Prairie home companion (Radio program)
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- (lcgft) Variety shows (radio programs)
- (lcgft) Radio comedies
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found: A Prairie home companion folk song book, 1988:CIP galleys (A Prairie home companion is a production of Minn. Public Radio)
found: Howell, C. "A prairie home companion: first broadcast," National Recording Registry essay, Library of Congress WWW site, viewed Jan. 10, 2022:PDF (on July 6, 1974, a live radio variety program went on the air from the campus of Macalester College in St Paul, MN; called a Prairie Home Companion; creator and host of the program, Garrison Keillor)
found: Wikipedia WWW site, viewed Jan. 10, 2022:(A Prairie home compaion; comedy/music variety program; home station: Minnesota Public Radio; aired live from 1974 to 2016; created and hosted by Garrison Keillor; in 2016, musician Chris Thile took over as host, and was eventually renamed Live from here and ran until 2020; known for its musical guests, especially folk and traditional musicians, tongue-in-cheek radio drama, and relaxed humor; distributed by American Public Media; release dates: July 6, 1974-September 2, 2016; the Saturday night show was a partial spin-off of A prairie home morning show with Keillor and Tom Keith which ran on Minnesota Public Radio; hiatus: the show went off the air on June 13, 1987 for two years; in 1989, Keillor returned with the American Radio Company of the air for two seasons; on October 2, 1993, the program reverted to the A Prairie Home Companion name and format)
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1988-04-07: new
2022-01-10: revised
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