In later years he even went back to radio, appearing on Garrison Keillor's Prairie Home Companion radio program, on American Public Media radio, even picking up a fiddle from time to time.

He is known as host of the Minnesota Public Radio show A Prairie Home Companion ( also known as Garrison Keillor's Radio Show on United Kingdom's BBC Radio 4 Extra, as well as on RTÉ in Ireland, Australia's ABC, and Radio New Zealand National in New Zealand ).

A film version of Garrison Keillor's public radio series A Prairie Home Companion was released in June 2006.

Anderson had worked as a standby director on A Prairie Home Companion for insurance purposes, and in the event the ailing 80-year-old Altman was unable to finish shooting.

A brief resurgence of production beginning in the early 1970s yielded the Mutual Broadcasting System's The Zero Hour ( hosted by Rod Serling ), National Public Radio's Earplay, and veteran Himan Brown's CBS Radio Mystery Theater and General Mills Radio Adventure Theater, later followed by the Sears / Mutual Radio Theater, The National Radio Theater of Chicago, NPR Playhouse, a newly produced episode of the former 1950s series X Minus One, and works by a new generation of dramatists, notably Yuri Rasovsky, Thomas Lopez of ZBS and the dramatic sketches heard on humorist Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion.

* Prairie Home

A Prairie Home Companion is a live radio variety show created and hosted by Garrison Keillor.

A Prairie Home Companion is known for its musical guests, especially folk and traditional musicians, tongue-in-cheek radio drama, and Keillor's storytelling segment, " News from Lake Wobegon ".

It is produced by Prairie Home Productions and distributed by American Public Media, and is most often heard on public radio stations in the United States.

It was named after the Prairie Home Cemetery in Moorhead, Minnesota, next to Concordia College.

A Prairie Home Companion was originally a morning show running from 6 to 9 am on Minnesota Public Radio.

On July 6, 1974, the first live broadcast of A Prairie Home Companion took place.

A Prairie Home Companion at the 2011 Minnesota State Fair

In the fall of 1992, Keillor returned to the World Theater with ARC for the majority of the season, and the next year, the program officially reverted to the A Prairie Home Companion name and format.

Each show opens with the Spencer Williams composition " Tishomingo Blues " as the theme song, but with lyrics written especially for A Prairie Home Companion.

The Rhubarb Sisters singing on A Prairie Home Companion.

In addition to Garrison Keillor, several other performers frequently appear on A Prairie Home Companion:

A Prairie Home Companion Production Staff:

Unlike A Prairie Home Companion, there are no station breaks.

* A Prairie Home Album ( Minnesota Educational Radio )

* Garrison Keillor's Comedy Theater: More Songs and Sketches from A Prairie Home Companion CD ( 1996, HighBridge Company )

* A Prairie Home Companion Anniversary Album: The First Five Years cassettes ( 1988, PHC, Inc .)

* Pretty Good Bits From a Prairie Home Companion ( 2003 )

* A Prairie Home Companion: English Majors: A Comedy Collection for the Highly Literate CD ( 2008, HighBridge Company )

* Home on the Prairie ( July 2003 )

* A Prairie Home Companion official website

* A Prairie Home Companion: A Brief History

* A Prairie Home Companion via streaming audio

* A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor at the Hollywood Bowl

* The Bachelor Home Companion ( 1986 ) ISBN 978-0-87113-686-2

Patten had been a professional model since age 3, and caught the attention of Disney when she appeared on the cover of Woman's Home Companion magazine.

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