Genre | Automotive repair/advice, Humor |
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Running time | approx. 50 min |
Country of origin | United States |
Language(s) | English |
Home station | WBUR-FM |
Syndicates | National Public Radio (NPR) |
Hosted by | Tom Magliozzi Ray Magliozzi |
Executive producer(s) | Doug Berman |
Recording studio | Boston, Massachusetts |
Original release | 1977 (WBUR-FM); 1987 (nationally) – 2012 (original episodes) |
Audio format | Monaural |
Opening theme | "Dawggy Mountain Breakdown" by David Grisman |
Other themes | "Dixie Flyer" (intermission) by Randy Newman "Stump the Chumps" by B. J. Leiderman[1] |
Website | www |
Podcast | https://www.cartalk.com/radio/our-show#listening |
Car Talk refers to the work of Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers, Tom and Ray Magliozzi, that includes a website,[2] and a podcast of reruns that is currently hosted by Apple Podcasts, NPR Podcasts, and Sticher.[3] Car Talk was originally a radio show that ran on National Public Radio (NPR) from 1977 until October 2012, when the Magliozzi brothers retired. Tom died on November 3, 2014, aged 77, in Belmont, Massachusetts,[4] of complications from Alzheimer's disease.[5]
The Car Talk radio show was honored with a Peabody Award in 1992,[6] and the Magliozzis were both inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame in 2014[7] and the Automotive Hall of Fame in 2018.[8]