- The View From Mrs. Sundberg's Window: Not that I'm counting
- Post to the Host: A Natural Step
- The Old Scout: A Christmas Angel From Nebraska
- Photos: Slideshow for the Dec. 19, 2009 show
- Interview: Inga Swearingen: First Rain
- Russ Ringsak: Making Smithereens
The Best of Two Thousand Nine
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Brad Paisley
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Patty Loveless
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Elvis Costello
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Martin Sheen
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Sam Bush
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Nellie McKay
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Robin and Linda Williams
This week on A Prairie Home Companion, we present some highlights from our 2009 season including Pat Donohue, Brad Paisley and Sam Bush performing "Stealin' From Chet" at the Ryman Auditorium, Elvis Costello as an English author and stuttering son of the Earl of Twickerham in an epsiode of Guy Noir, and Martin Sheen as a flim- flamming, four flushing, shortchanging, deckstackin' yahoo in an episode of The Lives of the Cowboys. Plus, Marvin and Mavis Smiley's tribute to Bruce Springsteen, Nellie McKay's tribute to Doris Day, and Patty Loveless sings "The Bramble and the Rose." In Lake Wobegon, the story of Margie Krepsbach checking herself into a hotel for Mother's Day to watch movies.
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And on Earth Peace and Goodwill Toward Men
All about the Christmas Compilation show, featuring Renée Fleming, Odetta, and so much more.
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From the 12/26 show
- Christmas Blues
Pat Donohue and Guy's All-Star Shoe Band - Twelve Days of Christmas
GK & Tom Keith - Christmas Medley
Rob Fisher and Rich Dworsky - Bethlehem Powdermilk Biscuit Break
- Poor Little Jesus
Odetta - Buster, The Dog of Christmas
script - The News from Lake Wobegon
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Renée Fleming - Listen to the full broadcast
Garrison Keillor reads from "A Christmas Blizzard"
Garrison Keillor speaks about life, literature, and his new book "A Christmas Blizzard" in this lecture from the Cambridge Forum
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2010 Western Caribbean Cruise
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Host Garrison Keillor gives advice on topics from English Major gaffes to affairs of the heart.
GK,
Do you not feel a film about Lake Wobegon characters would detract from the pictures we as listeners hold for them in our imaginations? Mr. Altman's film worked well as a visualization of your radio personas, but I cannot imagine any actor giving the Lake Wobegon characters so true a portrayal.
Burton G.
Marietta, GA
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I'd love to see Lake Wobegon portrayed in a movie. I am curious to know what they look like and what they talk about. Fiction is a bold venture into the dark and this seems to me to be a natural step. But I intend to write the screenplay.
Russ Ringsak
Making Smithereens
The View From Mrs. Sundberg's Window
Not that I'm counting
The Old Scout
A Christmas Angel From Nebraska
Post to the Host
A Natural Step
Abducting Jesus from a Crib
Where all the women are...
Off the Air
GK reads from "Christmas Blizzard" (video)
Garrison talks to Nikolai Kachanov
"Instead," Madeleine Peyroux
Norah Jones
(12/29) Ario, Noosha, and Kiana, Hail to my three children, raised on a steady diet o...
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The
circus comes to a small town and needs local acts. The Ringmaster sets up an audition at the big top. Guy walks in and the ringmaster says, "OK, whats ya got?"
The guy starts flapping his arms up and down real fast and up he goes — flies right to the top of the big top, he does loops and circles and buzzes the ringmaster. He lands at the ringmaster's feet and says "TAA-DA!"
The ringmaster says impatiently, "Thats it?!? Bird imitations?"
This joke was sent in by Dennis W., of Coshocton, OH. Thanks Dennis!
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Now Available:
A Christmas Blizzard
GK's New Holiday Story
A comic novella about a Hawaii-bound holiday traveler who ends up stranded in his North Dakota hometown.
Audio edition also available»
Stories of a Wobegon romance far from home, all delivered with Garrison Keillor's trademark humor.
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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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Our sporadic interview series continues with the talented jazz singer Inga Swearingen. She talks about "Swedish Farm Jazz," singing with the birds, and the recording process for her new album, First Rain.
