David Bouchier
CommentatorDavid began as a print journalist in London and taught at a British university for almost 20 years. After coming to the United States in 1986 he continued to teach and to publish a regular humor column in The New York Times regional edition. He joined WSHU as a weekly commentator in 1992, becoming host of Sunday Matinee in 1996. His most recent books are a collection of stories about life in a French village called Not Quite a Stranger, an essay collection Out of Thin Air, a memoir, An Unexpected Life (2018), political essays Dark Matters (2019) and Journal of the Eightieth Year (2020). He lives in Stony Brook, New York, with his wife who is a professor emeritus at Stony Brook University.
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Commentator David Bouchier wonders if we will ever understand the history of the recent past. -
Commentator David Bouchier looks towards the future and recommends nostalgia for the past. -
Commentator David Bouchier looks ahead to 2026 and sees nothing clearly. -
Commentator David Bouchier wonders how to survive the party season. -
Join David Bouchier for the annual Victorian Christmas program -- an afternoon of seasonal music and stories about the traditions, myths and entertainments of Christmas a century and more ago. It airs December 14th at 1 p.m. and again on December 21st at 1 p.m. -
Commentator David Bouchier wonders whether the Holiday season needs to be quite so expensive. -
Join David Bouchier for the annual Victorian Christmas program -- an afternoon of seasonal music and stories about the traditions, myths and entertainments of Christmas a century and more ago. It airs December 14th at 1 p.m. and again on December 21st at 1 p.m.
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Commentator David Bouchier finds an inspiring moral in an old Christmas story. -
Commentator David Bouchier looks forward to the end of the hurricane season. -
Commentator David Bouchier wonders what stories will be told around the Thanksgiving table this year.
