Happy Birthday, Good Dr. Sacks

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Natural Sciences, History, Documentary, Science, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 9 July 2013

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

One of our favorite human beings turns 80 this week. To celebrate, Robert asks Oliver Sacks to look back on his career, and explain how thousands of worms and a motorbike accident led to a brilliant writing career.

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0:00.0	Wait, you're listening.
0:02.1	Okay.
0:03.4	All right.
0:04.7	Okay.
0:06.0	All right.
0:07.4	You're listening to Radio Lab.
0:10.4	Radio Lab.
0:11.0	Shorts.
0:12.3	From W. N. Y.
0:14.8	C.
0:15.7	C?
0:15.8	Yes.
0:17.5	And NPR.
0:19.8	Hi, I'm Robert Krollwitch.
0:21.4	This is Radio Lab, the podcast.
0:23.5	Jad is with his family this week, so it's just going to be me,
0:26.5	although not me all by myself,
0:28.1	because we're going to have a little birthday celebration
0:31.0	for a guy who has been a contributor to this program
0:33.4	pretty much since it began.
0:35.1	Robert.
0:36.1	Mr. Robert is here.
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