Remembering the Dead.
Obituary writer Jim Nicholson. He talks about his unconventional approach to writing obituaries for the Philadelphia Daily News. He overlooks the famous, preferring to celebrate the lives of bartenders, janitors, taxi drivers and tavern owners. (Rebroadcast. Original broadcast May 26, 1987.)
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