May 23, 2009

SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS

Filene Center

Coming to you this week from the Filene Center at Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts in Vienna, Virginia, it's a live broadcast performance of A Prairie Home Companion. With special guests, Robin & Linda Williams and Their Fine Group, Jearlyn and Jevetta Steele, and Will Farley, the National Champion of the 2009 Poetry Out Loud project. Also with us, The Royal Academy of Radio Actors; Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Fred Newman, The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, and The News from Lake Wobegon.


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Sisters Jearlyn and Jevetta Steele

Garrison introduces Will Farley

Linda Williams

Robin Williams

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  • Segment 1
    • 00:00:00 - Logo
    • 00:00:11 - Tishomingo Blues
    • 00:03:23 - "Alleluia" - GK, Jearlyn and Jevetta Steele
    • 00:07:40 - "Washington Walking Blues" - Pat Donohue and Shoe Band
    • 00:10:58 - SFX script
    • 00:16:24 - GK talks with Robin and Linda Williams
    • 00:16:52 - "Going Going Gone" - Robin and Linda Williams and Their Fine Group
    • 00:21:25 - "The Other Side of Town" - Robin and Linda Williams, group, GK
    • 00:24:54 - Ruth Harrison, Reference Librarian script
    • 00:32:30 - Powdermilk Biscuit Break
  • Segment 2
    • 00:34:35 - GK intros Will Farley
    • 00:37:00 - Will Farley recites Langston Hughes
    • 00:40:10 - Guy Noir script
    • 00:51:10 - GK intros the Steele Sisters
    • 00:52:00 - "Without A Song" - Jearlyn and Jevetta Steele
    • 00:55:35 - "Saturday Night Fish Fry" - Jearlyn and Jevetta Steele
    • 00:58:36 - GK talks about Memorial Day
    • 00:59:39 - "And The Band Played The Star Spangled Banner" - GK and band
    • 01:04:22 - Intermission/"Dr. Jazz" - Shoe Band
  • Segment 3
    • 01:07:37 - "The Star Spangled Banner" - GK/ audience, Greetings
    • 01:13:00 - Fred Newman script
    • 01:19:15 - "Seventeen Years Old" - Robin and Linda Williams and Their Fine Group
    • 01:23:05 - "Keep the Home Fires Burning" - Garrison Keillor and Robin & Linda Williams with Their Fine Group
    • 01:26:14 - "Love is Gone" - GK and Shoe Band
    • 01:30:33 - "Bruce" - Andy Stein
  • Segment 4
    • >01:33:20 - The News from Lake Wobegon
  • Segment 5
    • 01:45:13 - "Military Hymn Medley" - Shoe Band
    • 01:47:16 - Revolt script
    • 01:52:14 - "If I Could Hear My Mother Pray" - Jearlyn and Jevetta Steele and Shoes
    • 01:55:24 - Credits, "We'll Understand it Better By and By"

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