This page is to gather all the links to information about these shows that I can. I update this fairly often. Much of the show catalog can be downloaded if you know where to look and how to do it. Relatively recently, a gentleman has been both collecting publicly available episode recordings plus converting his own taped recordings to mp3s and organizing them on MediaFire. His work now has a very large and documented collection of PHC episodes.
Mr. James’s Work Collecting Many Shows on MediaFire
ARC (American Radio Company) 1989 to 1993
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/8e9wl2spc1o99/2_ARC_-_Garrison’s_American_Radio_Company_1989-1993
Resumption of PHC 1993 to 1996
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/kr26tp1lwpgqo/3_PHC_-_A_Prairie_Home_Companion
Shows from Prairie Home Website 1996 to 2016 and missing shows
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/yes599ma1wov8/4+PHC+Archives+1996+to+2016+Unedited
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/cnlca8k8qbsjh/8+PHC+Shows+not+in+Archives
Shows from the 1980s processed from private recordings
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/ye4q8i98awequ/6+PHC+1980s+In-progress+Workshop
Other Shows, Recordings and Information
Download Many Episodes as MP3 Files
First, go to, for instance, https://www.prairiehome.org/shows/59119.html
Then do a view source and search the source of the page for .mp3 and you can grab the download link:
URL Format: https://download.stream.publicradio.org/phc_rebroadcast/2017/11/25/aphc_gk_rb_20171125_128.mp3?srcoid=api-2.0.1
and as examples.
https://play.publicradio.org/api-2.0.1/o/phc_rebroadcast/2017/11/04/phc_rebroadcast_20171104_128.mp3
A Prairie Home Companion Documentation Effort
After PHC – 2016 to 2020 Episodes of Live From Here
Cool Recording of a 1974 Gift Album of Prairie Home Companion
Lots of Background on Prairie Home Companion at MNopedia
Google Sheets Data on All? Shows
Prairie Home Companion Compendium
Nice Index and Timeline of PHC Shows
Prairie Home Companion Episodes on Garrison’s Youtube Channel
Radio Heartland – Nice Set of Guy Noir Episodes
Radio Heartland – Nice Set of The Lives of the Cowboys Episodes
TIP: Format of URL to Download Episodes from Garrison’s Website
UPDATE: this url format seems to not work anymore
http://167.88.156.221/phc/xxxx/xx/xx/phc_xxxxxxxx_128.mp3
To download June 6, 2003, for example, it would look like this:
http://167.88.156.221/phc/2003/06/28/phc_20030628_128.mp3