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This Week's Show // November 28, 2009

Back in the Big Apple …

  • Karan Casey
    Karan Casey
  • Sara Watkins
    Sara Watkins
  • The Town Hall
    The Town Hall

This week on A Prairie Home Companion, we are back for another live broadcast from The Town Hall located in the heart of Times Square in New York, NY. Karan Casey will bring a bit of the Irish sod to the Great White Way, while fiddler Sara Watkins and her bluegrass band will have you dancing to another jig. Also with us, The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, Royal Academy of Radio Actors Tim Russell, Sue Scott and sound effects man Mr. Fred Newman, plus Garrison will have all the latest, Post-Thanksgiving News from Lake Wobegon.

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Garrison Keillor Post to the Host

Host Garrison Keillor gives advice on topics from English Major gaffes to affairs of the heart.

Intro to Storytelling

I've been listening to your show ever since I was a teenager, and I love it so much. I am a fourth grade teacher now, and I would like to help my students become storytellers. What advice do you have for them or for me?

Angela M.
Portland, ME

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Have a unit on jokes: put 40 or 50 narrative jokes in a hat and pass it around and everyone has to tell that joke, impromptu. Introduce them to the classic stories — you, Angela, telling them the stories — The Little Mermaid (the original H.C. Andersen version), Ulysses, Noah and the Ark, the Prodigal Son, Romeo and Juliet, B'rer Rabbit, Snow White, and so forth — and introduce them to the idea of oral impromptu narrative....

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Marquee about the State Theater
Nellie McKay
Guitarists Steve Wariner and Pat Donohue play
Spend a little time at the Sidetrack Tap

(11/23) Brother John, Birthday greetings to Brother John. Born on Dec 2, 1962 at home...

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What do you get with 50 pigs and 50 deer?

One hundred sows and bucks!

This joke was sent in by Coernella C., of Fort Bragg, CA. Thanks Coernella!

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Turkey Confidential

Garrison Keillor will join The Splendid Table host Lynne Rossetto Kasper this Thanksgiving morning to share his Thanksgiving stories and a touch of Lake Wobegon while Lynne triages listeners' Thanksgiving cooking disasters.

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GK's New Holiday Story
A comic novella about a Hawaii-bound holiday traveler who ends up stranded in his North Dakota hometown.

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Find out more about a Premiere Cinema Event coming to your town Feb 4, 2010!

Pilgrims: A Wobegon Romance

Stories of a Wobegon romance far from home, all delivered with Garrison Keillor's trademark humor.

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Life Among the Lutherans

The latest collection of Lake Wobegon short stories gathered from live broadcasts include Confirmation Sunday, the church directory photos, Pastor Ingqvist's leather bound sermons along with song lyrics and the "95 Theses," among others. Companion audio also available.

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Heather Masse: Bird Song

Our sporadic interview series continues, this time with Heather Masse. She talks about being something of a regular on the show, and her new album Bird Song.

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