Garrison Keillor's Podcast

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Garrison Keillor's Podcast episodes

February 03, 2021 The Writer's Almanac - Wednesday, February 3, 2021
This day marks the 200th birthday of the first woman to be granted a medical degree in the USA -- Elizabeth Blackwell, who crossed an ocean to become a doctor.

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February 02, 2021 The Writer's Almanac - Tuesday, February 2, 2021
W.B. Yeats once said, “Never have I seen so much pretension with so little to show for it,” about a young Irish writer named James Joyce, born this day, 1882.

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February 01, 2021 The Writer's Almanac - Monday, February 1, 2021
Meg Cabot was born on this day in 1967. She is the author of a series of books about a teenager who discovers she is a princess, “The Princess Diaries.”

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January 31, 2021 The Writer's Almanac - Sunday, January 31, 2021
Today is the birthday of Nobel Prize-winning Japanese author Kenzaburō Ōe, who has explored parental guilt and shame in several books influenced by his disabled son Hikari.

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January 30, 2021 The Writer's Almanac - Saturday, January 30, 2021
On this day in1972, British army parachutists shot 27 unarmed civil rights demonstrators in Derry, Northern Ireland — an event known as "Bloody Sunday."

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January 29, 2021 The Writer's Almanac - Friday, January 29, 2021
Today features a poem that brings us together in our current pandemic to those enduring one in the past, “Quarantine, 1918” by Faith Shearin.

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January 28, 2021 The Writer's Almanac - Thursday, January 28, 2021
“an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.” –Collette, born in France on this day (1873).

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January 27, 2021 The Writer's Almanac - Wednesday, January 27, 2021
150 years ago a man named Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was born, better known as Lewis Carroll (1756). He gave us “Alice in Wonderland” and “Jabberwocky.”

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January 26, 2021 The Writer's Almanac - Tuesday, January 26, 2021
Today marks the birthday of Seán MacBride (1904) who was both a member of the IRA and the co-founder of Amnesty International, eventually winning a Nobel Peace Prize.

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January 25, 2021 The Writer's Almanac - Monday, January 25, 2021
It’s the birthday of the woman who sang “At Last,” “Tell Mama,” and “Something’s Got a Hold On Me.” Blues singer Etta James (1938).

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