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Celebrate the Holidays with A Prairie Home Companion
An archive of past holiday shows to warm you this season.

December 7, 1996
With the Hopeful Gospel Quartet, classical pianist Garrick Ohlsson, and Broadway singer Victoria Clark.

Highlights
A Gift for Kitty
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Christmas
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December 21, 1996
With the Boys of the Lough, the Ypsilanti High School Chamber Singers, and the 14-member Sonos Handbell Ensemble

Highlights
Celebrity Christmas
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Drummer Boy Virus
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Tweleve Days of Christmas
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December 24, 1996
Garrison Keillor and guests bring you this special holiday edition of A Prairie Home Companion. Drawn from some of the best seasonal shows of Christmases past, the music and skits may not have been broadcast in your area. Join us in rekindling these holiday memories. Highlights
Nine Lessons and Carols
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December 13, 1997
With Scottish group The Battlefield Band, pianist-singer Diana Krall & her trio, and more.

Highlights
Christmas Tishomingo
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A Christmas Carol for
the Seasonally Challenged
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December 20, 1997 With classical pianist Garrick Ohlsson, actors John McDonough and Walter Bobbie, and more.

Highlights
Christmas Fairy Tale
The Christmas Pie
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December 12, 1998 With comedian and bestselling author Al Franken, jazz singer Ann Hampton Callaway who, says critic Rex Reed, "is the definitive singer of her generation to inherit the mantle the legendary Ella Fitzgerald left behind." Also, violinist Jaime Laredo and cellist Sharon Robinson joined us.

Highlights
White Christmas
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Al Franken's
Chanukah Story (12/12/98)
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December 19, 1998 With Broadway star Sarah Jessica Parker, Piper, whistle player, and fiddler Christy O'Leary with Claire Mann on flute and Frank Kilkelly on guitar. O'Leary is from County Kerry in Ireland, married a Swede and moved to Sweden. His music is a mix of Irish and Swedish. Also, pianist Andre Watts

Highlights
Christmas Rhubarb
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A Christmas Carol:
The Carol Continues
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LIBERTY

Liberty:A Novel of Lake Wobegon A national holiday in Lake Wobegon is always gaudy and joyful. But what is going on between Clint Bunsen and Miss Liberty?
Everyone is here—Pastor Ingqvist, the Sons of Knute, Sister Arvonne of Our Lady of Perpetual Responsibility and her ocarina band, the Norwegian bachelor farmers, Dorothy and the Chatterbox Café, Wally in the Sidetrack Tap—as crowds converge on the little town to celebrate American independence, even as the chairman of the event broods on the great question of the day: Shall we struggle on valiantly here or shall we burst the bonds and find beautiful life in the golden west?



YOU WANT FRIES WITH THAT?

English Majors CD Set Scripts and bits from A Prairie Home Companion celebrate the secret society of men and women who possess excellent spelling and punctuation skills. (You know who you are.) Selections include "The Six-Minute Hamlet," a tribute to Emily Dickinson, a Guy Noir adventure that exposes an MFA scam, a riveting "Professional Organization of English Majors" drama, and guests Billy Collins, Robert Bly, Roy Blount Jr., and Calvin Trillin.


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