Author: Charles Osgood
Narrator: Charles Osgood
Unabridged: 3 hr 45 min
Format: Digital Audiobook
Publisher: Highbridge Audio
Published: 04/08/2008
See You on the Radio gathers together over one hundred essays on everything from potholes, perfumes, felons and "freeloaders" ("Credit card customers paying on time! Taking bread from the tables of the moneylenders!"); to psychopaths and politicians (more alike than you think); to earthquakes, animal heirs, and the advancement of science.
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