Car Talk

Health & Safety

'Does Your Knee Make More Of A Click Or A Clack?' — Teaching 'Car Talk' To New Docs

1:52pm February 27, 2019

by Paul Chisholm

It's not easy for medical students to learn to diagnose an illness from a patient's often jumbled account of symptoms. In some med schools, teachers have discovered the perfect teaching aid: Car Talk.

Tom Magliozzi, co-host of Car Talk, could opine about driving in far-off places.

Hello 'Car Talk,' I Need A Good Car To Get Around Africa

6:47am November 08, 2014

by Eleanor Klibanoff

It's not just American drivers who are mourning the death of Car Talk co-host Tom Magliozzi. He reached a global audience as well.

BJ Leiderman is the composer of the theme music heard on NPR's Morning Edition, Weekend Edition and Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!

National

The Man Behind The 'Morning Edition' Theme Music. Also, Lyrics!

2:26pm November 06, 2014

by NPR Staff

Composer BJ Leiderman talks about writing the show's theme music and sings some of the lyrics that accompany that catchy tune.

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Tom Magliozzi's laugh boomed in NPR listeners' ears every week as he and his brother, Ray, bantered on Car Talk.

National

Tom Magliozzi, Popular Co-Host Of NPR's 'Car Talk,' Dies At 77

2:32pm November 04, 2014

by Lynn Neary

Tom Magliozzi bantered weekly with his brother, Ray, on the public radio show. They joked, laughed and sometimes even gave good advice to listeners with car troubles. Tom Magliozzi was 77 years old.

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Tom Magliozzi co-hosted the longtime public radio show Car Talk. He died Monday.

Tom Magliozzi: As Warm In Real Life As He Was On The Radio

6:23pm November 03, 2014

by Susan Stamberg

NPR's Susan Stamberg shares the blame for putting the Car Talk host on the air. She looks back on good times spent with the Magliozzi family and Tom, who died on Monday.

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Brothers Tom (left) and Ray Magliozzi pose under a car hood in Boston. The comic duo hosted NPR's Car Talk for a quarter of a century before retiring in 2012. Since then, the show has been heard in reruns. Tom has died at age 77.

Arts

'Car Talk' Co-Host Tom Magliozzi Dies At 77

4:29pm November 03, 2014

by Scott Neuman

As half of the wisecracking NPR radio show, Tom Magliozzi made us laugh at our car problems. He and his brother, Ray, also taught us how things work.