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Survival Kit
Sunday, October 19, 2003
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Charles Osgood
Charles Osgood has brought a unique style to broadcast journalism. On the radio with The Osgood File and on TV with CBS News Sunday Morning, he covers the kind of off-beat stories that are often overlooked in the headlines, delivering the news with humour and eloquence, and even in verse. He’s the author of several books, including Funny Letters from Famous People, and See You On the Radio. Let’s ask this extraordinary newsman what he would pack in his cultural survival kit.
His List:
1. A good piano (and tuning equipment)
2. A five-string banjo
3. A tape recorder (So I can tape my playing and play it back.)
4. CDs: Bach -chorale preludes: Sleepers Awake, Sheep May Safely Graze, Mozart-Requiem, Ella Fitzgerald, Rogers and Hart Songbook, Frank Sinatra "They Can’t Take That Away From Me" and "It Was a Very Good Year"
5. Poetry Speaks
6. Books: Dickens - Tale of Two Cities, Mark Twain- Huck Finn, Prince and Pauper, CT Yankee, Ruth Rendell mysteries, Toni Morrison- Beloved
7. Sid Caesar- Your Show of Shows videos
8. Old Time Radio Tapes: Fred Allen, Jack Benny, Himan Brown dramas (The Goldbergs, Grand Central Station, Lights Out)
1. A good piano (and tuning equipment)
2. A five-string banjo
3. A tape recorder (So I can tape my playing and play it back.)
4. CDs: Bach -chorale preludes: Sleepers Awake, Sheep May Safely Graze, Mozart-Requiem, Ella Fitzgerald, Rogers and Hart Songbook, Frank Sinatra "They Can’t Take That Away From Me" and "It Was a Very Good Year"
5. Poetry Speaks
6. Books: Dickens - Tale of Two Cities, Mark Twain- Huck Finn, Prince and Pauper, CT Yankee, Ruth Rendell mysteries, Toni Morrison- Beloved
7. Sid Caesar- Your Show of Shows videos
8. Old Time Radio Tapes: Fred Allen, Jack Benny, Himan Brown dramas (The Goldbergs, Grand Central Station, Lights Out)