The radio show, A Prairie Home Companion, made it debut in 1974. Today, more than 4 million people a week on close to 600 stations tune in to hear the latest news from Lake Wobegon.
The show's host is about as original and unique as you’ll find out there. Garrison Keillor has done it all, from writing books to acting in movies and on the stage. He says he's always found it stimulating to go from one project to the next.
He tells Growing Bolder why his unique radio program is the one project he's been excited to stick with for all these years.
Find out what the master storyteller fears most about younger generations and why aging, which he calls the pressure of time, has made him almost manic these days.
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Posted 2:07am August 19th, 2009One of the things I miss most when I moved to Australia was leaving and not being able to hear 'A Prairie Home Companion' and 'Click & Clack' shows on the radio. You never think about what you will miss, but I do now!
B & LP
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Posted 1:41pm July 6th, 2009Just happed on to the PBS showthe other night and was left wanting more, then almost like an answered prayer, GB took us there.!!!!!!!!!!!
THANK YOU KINDLY, GB GANG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Will spend some more time on it, then get back to ya'll!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tom
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Posted 9:12pm November 30th, 2008More than 3o years have passed since I first became aware of Garrison Keillor, bland humorist, author, radio personality and master of understated observation. Since that early time, I've always been willing to set aside whatever I had been doing, to read or listen to whatever Garrison has had to say. I've discovered that Lake Wobegon is not his only topic or springboard for the alert mind and modest power of observation. The effort also has been overwhelmingly worthwhile because the man always has something to say that I had not realized or noticed before his mention of it. I'm glad he's still out there somewhere and hope he will be for many years into the future. For those too young to have grown up seriously considering his take on things ... I recommend him highly. Tom Shelton