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Prairie Home Companion for November 03, 2012
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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Today's Highlight: This week on A Prairie Home Companion, we'll rebroadcast a show from our run at The Fitzgerald Theater last October. John Lithgow revisits a few of his lesser-known roles in The Lives of the Cowboys, acoustic duo Storyhill perform "Blazing," and Nashville virtuoso Steve Wariner sings "Chet's Guitar." Plus, Peter Ostroushko and Butch Thompson sit in with the Shoe Band, and the Royal Academy of Radio Actors; Tim Russell, Sue Scott and our dear friend Mr. Tom Keith. In Lake Wobegon, Dorothy urges Chatterbox Café customers to try pumpkin bread pudding
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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