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Car Talk for January 20, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
[Program Website]
Humorous observations about vehicles, answers to listeners' questions, the weekly puzzler, and lots of laughs - with mechanics Tom and Ray Magliozzi.
From its humble beginnings as a local show on the then-college station WBUR in Boston, Car Talk has become a public radio icon. Susan Stamberg put the Car Talk guys in her new program Weekend Edition in 1987 and nine months later, NPR launched Car Talk as a national program. In 1992 the program won a Peabody award. The show's intrepid producer Doug Berman explained to Tom and Ray that the Peabody is the radio equivalent of a Pulitzer prize.
The show's production company of Dewey, Cheatum and Howe is located in Harvard Square in Cambridge Massachusetts, and also is responsible for Tom and Ray's weekly newspaper column. In Montana the column runs in the Missoulian, the Great Falls Tribune and the Montana Standard in Butte.
Listeners can call with a question for the Car Talk Guys by dialing 1-888-CAR-TALK. For the alphanumerically challenged, that's 1-888-227-8255. Listeners outside the U.S. should call 617-353-6350.
Car Talk uses voice mail to be fair to people in all the different time zones. Anyone can call anytime they like and leave a message. The show uses about eight questions each week out of the 2,000 they receive.
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