians, and favorite characters like the Ketchup Couple, Guy Noir - Private Eye, and of course Garrison’s signature News from Lake Wobegon. There are also pretty good jokes like this one: A man walks into the doctor's office. He has a banana in one nostril and a carrot in the other. He has a piece of celery in his right ear and a potato stuck in his left ear. He says "Doctor, I feel terrible." The doctor says "Well, your problem is obvious. You're not eating right."
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