Segment 1
00:00:00 Logo
00:12:00 Tishomingo Blues
00:55:00 GK Intro Poetry Show
00:02:39 The Story of Bob
00:10:54 GK Intro Randy Newman
00:11:18 "The Great Nations of Europe" and "I Miss You" - Randy Newman
00:18:51 GK Intro Billy Collins
00:19:27 "The Revenant" - Billy Collins
00:21:48 "You Reader," "Afternoon With Irish Cows," "The Lanyard," "Flock," "Surprise," and "No Time" - Billy Collins
00:32:28 Powdermilk Biscuit Break
Segment 2
00:33:46 GK Intro Meryl Streep
00:34:23 Collection of American Poems by Henry Taylor, Mary Oliver, John Updike, Wendell Berry, James Wright, Langston Hughes, Robert Lax, and Julia Kasdorf, read by Meryl Streep and GK
00:43:37 GK Intro "Cowboys" script
00:44:07 Lives of the Cowboys script
00:54:57 GK Intermission Credits
00:57:08 Intermission: "Dinah," "Under The Stars," "Brill Building Cleanup"
Segment 3
00:59:03 GK Welcome Back/ Intro Bob Dorough
01:00:01 "Devil May Care" - Bob Dorough
01:03:09 GK Intro "Song of Myself"
01:04:25 Excerpts "Song of Myself" - read by Allen Ginsberg, Robert Bly and GK
01:18:50 "Winter's Come & Gone," "My Morphine" - Gillian Welch and David Rawlings
01:27:01 "Duluth," "Hockey," "Berry Picking," "An Ill Wind" - Louis Jenkins
01:32:47 GK Intro Mono
Segment 4
01:33:41 The News From Lake Wobegon
Segment 5
01:47:13 GK Intro Greg Brown and Rita Dove
01:48:14 "Vivid" - Greg Brown
01:51:10 "Courtship," "The Secret Garden" and "Pastoral" - Rita Dove
01:54:51 GK Credits
01:55:50 "Spring and All" - Greg Brown
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A Prairie Home Companion for May 5, 2007
May 5, 2007 rebroadcast with Allen Ginsberg, Meryl Streep, Billy Collins, Rita Dove, Randy Newman, Gillian Welch, Greg Brown, and Bob Dorough
Description
This week on A Prairie Home Companion -- a special springtime poetry show withAllen Ginsbergreading the words of Walt Whitman,Meryl Streepreading the words of Wendell Berry and Mary Oliver, andBilly CollinsandRita Dovereading their own words. The poeticRandy Newmanis on, along withGillian Welch,Greg BrownandBob Dorough. Plus, the story of another Bob: a younger, struggling artist with an iffy sense of meter and a tendency to slouch. Join us Saturday for all this and more on a special poetry home companion.