What’s a “driveway moment”? It’s when you’re so captivated by a story you’re hearing on NPR that you stay in your car to hear it to the end—even if you’re sitting in your driveway with the motor running. For years, listeners have written to NPR to describe such moments. Now animal lovers especially will want to make sure their tanks are full.
Heard on All Things Considered, Morning Edition, Talk of the Nation, and Wait WaitàDon’t Tell Me!, hosted by Morning Edition's Steve Inskeep, these stories will make you laugh out loud and shed a tear or two.
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"Informative and fun (except for the few sad stories mixed in), this audio book was a great companion on my way to-and-from work this week."
— Bryce (4 out of 5 stars)
" just a bunch of touchy feeling good moments...it's what you would expect in the npr style of journalism. good. "
— Maggie, 12/10/2013" Technically this is an audiobook. But I like to listen to stuff in the car on the way to work etc. "
— Isaac, 4/20/2013" This had some really sweet stories for any animal lover. Beware: more than one made me cry. "
— Kathryn, 3/25/2013" Quick cute anecdotes about animals... though the first one made me not sure what the rest we going to be like! "
— Katie, 3/19/2013NPR is a mission-driven, multimedia news organization and radio program producer of news, talk, music, and entertainment programs with a strong base of member stations and supporters nationwide. Since 1971, NPR and its journalists and programs have won hundreds of awards, including some of the most prestigious honors in journalism.
Steve Inskeep is an author and a cohost of NPR’s Morning Edition and NPR’s Up First. His reporting has taken him across the United States, the Middle East, Latin America, Africa, Pakistan, and China. His search for the full story behind the news has led him to history; he is the author of Instant City: Life and Death in Karachi and Jacksonland: President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross, and a Great American Land Grab, among others.