A Prairie Home Companion
A Prairie Home Companion kicks off a yearlong celebration of the show over the 4th of July weekend with a three day outdoor festival at the location where it all began 40 years ago, at Macalester College in Saint Paul, MN.
Here is the programming available for broadcast:
- Three hour live anniversary broadcast Saturday, July 5th, 6:00-9:00 p.m. ET (Clock)
- A repeat of the three hour show on Sunday, July 6th
- A very popular two hour show featuring Meryl Streep from our 2006 Fourth of July show from Tanglewood (MA) will be available to broadcast anytime during the weekend
A separate ContentDepot program page titled “A Prairie Home Companion 40th Anniversary 3 -Hour Broadcast” has been created for the 3-hour broadcast. Stations will need to subscribe to this page in order to broadcast the full three hour program. Please check out the APHC 40th Anniversary 3-hour Broadcast CLOCK.
The first two hours of this broadcast will also be fed on Saturday, July 5th, 2014 as usual via the “A Prairie Home Companion” page on ContentDepot for those stations opting to carry only the first two hours. A file transfer of the two-hour broadcast will be posted to the regular “A Prairie Home Companion” page, as usual, following the end of the program.
An additional ContentDepot page titled, “A Prairie Home Companion July 4th 2006 Tanglewood” has been created for the two-hour program featuring Meryl Streep that will be available to broadcast anytime during the July 4th-6th weekend.
On Being
As we celebrate the 4th of July and new democracies form and falter around the world, we look back on the long, messy history of our own democracy in the making. Journalist Steven Waldman offers a far less harmonious picture of the Founding Fathers’ faith than summaries of American religious liberty usually suggest. And Columbia University Law Professor Philip Hamburger shares the surprising, and largely forgotten, origins of separation of church and state.
This program will feed July 3rd.
Pipedreams
Pipedreams host Michael Barone returns as master-of-ceremonies for the annual Independence Day Organ Concert, a free, family-friendly event featuring the 10,647 pipes of the splendid 189 rank Skinner/Aeolian-Skinner organ at Washington National Cathedral. The concert will open with Aaron Copland’s striking Fanfare for the Common Man and the singing of the National Anthem and include appearances by the Washington Symphonic Brass and United States Navy Sea Chanters.
This program will feed June 30th.