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Mornings with Madden: My Radio Life with an American Legend

Join us while Stan Bunger shares fascinating takeaways from his thousands of on-air interviews with football icon John Madden, as chronicled in his new book, Mornings with Madden. Despite Madden’s international fame, there was a side of the football legend known only to those who listened to San Francisco morning radio. The Bay Area is where John Madden grew up, lived and died, and where, for decades, he found joy in a daily chat with Bunger, on his hometown radio station. It was a chance to unwind, tell stories, and impart his own brand of wit and wisdom. In Mornings with Madden, Bunger—whom Madden regarded as a true friend and who was on the other side of that radio mic—illuminates this larger-than-life figure, drawing upon memories of more than 15 years of daily broadcasts.

Join us in Lafayette for this in-person-only program.

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Learn More

Learn more about Madden, Stan and the genesis of the book here.

About the Speaker

Stan Bunger is an American broadcast journalist who was the morning co-anchor at KCBS in San Francisco for more than 20 years. Bunger is a 1973 graduate of Leigh High School and received his B.A. in broadcast and electronic communications from San Francisco State University. He was inducted iinto the Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame in 2010 and into the San Francisco State University Alumni Hall of Fame in 2011.

Organizer
Michael Baker and Larry Freeman
Notes

An East Bay Chapter program. Chapters and forums at the Club are organized and run by volunteer programmers who are members of Commonwealth Club World Affairs of California, and they cover a diverse range of topics. 

December 3, 2024

Lafayette Public Library
Don Tatzin Auditorium
3491 Mt. Diablo Boulevard
Lafayette, CA 94549
United States

Speakers
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Stan Bunger

Broadcaster; Author, Mornings with Madden

Image - Doug Sovern

In Conversation with Doug Sovern

Reporter, KCBS Radio; Host, "The State of California