As the voice of The Radio Reader, Dick Estell brings newly-published books into the homes and automobiles of America for 30 minutes each day. rates 40 years in 2004
8:30am Weekdays on AM870 WKAR Jan. 23- Feb. 24, 2012
Dick Estell reads from The Eighty-Dollar Champion by Elizabeth Letts Ballantine Books, N.Y. 2011
In November 1958, papers across the country ran headlines touting "the Cinderella horse." Cold-war Americans were captivated by the incredible story of how Dutch immigrant Harry de Leyer and Snowman, an abused plow horse he rescued from the slaughterhouse, made it all the way to a blue ribbon in the nation's most prestigious horse show -- and found in each other matching spirits and the determination to win against extraordinary odds.
