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Regular Performers
Tim Russell
Tim Russell uses his many voices for radio and television commercials.
He's heard weekday mornings from 5–9 am as Entertainment Editor on 830
WCCO Radio. He's been voted "Best Radio Host" by Mpls/St. Paul Magazine,
and "Outstanding Broadcast Personality" by the Minnesota Broadcasters
Association. He's been a regular on A Prairie Home Companion since
1994, and is featured in the Robert Altman/Garrison Keillor film, A
Prairie Home Companion, as Al, the stage manager.
Visit Tim Russell's Web site.
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More Regular Performers
• Tom Keith
• Tim Russell
• Sue Scott
• Rich Dworsky
• Fred Newman
• Pat Donohue
• Arnie Kinsella
• Gary Raynor
• Prudence Johnson
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A national holiday in Lake Wobegon is always gaudy and joyful. But what is going on between Clint Bunsen and Miss Liberty?
Everyone is here—Pastor Ingqvist, the Sons of Knute, Sister Arvonne of Our Lady of Perpetual Responsibility and her ocarina band, the Norwegian bachelor farmers, Dorothy and the Chatterbox Café, Wally in the Sidetrack Tap—as crowds converge on the little town to celebrate American independence, even as the chairman of the event broods on the great question of the day: Shall we struggle on valiantly here or shall we burst the bonds and find beautiful life in the golden west?
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Scripts and bits from A Prairie Home Companion celebrate the secret society of men and women who possess excellent spelling and punctuation skills. (You know who you are.)
Selections include "The Six-Minute Hamlet," a tribute to Emily Dickinson, a Guy Noir adventure that exposes an MFA scam, a riveting "Professional Organization of English Majors" drama, and guests Billy Collins, Robert Bly, Roy Blount Jr., and Calvin Trillin.
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