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Produced by Garrison Keillor - Fiction - 4 COMPACT DISCS - 5 hours

Publisher, HighBridge Audiobooks (December 1994)

It began in St. Paul, Minnesota, July 6, 1974---a live radio show inspired by the Grand Ole Opry. It broadcast on Saturday nights for thirteen years. It went dark in 1987. It sprang up again two years later in Brooklyn, New York, under an assumed name. it moved back to Minnesota. And then it became A Prairie Home Companion.

To mark the 20th anniversary, here are 15 of Garrison Keillor's finest, funniest News from Lake Wobegon monologues (eleven previously unreleased):

O Captain, My Captain
The Pastors on the Pontoon Boat
Buddy Holly and the Pharaohs of Rhythm
Thanksgiving
Commencement Day
The Protestant Dog
The Lake Superior Canyon Project
and more---along with songs and comedy, all taken from the original broadcasts. Includes a 24-page commemorative booklet.