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August 11, 2007
This week on A Prairie Home Companion, we present a special compilation show featuring books and the people who write them. The dog days of summer are here and we'll cool down with a little reading — contemporary or classic, domestic or foreign, we have 'em all: Frank McCourt, Bill Holm and Calvin Trillin read from their respective books. Plus, we'll pay homage to Kerouac and present a home-grown version of Hans Christian Andersen's fairytale, The Snow Queen. The Minnesota Opera brings arias to the Dust Bowl in "The Grapes of Wrath." Tune in this Saturday for The Prairie Home Book Festival.
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| Segment 1 |
| 00:00:00 | Logo |
| 00:00:12 | Tishomingo |
| 00:00:57 | GK Open |
| 00:04:02 | Calvin Trillin reads from "Family Man" |
| 00:11:39 | GK Intro Melville |
| 00:12:13 | Melville script |
| 00:22:02 | GK Intro Battlefield Band/Ian Rankin |
| 00:22:33 | "Big Leon" - Battlefield Band |
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Segment 2
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| 00:25:59 | Ian Rankin reads excerpt |
| 00:28:40 | GK Intro Minnesota Opera |
| 00:29:04 | "Plenty Road" from "The Grapes of Wrath," Minnesota Opera |
| 00:31:12 | Powdermilk Biscuit Break |
| 00:32:31 | GK Intro Snow Queen |
| 00:32:49 | Snow Queen script |
| 00:59:01 | Intermission, "Everybody Loves My Baby" |
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| Segment 3 |
| 01:03:49 | GK Welcome Back, Intro Kerouac script |
| 01:04:14 | Kerouac script |
| 01:09:43 | GK Intro Bill Holm |
| 01:10:17 | Bill Holm reads excerpt |
| 01:14:37 | "National Song" - Frostbraeour Male Choir |
| 01:16:10 | GK Intro Frank McCourt, monologue |
| 01:17:25 | Frank McCourt reads from "Angela's Ashes" |
| 01:21:13 | "My Love, My God" - The Boys of the Lough |
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| Segment 4 |
| 01:23:29 | The News From Lake Wobegon |
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| Segment 5 |
| 01:47:47 | "I Wash My Face in the Morning Dew" - Iris Dement |
| 01:50:54 | Catchup (Harry Potter Envy) script |
| 01:54:22 | GK Credits |
| 01:55:45 | "John Henry (Writer)" - GK and Shoes (w/Brad Paisley) |
| 01:58:54 | Outro |
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Photos from the show
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| Brian Leerhuber is Tom Joad in the Minnesota Opera's performance of The Grapes of Wrath. |
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Garrison chats with Grant Gershon, the pit director, and various cast members of The Grapes of Wrath. |
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| GK with Ian Rankin |
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Setting up the Queen's Hall stage |
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| Bagpiper on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh |
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Audience members give show "thumbs up" |
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On July 4th, help us celebrate the 35th Anniversary of A Prairie Home Companion and the Fourth of July with a free live nationally broadcast show from Avon, MN.
From Garrison Keillor:
“When I was 16, Helen Fleischman assigned me to memorize Shakespeare’s Sonnet No. 29, ‘When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state’ for English class, and fifty years later, that poem is still in my head. Algebra got washed away, and geometry and most of biology, but those lines about the redemptive power of love in the face of shame are still here behind my eyeballs, more permanent than my own teeth. The sonnet is a durable good. These 77 of mine include sonnets of praise, some erotic, some lamentations, some street sonnets and a 12-sonnet cycle of months. If anything here offends, I beg your pardon, I come in peace, I depart in gratitude.”
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Robin & Linda Williams are among the most popular guest performers of A Prairie Home Companion (they also appeared in the movie, have performed as part of the The Hopeful Gospel Quartet, and made appearances as Marvin & Mavis Smiley). This CD features some of the duo's best harmonies from the show. Among the 12 tracks are familiar fan favorites, including "For Better or Worse", "Visions of Mother and Dad", "Tied Down, Home Free" and the title track. A collection that is muy bueno!
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