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EPISODE · Dec 16, 2013 · 20 MIN

Life Stories #57: Jonathan Wilson

from Life Stories · host ronhogan

Jonathan Wilson's Kick and Run is a "memoir with soccer ball" that encompasses (among other things) life as a young Jewish boy in 1950s and 1960s London, as a journalist crossing the United States to cover the '94 World Cup for the New Yorker, and as an 50-something man realizing it might be time to hang up the cleats for good. We talk about those things--and about stuff like England's chances in the next World Cup, and why the U.S. team has to pick its home game venues very carefully...

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