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Updated: Friday, 26 Oct 2012, 12:24 PM EDT
Published : Friday, 26 Oct 2012, 12:23 PM EDT

EMILY THOMAS | Executive Reporter

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (Exponent) - From its humble beginnings in 1974 with only 12 members in the audience, “A Prairie Home Companion” returns to Purdue for a night of entertainment.

A Prairie Home Companion is a live variety radio show that will be recording Saturday night at Purdue. The show will feature Purdue’s own Varsity Glee Club along with the folk band Old Crow Medicine Show. A Prairie Home

Companion was created by Garrison Keillor nearly 40 years ago, and he is still the mastermind behind the show.
Tim Russell, a voice actor on the show, said the success of “A Prairie Home Companion” is all due to Keillor.

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