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David Bouchier: A Few Well Chosen Words
Mondays 7:45 AM & 9:45 AM (News/Talk), stream the podcast anytime
Hosted by David Bouchier

David Bouchier’s weekly essays are full of unexpected observations and whimsical opinions. Listeners will relish his entertaining, enlightening, and sometimes exasperated commentaries on the routines that carry us through the year, the surreal rituals of politics, the unsettling experience of foreign travel, and the confusions and comedies of everyday suburban life.

You can hear David Bouchier on-air Mondays at 7:45 a.m. on all stations and at 9:45 a.m. on News/Talk or by subscribing to this podcast.

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Latest Episodes
  • Elderly man holding an old vintage rotary phone and a smartphone.
    Save our seniors
    Commentator David Bouchier argues that smartphones should be banned, but selectively.
  • Bastille Day
    Commentator David Bouchier recalls a different kind of political revolution.
  • A group of schoolboys playing football outside on a large school playground, England, UK.
    Feet first
    Commentator David Bouchier remembers the way soccer used to be.
  • Independence
    Commentator David Bouchier speculates about the paradox of unity and independence.
  • 14-year-old Henry, right, and Angel, 15, use their phones to view social media.
    School’s out
    Commentator David Bouchier reacts gloomily to yet another report on declining literacy.
  • Lovely money
    Commentator David Bouchier thinks that money should be more beautiful.
  • Vacations without tears
    Commentator David Bouchier proposes a cure for summer vacation anxieties.
  • What’s in a name?
    Commentator David Bouchier argues that some names may change a person’s destiny.
  • Philadelphia, PA, USA - September 15, 2017: American flags are placed during an observance of National POW/MIA Recognition Day, at the Philadelphia Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
    Written in stone
    Commentator David Bouchier imagines a Memorial Day that reaches infinitely into the past.
  • Gifts from the past
    Commentator David Bouchier reflects on how hard it is to be honest in the intangible world of intellectual property.