Ken Wells

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
The new book Herd on the Street: Animal Stories from The Wall Street Journal tells stories of depressed dogs, chimpanzees retired from the Air Force, and taste-tester cats. Ken Wells is the book’s editor.

Read more about the book.

•Music: Raymond Scott The Chesterfield Arrangements 1937-38 “Mexican Jumping Bean” and “The Penguin”

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