A fair start for a not-so-bad program

Readers of Edutopia magazine learned that Garrison Keillor was inspired to invent his daily short, The Writer's Almanac, by a good experience at the Minnesota State Fair in 1993. Instead of holding a trivia contest, as planned, Keillor walked into the crowd and asked fairgoers to recite favorite poems. Which they did. The article also reports that Norwegian radio NRK has picked up the show. [NRK announcement translated from Norwegian by Google.]