December 7, 2009
Don't miss a very special tribute for our very own Carl Kasell, NPR's beloved newscaster who is hanging up his newscast microphone at the end of the year, in the second hour of today's Talk of the Nation.
His retirement party will include former Morning Edition host Bob Edwards, Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me's Peter Sagal, CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric and comedian Paula Poundstone.
Hour Two of TOTN begins at 3 p.m. Eastern time.
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