Garrison Keillor's Podcast

Garrison Keillor's Podcast

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Garrison Keillor's Podcast episodes

  • The Writer's Almanac - Friday, December 25, 2020
    It was Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" that revived Christmas after the Puritans had stamped out the old medieval Christmas in England.

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    5 min
  • The Writer's Almanac - Thursday, December 24, 2020
    On Christmas Eve of 1940, Jean-Paul Sartre’s first play was performed, in a German POW camp where he himself was a prisoner.

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  • The Writer's Almanac - Wednesday, December 23, 2020
    It’s the birthday of Robert Bly (Madison, MN, 1926), who for decades exchanged letters twice a week with his friend, fellow poet Donald Hall.

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  • The Writer's Almanac - Tuesday, December 22, 2020
    It's the birthday of the poet and translator Kenneth Rexroth (1905-1982), who mentored the Beat poets but became disillusioned as they turned into “hipsters.”

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  • The Writer's Almanac - Monday, December 21, 2020
    400 years ago today the pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, not in Virginia as intended, but in the lands of the Wampanoag people.

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  • The Writer's Almanac - Sunday, December 20, 2020
    It’s the 66th birthday of Mexican-American writer Sandra Cisneros (Chicago, 1954), best known for "The House on Mango Street" (1984).

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  • The Writer's Almanac - Saturday, December 19, 2020
    It's the birthday of French singer Édith Piaf (1915-1963), who was raised by prostitutes in a brothel before becoming an international star.

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  • The Writer's Almanac - Friday, December 18, 2020
    It's the birthday of Fletcher "Smack" Henderson (1897), a pianist who majored in chemistry and mathematics and became famous as a bandleader and arranger.

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  • The Writer's Almanac - Thursday, December 17, 2020
    On this day in 1790, workers who were doing some repairs unearthed the Aztec Sun Stone in Mexico City.

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  • The Writer's Almanac - Wednesday, December 16, 2020
    It is traditionally believed that Ludwig van Beethoven was born on this date in 1770. He grew up in Bonn and then traveled to Vienna to learn from Mozart.

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    5 min

About Garrison Keillor's Podcast

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Funny, poignant, sentimental, and sometimes controversial thoughts of the day.

Best of Garrison Keillor's Podcast

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  1. Number 1: The one-armed man at the concert
    8 min
  2. Number 2: Gearing up to go on the road
    8 min
  3. Number 3: An old man's winter night
    8 min

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