Garrison keillor biography radio show bbc
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Radio man: Keillor, and Meryl Streep, in the Prairie Home Companion film
For 30 years Garrison Keillor has hosted an old-style weekly variety show on American radio.
Garrison keillor biography radio show bbc
As a movie of the show, A Prairie Home Companion, is released in the UK, he tells why the spoken word can still win through in today's multimedia maelstrom.
The death of former US president Gerald Ford last week catapulted those of a certain age back to a seemingly distant era in American life, characterised by the painful memories of Watergate.
The world has changed immeasurably since a disgraced Richard Nixon handed the keys to the Oval Office to his deputy, yet one small marker of American cultural life has endured across those decades - a weekly radio show presented by the author and humorist Garrison Keillor.
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