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He has been hosting the radio show ''Oscar Brand's Folksong Festival'' {Link without Title} every Saturday at 10 pm, on WNYC-AM 820 in New York City . The show has run more or less continuously since 1945, making it the longest-running show on radio or television. The show recently celebrated its 60th anniversary on Dec 10th, 2005. Over its run it has introduced such talents to the world as Bob Dylan , Arlo Guthrie , Joan Baez , Huddie Ledbetter , and Pete Seeger . Other notable guest performers over the years have included Harry Chapin , Burl Ives , Harry Belafonte , John Denver , and B.B. King . Oscar Brand has also won the Peabody Award for broadcast excellence in 1982 for his broad ''The Sunday Show'' on National Public Radio , and was awarded the Personal Peabody Award in 1997 (shared with Oprah Winfrey ).
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