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Prairie Home Companion for October 20, 2012
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
[Program Website]
Today's Highlight: This week on A Prairie Home Companion, we'll wrap up our fall run at The Fitzgerald Theater with the 2012 Prairie Home Duet Singing Contest. Six duos will compete for your vote (including response from our live audience in the venue and on the internet), the grand prize, and the coveted Silver Water Tower trophy. (If your local public radio station delays our live broadcast, you'll need to listen to our live webstream and vote right here at prairiehome.org to participate.) Also with us, the Royal Academy of Radio Actors, Sue Scott, Tim Russell, and Steve Kramer, The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, and the latest News from Lake Wobegon
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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