A Prairie Home Companion | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 08/01/2019

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
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00:01:45 1 History
00:01:54 1.1 Origin
00:03:25 1.2 Hiatus
00:05:30 1.3 Return and final years
00:06:46 1.4 Guest hosts
00:09:11 1.5 Keillor's departure
00:11:26 1.6 Name change
00:12:30 1.7 Planned archive
00:13:50 2 Format
00:16:01 2.1 Features
00:16:53 2.2 News from Lake Wobegon
00:19:33 2.3 Fictional sponsors
00:22:25 2.4 Alterations
00:23:35 3 Cast
00:23:44 3.1 Actors
00:25:15 3.2 Sound effects artists
00:25:48 3.3 Musicians
00:26:34 4 Production staff
00:27:07 5 Film
00:30:56 6 LP/CD releases
00:32:41 6.1 Stories from Lake Wobegon



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A Prairie Home Companion is a weekly radio variety show created and hosted by Garrison Keillor that aired live from 1974 to 2016. In 2016, musician Chris Thile took over as host, and the successor show was eventually renamed Live from Here. A Prairie Home Companion aired on Saturdays from the Fitzgerald Theater in Saint Paul, Minnesota; it was also frequently heard on tours to New York City and other U.S. cities. The show is known for its musical guests, especially folk and traditional musicians, tongue-in-cheek radio drama, and relaxed humor. Keillor's wry storytelling segment, "News from Lake Wobegon", was the show's best-known feature during his long tenure.
Distributed by Minnesota Public Radio's distribution arm, American Public Media, A Prairie Home Companion was heard on 690 public radio stations in the United States at its peak in spring 2015 and reached an audience of four million U.S. listeners each week. The show borrowed its name from a radio program in existence in 1969 that was named after the Prairie Home Cemetery near Concordia College, in Moorhead, Minnesota. It inspired a 2006 film of the same name, written by Keillor, directed by Robert Altman, and featuring Keillor, Kevin Kline, Lily Tomlin, Meryl Streep, and Lindsay Lohan.