See You on the Radio, Charles Osgood
See You on the Radio, Charles Osgood
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See You on the Radio

Author: Charles Osgood

Narrator: Charles Osgood

Unabridged: 3 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/08/2008


Synopsis

Witty, wise, rueful commentaries from one of broadcasting's funniest, most stylish writers and newsmen.

"Charles Osgood is one of the best writers in America today, any form or medium," says Dan Rather, and Jim Lehrer concurs, "He is a special mind and voice in a business where his kind is rare—and cherished." No one writes quite the way he does—the offbeat stories that make listeners stop and pay attention; the commentaries in which he shares his sense of wonder, dismay, or amusement; the well-spun tales of irony that often burst forth into wordplay or even poetry.

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. In all, it is further evidence of why, in the words of Walter Cronkite, Charles Osgood "is one of the greatest talents in broadcasting today."

About Charles Osgood

Charles Osgood has been the anchor of CBS News Sunday Morning since 1994. He also anchors and writes The Osgood File, his daily news commentary broadcast on the CBS Radio Network. Inducted into the Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame in 2000 and the National Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame in 1990, he has received some of the highest accolades in broadcast journalism, including three Emmy Awards. The author of five books, including The Osgood Files and See You on the Radio, Osgood lives with his wife in New York City.


Reviews

Goodreads review by M.M. on February 06, 2019

Every generation has had their "technology". It began with word of mouth to stick draw pictures, all the way up to now, the smart phone. Charles Osgood was in the radio/TV era. I am not THAT old but I do remember hearing him and Paul Harvey. Charles Osgood's nitch was the "Osgood Files" and this is......more

Goodreads review by Quinn on March 17, 2020

Seems kind of cheap...this is just a collection of Osgood's radio vignettes from over the years. Kind of like a sit-com "clip show." Still, many of the stories are interesting and heart-warming.......more

Goodreads review by Milt on March 08, 2017

RIP read. tuned in......more

Goodreads review by Don on January 19, 2013

imagination of radio, depression and low cholesterol, natural disasters and folly of man.......more

Goodreads review by April on August 20, 2013

Nice to hear some funny stories.......more