Garrison Keillor's Podcast

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Garrison Keillor's Podcast episodes

January 04, 2021 The Writer's Almanac - Monday, January 4, 2021
Today is the birthday of presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin (1943), who says of history, “Mostly it is for people who didn’t live through it.”

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5 min
January 03, 2021 The Writer's Almanac - Sunday, January 3, 2021
It’s the birthday of the writer who created Frodo, Bilbo, Gandalf, and Gollum: J.R.R. Tolkien (Bloemfontein, South Africa, 1892).

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5 min
January 02, 2021 The Writer's Almanac - Saturday, January 2, 2021
"Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised." – Antarctic explorer Apsley Cherry-Garrard

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5 min
January 01, 2021 The Writer's Almanac - Friday, January 1, 2021
The hymn "Amazing Grace" was first presented at a prayer meeting in Olney, Buckinghamshire, England, on this date in 1773.

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5 min
December 31, 2020 The Writer's Almanac - Thursday, December 31, 2020
Happy New Year's Eve! Today's episode consists of a poem by Hayden Saunier about a dog, a car, a truck, and a connection.

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6 min
December 30, 2020 The Writer's Almanac - Wednesday, December 30, 2020
Astronomer Edwin Hubble announced the discovery of other galaxies beyond the Milky Way on this date in 1924.

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December 29, 2020 The Writer's Almanac - Tuesday, December 29, 2020
Today is the anniversary of the massacre at Wounded Knee, in South Dakota, 1890. The medicine man Black Elk said, "A people's dream died there."

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December 28, 2020 The Writer's Almanac - Monday, December 28, 2020
It was on this day in 1895 that Auguste and Louis Lumière had the first commercial movie screening at the Grand Café in Paris. The film was 46 seconds long.

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December 27, 2020 The Writer's Almanac - Sunday, December 27, 2020
On this day in 1978, the country of Spain became a democracy after 40 years of fascist dictatorship. Headlines that day read, “Good morning, democracy.”

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December 26, 2020 The Writer's Almanac - Saturday, December 26, 2020
Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie" premiered at the Civic Theatre in Chicago on this date in 1944.

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5 min